2006-06-30 21:23:55 · 25 answers · asked by supa_fly64 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No.. Jesus was Jewish... A Christian is a follower of Christ..someone who believes in Him as the Messiah. Jews do not believe that Jesus is the Messiah.
2006-06-30 21:27:04 · answer #1 · answered by sosassy70 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Jesus was Jewish and Isreal was Gods chosen people.
If you are a true Christian and believe that Jesus Christ was the son of God, that he died for our sins and was brought back to life after three days, then you know have the blessing of Jesus.
This blessing has often been called the blessing of Abraham. Abraham is very interesting as he is the only figure that the
Jews, Muslims and Christians all recognize.
The reason I mention such is that Abraham had a covenant relationship with God.
In Galatians 3:16: Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as one, " And to they seed, which is Christ."
Everything from Adam to Jesus to the Cross was for this purpose - to get The Blessing on you!
In God's eyes we are all one his sons and daughters. Also such new movies as ' The Secret ' , ' What the Bleep Do we Know ' and other books on maniefesting your destiny are actually taking concepts from the Bible.
We are all one!
Peace & Truth
2006-07-01 04:39:29 · answer #2 · answered by Darren Meade 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The early followers of Christ were Jewish. The branching or breaking off really occurred after Jesus' death. The CHRISTians thought that Christ was the savior and the Jewish people did not and continued to wait for the savior.
2006-07-01 04:27:20 · answer #3 · answered by Frodo the space bard 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jews are a race not a religion. The religion is judaism. Those who where defectors from the jewish faith were christians, followers of christ. The religion judaism does not accept converts either. You have to be born a jew to jewish parents in the faith to be one. There are lots of atheist jews too. Jesus was a middle eastern guy, does that make all white christians middle eastern too?
2006-07-01 04:34:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
of course. The first Christians were called Galileans....they weren't Christians but Jews who believed that Jesus was the Messiah. About 30 years (or so) later Christianity began to form with Paul pushing the religion. Christians are nothing more than super-reformed Jews with the earliest church changing the rules for them so they can be apart from Jews. It's a long story.
2006-07-01 04:30:37 · answer #5 · answered by wunderkind 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, christians are a bit different. jesus was a jewish man who followed jewish customs and preached about a jewish god. he didn't invent christianity though, he (historically as far as we know) wanted to reform judaism. it was later on with paul that christianity was born, on the basis of jesus' teachings. paul made christianity easy to convert to (by eliminating the 600+ jewish laws), and christians now are products of paul's religion. christianity is still based on jesus and what he taught, it just wasn't created by him per say.
2006-07-01 04:29:51 · answer #6 · answered by Aleks 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because a fundamental thing about Christianity is that Jesus is the son of God. Jews do not believe that God had children, and therefore, whoever believes that, is not Jewish.
2006-07-01 04:28:10 · answer #7 · answered by brand_new_monkey 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not exactly. Christianity isn't bound by ethnicity. The first Christians, yes, were Israelites. They would not allow religious education to be exclusive to their own families, but shared their religious teachings without bias to everyone. This is one of the obvious differences between Judaism and Christianity. The opportunity in early history for religious education came from the stable family network.
For peoples whose family nucleus were disrupted by war and misfortune, education of any type was only gained by happenstance. It was Christianity and the network of Christian unity which reached out to the masses of the uncivilized paupers and peasants. Christianity is the hand which formed civil obedience with populations which otherwise would remain primitive kingdoms of aristocrats and slaves.
2006-07-01 04:44:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Did Jesus ever actually say that all humans should convert to Christainity, or was it something that came after his death?
Did Jesus ever actually say that all humans should convert to being a Jew?
Looking at the life of jesus, his focus was more on deeds or karma, than into converting one self into any particular religion. The only ones benefiting from this conversion these days are the church bank balances!
2006-07-01 04:39:44 · answer #9 · answered by babe12 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whosoever follows Jesus he automatically becomes Jewish.
2006-07-01 04:26:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋