Question for Christians?

Question

This is a serious question...I am confused. The Jews practiced a religion that involved an external God. Jesus came to earth preaching we are all sons of God, he is within us all. He didn't say God was external, but God only existed within us. Without our faith of that, there would be no God. Tell me then - why do Christians pray to an external God? Jesus was killed on the cross by the Jews for the blasphemic idea that God didn't exist, but that he was in each and every one of us. Doesn't that make Christians practice Judaism in a way?

Answer 1

Well not necessarily.
Jesus wasn't killed on the cross for the reason that they didn't believe there was a God. They just didn't believe he was the son of God, ie: the Messiah. We are all sons and daughters of God and yet Jesus was Deity. We are not. There are many passages in the bible that clear up this question you have. Judaism is believing in God the father as Deity and thinking that Jesus was just a really cool guy that became confused. I do not practice Judaism. I am in fact a Christian.

Answer 2

"Jesus came to earth preaching we are all sons of God, he is within us all."

Short answer. Jesus never preached that we are all sons of God. In the OT, nobody was permanently indwelt by the Holy Spirit, this only happens as a seal of inheritance, the promise of the Father in the NT.

The link explains the transition, and hopefully you can get a better understanding from that. It's a deep topic to explain.

http://www.hannity.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1963488#post1963488

http://www.biblestudymanuals.net/eph4v9.htm

"Jesus was killed on the cross by the Jews for the blasphemic idea that God didn't exist, but that he was in each and every one of us."

Jesus was killed by the Romans with Jews motivating it. And not for the reasons that you mentioned.

Answer 3

Jesus never preached an internal God. He preached about an external God who's spirit will dwells within our heart. That is, we bare the image of God whenever we walk in his will.

Jesus was killed because the Pharisees and chief priests were afraid of his popularity. They thought they would lose power. Also, he claimed to be the Messiah and thus the king of Jews. They didn't like that very much. They thought the Messiah would bring Israel under his rule at the time and that we would be like another David or Solomon. They didn't understand that was to come later.

We are all sons of God through Jesus - an adoption if you will.

Answer 4

Well first of all, you have your theology COMPLETELY wrong. Jesus never said that we are all sons of God. In fact, in John 8, he states very specifically that we are either children of the devil, or of God. We cannot be both and neither are all people children of God.

42Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and now am here. I have not come on my own; but he sent me. 43Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say. 44You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies. -John 8:42-44

Furthermore, Jesus never preached that God existed "within us all." That is more a gnostic belief or even eastern philosophy. That simply isnt Biblical. What scripture does teach is that for those who ARE his children, they are granted the Holy Spirit so they can further serve God.

The Bible does indeed teach that God is external and separate from us in countless passages. Jesus himself literally was God in the flesh and he was external from us.

We dont practice Judaism, we embody everything that Judaism was and has become. Christianity has become the new Judaism, or Israel just as Heaven is the new Jerusalem.

Answer 5

The only difference between Jews and Christians are that Jews don't believe that Jesus was the Son of God. They think he was just a prophet. And they are still waiting for the Son of God. So they don't fallow the teachings Jesus left behind (The Christian Bible)

Answer 6

Christianity did originate from Judaism. The relationship we can have with God's son Jesus is internal and should externally be practiced. God is real and so is what Jesus' Crucifixion.

Answer 7

First the Jews didn't kill Jesus. Jesus said He had the power to lay down His life and the power to take it back up. "Our Father which art in heaven,....." - sounds pretty external to me.
God is in us, around us and in heaven.

Christians owe a great deal to the Jews. Our Lord is a Jew.
The Jews so carefully transcribed the Word of God for us. The disciples were Jews who wrote the New Testament. The God of the Jews is our God, but they refuse to accept Jesus Christ as the Messiah. Jesus is the Messiah (Yahwah) of the Jews. We are told to pray for the peace of Jerusalem. We are told to bless Israel. You are correct in your thought, but Christ is the way to heaven. Father God put all authority in the earth in the hands of Jesus Christ.

Answer 8

God is omnipresent... every where, internal and external.

The major difference between Christianity and Judaism is that Christians believe that Jesus was the son of God and died, forgiving us of our sins. Judaism does not believe this.

Answer 9

Christianity is not a new religion, but it is Judaism full filled to a new level (when Jesus returns will be an even greater level, and after His 1000 years reign it will be perfect).

Answer 10

God is not in each oand every one of us. He is in the ones that ask Him into their hearts. We do not worship and external God. Jesus came down to Earth to save us from our sins, which you probably know. He didn't come so we could think that he was external.