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Unbelievable? 9 May 2009 - Was Jesus the Jewish Messiah?

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 5 June 2014

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Jesus was a Jew.  Christianity owes its birth to Judaism.  But did Jesus represent the fulfilment of Jewish Messianic hopes and prophecy? Jonathan Romain is Rabbi of a Reform Synagogue in Maidenhead and was recently named as one of the most influential Jews in the UK. He believes that whatever Jesus was, he was not the Messiah promised in the Old Testament. Stephen Pacht is a Messianic Jew.  He believes Jesus is the Messiah the Jews were promised, but has not been recognised yet by many fellow Jews. For Rabbi Jonathan Romain www.maidenheadsynagogue.org.uk For Stephen Pacht www.jewsforjesus.org.uk For more Christian/non-Christian debate visit www.premier.org.uk/unbelievable or get the podcast If you enjoyed this programme you may also enjoy Unbelievable? 24 May 2008 Jesus & Jewishness: are they compatible? Rabbi Shmuley Boteach & Michael Brown debate Discuss this programme at the Premier Community

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good afternoon welcome along to the program i'm I'm Justin Briley with you until 4 o'clock this afternoon for unbelievable the show that gets Christians and non Christians talking.

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So whether you're listening via podcast, via internet, live on the radio, however it is,

0:45.7

you're welcome along to an interesting hour and a half here on the program. That is the name of the program because our guests often find each other's views.

0:56.3

Unbelievable.

0:57.3

I wonder who you'll agree with this afternoon.

0:59.2

A rabbi and a Christian join me.

1:01.6

The Christian though is a messianic Jew so has a lot in common with Jewish belief

1:06.8

but believes contrary to our rabbi that Jesus was the Messiah of the Jews. We're going to be finding out why Jonathan Romain, a Jewish

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a reformed rabbi, believes that's not the case, and why Stephen Pasht, who was of Jews

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for Jesus, does believe that the Jesus does represent the

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promised Messiah fulfilling the longings in expectations of the Jewish people.

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It's going to be a fascinating program for you this afternoon.

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So we'll hear the conversation that I had with them very shortly, but before we get to uh... we've had a bulging mail bag seems

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to be a regular now that uh... i have far more than i can possibly communicate

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