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Lots of people ask me, are you still Jewish?
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Well, yes, in a way, but in a way not.
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Racially, I'm still a Jew.
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Why deny it? Weren't St.
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Peter and Paul still Jews?
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I mean, racially?
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And didn't St.
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Paul once say to his fellow Hebrews, I am a Jew of the city of Tarsus?
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I can say the same, I am a Jew, but in the city of Pittsburgh where I was raised in Judaism.
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I can also say with St.
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St. Paul, I was brought up in the synagogue.
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And I add, went to Hebrew and Sabbath school, was bar mitzvahed, and raised in a Jewish
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home by two Jewish parents.
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But there's a difference now.
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I'm no longer a Jew religiously.
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I now believe in Jesus Christ.
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Many say I should call myself a Messianic Jew.
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But I'm a Christian now, and the name of Christ has been inscribed upon my forehead through orthodox baptism.
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Didn't St. John of the Apocalypse say that Christ's name would be written upon the foreheads of his followers?
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And besides, Messianic Jews are beyond the pale of the historic apostolic succession.
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They're really Protestants, you know.
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A movement shaped some 1600 years after Christ set up His church.
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Messianic Jews, in my opinion, are basically Baptists with yamu kizan.
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You can't have a little bit of the Law of Moses with most of it left out.
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Remember that time you were in that hallway?
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He's recording it all for everybody.
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Sean Connery walks by, what do you do?
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What do you do? What is expected of a godly man and a godly woman?
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Keeping kosher and wearing prayer shawls doesn't quite get it.
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For without a temple and a priesthood, there's no atonement for sins.
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Atonement is through the priesthood after the order of Melchizedek, predicted by King David, intact in the Orthodox Church via
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apostolic succession.
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The order of the priesthood is to be executed on the day of the Holy Mass.
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Who said the Church is something of the past?
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The future belongs to the sons of God, not the synagogue.
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