If a person wants to share Jesus with many Jewish people then that person will face many questions. This should help you out! Here are some of the questions and some guidelines. May this help you out!
1) Not all questions deserve an answer: "Do not answer fool according to his folly, or you will also be like him. Answer a fool as his folly."
A) That he not be wise in his own eyesB) Not all answers can be simply stated
C) Most answers, however can be dealt with, on both simple and complex levels: Sincere/insincere.
D) All can lead to the purpose goal
E) Answer a question with a question
2) A common question is that a person can't be Jewish and believe in Jesus. A person can use 2 Samuel 712-17 and talk about the Messiah will be a descendant of King David.
3) Many Jews will say that you can't be Jewish and believe in Jesus. So a person needs to have them read Mark 12:29. Jesus quotes the Shema.
4) Many Jews will question that Jesus could be the Messiah. A person can have the Jewish person read Micah 5:1-2 because the Messiah will come from the city of David.
5) Here is another question that they the Jewish person will have. The question is, "If Jesus was the Messiah why isn't there peace?"
The answer is that in the second return of Jesus, that they will be world peace. Have the Jewish person read Isaiah 9:6-7.
6) Here is another question, "How can you believe in God, let alone Jesus in the light of the Holocaust? Or, how can you believe int eh instigator of this atrocity?"
Here is the answer. Satan wants to destroy God people. God doesn't want to harm the Jews. Have them read Psalm 122.
7) Here is another question, "How can you believe in the New Testament? It's if full of anti-Semitism and lies?" This person needs to read the books of Romans and Hebrews.
8) Here is another question, "So, if you're Jewish, do you carry out the Law?" Here is the answer. John 6:29 says, "Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
9) Here is another question. The question is, "Jews don't believe in proselytizing, so why do you try to convert everyone to your way of thinking?"
Here is the answer. If a person reads Psalm 51:13, the word for David repentance is the Hebrew word shoov. "To return, turn back, turn about" to God from sin. Have this person read Psalm 51:12; 53:6 and 85:4.
10) Here is another question. They may say, "I'm a good person. Happy with my own religion. Why should I believe in Jesus?
The answer is that everyone is a sinner that deserve to be punished. Have the person read Isaiah 53.
11) Here is another question. The question goes, "Are you saying, 'My grandfather won't go to heaven because he didn't believe in Jesus, or do you mean it I don't believe in Jesus I am going to hell.?"
The answer is that not believing in Jesus cause a person go to hell, it is sin.
Have them read Leviticus 17:11, Ecclesiastes 7:20, Isaiah 64:6 and Psalm 9:17.
12) Here is another question. It goes, "If Jesus was the Messiah, why don't the Rabbis believe in Him"
Here is the answer. The Rabbis wanted to have power and so rejected Jesus.
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