of Counter Missionaries and Anti-Paulists

[Note:  Though I do not identify anti-Paulists by name in this discussion, virtually everything I say about counter missionaries applies equally to them.  Therefore, as you read bear in mind that each point can be applied to the typical anti-Paulist for the simple reason that anti-Paulists are counter missionaries.]

There is an ongoing battle of extreme importance that is growing in intensity in these latter days. Unfortunately, only a tiny percentage of followers of Messiah Yeshua are even aware of it, and even fewer care to engage the battle. However, those opposed to Yeshua are very aware of it and eager to participate. This participation imbalance is a primary reason many today are being persuaded to reject the Messianic writings (New Testament), which results in subsequent rejection of Yeshua as Messiah. The battle to which I am referring is the growing conflict between counter missionaries and followers of Yeshua the Messiah.

At this moment, counter missionaries are investing far more resources and zeal than are Messiah's followers. There are many reasons for this, one being that most people who believe Yeshua to be Messiah feel that they cannot put up an adequate defense. Such is not the case, and in this article I will begin to reveal why.  It is my hope those who acknowledge Yeshua as Messiah will read this, begin to recognize the strength of their position, and heed the call to arms instead of avoiding the fight!

Let me first ask a key question - a question that may at first seem somewhat elementary.

The answer is NO!  Neither those who rightly acknowledge Yeshua as the Messiah nor the counter missionaries, most of which display intense, deep hatred for him, can PROVE their positions using the Tanakh!

I elaborate a bit on issues surrounding the previous question in a separate article.  Counter missionaries know the answer to the previous question is "no."  That is why they often focus their efforts on destroying the legitimacy of the Messianic writings (New Testament), efforts which force them to utilize particularly high levels of shamelessness, slander, wildly speculative arguments, and lies.  Whereas I agree that the Messianic writings (New Testament) are not perfect, I am absolutely convinced that they are reliable.  Counter missionaries find a few rotten apples in a barrel and claim the entire barrel is full of rotten apples.  Their arguments against the Messianic writings (New Testament) are equally applicable to all of Scripture, as well as the Talmud, Midrash Rabbah, Zohar, etc.  Of course, they rarely reveal that fact since they often embrace the other writings as being either infallible or very reliable.

In general, counter missionaries are either ignorant of the historic facts, ignorant of their own self-imposed bias-blindness, or liars.  I will give most of them the benefit of the doubt and assume they are not intending to deceive.  Instead, they simply do not overtly recognize or admit to the bias in their presentation of history and Scripture.  However, in some cases their psychotic hatred for the Messianic writings and Yeshua has led them into a bias-blindness that is so deep, they have literally lost all ability to reasonably consider the issues.

Psychotic?  Yes.  I do not use that term to be rude or offensive.  I honestly feel many counter missionaries suffer from what the mental health community defines as "psychosis."  A "psychotic" is a technical term used to describe those who have lost touch with reality.  The Oxford University Press dictionary defines psychosis as:

psychosis: noun (pl. psychoses) a severe mental disorder in which thought and emotions are so impaired that contact is lost with external reality.

Counter missionaries are so fanatically feverish in their drive to disprove the Messianic writings and destroy proof that Yeshua is the promised Messiah, that they have driven themselves into a state of frenzied spiritual psychosis.  Their "thought and emotions are so impaired" by their intense hatred of Yeshua and the Messianic faith, that they have "lost touch with the external reality" of history and Scripture.  In addition, many counter missionaries wildly embrace Scripturally unsubstantiated Rabbinic traditions and opinion as though it is "thus sayeth the L-RD," which also causes them to loose touch with Scriptural and historic reality.  A psychotic individual is a person suffering from "psychosis;" therefore, I sincerely feel many counter missionaries are psychotics, due to their self-imposed, bias driven psychosis.

First and foremost, the single overriding problem, which opponents of Yeshua the Messiah refuse to truly admit, is that almost every argument they use in this modern era is largely based upon biased assumptions and/or scholarly speculation.  Traditional Christians and counterfeit Messianics use speculative assumption all the time; however, in my opinion the counter missionaries are most guilty of this error, particularly regarding history, and of refusing to admit that their arguments are founded upon assumption and extreme bias.

Counter missionaries accept what they believe because that is what they want to believe.  They must take a "leap of faith" to arrive at their ultimate conclusions, though they deny this truth.  Those who deny this are either liars or psychotic.  It is almost laughable to watch counter missionaries twist and stretch history, scholarship, and Biblical passages, as they attempt to defame and dethrone Yeshua.  Of course, it is just as laughable to watch Christians do the same as they attempt to fit Yeshua into the "jesus christ G-d incarnate" box into which the true Messiah revealed in the Messianic writings does not fit.

Here is a list of issues for which both counter missionaries and proponents of Yeshua must make assumptions, some of which dramatically affect their conclusions.  Because of their rabid embrace of these and other assumptions, counter missionaries have become stricken with psychosis.  As each assumption is recognized and peeled away, their arguments are ultimately exposed and shown to be void of provable fact.

All of the items below are argued by counter missionaries from unconfirmed, assumed and speculative positions.  None of the positions taken by counter missionaries regarding any of these items can be proven.  They are all speculative. Counter missionaries possess very powerful mental leg muscles, which have been heavily exercised from their standard practice of "jumping" to conclusions.

1. Dating of various books of the Bible.  This applies to both the Tanakh (Old Testament) and the Messianic writings (New Testament). No one knows the date at which the various Biblical books were written. Anyone who tells you otherwise is deceived or a liar.

2. Authors of various books of the Bible.  Again, this applies to both the Tanakh (Old Testament) and the Messianic writings.  No one can prove who wrote any of the books of the Bible. Anyone who tells you otherwise is deceived or a liar.

3. Closely resembling the last issue, no one can prove to which religious sects characters in the Messianic writings belonged prior to (or during) their acceptance of Yeshua.  Anyone that tells you otherwise is deceived or a liar.  Scholars and counter missionaries assume a religious sect identity for early followers of Yeshua.  John the Baptist is a classic example of this.  There is very little in the way of detailed, undeniable accounts of the beliefs of various Judaic sects during Yeshua's time. There were MANY Judaic religious sects at that time.  Also, how can it be proven that specific individuals within a given sect accepted all of the sect's doctrine?  Even today, just because someone aligns himself with a particular religious group does not mean that person fully accepts all that group promotes.  Some of the more notorious counter missionaries attempt to convince you that early Messianics belonged to various religions sects.  One of the more common assumptions is that they were Essenes.  In fact, a popular counter missionary site, which is particularly vile in its opposition to Yeshua and intentional demonic spreading of misinformation, has a huge article listing in which the author flippantly leads his readers to accept the notion of "Essene Christianity." There is absolutely no iron-clad prove of this whatsoever, and that counter missionary apostle of satan knows it!  Actually, all counter missionaries know that many of their arguments are actually not provable, but they hope their listeners are too ignorant to realize it.  The simple common sense fact is that the early Messianics (Netzarims) came from ALL religious sects, including the Pharisees, and united behind their beloved master and Messiah, Yeshua.  Anyone who presents as "fact" that the early Netzarims were all of a particular religious bent (Qumran community, Essene, Ebionite, gnostics, Hellenistic Jews, etc.) is deceived or a liar.

4. Reliability of the Messianic writings and the Tanakh is another issue.  Counter missionaries attempt to falsely represent the Masoretic Hebrew text as being infallible.  What they fail to reveal is how the Masoretic texts also has possible scribal corruption and were heavily influenced by extreme opponents of the Messianic/Netzarim faith.  They also intentionally fail to inform you that the Masoretic texts are relatively recent compared to the other ancient manuscripts and were decided upon and created by Rabbinic decree.  In fact, even Messianic writings manuscripts are older than the Masoretic texts, which were not compiled until hundreds of years after the first century. The Masoretic texts are not infallible.  Anyone who tells you otherwise is deceived or a liar.  Also, the fact that the Messianic writings quotes more from the LXX (Septuagint) than the Masoretic texts may actually support its legitimacy since the Septuagint was composed before the Masoretic texts, but counter missionaries do not wish for you to know that.

5. It is impossible to prove the legitimacy of the "Oral" Torah.  Anyone who claims that the Rabbinic "Oral Torah" (traditions of men) is equally Divine and inspired as the Written Torah is deceived, or a liar, a fool, and a scorner of the Almighty G-d.  Most counter missionaries place unwise and unfounded faith in the "Oral" Torah of Rabbinic Judaism.  It is the epitome of deceit and bias for them to brazenly attack the legitimacy of the while holding fast to the notion that the "Oral" Torah (Talmud, etc.) is unassailable.  They often brashly and witlessly elevate their esteemed "Rabbinic sages" to the level of Divine in a way that is even worse than how Catholics elevate the Pope!  Yet, because of the ultra-Semitic mind set of many counter missionaries, they psychotically see nothing wrong with such exalting of their "famed" Rabbis.

6. Scriptural legitimacy of "Rabbinic Judaism" is another issue most counter missionaries avoid discussing.  Counter missionaries fail to inform their victims of how "Rabbinic" authority is, itself, a Rabbinic invention, which Scripture does not condone, and that this coveted authority evolved during a time of intense opposition to Yeshua's claim to being Messiah.  They fail to discuss, for instance, issues such as the "restructuring" of Judaism that took place in Yavneh following the Second Temple destruction and of the curse that the Rabbis instituted against the followers of Yeshua that is still found in today's Shemoneh Esrei prayer of any Judaic Siddur (prayer book).  It is the 12th "blessing" in those prayer books, even though it was added as a 19th blessing around 90 CE in Yavneh.  They placed it higher in the list of "blessings" as part of their effort to hide it as being illegitimate.  This Rabbinic curse of the first century proves Yeshua's existence to be a historical FACT and that the Messianic faith was a very real threat to their authority; otherwise, they would not have instituted the curse against Yeshua's followers.  Isn't it strange.  Yeshua taught us to love our enemies.  Rabbinic Judaism expelled from the synagogues and institutionalized a curse against their enemies, thus "drawing first blood" in their fight with Yeshua's followers.  Rabbinic Judaism is NOT the religion that existed prior to the first century.  It is the invention of the Pharisaic rabbinic councils in Yavneh. Anyone who tells you otherwise is deceived or a liar.

7. Determination as to whether Tanakh passages can be considered Messianic is yet one more issue counter missionaries misrepresent.  Both counter missionaries and Messianic believers in Yeshua can present legitimate opinions regarding what some passages may imply.  I firmly believe Christianity has gone too far in their attempts to identify Messianic passages; however, counter missionaries have also gone overboard in their attempts to explain away Messianic passages.  In fact, in their zeal to perpetuate their lies, counter missionaries have resorted to "creative translation," which is just as bad as the worst Christianity has to offer, as they strive to remove obvious references to Yeshua from the pages of the Tanakh.  For instance, an individual must be especially foolish and psychotic to see an allegorical reference to "Israel" in Isaiah 53 instead of the obvious Messianic references of those particular passages as they struggle to close their eyes to the simple truth, particularly when Rabbinic mistranslations and "stacking of the deck" using their Masorite scribes is realized.  Counter missionaries are NOT lilly white virgins of truth.  Instead, they are filthy harlots of misinformation just as are many Traditional Christian apologists.  Counter missionaries cannot prove their anti-Yeshua interpretations are the only exclusive true interpretations.  Anyone who tells you otherwise is deceived or a liar.

The list above is a broad representation of the numerous issues for which assumption is made by counter missionaries.  There are more, but I wanted to keep this article short.  Of course, counter missionary agents of deception present their assumptions as facts; therefore, in most cases the sentence in red that is repeated applies to them.  They are often deceived or liars because they intentionally fail to present a balanced view of the available evidence for each issue listed above.