If Jesus was Jewish, then why do we have Christianity?

Question

Why aren't you all Jewish?

Answer 1

Because he himself refused to blindly follow.

How's that, Christians?

Answer 2

At the time of Jesus, there were 3 different groups of Jewish society. Sadducee's, Pharisees, and the Essenes. The different groups were generally separated by economics, and also by what rituals and beliefs that were actually focused on. Jesus was born in Nazareth which at the time was a community of Essenes, that focused on the higher, more esoteric knowledge.
He was then called Jesus of Nazareth, It was after he had been baptized, an began is teaching that he was known as Jesus the Christ. Christ refers to a Christ Consciousness, a state of enlightenment. Because Jesus was called, Jesus the Christ, the Romans called Jesus's followers Christians. And the name stuck.

Answer 3

Christian means [Christ-like] or follower of Christ.

example:

you can take a tree and put another branch connected and it will grow. it call grafting. understand, but the original tree is still the same kind of tree.

if we was not born a Jewish. we are called Gentiles. so when we except Jesus we are grafted into the Jewish as Jesus is.

hopes this helps.

when a person becomes saved by Jesus. that person becomes part of Jesus. grafted in the spirit. but Jesus is still Jesus. we become followers of Christ. [ Christlike]

Answer 4

The early Church at first was seen as part of Judaism, and if you read the book of Acts, you will see it was first practiced and preached in the synagogues, but the separation was caused in part by inconsistancies in the Roman persecution of Jews and the Church, and also by the fact that gentile converts to Christianity were not asked to adopt the Mosaic law. The people in the Church who wanted the gentiles to be circumsized and keep kosher were called the Judaizers. Also many Jews were disturbed by the notion that they had killed their long-awaited Messiah, especially the pharisees and sadducees who had primary responsibility for the kangaroo court midnight trial (a violation of Jewish law), and they forbid the teaching/speaking of Jesus in the synagogue.

Answer 5

Originally the followers of Jesus were simply a branch of Judaism. They were known as followers of The Way. That's biblical. Around the middle of Acts, there is a congregation in Antioch. That's where the term Christian, that is to say a follower of Christ, was first used.

The Hebrew people reject Jesus as Messiah, or Christ in the Greek. Christians accept Jesus, hence the term Christian.

Answer 6

. Jesus grew to become into born a Jew, and lived in accordance to the Jewish regulations. All his disciples have been Jewish. That grew to become into to fulfill God's promise to the devoted ones of previous, to whom he promised a Messiah. The Jews have been searching for somebody who might come and be a Jewish King who might defeat the Romans who had dominion over the Jews at that ingredient. They looked for a mundane King who might re-set up the Jewish native land and the Jewish custom. The Jews did no longer attain that the Messiah grew to become into to grant them with the certainty of God's observe, no longer with the sword. They rejected Jesus, so Jesus rejected them. Thereafter, his followers have been pronounced as Christians. .

Answer 7

The Old Testament dealt with the coming of Christ and people were instructed to act in a way that would prepare them for the coming (e.g. they offered up blood sacrifices as a symbol of Christ, etc.); the what the Jews believe is in preparation of the coming of the Messiah, which they believe hasn't happened yet. Once Christ came, he put in place and taught a new and higher law, which we find in the New Testament. So, you're right, Christ was Jewish, but he fulfilled the teachings which were taught prior to his coming. When he died, people referred to his teachings as Christianity.

Answer 8

It is fact that Christ, the one called " the Mighty God " in Isaiah 9:6, and whom Paul says " is all over all, God blessed forever ", was born of Mary, a descendant of David. But the nation of Israel; the people whom God favored and gave them untold blessings, continued in unbelief.
The people of Israel were guilty of setting their wills against God, refusing to subject themselves to His plan. Their loyalty to the " traditions of the fathers " became a strong hindrance to their acceptance of Jesus Christ.
Israel had been attempting to earn salvation through works ( the Mosaic Code, the old law), instead of recognizing that God graciously bestows forgiveness and acceptance upon those who trust Him. (Romans 10:3)
The gospel relieves the pressure of the old law, puts an end to it's obscurity and rescends its restrictive barriers. The believer is not under the jurisdiction of the " Mosaic system ".
" For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth.." (Romans 10:4). Thus Christianity was born. Both gentiles and Jews alike could receive salvation.

Answer 9

In Antioch they started calling those who followed the teachings of Jesus Christians.
Jews do not believe in Jesus as the Messiah.

Answer 10

Jesus, came to shake things up. To bring us out of law and in to Grace. He was the last sacrife the complete atonement for our sins. Belief in Him and his resurection, confessing him as Lord gives us salvation. (Romans - can't remember which verse)

There are Messianic Jews whom believe Jesus is the messiah and follow him, and there traditions which are awesome testaments of God's work in our world, to remember the past.

Following Jesus which is what Christian's should be doing, covers the elements of the law as Jesus discuss in Matthew 5-7

Answer 11

Because Greeks and Romans created Christianity, not Jesus. They tweaked their mythologies with the Jesus fables and wah lah, Christianity was born, unrecognizable by Jesus and any of his disciples.