845. When they are asked whether they are completely convinced that all of them are going to come into the land of Canaan, they reply, "Yes. All will be included in this. And Jews who have died will be resurrected and will leave their graves; they too will come into the land of Canaan. "

When they are told that it is impossible for the dead to come out of their graves, because those who have died are living now after death, they reply, "They will come down from where they are now and reenter their bodies. That's how they will come back to life. "

When they are told that the land of Canaan is not large enough to hold them all, they reply, "It will be enlarged. "

When they are told that the kingdom of the Messiah, because he is the Son of God, is going to be in heaven, not on earth, they reply, "The land of Canaan is going to be heaven. "

When it is pointed out that they do not know the location of Bethlehem of Ephrathah, where the Messiah will be born according to the prophecies in Micah (Micah 5:2) and David (Psalms 132:6), they reply, "The Messiah's mother will nevertheless give birth there. " Some say, "Wherever she gives birth, that will be Bethlehem. "

[2] When they are asked how the Messiah could dwell with such evil people, and this charge is backed up by citing many passages in Jeremiah and especially the song of Moses, which indicates that they are the worst (Deuteronomy 32), they reply, "Among Jews some are good and some are evil; those passages refer to the Jews who are evil. "

When they are told that they were originally descended from a Canaanite woman and also from Judah's whoring with his own daughter-in-law (Genesis 38), they reply, "That was not an act of whoring. "

When they hear the retort that Judah commanded her to be brought out and burned because of her whoring [Genesis 38:24], they go off and consult with each other. After their consultation they say, "That was only the fulfillment of the brother-in-law's obligation that Judah's second son Onan and his third son Shelah had failed to perform. "

They add, "Most of us are descended not from the tribe of Judah but from the tribe of Levi, which was charged with the priestly responsibilities; but the important thing is that we have all descended from Abraham. "

When they are told that there is a spiritual meaning existing within the Word that has much to say about Christ or the Messiah, they reply, "That is not true. " Some of them say, "Inwardly in the Word, in its depths, there is nothing but gold. " And many other statements to the same effect.