"Properly Educated Jews Won't Believe in Jesus"

How often have you heard this? Often. Now stricly speaking, this isn't true. See my interview with Bob Mendelsohn for a counter-example.

It makes it sound as though properly educated religious Jews are safe from the buffets of the outside world. So imagine my surprise when I discovered a book which discusses why Observant Jews leave Judaism and what to do about it.

Now, I don't want gloat over this situation.

I am hoping that crass and simplistic statements like the title of this post will eventually fade away. People make up their own minds for a variety of reasons, even Orthodox Jews.

Some who professed belief in Y'shua no longer believe in the Messiah. Some who were Orthodox Jews no longer are. Some atheists are now believers in Y'shua. Some are now something completely different. Some are still atheists.

I've heard similar comments from other faith communities besides the Orhtodox Jewish, to be fair.

I think the comment is subconsciously intented to make people feel better about people rejecting something you believe to be true. "Those people believe in because they didn't truly understand what they were leaving." Maybe. Maybe not.

The truth of my faith is grounded upon the veracity of Scripture and the death and Resurrection of Y'shua. People may believe. They may fall away. They may have been educated in the faith. Maybe not. That doesn't affect whether my faith is true or not.

Here was a good comment from a review of the book:

One of her findings is that there is no single all- encompassing reason why observant Jews cease to be so. It can be the coolness of their own observant parents to religion, or the difficulty they have with teachers in school. It can come from their own sense of the religion's simply 'not working' for them. There are many , many reasons. And the author is honest enough to say that she has no formula for any specific case.