How did a religion (Christianity) allegedly come from Judaism with such a commitment to proselytize?

Question

when the concept is so repugnant in Judaism and amongst Jews?

Answer 1

ROFL, did anyone understand your question apart from Gratvol?

Answer 2

Allegedly? I don't think there can be any question that Christianity came from Judaism... The fact that Jesus was Jewish is kinda a giveaway, but maybe it's just me.

Anyway, to answer your question, you have to look at the whole plan of God concerning Judaism and Christianity together, not look at them as foreign entities. It's not enough to simply say that Christianity came from Judaism. We both worship the same God (although Jews may be less likely to draw that similarity) and I have no greater claim on him than a Jew does. If you read the account of the Exodus you'll find that the Jews ASKED God for laws to follow. God's plan was to rule with mercy and grace, but since the Jews insisted on having a law, God gave them one written on stone rather than on their hearts. The result was a belief that was just a shadow of what God's original intention was, and one that was less open to converts. Jesus came to fulfill that law by his sinless life and bring the Jews into a New Covenant, made possible by his sacrifice, with God. This opened up salvation to the gentile nations as a whole, rather than just the Jews and a few chosen gentiles. Up until that time the Jews probably believed that gentiles couldn't be saved because they weren't chosen (no doubt a the result of Rabbis "expounding" on the word of God), except for the few God DID choose such as Rahab.

Reading Deuteronomy 7:6, Jeremiah 31:27-34, and Isaiah Isaiah 52:9-10 might shed some light on this subject. Deuteronomy tells the Israelites that they are His chosen people while Jeremiah describes God's plan to write his law on their hearts rather than tablets of stone, and Isaiah prophecies that salvation will go forth to all of the nations (gentiles) through Israel. Jesus fulfilled the verse in Jeremiah by sending the holy spirit to write the word on our hearts, and the verse in Isaiah because as an Israelite, he extended salvation to all of the nations.

Put simply, the answer to your question is this:
The disparity in missions between Judaism and Christianity, despite their common roots, is simply part of God's greater plan of salvation.

I must take issue with Unlcewayne, however, when he says that the Jews believed they were special so they wrote it in the scriptures. The Jews did not write the scriptures, God did. It said they were chosen and they were chosen. Moreover, God didn't tell them not to mix their blood with the heathens because he didn't want them to share their ideas. The former hardly facilitates the latter. He told them that they were a holy (set aside, separate) people. His intention was to reflect his own character (holy) through His people, so he told his people to remain separate from other nations.

Answer 3

Christianity began with the teachings of Christ,who was a Jew in good standing with that religion.
Over the last 2000 years,men have adapted and distorted just about everything that He had preached.
To be fair this process is common to every religion in the world,the principles are pure and holy but the applications leave a lot to be desired.

Answer 4

The Old Testament says that a savior will come and rescue the Jews. Christians think that Jesus was that savior. Jews don't. That's pretty much the difference. The Old Testament (the basis of Judaism) is still incorporated in Christianity. Christianity just adds on to the existing Jewish religion.

Answer 5

It is the command of the Lord Jesus Christ himself to go out and proclaim the Gospel to all nations. Christianity is a religion that is to be shared with others which is different from Judaism. The Apostles of Jesus Christ were originally Jews as well as Christ Himself. The Jewish people as a whole are blinded to the fact that there long for Messiah is none other than the one who was crucified and died and was buried and risen from the dead. At the end of time when Jesus comes back to earth at his second Advent the scriptures says the Jewish people as well as others will grieve as one who has lost a child when Jesus Christ is revealed as God's Messiah.

Answer 6

It was not always...

Proselytizing did exist in Judaism around Jesus time. Granted that it was not seen as a religious charge nor was organized but it did happen, and it was not rare.

It was only after Christianity that it stopped for political reasons.

Answer 7

The fact that Christianity does seek to convert others to its faith is one of the reason that the Jewish faith rejected Christianity. If you get your Bible out and read Acts chapter 8-13, you will see the events that lead to the Christian faith moving from "Jewish only" to include Gentiles. Beginning in chapter 8 with the conversion of "half-jews" in samaria, it spread in chapter 10 to the conversion of the first gentiles. This lead to the first "church council" were the debate was over whether Gentiles could become Christians, and if so, did they also have to be come Jews. It was the decision of the Council that the Christian faith was separate from the Jewish faith that allowed the first of Paul's journeys to spread Christianity (began in Chapter 13). The rest is history.

This was prophecied by Jesus in Acts 1, where he spoke of the gospel going from Jerusalem, to Judea, to Samaria and then to the ends of the earth.

Answer 8

Marketing strategy. Do you see how much more donation money the Christians move than any other religion? The biggest mega churches are Christian.

Also, obviously too many people do not know what proselytize means.

Answer 9

The Great Commission was given to the disciples directly from Christ Judaism has nothing to do with it... Jim

Answer 10

Christianity's tie to Judaism is because Jesus was a Jew. Christians have chosen to adopt the Old Testament because that is what Jesus was teaching from (as he was a Rabbi). He had his own views though and those teachings became the New Testament.

Answer 11

Christianity didn't come from Judaism. If you read the New Testament, it came out independently of it, although ironically it accepts the Old Testament as a guide, which is predominantly Jewish oriented.