If Jewish people don't believe in Jesus, then how was Jesus a Jew himself?

Question

I guess I don't understand that concept. Please explain!!

Answer 1

Jesus was born into a Jewish family. He was Jewish by tradition, faith and culture. However, Jews do not believe in Jesus as the Messiah, which Christians do.

Answer 2

Jesus was born a Jew. Christianity was not formed until after his death. When Jesus was alive, the Jews who believed the Jesus Christ was the "Messiah" or the "Savior" followed his teachings and eventually started the Christian faith after he died and supposedly rose from the dead as was promised centuries prior to the Jews would happen with the Messiah. The Jews who did not believe Jesus was the Messiah or the Savior stayed practicing the Jewish religion. Those who are Jewish today still believe the Messiah has NOT come and Jesus was only a Prophet. Those who are Christians today believe he is.

Answer 3

He was born one. I'm an American, but only a few hundred Americans have any idea who I am, much less have any belief in me.

My understanding is they didn't recognize him as what Messiah was supposed to be. For them it was settled at that point. Nothing else Jesus did after that determination mattered to the Jews of his day or ours.

Nazareth is where he lived in a community with many other Jews. He was Jewish because he had a Jewish mother.

Answer 4

Jesus was a Jew because he practiced the faith - and his followers were Jews. Christianity started off as a branch off of Judaism. A few years later after the death of Jesus - the Jews said that the followers of Jesus were not actually following Judaism. They did not follow the law and they believed that the Messiah had already come. So that was the schism, and Christianity branched off and became a new religion.

The Jews do not believe Jesus was the Messiah. This does not deny Jesus his Jewish hertiage - or the basis of Christianity in Judaism.

Answer 5

If the Jesus as reported in the New Testament was a real person, then he was Jewish by birth and faith. Christianity came after his death (and theoretical resurrection).

And for the person who had the gall to write this:
>The Jews misunderstood the nature of the Messiah and
>his kingdom, which was made clear in several passages,
>as God's "suffering servant." One of the primary things
>which grew out of Christ's life and ministry was that ALL
>humans can approach God on an EQUAL BASIS.

Puh-leaze! The Jews understand the nature of the messiah just fine, that's how we know that Jesus doesn't qualify.. that pesky failure to actually fulfill the messianic prophecies and all! If you would bother to read the verses in context, you would understand that the "suffering servant" was ISRAEL.

Answer 6

You're right. Jesus was a basically orthodox Jew from the West Bank.

From a small sect of the guy's followers eventually grew the major religion of the western gentile world.

Within that religion, claims are made about Jesus that contradict the Hebrew Bible. So, Jews do not follow that religion (Christianity).

Answer 7

Jesus was a Jew. That should give you a hint. Jewish people simply don't believe that he was the son of God. Much like most of the world doesn't believe that he was.

Answer 8

Jews do NOT believe that Jesus was a prophet. There is nothing whatsoever about Jesus in any Hebrew text -- if he lived, he was no different from any other Jew practicing one of many different versions of Judaism. Judaism still consists of various branches that differ from each other in *practice* -- not *belief.* Christianity had to break away from Judaism because Paul could not find converts among the Romans -- they would not consider circumcision. Any Jew must be circumcised as a symbol of our covenant with God.
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Answer 9

Because he was 'born' of a Jewish mother and father. The Jews know that Jesus existed; they just disagree with what he actually was.

Answer 10

Quite a few Jewish people believe in Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul said a mystery is that their hearts have been hardened until all the Gentile believers come in and then God will deal with the Jewish people and they will mourn Jesus, who they crucified. They will say "Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord."
God is not finished with His people. In His word He said He would bring them all back to their land that He gave to their fathers. In 1948 they started coming back and they are still coming back to Israel. Jesus' mother was a Jew and He was raised in a Jewish home and attended synogogue at age 12 as the Bible tells us.

When Jesus came as a baby born to a virgin and grew up to be a healer, a man who could resurrect dead people and caused many miracles the Jewish people were looking for a rich, powerful King and not a carpenter's son. They rejected Jesus the Son of God and called him blasphemist for saying He was God's Son. The demons that He cast out knew He was God's son and Satan who tempted Jesus knew that He was God's Son, but His own people rejected Him. The Old Testament said that His people would reject Him but the high priest Ciaphas chose to reject Jesus even though some of the Pharisees believed Jesus. Some knew the Word of God, some chose to not believe the Word of God and some just didn't know it for failure of not caring.