I like the “Toi Story.” (couldn’t resist, sorry).
I HAVE been approached, most notably by people at my door. i thank them politely, tell them I am not interested in what they have to say because I have the ORIGINAL WORD, wish them a good day, and tell them they are wasting their time in my neighborhood.
I don’t believe in long megillahs, though i liked many of the scenarios that were written here. Honestly, I think if missionaries approached me, I would tell them to speak to Gavriel Aryeh Sanders, a former Baptist Minister who DID what they do, and then through Hashgocha Protis he came to study and understand the things he had formerly used as propaganda, became enthralled with Judaism, converted, is a frum Yid, and now works as an anti-missionary.
I once had an argument with a fired-up X-ian, who of course brought up the “almah” issue. I asked her if she spoke Hebrew fluently. No. Did she ever learn what the word Almah actually means in Hebrew, and in Jewish law? No. When I explained to her that almah simply means a young Jewish woman of a certain age (what is it 17-24?) and that it has NOTHING to do with virginity, that an almah could be a married young woman, a widow a divorcee, and it only referred to her age status, she argued with me that it means the same as virgin. I told her that the people who define and discuss the Hebrew language in the Mishneh and Gemarah do not agree, and I will take their assessment over that of the Church, and it is a little nervy to try to tell me what my own Torah means.
I believe that it was King Constantine who first came up with the Virgin Mary idea, centuries after J lived. He couldn’t abide the “hideous” thought of Mary conceiving the way all human beings conceive. BTW, the concept “immaculate conception” does NOT refer to J’s conception, but to MARY’S. The Catholics believe that she herself was conceived without the taint of Original Sin, so she would be a fitting vessel for J. Where on earth did they get such ideas?!!!