 It's sometimes difficult to understand what the attraction of Christianity is when so many of its basic theological teachings are both counter-intuitive and contradict the plain and simple meaning of the biblical text. One of the compelling factors however is what is sometimes called the bandwagon approach. People see a religion that has over two billion adherents and assume that that many people really can't be wrong. It's important to point out though that that number is not so simple because today there are over 30,000 Christian denominations, many of whom insist that all the other Christians are not true Christians. Also it's important to remember that our Bible teaches in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 7 verse 7 that God did not choose the Jewish people because we are the largest group and the largest nation in the world. God says he chose us as his special people despite the fact that we are the smallest people in the world and so therefore if there's a religion that is the largest religion in the world by far that may not be a very good sign. When you see two billion people walking in one direction it's important not to be overly focused on the fact that there are two billion people in that line. What's more important to determine is whether the first person was heading in the right direction because if the first person was not going in the right direction and two billion people followed that's not a group of people worth following. Years ago I spoke with a Christian minister who said that the Jewish people have a tremendous amount of gumption for thinking that they're right and the entire Christian world is wrong about questions such as whether Jesus was the Messiah and other such questions and I said to him well let me ask you a question. Let's do a thought experiment. Let's go back in time 2000 years to the day before Christianity began and look at the world back then. You had Jews but everyone else was a pagan and as we know pagans worshiped idols and rocks and trees and animals and the stars and I asked the Christian minister well who was right back then were the Jews right or was the rest of the world right and this Christian minister insists no the Jews were right and the rest of the world was entirely wrong so I said you hear what you're saying you yourself are saying that it's quite possible for the Jews to be right and the rest of the world to be wrong. Why do you think anything really has changed since back then? Finally we have a famous story where a priest came to Rabbi Jonathan Eibishitz and said Rabbi you Jewish people are not really following your own religion very well because Rabbi as you know the Jewish Bible says you should follow the majority and Rabbi we're the majority you Jews are a very small small group in the world today and therefore if you were to follow your own teachings your own Bible you would all convert to our faith and the Rabbi said let me explain something to you when the Bible gives us that advice that were to follow the majority that's not in all cases it's only in a case where you have a doubt if you don't know what to do then you look to the majority but he said that in our situation here we have absolutely no doubts whatsoever about the basic differences between Judaism and Christianity and therefore we are not about to begin following the majority in this situation.