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exactly how one interprets the New
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has been the focus of a controversy. She concludes that given the Jewish community's tacit acceptance of other seemingly "heretical" Jews as part of the ethnic Jewish community, it would be difficult to find a consistently logical reason to reject
Messianic Judaism, although she is quite clear that
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As for how they see Jesus, that's interesting. Although they accept the theological doctrine that Jesus is both God and human, they don't pray to him. They don't feel comfortable with that. Some
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are considered to be heretics. It was this puzzle in the behavior of the Jewish community—accepting atheist and
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