Christ isn't in the old testament, were people called just plain old God Followers?
2007-04-20 03:48:19 · 41 answers · asked by Spring loaded horsie 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They were called God's followers
2007-04-20 03:52:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God revealed Himself to the Jews. Pre-Christians were Jews. Jesus was the Jewish Messiah. Some of the Jews accepted him and others rejected him. God opened the door for everyone else to have a relationship with Him through Jesus Christ. The scriptures said that ALL the nations of the world would be blessed through the Jews. That was a prophecy about the Messiah, Jesus making the way for anyone who accepted Him to have a relationship with God.
2007-04-20 03:54:48 · answer #2 · answered by Shmootsy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There were no Christians before Christ, obviously. But the New Testament was not written until long after Christ died. Presumably, his followers were called Christians before anything was written down. Christ was a Jew. Most of the people who became early Christians were also Jews.
2007-04-20 03:50:28 · answer #3 · answered by MOM KNOWS EVERYTHING 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ermm... Jews.
There were no Christians prior to the New Testament. Christianity wasn't a religion until after the time of Christ. Christ was a Jew.
2007-04-20 03:52:53 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There's one thing you need to remember. "Christians" are servants of GOD but followers of Jesus. Jehovah God has always had servants on earth, even before the eixstence of the Jewish nation, beginning with Abel. Because of a promise to Abraham, the Israelites became God's chosen people for a time. So yes. They were called Israelites or Jews, and they all looked for the arrival of the Messiah. When Jesus arrived on the scene he became the new voice that would teach people how to worship God in an acceptable way.
2007-04-20 03:59:02 · answer #5 · answered by Q&A Queen 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Jews. Before the New Testament the followers of God were Jews. Jesus was born a Jew.
2007-04-20 03:51:18 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They were followers of Yhwh God, Creator of ALL Life---The Nation of Israelites--(Israel--that is, Jacob and the head of the 12 tribes of Israel)--the True ones who the Law was given to---not the other nations of the time, say, the Moabites or the Ishmaelites or any of those that rejected Yhwh God's fatherly directions by bowing down explicitly to wooden or stone gods.
These were the direct descendents of Abraham through whom God promised the Seed to come forth from. And Yhwh God ALWAYS keeps His promises.
Jew is slang for Judah, the tribe through whom The Messiah came as promised when Jacob (Israel), blessed each of his twelve sons--Judah was the fourth son of Jacob--4 is a Sacred number having to do with God's real Name YHWH.
2007-04-20 04:11:18 · answer #7 · answered by avaddohn-Apollyon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jewish people were the chosen people and God's followers in the Old Testament. They were also called the sons of Abraham and Isaac.
2007-04-20 03:52:43 · answer #8 · answered by hillabee_is_me 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They were not called Christians then because Christ was not born yet. They were called Jews, because that was the only people group that belived in God until Christ's death and resurrection.
2007-04-20 03:52:37 · answer #9 · answered by Jay 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christians were not around in the OT because Christ wasn't around.....
"God followers" were called Jewish in the OT.
Have you read the book?
2007-04-20 03:51:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋