For all those Christians out there who feel like explaining things to me.?

Question

Ok Im Jewish Ive been raised in a religios family almost all of my friends are Jewish and I have never gone to public school ive been in a jewish shcool my entire life ive really never been completely exposed to other religions so i was curios on like what is christianity and how did it some about? Im really interested

Answer 1

I don't believe that you are living in a bubble.
You are in Yahoo.

Answer 2

You have asked a very big question, but I will try to give an understandable answer.
Christianity is a religion, a system of beliefs based upon the life and teaching of Jesus Christ. Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God. He was conceived by the Holy Spirit to a virgin named Mary, was born in Bethlehem.
When He was thirty, He began to teach twelve men, disciples, whom He had chosen. One of those disciples, Judas, betrayed Him and He was put to death. On the third day, He arose from the dead and later ascended to heaven. This was all so that the prophecies in the Old Testament would be fulfilled. Those prophecies tell Christians that Jesus is the Savior of all those who believe in Him and that He will return to earth again.
In the mean time, we are to live according to His teaching, share the Gospel, the Good News about salvation through Jesus Christ, and be ready when He comes to take us home to heaven.
Christianity began to spread throughout the world after the death and resurrection of Jesus. His disciples became leaders, Apostles, to the church, teaching all who would believe how to live godly lives, first among the Jews and then to the Gentiles. It has spread throughout the world to almost all known people groups and nationalities, and it is still spreading today.
I hope this helps. God bless you!

Answer 3

Christianity was a sect of Judaism in the early days. It was known as "The Way" among the Jewish adherants. They were first called "Christians" by gentiles in the city of Antioch as a term of derision because they were like little Christs and their leader whom they followed had been hung on a cross with common criminals.

While the Jewish people of Jesus' time were looking for the Messiah to come, they were expecting him to restore the Jewish nation and to expel the Roman gentiles who were oppressing them. Although the Scriptures described Jesus as a suffering servant who would bear the sins of the people in Isaiah 53, they were looking at the other Scriptures that talked about Him coming as a conquering King who would restore the fortunes of the Jewish nation.

That time is still yet to come. You would really have to sit down with someone to get all of the details or have someone help you to understand the New Testament like one of the people from the Jews for Jesus group. As a Christian I have the greatest respect for Jewish people through whom God's salvation came and my father who adopted me when I was 3 years old when he married my mother is Jewish.

I hope that you will continue your investigations into this matter and be a part of the remnant that God still saves out of each generation of the Jewish people. Feel free to write me with any questions that you may have.

Answer 4

A man that we call Jesus, who claimed that he was the Messiah whose coming was predicted by the Jewish prophets, was born in Bethlehem around the beginning of the first century.

He was publicly put to death by crucifixion by the Roman authorities at the request of some powerful Jewish leaders who seemed to think that the teaching of Jesus was dangerous for the Jewish nation.

His followers claimed that Jesus came back from the dead after three days and commanded them to spread his teachings to every tribe, tongue, race and nation. And he predicted that he would return, when this task was accomplished in order to establish God's kingdom on Earth, before he ascended into Heaven.

Christianity was spread primarily by a rabbi from Tarsus called Saul. Saul was a major opponent of Christianity at first, but then he converted to Christianity and became an Apostle (one of the original founders of Christianity) -- more commonly know by his Greek name, Paul. Paul wrote most of what we now call the New Testament, and he is the person most directly responsible for spreading Christianity to the non-Jewish world -- which is what transformed Christianity from a minor & obsecure Jewish sect into a world religion.

Answer 5

The Christian religion branches off of Judaism. The Christians have many versions of Bibles, but the main one is the King James Version. There are two sections, the Old Testament and the New Testament. The Old Testament comes from the Jews. The New Testament is about Jesus being the Messiah and about the Jews not accepting Him as the Messiah. In the Old Testament there is a prophecy that when the Messiah comes to Earth that the Jews would reject Him, not believing that He was the Messiah. The New Testament was written about Jesus' birth, His ministrey, and His death. It also gives the geneology of Jesus, tieing him to King David, as the prophecy states in the Old Testament. The New Testament also tells about Jesus rising from the dead and ascending to Heaven. Jesus had apostles (ministers) who also wrote about their own ministries, especially Paul who converted from being a Jew to being Christian after he had an encounter with Jesus and was blinded for several days. Paul wrote most of the New Testament and the last book of the New Testament, called Revelations. Revelations is a prophecy about the end of times and the return of Jesus to Earth. One of the main themes of the New Testament is that a person does not go to Heaven based upon his good works, but by asking Jesus for forgiveness and believing in God based upon faith. When Jesus was crucified on the cross, He took the sins of the world with Him (but you still must ask Him to forgive you). The ground shook violently (earthquake) and darkness fell on the land. These events are actually recorded in Jewish history, although they do not contribute it to Jesus' death. After three days, Jesus rose and ascended to Heaven. He is the mediator between us and God. In the New Testament, Jesus said we no longer have to go to a priest and have the priest pray for our sins and forgiveness. That is now Jesus' job. So, we can now go directly to God, through praying to Jesus. I hope this helps you! Sorry if anything is misspelled... my spell checker would not work.

Answer 6

I don't know if I can explain this very well but Christianity as we know it was started when Christ was crucified on the cross. The laws that the christian religion follow are what is written in the New Testament with the Old Testament used as history to help explain how everything transpired to lead up to that point. I hope this little bit has been of some help.

Answer 7

There are as many Christianities as there are Judaisms (Probably more) and all be live something slightly different (and most swear they are the only 'right ones' but.. basically.. Christians believe that Jesus is the Mes sigh the Jews have always looked for. Christianity began as a sect of Judaism but it split off after all the gentiles started joining and then they started complaining about circumcision... and... eventually Christianity split from Judaism. Same roots, same 'God'.

Answer 8

Christianity is basically the same as Judaism, except it is not riddled with traditional things like special laws about the sabbath which are not found in the Bible, and special washing techniques either.

Jews sacrifice animals to receive atonement from their blood, (at on ment) whereas Christians rely on the pure sacrifice of Jesus Christ and the merrits of his blood to wash them from sin.

Also Christians do not believe in circumsision by the flesh, that was given unto Israel as a sign. We believe in water baptism.


I suggest you study Daniel chapter 9:24-27, considering a day equals a year in Bible prophecy (Eze 4:4-6) and the decree to build the temple was in i believe the autumn of 457BC, then Messiah would appear in 27 AD, and die in 31AD which were the dates that Jesus was both baptized and crucified respectively.

Answer 9

I see your question is really directed toward Christians and you really want an answer. Christianity is believing in Jesus. That is, believing that He came to earth and died so we can be freed from our sins and receive salvation. From what I understand, Jews do not believe that Jesus Christ was the awaited Messiah. If I am wrong on the last part, please correct me.

Answer 10

I'm just gonna suggest a couple web sites for you to check out. One is http://www.jewsforjesus.org
you'll find some good info there, and the other one that will tell you about christianity is http://www.carm.org

Answer 11

Christianity's origins can be traced back to Jesus Christ, who was born in 4 B.C. and whos birth fulfilled numerous prophecies in the Old Testament concerning his arrival. It was also foretold that Jesus would take upon himself the sins of the world as a burden, and, through his death, would allow us remission for all of them. Jesus taught that compassion for one's fellow man, and an eleventh commandment: love thy neighbor as thyself. In addition to this, Jesus asserted that he did not come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it. That is, all of the laws of the Old Testament were not destroyed or abrogated by him, but were fulfilled with his death so that many of them would not need to be obeyed anymore. One notable example is the use of sacrifices for forgiveness of sins. Since Jesus fulfilled the law, we only have to ask for forgiveness and it is given to us. We do not to need to sacrifice animals to this end anymore because Jesus' death made it so that all sacrifice and oblations may cease (Daniel 9:27). Jesus was challenged by the scribes and Pharisees, who attempted to discredit his teachings. Eventually, because Jesus was betrayed by one of his disciples, Judas, he died on the cross.