The following is a transcript of a conversation that I had on omegle.com. It is a random chat website. I find that it is a useful tool in advancing the type of critical thinking and value of objective truth in God that this site seeks to advance. Enjoy.
You’re now chatting with a random stranger. Say Hi!
TPOT: Did you know that Jesus died for you?
Stranger: What? Really?
TPOT: Yes. You and I are sinners. We have separated ourselves from God, and our relationship to God was broken because we care more about ourselves than God. God’s penalty for sin is death. This includes physical death and spiritual death, but Jesus accepted that penalty for your sin on your behalf.
Stranger: Haha.
TPOT: Because He loves you. I tell you the truth my friend. You may laugh, I have come to expect that reaction.
Stranger: I’m Jew. None love us.
TPOT: I do and I have family members who are members of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. There is an Israeli flag in my father’s house as He prays for Israel regularly. Most importantly, Jesus was a Jew.
Stranger: Oh nice.
TPOT: They are God’s chosen people that brought forth the Messiah. Jesus fulfilled messianic prophecies and he said that he came “first for the Jew, then for the Gentile”. Your people were his first target audience. The Jews had the prophets long before I had Jesus. God chose Abraham and preserved His covenant by preserving the bloodline all the way to Jesus.
Stranger: Wow. You have a lot of information.
TPOT: The only thing that saved Abraham is recorded in Genesis. Specifically Genesis 15:6 which says, “And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness”. All he did was believe what God told him. He did not have to keep the whole of the law. As a matter of fact the law is impossible to keep. God created it that way so that we would know that there is nothing that we can do to save ourselves. We must trust in Him. That is where Jesus comes into the picture.
TPOT: He fulfilled the entire law.
Stranger: Of course.
TPOT: And yet, He said that both He and the Father were equal. He also told his disciples to start their ministry first in Jerusalem, then Judea, then Samaria then the ends of the Earth. He claimed to be the Messiah and everything He did, everything He said, everything He fulfilled, everything He was, backs up His claim. He loves you and He died so that you may be free from the law and enter into God’s sweet saving grace. Jesus was our New Covenant. He was the final atonement and the sacrificial lamb.
Stranger: When the Messiah will come, all the dead people will come alive again.
TPOT: The next time yes, Jesus himself said in Mark 13:26, “And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.”
Stranger: I wish that.
TPOT: You do not have to wish it my friend. It is a reality. Jesus actually lived, actually died, and actually rose again because He was the Messiah. He came to save people from their sins. He was a Rabbi. He knew the law better than anyone. And what does He say in Matthew 5:17, “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. “
Stranger: I never interested before in Jesus, but now I am…
TPOT: He claims to be the fulfillment of all the prophecies. He claims to be the fulfillment of the law. The question is, did He do the things that he claimed to do? Was He the things that He claimed to be? Here is a helpful reference for you - http://www.bibleprobe.com/over-300-prophecies.pdf . I truly encourage you my friend, to examine who Jesus claimed to be. He was a Jew, He knew the prophecies, and He knew the law. He knew what would happen in that culture if he claimed to be God, yet He did anyway because He was and is God. Old Testament Jews would have considered it heresy to say that a man was God, yet many upon seeing Him or hearing Him confessed him to be the Messiah and Lord. It can be the same for you my friend. Your skepticism is no different from theirs.
Stranger: I understand..I must do more research
TPOT: What’s your name ?
Stranger: I’m Yarden.
TPOT: Nice to meet you Yarden. Where are you from?
Yarden: I’m from Israel.
TPOT: I have never been there. I wish to visit someday to see the empty tomb.
Yarden: You must.
TPOT: I would very much like to answer any questions you have about Jesus or Judaism.
TPOT: Ok my friend, I must go to work.
Yarden: Ok, so have fun at work and keep contact. Bye.
TPOT: I will. Shalom, kol tuv. l’hitraot.
Yarden: Gam le’eh, l’hitraot.
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