Jesus is the Jewish Messiah

Again, I'd like re-extend my offer to debate this topic with my opponent or anyone else.I'd also like to mention that I've accepted to take on another debate with Pro on the topic: "The Septuagint is more accurate and closer than the Masoretic text to the originals"It can be viewed here - http://www.debate.org...One thing to take away from this debate is the importance of going to the primary sources rather than trust people who quote them, even if it appears in a book, and even if the Authors have a good reputation. This is particularly important when they're also translating the text they're quoting as we have seen Omnis Traductor Traditor.I left out a point which I should have made with regard Pro's argument from Isaiah 7:14. The response I gave is a good one, but I have another one as well that I'll mention here:Even according to Septuagint, the verse does not necessarily mean/say virgin. The Septuagint uses the term παρθ^1;νος (parthenos), which most translate as virgin. However, this cannot be so since the same term is used in Genesis 34:2-4 to describe Dinah even after she had been raped. - http://www.academic-bible.com...I searched over 25 different translations of that verse, and not one translated it as a virgin. I also found the word listed under 'Maiden' in English-Greek Dictionaries: http://artflx.uchicago.edu.... http://www.perseus.tufts.edu... With regard Isaiah 7:14, even Christians who accept the M.T. over Septuagint, claim that even the Hebrew word used there עלמה means virgin. Since my opponent didn't mention it, I didn't bother addressing it, but since I have space here, I'll address it.1) One proof that עלמה mean young girl, not virgin is based on the fact that everyone agrees that the masculine form of the word עלם means a young man, thus it follows that the feminine form עלמה means a young woman, not virgin. To specify virgin, the word would בתולה be used.2) Everywhere else in the Bible, עלמה is translated as girl http://biblehub.com...3) Another older argument that is addressed by Jerome is simply based on the fact that we know that the Hebrew word for virgin is בתולה . Thus if virgin was meant, that is the word that would be used (another way of putting this is that since we know the word for virgin is בתולה, it wouldn't make sense to have another word עלמה that means the same thing. Ergo, it must mean young woman). Jerome countered this argument by saying "I know that the Jews are accustomed to meet us with the objection that in Hebrew the word Almah does not mean a virgin, but a young woman. And, to speak truth, a virgin is properly called Bethulah, but a young woman, or a girl, is not Almah, but Naarah"! (Jerome, Adv. Javianum I, 32; N&PNF, vi, 370.)This doesn't really answer the problem fully, but rather creates a different one.I think the answer is that the term עלמה is like a synonym for 'Naarah' (or vise versa) probably with a slightly different connotation. The question then arises why say that it's a synonym for Naarah, rather than בתולה?I believe that it makes more sense to say that עלמה is synonym for girl/Naarah rather virgin/בתולה based on the fact that the young girl /Naarah is a much more general and more commonly used. Synonyms do not mean the same thing http://dictionary.reference.com..., each word has it's own nuances, implication, connotations, associations, etc. which are used to convey something more specific. The more general a word/term is, the more synonyms are needed to differentiate between the different sorts/types. For example, in this case they could Connote different ages of girls or something like that.Also, words/terms that are more commonly used are more likely to have more synonyms.I'll end off with a couple of quotes from Thomas Jefferson with regard Jesus divinity: 1821 February 27. (Jefferson to Timothy Pickering). "no one sees with greater pleasure than myself the progress of reason in it’s advances towards rational Christianity. when we shall have done away the incomprehensible jargon of the Trinitarian arithmetic, that three are one, and one is three; when we shall have knocked down the artificial scaffolding, reared to mask from view the simple structure of Jesus, when, in short, we shall have unlearned every thing which has been taught since his day, and got back to the pure and simple doctrines he inculcated, we shall then be truly and worthily his disciples: and my opinion is that if nothing had ever been added to what flowed purely from his lips, the whole world would at this day have been Christian...."[14] 1823 April 11. (Jefferson to John Adams). "The truth is that the greatest enemies to the doctrines of Jesus are those calling themselves the expositors of them, who have perverted them for the structure of a system of fancy absolutely incomprehensible, and without any foundation in his genuine words. And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter. But we may hope that the dawn of reason and freedom of thought in these United States will do away all this artificial scaffolding, and restore to us the primitive and genuine doctrines of this the most venerated reformer of human errors."[15] http://www.monticello.org...Vote Con!