I am sorry to bring this up but I need a forum to express my disdain.
This morning, about 15 min before leaving to go to work, I heard a knock on my door. At first I wanted to ignore it.. But I answered it.
A group of about five missionaries were standing there to 'invite me to an 'event''... I asked what the event was and they said:
"In honor of the messiah giving his life for your sins"...
I laughed a bit and told her I wasn't interested.
They continued claiming he was 'the son of "god"' to which I also laughed and told them to get going. My friend tried to mediate but I got increasingly upset as I pointed to my Mezzuzah and said I was a practicing and observant Jew who did not believe in that stuff.
I refuted both the messiah claim and the 'son of god' claim as they walked away.
I told them it was Passover and Passover has NOTHING to do with a 'lamb' being sacrificed for our sins. Passover has everything to do with liberation of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt, and the scripture clearly says so. I don't know how these missionaries twist the Passover story to have to do with sacrifice (as the Korban pesach was commanded not as a sin offering, but as a thank offering). The Passover of the Torah clearly has nothing to do with their messiah and it bothers me when they try to suggest that the J-man was the lamb of passover.
Watch Rabbi Tovia Singer explain:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu4FTU1np90