42 t THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 25, 1981 Biblical Researcher's Volume Responds to Missionaries `,`One must be honest enought to admit that it c- does matter when so many instances can be cited where the fundamental assertions of the Christian missionary movement are shown to be FRANK-PAUL and His ORCHESTRA ' DUO's — TRIO's SOLOISTS o. 557-7986 unsubstan- biblically tiated," Gerald Sigal sub- mits in his "The Jew and the Christian Missionary: A Jewish Response to Mis- sionary Christianity" (Ktav). Throughout his richly- annotated book,- Sigal un- dertakes, by utilizing both the Old and New Testa- ments, to disprove the mes- sianism claim in the fun- damentalist process of seek, ing converts in Jewish ranks. NEW HOURS NEW HOURS Ah in etueter SELECTED JEurELRY coNiPII:IT, 1-.1.10 SERN Oak Park, Mich. 13720 W. 9 Mile Rd., Near Post Office LI 7-5068 OPEN WED. CLOSED SAT. _ The Sigal volume is chal- lenging in every respect due to the extent of the author's resort to the textual to dis- prove false claims. Every Bible quotation used by the missionaries is tested to disprove their claims. Both the Holy Scriptures and the Chris- tian Testament are scoured for the validity of claims which are dis- proved by the author who spent 25 years in his study of the claims made by the missionaries. Sigal attacks the mis- sionary claims at the outset by declaring: "The entire missionary view of the Jewish relation- ship to God is fundamen- tally wrong. This view is based upon a prejudiced Christian theological ap- praisal of Judaism, not on the nature of the co- venantal relationship that exists between God and Is- rael. * 424-8444 * Ca& ALSO WHEN YOU RENT VIDEO GAMES • FROM • WY& • • • • BIRTHDAY PARTIES PRIVATE PARTIES OFFICE PARTIES ETC. Dress Shop ALL SALE MERCHANDISE TRANSFERRED FROM THE APPLEGATE STORE WILL BE 75% OFF OAK PARK STORE ONLY 3 DAYS SAT., SUN., MON. DEC. 26, 27, 28 OPEN SUNDAY 11:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. 25603 Coolidge Between 10 and 10 11 /2 Mile Oak Park, Mich. "Misreading the essential meaning of the Torah, Christian theology de- veloped along lines that are at variance with the mes- sage of the Hebrew Scrip- tures. As a result, mission- ary Christianity starts with the thesis that the Jewish Bible is the revealed word of God, but that Judaism went astray 2,000 years ago. The missionaries claim that Christianity then became the true continuation of the Jewish spiritual past. "To support that con- tention, they cannot at- tack the Hebrew Bible. Instead, in order to arrive at the theological con- cepts they desire, mis- sionaries propose their own radically altered constructions of the meaning of biblical ver- ses. These altered con- structions bear no rela- tion to any of the beliefs taught by priest and pro- phet, the authentic teachers in ancient Is- rael." It is in his attacks on the claims, phrase by phrase, quotation by quotation, from Scripture as well as the Christian text, that Sigal is effective. He shows that "scriptural evidence does not substan- tiate the missionary claim that Christianity is the ful- filment of biblical prophecy." Sigal is especially con- cerned that Jews should not be misled, that they should know and understand the texts in their true presenta- tion and that they should be guided against distortions. Sigal, in his analyses, is critical of the Paullist claims. He declares: "The modern missionary movement still follows the traditional Pauline method of deceit and pretense. Its antirational faith- experience apology is an ex- cuse in the face of the reality that the Jewish Scriptures do not show Jesus to be the Messiah. "The Jewish convert to Christianity has been de- ceived by subtle mental manipulation into accept- ing Jesus as God, into think- ing evil is righteousness, and into accepting the pre- posterous view that the ob- servance of God's Law is against the will of God. Often that Jew is led to be- lieve that he has experi- enced Jesus personally in his life. "The Jewish convert should re-evaluate the source of his experience. The experience on which a Jewish convert may base his faith is not the result of divine intervention in his life. A man's emotional ex- periences cannot take the place of the true biblical word, as found in the He- brew Bible. The belief that Jesus can affect one's life is irrational and biblically un- tenable. Convincing oneself that something is true does not make it so. —P.S. 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