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Six Success Strategies for Intermarried Couples

By Scott Brown

Cultivate a Biblical View of Intermarriage

The union of Jews and Gentiles seems to be high on the list of God's priorities! In the first book of the Torah, God promises to make Abraham, the first Hebrew patriarch, the father of many "goyim" (Gentile nations). The Hebrew prophet Isaiah wrote that God would join Jews and Gentiles to create a "house of prayer for all nations." In the New Testament, the Apostle Paul (a religious Jew) wrote to Gentile congregations in Ephesus and Rome about a "mystery." God would one day knit together Jews and Gentiles into one unified body. In other words, the marriage of a Jew and a Gentile has the potential of demonstrating God's eternal purposes.
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Putting the Faith in Interfaith Marriage

By Alan Shore

It's a scenario we're seeing more and more frequently. Two young people fall in love-one Jewish, the other not. Neither of them has an attachment to any religious tradition or belief. Since no one else in either family seems to mind particularly, except a stray grandparent here and there, they overlook this seemingly insignificant matter, and the marriage is made. For a while, all goes well.
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Isaiah 9:6 and the Names of Messiah

By Mark Ellick

In ancient Israel, names mattered. A name might be the embodiment of someone's character. A name change could indicate a kind of rebirth into a whole new purpose in life.
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Rabbinic Objections

By Dr. Michael L. Brown

Whether you are a religious Jewish person or not, it is clear that all modern forms of Judaism, from Orthodox to Reform, are based upon the idea that two Torahs were given on Mount Sinai-one written and the other oral. Eventually, the oral Torah was written down, codified, commented upon and passed along to future generations of Jewish people and became known as the Talmud-the judgments and interpretations of our Sages.
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Portrait of a Messianic Faith: Ken and Yolanda

What happens when spiritual priorities shift in a marriage between a Jewish person and a Gentile? It can be a recipe for disaster! Or it can be the start of a relationship with far more depth than either one imagined possible.
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Why It's Jewish to Believe in Jesus

By Noel Rabinowitz

Many Jewish people assume that to believe in Jesus is to do something very goyish-something very "Gentile." All our lives, we have been told that Jesus is for the Gentiles and that He is therefore not the promised Messiah. And, it is for this reason that the Jewish community remains steadfast in its unwavering confession that "Jews don't believe in Jesus!"
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