question about early christianity?

Question

obviously, the people who wrote the New Testament (and the people in it) were big fans of Jesus, thinking him to be the Messiah. One of the big reasons was that he fulfilled OT prophecies right? But why did Jews in Jesus' time, also looking for the Messiah, reject him? Do I have that right, that Jews don't accept Jesus as the Messiah? So why were some Jews convinced (to turn Christian) and some not?

Answer 1

Actually you have it incorrect.

As a people God chose the Jews so that His majesty and glory would be made manifest to the rest of the world.

The first Christians were Jews, and the spread of Christianity in its early days was primarily due to messianic Jews. In fact, all the authors of the Christian bible, save one, were Jews who lived in the days before the Second Temple was destroyed in 70 CE.

There are many Jews today who believe Jesus to be the Messiah.

http://www.jewsforjesus.org/answers

http://www.realmessiah.com/answers.htm

Answer 2

The Jewish understanding of a "messiach" was not uniform. Their rebirth after the Babylonian Exile had been a sobering, disappointing experience. The triumph of the Maccabees had been followed by the scheming and despotism of the Hasmonean kings. Some Jews still looked for a military leader to free them from Roman domination, or a high priest who could at least make their religious observance more pure, but many looked for a "Messianic Age", probably near the end of time, when God would straighten everything out and enable the Jews to show the world how to live and worship as God wants.

The point was, this Messiah, coming from and approved by God, had to be effective. Jesus had to be evangelized and preached to people who had never heard of him. All the "witnesses" were eiter second-hand, out of town or dead. A true Messiah would be famous for the universal effectiveness of his actions. Since most of the world did not know Jesus, he couldn't be much of a messiah.

Many Christian "interpretations" of scripture were radically different from the established meanings. Christians used the Greek translation, rather than the Hebrew version, often with unsupportable results. And Jesus wasn't the only "messiah" around. When people are looking for something, other people are willing to oblige the need. Jesus had competition from also-ran messiahs.

Answer 3

Many Jewish members of that time as HIS Disciples also, felt that the Messiah was going to set up an earthly kingdom rather than a Heavenly Kingdom. The priests were living well off of the money that came their way and were more interested in keeping that money coming than to lose their place in Jewish society and allow Christ to be found. Also, for the same reson that some will listen today and some will not. Some are not going to change what they are doing for any reason and some will for the better after-life. Have a great day.
Thanks,
Eds, Christian

Answer 4

The Jews rejected Jesus because He failed, in their eyes, to do what they expected their Messiah to do--destroy evil and all their enemies, in this case the Romans, and establish an eternal kingdom with Israel as the preeminent nation in the world. The prophecies in Isaiah and Psalm 22 described a suffering Messiah who would be persecuted and killed, but they chose to focus on those prophecies that discussed His glorious victories, not His crucifixion.

Messianic Judaism is the term given to Jewish people from all walks of life who believe and have accepted Yeshua (the Hebrew name for Jesus) of Nazareth as the promised Messiah of the Hebrew Scriptures. These Jewish people do not stop being Jewish, but they continue to remain strong in their Jewish identity, lifestyle and culture, while following Yeshua as He is revealed in the Brit Chadashah, the New Covenant. Many Messianic Jews refer to themselves as “completed Jews” since they believe that their faith in the God of Israel has been “completed” or fulfilled in Yeshua.

In reality, Messianic Judaism began 2000 years ago. Yeshua, Himself, was an observant Jew, most of the Apostles and writers of the New Covenant were Jewish, and the vast majority of the early believers in Yeshua were also Jewish (see Acts chapter 2).

Answer 5

A most excellent question. First and foremost, those that rejected Jesus had an agenda. That agenda was to throw off the shackles of Rome. According to prophecy, the Messiah was going to come and rule on the throne of David. This is true, but as detailed in types such as Joseph and Moses, the Messiah was to have two comings. The first will be met with rejection, the second would be met with acceptance. So yes, Jesus fulfilled around 300 prophecies of His first coming...
http://www.schneblin.com/studies/pdfs/in_the_volume_of_the_book.pdf

However, there are still another 300 or so that revolve around His SECOND coming...
http://www.schneblin.com/studies/pdfs/introduction_to_revelation.pdf

These two comings are clearly illustrated in the prophetic time line given to Daniel...
http://www.schneblin.com/studies/pdfs/seventieth_week_of_daniel.pdf

Stephen tried to illustrate how the Jews routinely rejected the redeemers that God sends to them in Acts 7. That it was prophesied that the Messiah was to be rejected on His first coming. They did not want to hear it, so they martyred Stephen as well.

Jesus was prophesied to be a Rock of offense, and a stone of stumbling. What was this offense? Proclaiming Himself to be God come in the flesh...

"I and My Father are one."
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?”
The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God." - John 10

As a result, those who were looking to Jesus for salvation accepted Him as Messiah. Those that had the agenda and saw their salvation within the law and not what the law pointed to, rejected Him. This rejection of Messiah will continue until He returns the second time. And like Moses and Joseph, the second time they WILL recognize Him.

Answer 6

Alot of people back then claimed to be the "messiah"..when in fact none of them really were. These people were thought to be crazy and basically lunatics. By the time Christ (the TRUE Son of God) came along, my guess would be the people (not just Jews, but gentiles as well) were thinking "Here we go again...." and thought of Christ as crazy as well.

So that's my guess. Also it had alot to do with the Roman government who didn't want any kind of religious leader other than themselves.

Answer 7

Partial Blindness of Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles comes In -


The rest of Israel were blinded (Rom11:7-8 below) to the truth that Jesus is the Messiah.

At the Sixth SEAL (Re.6:12-17), when the fullness of the Gentiles comes in, Israel will know that Jesus is the Messiah (Rom.11:25 below).


Rom.11:7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded (Rom.11:25 below)

Rom.11:8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

Rom.11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits, that blindness in part is happened to Israel (Rom.11:7-8 above), until the fulness of the Gentiles (1 Thess.4:5, Eph.2:12) be come in.



Pat (ndbpsa ©)

Answer 8

Jesus put down the Jewish leaders the Pharisees who were self righteous jerks. This made them pretty mad and tried to kill him. Jesus healed on the sabbath which really made them made ridiculous as it sounds. The Pharisees has a lot of laws and rules without love and Jesus put them in their place. The Pharisees also sold animals for sacrifice. The bible said you could bring your own but they made it a law/tradition that they had to inspect it, well what you brought was never good enough and you had to buy theirs at a higher price. This is why Jesus got mad in the temple and told them they were running a den of thieves!
They also didn't know he was born in Bethlehem. They thought he was born in Nazareth.

So if you wanted to be "in" the synagogue (Jewish temple) you had to deny Jesus! You would be shunned by your peers, family and neighbors if you accepted Jesus. Many did and suffered with their lives.
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Answer 9

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Answer 10

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