If Christians believe Jesus was a Jew, then why do we have christians....?

Question

making a religion called 'Christianity' when their going against Jesus's religion.

I learnt this in religous studies and would like to know Christians views.

Answer 1

Jew's rejected that Christ was the Messiah... those who follow Jesus are following the Christ... therefore Christian is what we are called... we are covered by the new covenant in the blood of Christ... not by the old covenant that the Jews follow.

kind of like... Martin Luther was a catholic priest who did not agree with some of the teachings and started a new religion ... Lutheran... since he was a catholic priest, according to your idea, all lutheran's would really be catholics...

also, many of the Christians are gentiles... not of Jewish decent...

Answer 2

Jesus was and is rejected by His own people . Scripture clearly states this. Jesus turned to the gentiles who accepted him just like the old testament prophesy said he would. Jesus was not religious. Religion practices ways of a church. Jesus practices the ways of god and condemned many things that were done in the church. There are many religious Christians but there are also many faithful Christians who don't follow any church's beliefs to the letter.Church's are not totally wrong but I would rather follow the Bible's teachings.Jesus followed the Bibles teachings and said he was the Son of Man and if I believe him and that makes me a Christian then how could I possibly be going against Jesus or what he believed in?

Answer 3

Have you considered the possibility that Jesus never intended to start a separate religion? Looking at the language used in the texts can tell us a bit about who wrote what and when. (I didn't believe it until I read the Gospel of John in Greek. That last chapter was written by another person, clear as day.)

The language strongly indicates that it was the next generation who wanted the new religion, not Jesus. By the time you get to Paul, it's very clear that they're invested in their creation. And by the time you get you John Chrysostom, it's clear that the church fathers will say anything to separate people from their heritage.

So it was a long, complicated process. Christianity as we know it bears only a superficial resemblance to Judaism, and then only in the eyes of Christians.

Answer 4

Most christians believe that Christ came to fulfil the Law of Moses. Without His atonement, the law could have never been fulfilled. Christ lived at a time in which there was no atonement, thus he was still compelled to live the Law of Moses as it was given. After Christ died, the atonement was fulfilled and with it the Law of Moses.

Jews on the other hand, believe that Jesus was not the prophesied Messiah and, since He nor no one else had performed the atonement, they are still subject to the law.

Answer 5

We are not going against the Jews. We believe in the same Old Testament Books as they do. Abraham is the father of the Jew and the Christian. Jesus was born into the Jew race and He most certainly did practise and celebrate all the Jewish feast and traditions. However, Jesus also, during His life reached out to the Gentiles,(non-Jewish people) and these folks started adhering to His Words and they believed that He was the Son of God and indeed was God in the flesh. This is the start of Christianity, who, the apostles and later Saul a Jewish Pharisee, who was involved in killing Christians, until Christ intervened and changed Saul into a new creation and Saul became our apostle Paul. He went to the Gentiles with the message of Christ and soon Churches were formed and the followers were called Christians, they were never Jews and so the name Christian. Your religious studies is wrong.Jesus, set the stage for what He expected of these new followers called Christians. We often think of the Jewish race as God natural children and we are God's adopted children.

Answer 6

Jesus was Danish, which is all the more surprising when you realize he knew the ancient scriptures, and the Jews wondered how a Dane came to live among them. They often used trick questions, but he confounded them by changing the subject, and even using one asker as a foil vis a vis another asker.

Why do we have Christians? you ask? I don't know any Christians, but if you're talking about church people, that's a whole other story. I myself do not understand why there are so many church people. I suspect there is a lot of inbreeding going on...

Answer 7

Jesus was a Jew. This is a fact. Being a Jew means both ancestry and a religion. Christians go against no one's religion, they practice their own. Christians do not 'make' a religion, they practice Christianity.

Answer 8

Christians were peoples who followed Christ's teachings. The first Christians were indeed Jews.

As a people God chose the Jews so that His majesty and glory would be made manifest to the rest of the world. But, like all other peoples, they (the Jewish people) are held to the same standards that God holds all peoples to.

Answer 9

That proves Christians are not following a religion...but following Christ. Christianity was formed after the death of Jesus - a term used to describe those who continued to follow Jesus' teachings...therefore the term Christians or followers of Jesus Christ.

Answer 10

Christianity, one of the most widely practiced religions in the world, is a monotheistic religion and was founded by the Jesus Christ. The followers of this religion believe that Jesus was the son of god and it was he about whom it was prophesised in the in the Old Testament that a Messiah would appear.

The religion was started in the first century and it is this religion the founder of which is the person who decided that mark that demarcates BC from AD; BC is the period before his birth and AD is the period that started after him.

You can find the adherents of this religion are mostly residing in the developed countries and the civilisations that are considered as modern have this very religion as their predominant faith. The development itself says a lot about Christianity.

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