Jews and Christians worship the same God

I want to remind one thing to the non-Christians on the topic. It is one thing to show what the Biblical theology ‘says’ and it’s another to show how the theology is true. The debate is on the first; on whether the theology of NT suits and fits correctly in OT, is Jesus the same Messiah promised in Hebrew tanakh? I presented good reasons to think he is. Con misunderstood certain points again. I never meant that there is no concept of the promised Messiah in the tanakh. I said the Jews today reject Jesus by saying he didn’t fulfill the prophesies and criteria; they claim this as if they have a list of prophesy explicitly stating “The Messiah will do this, he will do that” and so on. There is no such list and description of him, rather the prophesies are seen by interpretation. Ancient Rabbis understood many passages to be clear indication of the Messiah, some are allusions; that’s how we find out what are the Messianic prophesies in tanakh. Anti-Missionary Jews obviously ignore the main prophesies and stress some particular ones to deny Jesus. I gave examples from Talmud where Rabbis clearly saw the passage of Daniel 7 was Messianic. Isaiah 6 was also, and you can see some Rabbis even interpretation Isaiah 53 to be alluding to Messiah- http://www.hearnow.org... This means the objection against Messianic prophesies that the unbelieving Jews give has no weight. I explained him how John 12:38-41 claims that Isaiah saw the glory of Jesus, in the passage where Isaiah saw YHWH in Isaiah 6, which proves Jesus the Messiah is YHWH himself according to the New Testament very clearly. Con ignored it again. http://www.openbible.info... Con says it’s his personal grievance that somehow he is not able to accept the God of NT to be same as OT because of conflicting nature. But I explained it from the beginning that such arguments are caused from lack of knowledge of the theology. I said the first and second covenants are two different covenants. First was theocratic in nature limited in geography and the Jewish tribes; God prepared them and taught them about value of divine commands, objective truth and He chose them prepared their bloodline only to send the Son, the Savior, Messiah ultimately, who brings the new covenant of grace. In him was the fulfillment of prophesies and whole Mosaic Law which are incredible evidence for humans as the proof for theology. Through him(Messiah) all nations knew about the God of Abraham. Gentiles receive the salvation becoming the descendants of Abraham through faith (Romans 4). Read Galatians 4, Paul says when the fullness of time came, God sent his Son, meaning it was all divine plan of God. Messianic prophesies indicated that all nations will come to light through him Isaiah 11:10; Isaiah 2; Isaiah 45:22-23; Isaiah 40:1-11; Isa 42:6; Isa 51:4-5 ; Luke 2:29-32. http://www.openbible.info... God doesn’t show partiality and favoritism to anyone (Rom 2, Galatians 2) read what happened in Acts chapter 2 and 10. God punished everyone when he punishes, he is the author of life, he allows evil and good to let people choose him freely and get salvation. The history of Israel might look way persecuted than any other nation if you compare them. So that objection is really bizarre one based on misunderstanding of the basic theology. That should be easily corrected in the minds of those who thinks anything like the Salvation plan of the Biblical theology was some political agenda of God, to sort out previous conflicts with all nations. I see majority of audience has a huge misconception on the Old Testament problems, please see if you can read “Is God a Moral Monster” by Paul Copan for those objections. Also the basic understanding of the Bible will not lead you to think God suddenly changed plans and came up with a different mindset whatsoever. I encourage you to seek, as Yeshua the Messiah said you will find if you seek. I enjoyed the debate, hope readers enjoyed as well.