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(More customer reviews)I am a native of the Congo (Brazzaville), a country situated in Central Africa; I attended the debate held by Rabbi Tovia Singer and the Lord's servant Pastor Paul Humber of the Church of the Living Saviour located in Philadelphia. Actually, if you watch the debate DVD, you will easily notice me because I am prominent.
Right at the beginning, I find it important to say that Rabbi Singer is a very nice man. He has a great knowledge of the Torah; I am appreciative of that, but when it comes to the prophecies related to Jesus as the Messiah who was to come' he really needs some light because he does not have the right revelation. Jesus as the Messiah is the quintessence of the Old Testament. It was a good thing to listen to him because he helped me discover more and more the Jewish people's way of thinking and helped me know how to minister to them.
I want to call your attention to the fact that the applause of the Jews each time that Tovia Singer spoke are misleading and do not mean that Rabbi Tovia Singer was the winner. The winner was obviously Paul Humber who said significant things. The Bible references and the explanations that he brought up were clear and convincing. The debate was held in a Jewish center, and not many Christians were aware of the debate. So, in the debate room, the Jews outnumbered Christians; this is the reason why the applause was big each time that Rabbi Singer spoke. I regretted the fact that Christians were not numerous in that room as they weren't aware.
The Jews argue that Rabbi Tovia Singer is knowledgeable as he could quote some passages of the Tanach from memory. They rejoice themselves over this and just because of that, they thought that Singer is right. I saw nothing impressive in that. Actually, Pastor Paul Humber, whom I know well, and other Christians can quote a lot of Bible passages from Genesis to Revelation from memory. Rabbi Tovia Singer is not special in that.
Rabbi Singer went on to argue that when God declared in Genesis, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness," (Genesis 1:26) He was speaking to his angels. I disagree with him because the angels are not God, and God could not speak to them as if they were creators. Angels are creatures and not Creators like God. God could just speak to the One who was equal to Himself, the Lord Jesus Christ, His only begotten Son, as Paul Humber rightfully defended.
I deplored the fact that from the beginning of the debate to the end of it, every time Rabbi Tovia Singer was the one who had the last word. You know, the one who has the last word in a debate can easily gather facts to provide for answers.
Also, Pastor Humber's explanations about some passages were great and clear, and Rabbi Singer would then speak in terms of what he would call mistranslations in the Bible.
Pastor Humber made it clear that the Jewish people as well as the Gentiles (the non-Jews) must receive Jesus as their Savior in order to be saved. He went on to indicate that the Lord Jesus saves anybody who submits to His will including Egyptians. God chose the Jewish people to bring the Savior of the world unto earth; this is a great blessing. God as well as the Gentiles love the Jewish people, but now there is equality between Jews and the Gentiles. They all need to receive Jesus as their Lord and Savior in order for them to go to heaven.
Brother Paul Humber was sent there as an instrument of God to open the spiritual eyes of the Jews who attended the debate and those who would watch the debate DVD later, starting with Rabbi Tovia Singer, one of their spiritual leaders. Pastor Humber made it clear that both Rabbi Tovia Singer and he are sinners and that they both need to accept the Lord Jesus as their Savior to be saved. From my readings, I know that some Jews have already received Jesus as the Savior of their lives; among them is Richard Wurmbrand from Romania, the author of Tortured for Christ (1967) and the founder of The Voice of the Martyrs and also Michael L. Brown who authored Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus (2000). Personally as a Christian, I regularly pray for the conversion of Rabbi Tovia Singer and of all the Jews to Christianity.
This debate reminded me of the days of the Lord Jesus on this earth. I saw the attitude and the picture of Jesus in Pastor Paul Humber and the attitude and the picture of the Pharisees, the Sadducees and the Scribes in Rabbi Tovia Singer. I like the fact that Rabbi Singer is fully dedicated to bringing spiritual teachings to the Jews and Gentiles; I appreciate his dedication, but he has to adjust, accept Christ and use that dedication to preach Jesus to the Jews and the Gentiles as well. The day he will accept Christ and preach Him, I believe that he will be a great preacher, a preacher of distinction.
At last I should say that the debate was great and would recommend Christians to watch the DVD to discover the weak reasons that the Jewish people present to reject the Savior of the world. This would enable them to minister efficiently to Brother and Father Abraham's natural descendents. The images are good as well as the sounds, excepting the fact that on the front cover, the picture gives the impression that Pastor Paul Humber and Rabbi Tovia Singer were scolding each other during the debate. Their pictures are great but they should not have been placed face to face. I gave it four stars.
God bless you richly Brother Paul G. Humber. Go ahead in God's work, HE is with you through Jesus Christ, our precious Lord and Savior. God also bless Rabbi Tovia Singer and all the Jews with the understanding that Jesus is their only Messiah. Christians were not born Christian; they become Christian. The non-messianic Jews may become Christians and be our brothers and sisters in the family of God. We Christians are not against the Jews; we do like them; we pray for their salvation; they are Abraham's natural descendents; but they need to become Abraham's spiritual children like the Christians by giving their lives to Jesus, considering HIM their Lord and Savior.
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