Help reaching Jewish bf
Q:
I'm looking for guidance for my two-year relationship with my boyfriend, who is an Israelite. I'm a Christian. Our discussions about the Bible often lead to disagreements, as he corrects me based on his beliefs. I am open to correction always but only if it is in God's living word. We recently had a conversation about Mary and Joseph's relationship and Jesus' conception it highlighted our differences. He believes in a physical relationship between Mary and Joseph. Which led to Jesus birth. But i believe if Joseph knows it got mary pregnant he wouldn't have reacted the way he did before the angel came to him. It shows that Joseph had no idea how Mary got pregnant and assumed it was by another man at first. But because of his strong faith in God he believed the angel. He also believes that salvation is race-dependent. But Jesus says many times in the Bible that he has come for the poor, misled and those who refuse to know him. And to give them salvation too. Jesus never once claimed to only save one race. I am torn between standing firm in my beliefs and potentially losing him, or compromising my faith to maintain the relationship. I know that everything he's saying is wrong but I love him so much and hope that it will work. I fear I'm losing my connection with God and starting to get confused on which way to go. I want my boyfriend to open to open. I know that standing firm plays a part but I don't want him to develop a fake relationship with God just because he doesn't want to lose me. He has mentioned many times I'll just be a Christian because he loves me but I don't want that . I want him to understand why and truly believe it for himself.
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God has been clear in Scripture... we cannot be unequally yoked. He is not a saved Christian so the relationship needs to end.
Here are some resources to help you further beyond that. But regardless we cannot rebel against God and think He will approve or bless, in fact if we are living in sin he won't even hear your prayers.
Love & Marriage
https://youtu.be/k8TWtAOTICQ?si=L08wigAkFl6j8xVw
You can share this with him to let him look into Christianity, and like you desire... for him to come to true salvation. The first must for him is to obeys the Gospel genuinely. Until then, he's lost and without hope if he dies tomorrow.
https://longertweets.blogspot.com/2022/07/jewish-answers.html
I also have info on his belief about Jews assuming they're saved. But need to find it on a sermon I just saw last week.
Start: @5:54 onwards
More for your better understanding but if he's open to listening to that part, pray God might open his mind to at least see why we believe his view isn't accurate scripturally even by Jewish OT revelation.
But they're blinded by unbelief so until they person [Jew] is saved they won't embrace truth or look further into it for understanding, lead by the Holy Spirit.
You are right though. God has been clear from Eden to Abraham salvation was always for all humans. God seperated out a people to form a nation to be the light to the world to draw them [all mankind] to the Messiah/Savior for salvation, but they failed at that task... and once the Savior arrived, God ended the old covenant and re instituted the correct understanding by the new covenant which corrected the error Jews had on many areas related to this, and proclaimed truth to gentiles on this. Thus though the Priesthood of Believers the Gospel of salvation has gone into all the world, and all who obey the Gospel, having the correct belief in Jesus are saved.
Additionally not every Jew in bible times was saved (same today), they thought by having "the Law" they were saved but it was actually only for those in Israel who believed in the coming Messiah [those who had been transformed in the inner man to a lover of true righteousness, not legalism and outward appearances of religiosity].
Hope this helps, God bless!
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