Answer to Jews for Jesus

Can Anything Good Come From Nazareth? | Miri's Testimony
SO BE IT! | 3 Febr. 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZbKO4pzAF4

If you want to know where the inn of the Good Samaritan is, where the oil and wine of sacraments are used to heal the wounds of man, you can ask a Palestinian Christian.

In Nazareth, I'm pretty sure some Jews would be aware that they were there first, and they even might have some kind of inkling tghat they have lived there for 2000 years and are some of the earliest populations of Jews for Jesus (or, if you prefer, Galileans for Jesus, or, as the Bible say, men of Galilee). Such Jews might kind of have an ulterior motive to consider a Christian as a bogedet.

10:35 Who we are and our sins are two different things.

God will usually not deliver us from venial sins in this life, but if you confess your mortal sins to a priest and God forgives them and you aren't delivered from them, either you or the priest is doing something very wrong.

I will not name the sin from which I'm pretty much delivered since decades, but it's often committed by people not in a couple and it is not by impotence that I was delivered (though some of the people around me seem to try to be working on that).

God intends to deliver so and so from so and so's sins, not from so and so's character. Or personality.

10:42 And our deal Lord Jesus Christ is not covering up from the outside so the Father doesn't see us, He sees heart and kidneys.

He's clothing us in righteousness, and changing us from inside.

Ephesians 2 verses 8 and 9 is not a valid Bible passage. Ephesians 2, verses 8, 9 and 10 is.

10:30 Just to clarify in case there is some kind of allusion.

I was not kicked out from my family, I'm not in abuse of alcohol or any use of the usually illicit drugs, alcohol is a substance God created and which is clearly licit to use in moderation, as we know from Our Lord's first public miracle. And from the law. And from St. Paul's words to St. Tim. And from Catholic tradition.

I don't believe sharing the faith is primarily sharing my story.

There are so many better stories to share, and I usually sign full length articles with one line each for my own name and the place (often Paris), then two lines for the date: the saint of the day (or one I pick), and the Mathematic description of the day. Like St. Blasius, one line, 3.II.2025, last line of my signature.

There is another reason too. I don't actually know the menue of Patel. But I'm pretty well aware of the menue at a China Food takeaway. If I wanted to recommend it to someone, I obviously might mention they have great sushi, the salmon with avocado one is excellent, but I'd be uncharitable if that was all I said about it, there are actually very good prawn tempuras (yes, tempura is Jap food, but they still have it), they have a thing with beef and cheese which I haven't tasted, they have beef dishes, chicken dishes, and so on ... why should I just stick with my own experience when my receptive capacity is limited?

Speaking of tempura, while the dies quattuor temporum after Epiphany are over, I missed out due to throat-ache, (dear St. Blasius pray for me), Lent is around the corner, and Our Lord didn't say "if you fast" but "when you fast" ...