why is their no such thing as Messianic Muslims, Hindus, or Buddhists?

Question

I have heard of Messianic Jews... but why not any of these?

so Terri why cant a Hindu do what you just said and believe that Jesus was the messiah?

again abby why cant someone have hindu culture and believe in Jesus?

Answer 1

Obviously even when a Jewish person has converted to another religion, he is still a Jew. The Lubavitch Rebbe said so as you can see here:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4462924665331442133

Beyond that it has to be said that the concept of Moshiach is automatically going to be primarily a Jewish concept. We had the concept of Moshiach long before there even was a Muslim. Hindus don't have such a concept, and Buddhists speak in terms of expecting another Buddha - not expecting a Moshiach.

Now as to the Messianic Jewish movement, they are following a man who was Jewish, who had a Jewish mother, spoke from Torah, attended synagogue, kept the Sabbath, and whom a certain percentage of Jewish society of 2000 years ago thought might be Moshiach. So it really isn't all that surprising that today we should see a group that would attempt to reattach itself to those Jewish roots of 2000 years ago and reject the anti-Torah sentiment expressed by the Gentile Christian church for the many centuries since that time.

The Messianics are everyone's favorite heretics. The Christians can't stand them because the Messianics tell the Christians that their entire anti-Torah theology has been wrong for centuries. Most of the Christian aid organizations will help poor Christian Arabs, and poor normative Jews, but will openly reject giving any aid whatsoever to any Jew who believes that Messiah came 2000 years ago. Likewise the Messianics are obviously going to be considered to be heretical by any normative rabbi out there from the Chassidic on down to the Reform. (With the notable exception of Rabbi Dan Cohen-Sherbok.)

Answer 2

Because Muslims, Hindus, etc don't believe in a Savior.
Christians and Jews share pretty much all of the same beliefs up until a certain point in history. The first Christians *were* Jews: Jews believe, just like Christians, that there is a Messaiah; it's just that they're still waiting for him to arrive. Christians believe the Messiah already came (Jesus).
That's the difference.
So Messianic Jews are culturally Jewish, but as far as their faith is concerned, they believe in Jesus as their Savior and Redeemer to God.

Answer 3

Messianic Jews follow their heritage of being Jewish, and believe in Jesus as being the Messiah, hence the name.
the other religions you mentioned teach, at best, that Jesus was a good person, not the Messiah.


Edit: Ok, you want me to think a bit. Got it.
In my opinion, believing that Jesus is Christ, the One Son of the Living God, the Messiah, does not contradict the teachings of the Old Testament, nor the Jewish faith, per se. they believe in The Son of God coming, they just don't believe it happened yet. Those that believed Jesus was The Son of God in the very beginning, were Jews. Cornelius was the first Gentile to believe Jesus was the Messiah. So yes, you can be a Jew and believe Jesus is the Messiah.
Believing that Jesus is The Messiah in the other religions you mentioned would be a contradiction of their faith, so if you do meet those that were raised in those faiths, that have accepted Jesus as their Savior, then they usually refer to themselves as Christians and no longer follow the former.
And just in case you are wondering why I think accepting Jesus as Messiah for Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists is a contradiction to their faith: Muslims believe Jesus was a prophet and although born of a virgin, it gave him no special place, since Adam had no parents. Hindus (some) believe in several gods, and Budhists are humanists.

Answer 4

Messianic comes from the word Messiah, who was promised to the Jews. Only Jews who believe that Jesus is their Messiah are Messianic. It does not apply to any other religious groups.

Answer 5

Because according to Christianity, Jesus is the fulfillment of Judaism. Judaism is a unique religion in Christian theology, which either has some favor of God, or at least used to (depends on the Christian as to what they believe the current status of Judaism is). But Hinduism, Islam, and Buddhism, etc, have a totally different status. They are considered just flat-out wrong. In order to be a Christian, a Hindu has to stop believing in the Hindu Scriptures. But for a Jew to become a Christian, he continues to believe in his Jewish Scriptures. So, it just is a different case.

Of course, a "Messianic Jew" is really a Christian in theology, but that's another story.

Answer 6

It's not comparable gravtol.If a Hindu was to believe Jesus was the Messiah,he would not be a Hindu anymore,as his beliefs are not compatible with Hinduism.
Jesus *is* compatible with Judaism,as he is the Messiah,and that's why there are Messianic Jews.

Answer 7

J*sus was not Hindu, Muslim, or B*ddhist, so people cannot claim to be following their roots when becoming Messianic like they can when they decide to be a Messianic "Jew." Also there is nothing in their Bible (as far as I know) about J*sus being the completion of Islam...whereas somehow a person is a completed "Jew" when they become Messianic.

Answer 8

Messianic Hinduism, Messianic Buddhism, and Messianic Islam are complete oxymorons. None of those religions teaches about any messiah at all.

Answer 9

Messianic Muslims exist. It is just that they are waiting for the "Mahdi" not "Messiah" a bit of a language thing.
Buddhists are not waiting for anybody to save them, preferring to do their own work, and the Hindus gave up waiting about a thousand years ago, maybe two thousand.

Answer 10

Because Muslims already accept Jesus as the Messiah but not the son of God. And Buddhists and Hinuds dont have any concept of Messiah, but they could form a sect where they follow Krishna and Jesus.Perhaps he could be an avatar of Vishnu. Same with Buddhists. Jesus could have been the returning Buddha, who knows?