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Thread: how charge of Pharisee is used to delegitimize Judaism. When I was a rabbinical student, was approached by evangelical missionary trying to proselytize me. Told him respectfully that I already have a religion/relationship w/God. He proceeded to argue Hebrew Bible w/me. /1
I’m naturally curious & open person & happily indulge those who engage me in the marketplace of ideas. But the evangelist wouldn’t back down, despite me telling him I was almost an ordained rabbi. I warned him he would never be able to convert me-didn’t want to waste his time. /2
He told me I was going to hell for not accepting Jesus. I countered that truly loving God wouldn’t condemn the majority of humanity to a lake of fire for believing differently & explained to him basics of Jewish theology. He was insistent I convert & got increasingly hostile. /3
