If a Jewish?

Question

Believed in Jesus..does he remain Jewish or considered as Christian?
What does Jew for Jesus mean?

Answer 1

According to Torah Law, a Jew cannot cease to be Jewish. "Messianic Judaism," however (Jews for Jesus being perhaps the best known Messianic Jewish group) is actually an offshoot of Evangelical Protestant Christianity, whose connections to Judaism are superficial at best. I say superficial because while its adherents use Jewish symbols (often monstrously distorted) liberally, and celebrate various Jewish holidays, the underlying belief structure is utterly opposed to anything that can be called Judaism.

It is a common misconception that Judaism + Jesus = Christianity, or that Christianity - Jesus = Judaism. In fact, the differences between the two faiths are not that simple, and such a crass oversimplification does a disservice to Jews and Christians alike.

In short, "Jews for Jesus" is a Christian group, comprised of Jews (who have converted to Christianity) and Gentiles, with the primary goal of converting Jews. They use various techniques to achieve this aim, and they prey on the vulnerable (elderly people seeking companionship, as well as Jews who know very little of their own faith, of which, today, sadly, there are many). They bombard them with kindness and then present a mountain of "evidence" to support their claims. Each and every claim, when given even a cursory examination, can be dismissed rather easily (see www.jewsforjudaism.com), so in lieu of quality, the Jew for Jesus seeks quantity in making his case. He or she thereby establishes a sense of intellectual superiority over the target, who may lack even a rudimentary knowledge of the language of the Bible, and therefore, finds him or herself feeling forced to concede to the former's arguments.

A Jew who converts to Christianity (a.k.a. Messianic Judaism) is both a Jew and a Christian. Since a Christian is defined as an adherent of Christianity, and a Jew is defined as either

a) One who converts to Judaism in accordance with Torah Law

or

b) One who is born to a Jewish mother,

one can see that these two terms are not mutually exclusive. Once a born Jew converts, however, he or she is no longer practicing Judaism, and referring to their newfound religion as such is only a means to confuse the matter, and to make Christianity more palatable to Jews who otherwise would not convert. Other examples of "softening" Christianity's edges to make it more acceptable to Jews is refraining from the use of the anglicized name "Jesus" and calling him by the Hebrew "Yeshua". Yeshua in Hebrew became Iesous in Greek which eventually became Jesus in English. Had the name been translated directly from Hebrew to English, Christians the world over would be concluding their prayers "In Joshua's name". Also, they teach their missionaries "don't say cross" - rather, Jesus was hanged on a "tree," and so on, and so on.

Mainstream Protestants from numerous denominations have condemned groups like Jews for Jesus for their use of deceptive tactics in proselytizing. I tend to agree with those ministers. If someone wishes to go out and sell Christianity to non-believers, he or she should be free to. But if they truly believe theirs is the best "product" out there, they should be able to sell it without the use of repackaging, distortion, and blatant false advertising.

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

Being Jewish is more a birthright than it is a choice of religion. If you are born a Jew, then you will die a Jew. If you convert to Christianity, then you will be a Christianized Jew, as were most of the early apostles were. There are the Messianic Jews who practice Judaism, but believe that Jesus is the Messiah.

Answer 3

Christians call them "Jews 4 Jesus"


Jews consider them Apostates.


Jews 4 Jesus in other words mean Christian.

Answer 4

A Messianic Jew.

Answer 5

Jewish had a double meaning. It describes both a race and a religious belief. Therefore, he would remain Jewish by race and would have converted to Christianity from Judaism in his beliefs

Answer 6

Ro 2:27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?
Ro 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
Ro 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
Re 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Re 3:8 I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
Re 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
YES IF YOU BELIEVE IN JESUS AND SAY YOU ARE A JEW THEN YOU ARE, IF YOU SAY THAT YOU ARE A JEW AND DO NOT BELIEVE IN JESUS THEN YOU ARE NOT A JEW BUT A LIAR AND WILL BE CONSUMED WITH UTTER SHAME.

Answer 7

The bible is the instruction book for answering such questions. There are, however, hundreds of religions that claim to teach the truth about God under the heading Christianity and hundreds if not thousands outside of Christianity. Yet, they differ greatly in their teachings about who God is and what he expects of us.

Christian means "Christ like" in other word if we claim to be Christian we would look at are leader "Christ and follow his example. If he would or wouldn't do a certain thing then we follow that example then we are Christians.

Believing in Jesus is only the first step Jesus himself said at Matthew 7:21 “Not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but the one doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will."

One of Jesus aposltles "Paul" was a practicer of Judism but the bible says once he learned that Chistianity was the way he left Judism and became a Christian.

At Acts 26:9-11Paul said "I REALLY THOUGHT I OUGHT to commit many acts of opposition against the name of Jesus the Nazarene; which, in fact, I did in Jerusalem. Many of the holy ones I locked up in prisons, as I had received authority from the chief priests. When the disciples were to be executed, I cast my vote against them. By punishing them many times in all the synagogues, I tried to force them to make a recantation. Since I was extremely mad against them, I went so far as to persecuting them even in outside cities."

So said Saul of Tarsus, also known as the apostle Paul. By the time he said this, of course, he was a new man. No longer an opposer of Christianity, he was now one of its most ardent promoters. But what had formerly motivated Saul to persecute Christians?

Since at the outset all Christians were Jews or Jewish proselytes, Saul apparently understood Christianity to be an apostate movement (rebellion against Judaism) within Judaism, and he considered it the business of official Judaism to set its adherents straight. “It is not likely,” says scholar Arland J. Hultgren, “that Paul the persecutor would have opposed Christianity because he saw it as a religion outside of Judaism, a competitor. The Christian movement would have been seen by him and others as subject yet to Jewish authority.” His intention then was to force wayward Jews to recant and return to orthodoxy, using all available means. (Acts 26:11) One method open to him was imprisonment. Another was flogging in the synagogues, a common means of discipline that could be administered as a chastisement for disobedience against rabbinical authority in any local court of three judges.

Jesus’ appearance to Saul on the road to Damascus, of course, put a stop to all of that. From being a fierce enemy of Christianity, Saul suddenly became an ardent advocate of it, and soon enough the Jews in Damascus were seeking his death. (Acts 9:1-23) Paradoxically, as a Christian, Saul was to suffer many things he himself had meted out as a persecutor, so that years later he could say: “By Jews I five times received forty strokes less one.”—2 Corinthians 11:24.

“Formerly I was a blasphemer and a persecutor and an insolent man,” wrote Saul after his conversion, when he was better known as Paul. “Nevertheless, I was shown mercy, because I was ignorant and acted with a lack of faith.” (1 Timothy 1:13) Being sincere and active in one’s religion, therefore, is no guarantee of having God’s approval. Saul was zealous and acted according to conscience, but that did not make him right. His fiery zeal was misdirected. (Compare Romans 10:2, 3.) That should make us reflect.

Many today are firmly convinced that good conduct is all that God requires of them. But is it? Each one would do well to listen to Paul’s exhortation: “Make sure of all things; hold fast to what is fine.” (1 Thessalonians 5:21) That means taking time to acquire accurate knowledge of God’s Word of truth and then living in full harmony with it. If we realize from examining the Bible that we have changes to make, then we should by all means make them without delay. Perhaps few of us were ever blasphemers, persecutors, or insolent men to the extent Saul was. Nevertheless, only by acting according to faith and accurate knowledge can we, like him, gain God’s favor.—John 17:3, 17.

It is evident that many religions today that claim Christianity as their faith would be rejected by Christ just as he rejected those that held to Judaism in the first century. Judaism had served its purpose of directing the Jews to the messiah. Christ himself said:

Romans 10:4 For Christ is the end of the Law, so that everyone exercising faith may have righteousness.

Notice it was the exersizing or applying of the principles of the Christian faith that would lead to righteousness.

We live in a nation that claims Christianity as its predominate faith yet look at the state of affairs. Yet the United States has one the highest crime rates in the world, one of the highest divorce rates etc..

Does this mean that Christianity is not the way? No! No more than if you or I were to teach are child the right way to live and set a good example but the child left home and ruin his life. Would it make sense now for people to say the way we brought the child up was wrong or the principles we laid down were incorrect. No of course not.

So those Jews that believed in Jesus and became Christian did not remain a part of the Jewish faith.

A Jew for Jesus is commonly said to be one who at one time professed Judaism and converted to Christianity