Is irony that Jesus Christ, founder of Christianity, was a Jew?

Question

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Answer 1

first Paul founded Christianity. Jesus had no intention or desire to establish another religion.

Second its still ironic that a religion that came from Judaism has killed more Jews in history than any other group combined.

Answer 2

That is true, Jesus was indeed a Jew but to assume that there is conflict there is unnecessary, Jesus was a Jew because the Jews believe on his father- the Almighty God. So, logically since he is the son of the Almighty, he knows that the Jews belief are right.

Jesus in his life said that the only way to the FATHER is through him. He was not the one who founded Christianity, it was his disciple, saint Paul by the virtue of his statement and all his teachings. Unfortunately, the Jews did not recognize him.
even though they spoke about the coming of a messiah. In fact, the old testament of the bible came from the Jews.

in the end, Jesus was not the founder of Christianity, he is the revered God of Christianity. Him being a Jew was not a problem. remember, the Jews believe in the coming of a messiah which indeed came. the only problem is that the Jews failed to see the truth.

Answer 3

Your right and even more of an irony is that the Gospel was preached first to the Jews and then to the Greek. But the Jews rejected and crucified Jesus, after His ressurection some repented. Read Acts chapter 2 ( The Day of Pentecost, when Christ church was established)

Answer 4

Actually the Bible tells us that the Savior, Jesus, would come from the line of David, and they are Jews. Mary, His mother, came from the Jewish line. God, Jesus father, or other parent, has no nationality or religion, and is a Spirit.
Christ did NOT come to get us to become Jewish; He came to show us a way to follow Him, and His followers are called Christians. The Jewish people were and still are, expecting a different Messiah.
Much of the world will be extremely surprised when Jesus returns, and they don't recognize Him.
It's all part of the Salvation plan...we have to seek Him, obey Him, Love Him, even tho He died for each and every one of us. Salvation is offered by Jesus...all we have to do is to accept Him.
God Bless you,,,,good question..
edit....After reading some of the answers above:
Yes, Salvation was, in those days, offered first to the Jews! Of course, as Jesus was a Jew. But Jesus came, and was NOT accepted by Judiasm. Because of that, Salvation was offered to the Gentiles. The Jews may have been His chosen people at one time...BUT the Chosen people are now those who accept His Salvation and who love Him and who follow him..Those who follow Him are called the "ELECT" in the Bible...

Answer 5

Well glad you asked.

First...what is Irony

Incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "Hyde noted the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated" (Richard Kain).

So, yes it is Ironic that the most famous Jew ever to have lived is credited with founding the religion that has been responsbile for more hostile and harmful events targeted at jews than any other religion. Yeah...very ironic.

Some other possible Ironic moments and Christ:

1) You die and meet Jesus...he tells you he is also responsible for inventing Gifilte Fish.

2) You die and go to heaven.....and Jesus is not to be found....you discover that heaven is being run by a large Gopher with a nose ring.

3) You go to heaven and ask Jesus the meaning of life...He replies ...Jesus Christ I wish people would stop bothering me with this stupid question.

4) You go to heaven and meet Jesus.....and he reveals he is planning to come back to earth as a mexican laborer named Jesus and is planning to cross the border just east of san Diego. He trys this plan out the next day and returns with a bullet hole in his shirt and a pamphlet from a vigilante group telling him all mexicans to stay out of our country.

5) Irony...Jesus turns out to not care a whit about you or others, and simply spends his days watching T.V. and withdrawing into the monotonous live of the son of god.

Answer 6

Nope, because Christianity is the continuation of Judaism with an accepted Messiah (Jesus.) Jews now do not accept Jesus as the Messiah (hence why they are still Jews.) Jesus did not fulfil all the criteria of the Messiah, and so they are still awaiting a Messiah.

Why would it be ironic? As far as I know, Jews have no problems with Christaians and vice versa. Historical problems I spose, but then Christians have killed other religious people too.

Answer 7

The Christian faith is in protecting with Judaism. in the former testomony there's a prediction that there is going to be a savior. at the same time as Jesus got here, he fulfilled all those professes, therefore proving that he change into the savior that the Jews were searching for. regrettably most of the Jews did not settle for him yet many gentiles (easily everyone except Jews) did. Making Christianity a faith that easily everyone might want to practice. This makes Jesus the founding father of Christianity. Jesus change into God and there are a selection of statements helping this. which include I and my Father are one, and in the start change into the note(Jesus), and the note(Jesus) change into with God, and the note(Jesus) change into God. So Christians believe that that there is one God with 3 parts. Jesus, God that Father, and the Holy Spirit.

Answer 8

No. Jesus came to the lost House of Israel, but the Jews rejected him; therefore the inheritance of the kingdom of God fell to the Gentiles. The Jews still have the opportunity to receive Christ as Lord and Savior, and many of them do.

Answer 9

No Irony there at all. God chose the Jews to bring His message to this world, and it is only logical that Jesus, who is the culmination of God's message would be a Jew.

Answer 10

He wasn't a Jew at all considering that he came from no ordinary man's loins. He was God himself reconciling man back to himself as man had fallen away from grace in the garden of Eden. All the old testament prophets spoke of him and he was the fulfillment of all the promises of God to redeem man back to him. I wouldn't want to say He was the founder of Christianity as such because he came to fulfill the old testament law which was a type or shadow of the new testament which was to come. To me it was justa continuation of the same religion but people missed it and they held on to their "old Jewish religion" and used that to reject him. This has always been the pattern with all the prophets who were rejected by the people.

Answer 11

Not really. He was a rabbi who was well grounded in his people's connection to the God of the Old Testament. His understanding that we need to be humble in God's house and that God loves him who loves his fellow man, were ideas that the Jewish sages knew well. The ideas, which he fought, that you can buy your way out of God's wrath over evil and neglect were not new either. Ever so often a prophet comes who tries to cut through the trappings of a religion and get to the principles that started it. He adds some ways of looking at things to try to prevent the old calcification from coming back too quickly. It doesn't work for long, but humanity has evolved somewhat over time thanks in part to the good will of these prophets.