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Seeking the Truth In the movie A Few
Good Men (1992), Jack
Nicholson said "You can't handle the truth." Unfortunately, the
vast majority of people cannot, in fact, "handle the truth." If you are
seeking the truth, are you prepared to accept what you find?
Many truth-seekers become church pastors -- but when they
find the truth, they are caught in a moral dilemma. What are you to do
when you discover that everything you believed was a lie? Cognitive
dissonance causes the majority of those seeking the truth to either
ignore the evidence, or come up with convoluted explanations to match
the evidence with their preconceived belief systems. It is the rare
seeker of truth who actually continues the journey beyond the beliefs
that he/she grew up with. The largest group of converts to Orthodox Judaism (relative
to their actual numbers) is church pastors. Why would this be? It is
because these are the truth-seekers and when faced with the truth, they
choose to leave the darkness behind. A few years ago, my brother was asked by a prominent rabbi in
Jerusalem what he thought a path for the returning "lost ten tribes"
would look like. There was a question as to whether the "ten tribes"
were bound by any of the rabbinic rulings that had been made since the
separation of the two houses (Israel and Judah). A year or two later,
this rabbi and others (members of the Nascent Sanhedrin) began to
support the emerging Noahide movement. There are presently only
two viable paths for the "lost of Israel:" 1) Conversion to Orthodox
Judaism; 2) The Noahide or B'nai Noach movement. |