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Title: Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith by Marvin R. Wilson ISBN: 0-8028-0423-3 Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Pub. Date: April, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Crucial Resource for Every Serious Truth Searcher
Comment: Speaking as someone who was fired from a Christian Church because I was bold enough to challenge antiquated and incorrect church dogma re: God's eternal covenant with Israel - This book was the first one I read in my quest for finding the truth about Christianity's real foundations. I grew up in church but was never taught the full truth. God bless people like Marvin Wilson, who have compiled very readable, historical, and theologically accurate information. Simply said, if you are a "Christian" of any denomination and any theological level (Pastors included) but have not discovered the truth about the Hebrew roots of the Christian faith, you cannot worship God in spirit or in truth. This book, among others, is crucial to any valid and deep understanding of the Christian faith and beginnings.
Pastors, not only should this book be on your office desk at all times for reference in sermon preparation, you must view and show the accompanying video to this book; "Jews and Christians - A Journey of Faith."
It is time for the entire Christian culture to repent of the evils committed in the name of God and "Replacement Theology" (or supercessionism - the Jews lost their covenant and Christianity is the "New Israel"). After reading Wilson's book your spiritual life will grow in ways you never dreamed. You will begin an inevitable moral conversion that will enable the relationship with God and others that Jesus (and Paul) actually intended.
Without reconnecting to "the root that supports you," or Israel and the Judaism of Jesus, Christianity is only a "cut flower in the garden" (Krister Stendahl); no root, no life. Again, Pastors, graduating from Seminary did not complete your education at all. Your spiritual leadership is at best inadequate, if not outright ignorantly destructive, if you do not open yourselves to this essential and hermeneutically sound information. Start your reconnection to the true roots of a valid faith with this book as your moral and theological compass.
Rating: 5
Summary: Our Father Abraham
Comment: When people stop by our website and ask us "where do we start? What book do we read first?" this is the book that we start them off with when they start exploring the Hebrew roots of the Christian Faith. We call this book "THE PRIMER"! A must read for every Christian to understand the first century church.
Rating: 5
Summary: A review from one of Dr. Wilson's students
Comment: I am a student at Gordon College, and I am currently in Dr. Wilson's Modern Jewish Culture class. Before this class, I had been fascinated with Judaism, but I had never fully comprehended just how important it is for me to be fully aware of my own Jewish roots.
Frankly speaking, we Christians DO owe everything to, as one reviewer termed it, the "unbelieving" or "apostate" Jew. Those terms are very disturbing to me, since they reflect the very thinking that has allowed the division between Judaism and Christianity to continue for so long. On a more distressing level, they are the very thoughts that kept Christians silent during the horrors of the second World War.
When Christians approach Jews -- and vice-versa, when Jews approach Christians -- with an accusatory and negative spirit ("you're the ones who DON'T believe in [fill in the blank]"), no progress can be made in restoring our relationship. For those of us who consider ourselves Christians, it is only when we respond to each other with genuine care and a complete lack of judgment that any progress can be made. When Christians approach Jews with gratitude -- yes, gratitude -- we can begin to understand each other.
If you haven't read this book, you may be wondering why Christians should be so concerned with restoring our relationship with Judaism. For a full answer, you'll have to read Our Father Abraham, but I'll give a few reasons right now.
For one, Jesus (Rabbi Yeshua ben Yoseph) was an observant Jew, and although He challenged the Jewish thinkers of His day, He remained a Jew until his death, and will remain so beyond the end of time. The very act of theological argument is itself a very Jewish act; extreme importance is placed on midrash (study) and on remaining aware of the reasons behind every tenet of Jewish theology. Furthermore, while it is true that many Jews have not accepted Jesus' messiahship, that is NOT reason for anyone to believe that they have lost their distinction as a "Chosen Race" and "Holy Priesthood". The Lord, quite simply, does not go back on His word. The promises and covenants we read about in the Torah still continue to this very day. And as for the question of Messiah, it is little wonder that Jews have not accepted Jesus' claims as such, given the way His followers have treated them for millennia. In the words of many Jews, if following Jesus can allow for anti-Semitism and intolerance, they want no part of Him. For Christians, it is our task to "provoke the Jew to jealousy" by bearing witness to the joy of following Rabbi Yeshua, and historically we have done a terrible job of filling that role.
It is not Christians' task to convert Jews, since the very definition of conversion requires turning on one religion and way of life in order to fully embrace another. Quite frankly, Judaism and Christianity are not two separate religions, and even the Apostle Paul himself never "converted". (Be slow to accept any Biblical headings that suggest that he did; bold-faced paragraph headings placed by our friends at Zondervan, remember, are NOT inspired text.) Instead, Paul accepted the "fullest flowering" of his Judaism, and remained a Jew until the end of his life. In light of this model, it is the task of the Christian to love the Jewish people, and to be grateful to them for the gift of our religion and our Jewish Messiah. It is the task of the Christian to thoughtfully appeal to the intellect of the Jew by offering, without judgment, the secret for our joy. Finally, it is the task of the Christian to examine his own life for the cracks where anti-Semitism can creep in. It is easier than one might think...
...and it is precisely the reason why you owe it to yourself to read this book. I pray that you have found this review helpful and thought-provoking.
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Title: Yeshua: A Guide to the Real Jesus and the Original Church by Ron Moseley ISBN: 1880226685 Publisher: Messianic Jewish Resources International Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Jesus the Jewish Theologian by Brad Young ISBN: 1565630602 Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Understanding the Difficult Words of Jesus: New Insights from a Hebraic Perspective by David Bivin, Roy Blizzard, Roy B. Blizzard ISBN: 156043550X Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: Restoring the Jewishness of the Gospel: A Message for Christians by David H. Stern ISBN: 9653590014 Publisher: Messianic Jewish Resources International Pub. Date: February, 1988 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Complete Jewish Bible : An English Version of the Tanakh (Old Testament) and B'Rit Hadashah (New Testament) by David H. Stern ISBN: 9653590154 Publisher: Messianic Jewish Resources International Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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