Reasons/Messianic Judaism

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Dear Bro. Bruce,

You wrote:
| I understand the Jewish belief system and their total respect for the    
| NAME of GOD (YHWH).  Yet I cannot respect their "lack" of using the |
NAME of JESUS.  

"Jesus"(Greek transliteration) =="Yehoshua" or "Yeshua" in the Hebrew.
If anything, Bro. Marx is using a more exact name than we are :).
Probably precisely what Jesus was called "at home"!

I understand that they or anyone for that matter who does not believe in
| Our Lord and Savior JESUS Christ would not use His name because they do
not acknowledge His Messiahship.
| That is totally excusable and I would never criticize them for not doing
| something they have no knowledge about.

That would hold water, but Bro. Marx also believes Jesus (Yehoshua) is the
messiah! :)

|      We must "never" deny our Father His true respect in not stating |His
name.  We may say God, or Lord, or Jesus, or Jehovah, or any |one of many
different combinations of His NAME and not disrespect |Him.   

"Saying" and "writing" are two different things.  Spoken words can never be
destroyed, written word can be destroyed (deleted, burned, etc.) which is
one reason they do not *write* the word "God".

|      Acts 4:12 ... For there is none other NAME ....whereby we must be
saved.
| 
|      There seems to be wisdom to be expressed when witnessing to |Jewish
non-believers in Jesus of not hitting them over the head with the |NAME of
JESUS each time we speak with them.  I am in total |agreement with this
practice and also any other "offensive" words to |them should be observed
with the utmost caution and wisdom.  I |beleive we can be "biblically
correct:" without being too ofensive to |them in our conversations.    

I visited "Beth Messiah" (a Messianic Jewish temple) a few times.  They
knew exactly who they were referring to, they just called his name
"Yeshua".  This is also "safer" for a lot of members who have to "hide"
their true religion from family to avoid persecution (and hopefully win
them over some day).

|But Jesus did
| come to "set at variance" a man from his family.   (if one accepts the
|way of Jesus...he is set apart from his non-believing family untill they
|convert)

I agree, but for the Messianic Jew, (as opposed to Gentilian Christianity),
the situation is slightly different (Bro. Marx could probably elaborate
more personally).  Basically, it's kind of hard to witness to/convert your
family when they've conducted a funeral for you and/or otherwise refuse to
acknowledge your existance AT ALL.

|      As always this is submitted in the attitude of Isaiah 1:18....let us
| reason together.   Any comments are welcome and expected in Christian
love.


I hope this helps,
Anneliese