An evangelical Christian group that pretends to be Jewish in order to attract Jewish converts (because converting Jews to Christianity is a part of evangelical Christians' beliefs about what God has planned for the End Times), "Jews for Jesus" often arouses the ire of Jews in America. But do they really have to claim to have converted people who have not, in fact, actually converted?
The Palm Beach Post reports:
According to Edith Rapp's lawsuit, her stepson Bruce Rapp wrote in a 2002 Jews for Jesus newsletter that he watched while she tearfully and spontaneously converted to the beliefs of the organization at her husband's bedside. She said it never happened. ... Bruce Rapp's account is "completely fictitious," the lawsuit states, invented to humiliate Edith Rapp for resisting the movement and to bolster his credentials among Jews for Jesus. She never asked to accept Jesus, the suit said, she never said the sinner's prayer and she's definitely not a new believer in Jews for Jesus.
I'm sure that they could have found real converts - there are always a few, even if they haven't been exposed to the groups's real agenda yet (that often happens once a Jewish congregation is told that they have to start worshipping in a Christian manner, not a Jewish manner). So why just make stuff up?
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