Same here.
Although the sentiment that Messianic Jews believe in Jesus whereas Christians tend to believe in Paul is a bit off.
Jesus saves, not Paul, and I doubt that any Christian would believe otherwise. Paul wrote a lot of the letters in the NT, but he was not in opposition to Christ, did not put himself above Christ, and would, I feel, be horrified at the thought that some people were rating him as an alternative to Christ.
This isn't the place to discuss it (we could make a thread if you want) but almost everything said by Paul can be proven false, inaccurate, incomplete, contrary, deceitful, evil, pro torah, anti torah, anti semitic (no, he wasn't a Jew), a speaker of false prophecy, the subject of negative prophecy, the source of bad fruit, pure rubbish or all of the above.
Some messianic Jews believe Paul was fully pro-torah and legit (although they tend to be gentile-born ex-christians rather than Jewish converts, as most Jews who actually study the NT accept that Yeshua taught pro-jewish teaching most of the time, while Paul taught very anti Torah material).
Anyway I'll draw a line here
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Because this Paul stuff can drag topics way off, and being in opposition to Paul tends to put me in the position of blame, so make a new thread for it if you wish, and as long as it doesn't degrade into personal insults, either direct or veiled as "you clearly don't understand" "you don't have the holy spirit" "I'll pray for you" or "may your eyes be opened" etc etc, then I'm happy to discuss our difference of opinion
(I'm not saying YOU will degrade it to personal insults, but there is always someone who comes into the discussion and does it, so I'd rather it was a proviso of the topic that no one who wishes to engage in that discussion may make such posts).
Back on topic, two people now have said that they disagree with me on blood transfusions, and forgive me but there are too many pages to read back through, so even if you've posted them already, could you please explain your reasons? A common one that I'm assuming you might write is that the commandment appears to relate to eating/drinking blood, and not using it medically, transfusing it with our own? Or perhaps you feel that the value of human life surpasses the value of obeying these commandments, as its an act of mercy to preserve human life? The latter one is the closes argument to swaying my opinion, but still, i don't think we should, but as I say, i don't know for certain and so wouldn't allow my own feeling taint my choice where it came to someone else receiving a transfusion.
