If "Messianic" Jews believe that Jesus is the Messiah, why don't they just call themselves "Christians"?

Answer 1

Messianic Jews maintain the history, cultures and traditions of orthodox Jews. They can be viewed as a bridge between orthodox Jews and Christians.

Answer 2

They may not call themselves Christians, but that is how Jewish people view them. Orthodox and practicing Jews clearly make the distinction. If you believe that Jesus was the messiah, then you are christian. Jews do not believe in or acknowledge groups like Jews for Jesus or the term Messianic Jew. You are either Jewish or Christian; cannot have both.

Answer 3

Because belief that Jesus was the Messiah and belief that Jesus is God-made-flesh or the Begotten son of God and therefore worthy of worship are two completely different things.

Muslims also believe that Jesus is the Messiah, but we don't worship him.

Insh'allah(as God wills) we will all look toward the Messianic age together.

Answer 4

If Jews believe that Jesus is the Messiah, then THEY AREN'T JEWS ANYMORE, no matter what they call themselves. Jews do NOT believe that Jesus was the messiah.

Answer 5

Because they want to proselytize and convert Jews. Calling themselves Christians wouldn't get as many people to try to convert.

All mainstream Jewish groups oppose Jews for Jesus and many see its proselytizing activities as a thinly-veiled attack on Judaism.
In 1993, the Task Force on Missionaries and Cults of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York (JCRCNY) issued a statement which has been endorsed by the four major Jewish denominations: Orthodox Judaism, Conservative Judaism, Reform Judaism, and Reconstructionist Judaism, as well as national Jewish organizations. [5] Based on this statement, the Spiritual Deception Prevention Project at the JCRCNY stated:

On several occasions leaders of the four major Jewish movements have signed on to joint statements opposing Hebrew-Christian theology and tactics. In part they said: "Though Hebrew Christianity claims to be a form of Judaism, it is not ... It deceptively uses the sacred symbols of Jewish observance ... as a cover to convert Jews to Christianity, a belief system antithetical to Judaism ... Hebrew Christians are in radical conflict with the communal interests and the destiny of the Jewish people. They have crossed an unbridgeable chasm by accepting another religion. Despite this separation, they continue to attempt to convert their former co-religionists." [40]

The director of a counter-missionary group Torah Atlanta Rabbi Efraim Davidson stated that "the Jews for Jesus use aggressive proselytizing to target disenfranchised or unaffiliated Jews, Russian immigrants and college students" and that "their techniques are manipulative, deceptive and anti-Semitic." [41]

In his 1997 book The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century Alan Dershowitz wrote: "In America, and in other nations that separate church from state, one's Jewishness is a matter of self-definition ..." but notes: "I do not mean to include former Jews who practice Christianity under the deliberately misleading name Jews for Jesus. A Jew for Jesus already has a name: a Christian." [42]

The author of the book Why the Jews Rejected Jesus: The Turning Point in Western History David Klinghoffer expressed his concern in The Jewish Journal: "When Jews accept Jesus, they marry other Christians or their children do, thus disappearing into the Christian population." [

Answer 6

because christians are not jews

Answer 7

The republicans ruined that word.

Answer 8

Good question.

Answer 9

WELL MAINLY BECAUSE THEY ARE CHRITIANS, BUT ARE OF JEWISH HERITAGE. MY FRIEND CONVERTED AND HER FAMILY GAVE A FUNERAL IN ISRAEL AS SHE IS DEAD TO THEM. IT IS HER GENETIC ROOTS THAT SHE IS JEWISH.