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There are some strange uses of the word evangelicalism in this. You cannot 'be' evangelicalism, and you cannot be partly evangelicalism!
Are you saying: "Just because MJ is evangelical [it] doesn't mean it's completely evangelical. You can be evangelical and still have an Israel-centric theology".
You can be AN evangelical but you cannot be AN evangelicalism! Different words.
Having said that, I agree if your post is as I have re-produced it, in red, above.
Yep what you posted in red.
According to the article I posted I'm using how they use it....
"At first glance, relating Messianic Judaism to a broad term like "evangelicalism" may seem to obscure more issues than it clarifies. For our purposes, I will use James Davidson Hunter's definition of evangelicalism, which states that at the doctrinal core, contempo[bless and do not curse]rary evangelicals can be identified by their adherence to the belief that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God (on essential matters of faith and life), the belief in the divinity of Christ, and the insistence on the efficacy of Christ's life, death, and physical resurrection for the salvation of the human soul.3 For Hunter, evangelicals are also generally marked by an individualized and experiential orientation toward spiritual salvation and religiosity, and by the conviction of the necessity of actively attempting to proselytize all nonbelievers to the tenets of the evangelical belief system."
I want to be clear that I'm not advocating one Messianc Jewish organization over another. My point what you posted in red, that's it's not impossible to have evangelical theology and and have Israel centric theology.
Some here wouldn't agree.
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