14-Part Television Series
The following questions were used to
drive the discussion for each show. As such, they serve as a
useful guide to what was addressed on each show, and also can be used
as a study guide for the book itself.
Witness Testimony -- Based on the
Postscript (Episode 1)
How did you become Catholic? Are you
still a Jew?
Would you tell us your
witness testimony, and how you see your conversion?
About the
experience “on the beach”:
if everything that happened to you was the
most perfect thing, where does sin fit in? That’s not perfect!
Why were you so resistant
to it being Christ? Where does the Jewish resistance to
Christianity come from?
Why did you first look
into New Age spirituality after the beach experience?
Why do you think so many
people dabble in New Age?
How did your friends and
Harvard colleagues react to your conversion?
About the “dream”
What questions did you ask the Blessed
Virgin Mary?
What was it like to be in
her presence?
How did you feel when you
woke up the next morning?
How are things
different now than before the experiences?
Chapter 1 -- The Jews and the
Coming of the Messiah (Episode 2)
What was God’s purpose in creating Judaism
and the Jewish people?
Why does Judaism in the
Old Testament have so many strict laws regulating almost everything –
what you can eat, what you can wear, who you can touch, etc.?
Why did God choose the
Jews?
What is the significance
of Abraham’s near-sacrifice of Isaac, which you used for the cover of
your book?
Are there other examples
of Christian typology in Old Testament events?
What are the “idols” in
the Old Testament? Why was it so important for the Jews to avoid
them?
What are the implications
of the blessing the angel gave Abraham after the “binding” of Isaac?
Chapter 2 --
How Well Did the Jews Do? (Episode 3)
How can you say the Jews succeeded? What
about their rejection of Jesus?
What happened to Judaism
shortly after Christ?
how did it change?
what is the relationship
between today’s Judaism and Old Testament Judaism
How did Jews at the time
view Christianity? How do Jews today view it?
How did the early Church
view Jews and Judaism? How does it today?
What do you mean by
“Faithful Remnants”
What is the fate of Jews
who reject Jesus?
Should we evangelize
Jews? Why?
How should one evangelize
a Jewish friend or neighbor?
Are the Jews still the
“chosen people”?
What is “Dual Covenant”
theology?
what does it hold?
where does it come from?
how does it relate to New
Testament teaching?
what is its danger/ what
effect has it had?
How did you feel about
being one of the “chosen people” before your conversion, and now?
What is Paul saying with
his metaphor of the olive tree in Romans 11?
Chapter3 -- Jew, Gentile, and Church”
(Episode 4)
What are pagan religions? Pagan gods? How
do you know?
What is a Jew? a Gentile?
a “proslyte”?
Why do even atheistic Jews
often care about being Jewish?
Are you a Jew or a
Catholic? Are you a convert?
Are Jewish Catholics
distinct from Gentile Catholics? Should they make an effort to be?
What is the dual-covenant
theory?
How did it come about?
What has its effect
been?
How does it relate to
Jesus’ words or Catholic dogma?
What does the first Church council teach us
about whether Christianity is meant for the Jews?
How do we know Jesus wants
Jews to “convert”?
Chapter 4 -- The Messianic Idea in Judaism
(Episodes 5 and 6)
What does Judaism teach about the coming of
the Messiah?
What do Jews today believe?
What are they “supposed”
to believe?
Why the change?
What is the Talmud?
When and where was it written?
What does it consist of?
In what sense do Jews
consider it “Divine Revelation”
What is the traditional
(Talmud/Maimonides) teaching on the Messiah?
What Messianic prophecies
did Jesus fulfil?
What Messianic prophecies
didn’t Jesus fulfill?
What is the Jewish
response to:
"born of a virgin”
“they pierced my hands and
my feet”
Suffering Servant passage
What does the Talmud say
about when the Messiah should come?
What do the Apocrypha say
about the times when the Messiah comes?
Chapter 5 -- Judaism and the
Holocaust (Episode 7)
Why do you bring in the Holocaust?
What does the Holocaust
suggest about the role of the Jews in salvation?
Why do you call it the
“Holocaust” rather than “Shoah”?
What effect has the
Holocaust had on Judaism?
What does Judaism teach
about:
the redemptive value of suffering?
Heaven and Hell?
the devil and demons
original sin
According to Judaism, what
is the ultimate purpose of man’s time on earth?
Who are your Jewish
“heroes” today? “anti-heroes”?
How do you understand God
letting the Holocaust happen?
How do you understand the
devil inciting it?
How did Edith Stein
understand the Holocaust?
Chapter 6 -- The Ideological Foundations of
Nazism (Episodes 8, 9, and 10)
Why do you stress the occultism, eugenics,
and sexual depravity that lay behind Nazism?
What was the relation
between Margaret Sanger and “Planned Parenthood” and the Third Reich?
What did Margaret Sanger
have to say about Concentration Camps?
Who were the inferior
races to Sanger?
Did Nazism spring up
overnight?
What paved the way for Nazism?
What is the relationship
between sin and morality in the society and Nazism?
What do the “sexual
preferences” of the Nazis have to do with their actions?
How can you substantiate
the association between Nazism and homosexuality?
What about the visible “persecution” of
homosexuals by the Nazis?
What is the link between
occultism and Nazism? Why is that relevant?
Wasn’t Nazism Christian?
How do you feel when you
compare our society with Germany circa 1933?
Does anyone else see
Nazism as “diabolical”?
Chapter 7 -- Anti-Semitism after the
Holocaust (Episode 11)
What was the reaction in the Arab world to
the rise of Nazism?
What were some of the
relations between the Arab World and the Third Reich?
Before the War
During the War
After the War
Who was al-Husseini?
Why is he of interest?
What is the spiritual
reason for the mutual sympathy between the Arabs and Hitler?
Wouldn’t you think that on
the basis of their racism, the Nazis should have despised the Arabs?
How do you understand
Islam?
Who is “Allah”?
how do you know?
what does that say about
well-meaning Muslims in their worship?
Can Muslims be worshipping
God in Allah?
can Christians be worshipping a fallen
spirit in “God”?
What does Islam say about
the Jews? the Christians?
How does history play into
the Koran’s statements about pagan gods, Judaism, and Christianity?
What “parallels” do you
see between Islam and Christianity? Why are they there?
In Islam vs. Christianity,
discuss the differences in the role of:
love
free will
marriage
heaven
the dignity of women
evangelization
Chapter 8 -- The Jews and the Second Coming
(Episodes 12 and 13)
Is Jesus really going to come again?
What do we know about it?
When – what events must take place before
He comes?
What prophecies do we have
about it from his words?
What prophecies do we have
about it from St. Paul? Other epistles?
What prophecies from the
Old Testament?
What does this all have to
do with the Jews?
Where does the State of
Israel fit into this?
Where does the Holocaust
fit into this?
Where does Islam fit into
this?
What is the “apostasy of
the Gentiles”?
Who teaches about the
return of the Jews?
Chapter 9 -- The Return of the Jews
(Episode 14)
What does St. Paul say about the failure of
the Jews to enter the Church, and their return, in Romans 9-11?
What do we learn from the
stories of Jewish entrants into the Church?
Who are some notable
Jewish converts?
Do you want to tell some
of their stories?
Why is it important to
evangelize the Jews, and pray for their conversion?
What is the current state
of Jewish conversion?
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