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Bluebug
Member
01-05-2004
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 12:17 pm
My friend joined the jews for jesus organization a few days ago and I want to know if there the real deal or just a scam.I am getting a bad feeling about them. If anybody knows anything about them could you please help?
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 12:24 pm
I don't know anything about them but I have heard the term before. Aren't they just Christians who happen to be jewish? (ie Jewish is both a religious as well as an ethnic term) When you google the term , this is the response: Jews For Jesus Google
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Kaili
Member
08-31-2000
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 12:27 pm
Jews For Jesus Above is a link to the organization's main site.
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Bluebug
Member
01-05-2004
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 12:33 pm
Yeah I looked at it but I am not sure if these people are serious or not. I just dont want my friend beeing skrewed. Thanks for the help.
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Karuuna
Member
08-31-2000
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 12:37 pm
Blue, I know several folks who are members of Jews for Jesus. I don't know what you mean by "serious or not", or what your bad feeling is, but they don't seem any different to me than other mainline Christian denoms or Jewish denoms. In other words, I don't see them as cultists. 
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 12:56 pm
BLue is your friend Jewish? Is he also Christian?
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 1:03 pm
I don't think its a scam. It's been around a long time. They are people who were brought up as Jewish, but now believe in Christ. I believe their direct evangelical misson is to convert other Jews, but I am not 100% on that. It's been around since I was in high school (egads..way back in the 70's!)
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Egbok
Member
07-13-2000
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 1:16 pm
Bluebug, I'm in the L.A. area and I have a few friends who belong to Jews for Jesus and they are Jewish and very normal, loving, caring people as well. I never gave their preference a second thought but they seem very happy with life in general...just regular people.
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Rabbit
Member
08-12-2001
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 1:26 pm
In the interest of balance in your research, the following website presents the views of some ex-staff members of Jews for Jesus. http://www.exjewsforjesus.org/
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 1:48 pm
Interesting read, Rabbit.
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 4:45 pm
LOL. I call Jews for Jesus Temple Yeshua. Back in Philadelphia they used to go around Rittenhouse Square, which is a very Jewish area, and hand out their "literature" to the folks sitting there. It was invariably discarded. In L.A., they have a Temple (?) in Westwood that has a sign "Jews for Jesus: Founded 32 AD." I see that sign and I cannot help thinking they are a little off. It is transparent from that sign that they are not a Jewish organization, but a Christian one. I have no problems with Christianity, but I think there are better examples of it than "Jews" for Jesus. But to me the more important thing is that the notion of evangalism is antithetical to Jewish beliefs. Although I know that reconstructionist Jews sometimes engage in this practice--and they should not if they follow Jewish teaching--it is not a central concern, as it is with "Jews" for Jesus.
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Karuuna
Member
08-31-2000
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 5:03 pm
Well, that's interesting reading, Rabbit, but that websites definition of cult would apply to many modern Christian evangelists groups, Catholics, Jehovah's witnesses, Mormans and many Buddhist groups for that matter. And frankly, groups vary by region. I can personally guarantee that the group in my locale doesn't engage in any bizarro practices. Well, no more than any other religion. 
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 9:14 pm
Tish, I am confused. Are you saying that evangelicism is not central to Jesus' teachings or Jewish belief?
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Tishala
Member
08-01-2000
| Friday, April 16, 2004 - 9:17 pm
To Judaism. It's forbidden.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Saturday, April 17, 2004 - 8:38 am
How interesting. I did not realize that. No one Jesus' message and teachings seemed so foreign to them. (among others)
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Puppylov3
Member
01-26-2004
| Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 11:47 am
My sister is Messianic - they follow Jewish holidays and customs and such but recognize Yeshua (Jesus to Christians) as the Messiah.
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