Avi Snyder 
The war has ravaged all of our lives. The senseless agony. The monstrous cruelty. A horrendous calamity like this war compels us to cry out with justified anguish and pain. “If there’s a good God, then why is He allowing this evil to overtake us? Why didn’t He stop it from happening? Why is He … Read more
The reality and barbarity of war crimes and atrocities confront us with a severe challenge that we’d rather not face. Is all the suffering and affliction ultimately pointless, or can anything purposeful come out of what we endure? To be brutally frank, the answer to that question lies in what we think about the existence … Read more
The psalmist wailed to God in agony, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?” (Psalm 42:9 – English translation). If God is just, why does He wait? Why doesn’t He execute justice upon the evil all around us? Doesn’t He care? What’s He waiting for!? He waits, … Read more
Words can’t describe the horror that rips through our very souls because of the war crimes committed in Mariupol, Bucha and throughout Ukraine. “How could this happen in today’s day and age?” we ask. I know of men and women who came back from America’s war in Viet Nam. They returned absolutely devasted by the … Read more
When we look at the suffering and devastation that’s taking place in Ukraine, we can’t help but cry out, “If there’s a God, and if He’s good, then why is He letting this evil take place?” The Scriptures themselves offer many explanations for why God sometimes waits before He acts, and those explanations can provide … Read more
Perhaps like many other men and women in Poland, you’ve only recently discovered that you’re heritage is Jewish. And perhaps, quite naturally, you’re asking yourself, “If I’m Jewish, what does that mean?_ Who are we Jews? Well, let’s begin with some basic definitions. Because we Jews have lived in so many lands and have contributed … Read more
Some 6,000,000 Jewish people died in the Holocaust during the Second World War. Half of them were Jewish people from Poland In addition, another 3,000,000 non-Jewish Polish people perished during that disastrous period of history. How can we even begin to understand this catastrophe? What does a travesty of this magnitude tell us about humanity’s … Read more
Throughout the world, Jewish men and women have come to believe that Jesus (in Hebrew, Yeshua) is the Messiah who died for our sins and who rose from the dead. But do we really have any proof that Jesus is the Promised Messiah? Yes, we do. We have the proof of fulfilled prophecy. Nearly two … Read more
If we’re Jewish and we believe in Jesus, are we Jews or are we Christian?! Let’s start with some definitions. According to the Bible, we’re Jewish if we can trace our lineage somewhere along the line to the biblical patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. When God called and chose Abraham to be the starting point … Read more
© Life from the Dead, Avi Snyder, 2021 So many people mistakenly assume that being Jewish means you don’t believe in Jesus. And yet historically, we know that all of the first thousands and thousands of followers of Jesus were His fellow Jews. They called Him by His Hebrew name, Yeshua, and they believed that … Read more
