FOUR SIMPLE REASONS TO REJECT CHRISTIANITY

1) God is not man is stated in the Tanak (Jewish Bible) Three Times. Numbers 23.19, God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: when He hath said, will He not do it? or when He hath spoken, will He not make it good? 1 Samuel 15:29, And also the Glory of Israel will not lie nor repent; for He is not a man, that He should repent.' Hoshea 11.9 I will not execute the fierceness of Mine anger, I will not return to destroy Ephraim; for I am God, and not man, the Holy One in the midst of thee; and I will not come in fury. The trinity doctrine and the deification of a man cannot stand with it's foundation on the Jewish Bible.

2) Judaism rejects the doctrine of bondage to a sin nature. The account of the encounter between God and Cain before Cain killed Abel dispells any notion of a sin nature that is passed on from parent to child. One can conquer sin and not give in to the evil inclination. Genesis 4.7 "If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door; and unto thee is its desire, but thou mayest rule over it." Christianity according to Romans 7.14-8.8, 5.18, 19 claims that we are born into sin and cannot escape our sin nature except through the vicarious atonement made by Jesus on the cross. This Gospel message has swayed millions of people and left them searching for forgiveness fromsins they repeat over and over just as Paul claimed he was powerless to resist Romans 7.14-20. Genesis4.7 clearly teaches otherwise, that we have power over sin which merely crouches at the door (because we have not done well). Since Adam could be humble (like dust) and return to God (Genesis 3.19) and live forever (3.22) (note that the ground was cursed for the sake of Adam but neither Adam and Eve were cursed with a sin nature and although the serpent was cursed, mankind was not) and if Cain can rule over sin before the advent of Jesus being executed as a common criminal for sedition and since Ezekiel teaches that repentence is possible for the one who commits wickedness; then why would we need vicarious atonement to free us from bondage to a sin nature? The Christian doctrine of bondage to a sin nature is incompatible with the teachings of the Jewish Bible.

3) The Torah says that every man shall be punished for their own sin (the father shall not be punished for the sin of the son and the son shall not be punished for the sin of the father.) Deuteronomy24:16, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; every man shall be put to death for his own sin. Ezekiel 18:19, 32. Yet say ye: Why dothnot the son bear the iniquity of the father with him? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all My statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live. The soul that sinneth, it shall die; the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father with him, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son with him; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all My statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. None of his transgressions that he hath committed shall be remembered against him; for his righteousness that he hath done he shall live. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? saith the Lord GOD; and not rather that he should return from his ways, and live? But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he hath done shall be remembered; for his trespass that he trespassed, and for his sin that he hath sinned, for them shall he die. Yet ye say: The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is not equal? is it not your ways that are unequal? When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall die therefor; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive. Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die. Yet saith the

house of Israel: The way of the Lord is not equal. O house of Israel, is it My ways that are not equal? is it not your ways that are unequal? Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according tohis ways, saith the Lord GOD. Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so shall they not be a stumbling-block of iniquity unto you. Cast away from you all your transgressions, wherein ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord GOD; wherefore turn yourselves, and live. Roman 5.8, 9 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrathof God through Him.Romans 8:32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all--how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? John 3.16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Vicarious atonement cannot be reconsiled with the Torah or Prophet Ezekiel.

4) The Torah says not to follow a false prophet. Deuteronomy 13. If there arise in the midst of thee a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams--and he give thee a sign or a wonder, and the sign or the wonder come to pass, whereof he spoke unto thee--saying: 'Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them'; thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto that dreamer of dreams; for the LORD your God putteth you to proof, to know whether ye do love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. Jesus prophesied that he would physically return within the lifetime of his disciples to establish the kingdom of God on Earth. Matthew 16:28, "Truly I say to you, there are some of those who are standing here who shall not taste death until they see the Son of Man coming in His kingdom." Luke 9:27 But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God. The above doctrine of vicarious atonement (Christ died for all....) falls into the category of false prophesy and cannot be reconsiled with the Jewish Bible. As such one must reject false prophesy. (Islam says that Jesus is a prophet like all other prophets.) Because Jesus falsely prophesied his physical return to establish the kingdom on earth and Islam says Jesus is a prophet bothChristianity and Islam follow false prophets.The advents of Christianity and Islam are merely tests by the Holy One to see if the Jewish people "love God with all your heart and with all your soul."

5) Genesis states in two places that Jacob is buried in Machpelah. Genesis 49:29-30 And he charged them, and said unto them: 'I am to be gathered unto my people; bury me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite, in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place. Genesis 50:1-13 For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, of Ephron the Hittite, in front of Mamre. Joshua 24:32 states that Joseph is buried in Shechem. 6) And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for ahundred pieces of money; and they became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. The Christian Scriptures Acts 7:16-17 states Joseph is buried in Machpelah. Acts states that Abraham bought the tomb in Shechem. Genesis states it was Jacob who did the buying (Genesis 23:16-18; 33:18-19; 50:13;Joshua 24:32. The Christian account of the buying of the burial place of Joseph and the account of where Joseph is buried cannot be reconsiled with the Tanak (Jewish Bible).7) Genesis, Exodus and Deuteronomy states that seventy souls descended down into Egypt. Exodus 1:5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt. Genesis 46:26-27 All those who went to Egypt with Jacob - those who were his direct descendants, not

counting his sons' wives - numbered sixty-six persons. 27 With the two sons who had been born toJoseph in Egypt, the members of Jacob's family, which went to Egypt, were seventy in all.

Deuteronomy 10:22 Your forefathers who went down into Egypt were seventy in all, and now the Lordyour God has made you as numerous as the stars in the sky.

Acts states that Seventy Five souls went descended down into Egypt. Acts 7:14 After this, Joseph sent for his father Jacob and his whole family, seventy-five in all. The Christian Scriptures account for howmany souls descended into Egypt cannot be reconsiled with the Torah.