Why do some people think Jesus was a Jewish Guy?

Question

I love my Jewish friends, and don't want this question to be interpreted as anti-semetic. In fact, I'd be honored to have a Jewish Guy as my leader.

That said, does it make sense that Jesus was Jewish? After all his last name is Jesus CHRIST not Jesus JEW. Had he been a Jewish Guy, don't you think he would've been named Jesus Jew? Duh! It's just logical sense!!!

Guys, obviously, Jesus was a Christian. He was the King of Christians!!!

Answer 1

I know this is a joke. People who are even fairly educated know that he was a Jew. Even the most ignorant of people know that Christ is a Greek word, attached to his name hundreds of years after his death. Even the most retarded redneck moron knows that all we know of Jesus comes from the Bible where it is explained very well.
Nice try, but next time post it in Jokes and Riddles.

Answer 2

Wow, you're a genius.

Try actually reading the Bible. Jesus was a Jew. His parents were Jewish. The Romans thought he was proclaiming himself an earthly "King of the Jews". His early followers considered themselves Jews, and the religion we now call Christianity was originally considered a Jewish sect. Jesus saw himself as following a Jewish path: Jewish religion promises the coming of a Messiah (i.e. a Christ). Jesus claims to be that Messiah. Jews ended up rejecting that claim, thus the split into separate religions.

Answer 3

Do you know a lot of Christians with the last name of Christ?

If you go by the ethnicity of the word "Christ" then Jesus would be Greek. Christ is the Greek equivalent of the Hebrew word Messiah, both of which mean "Anointed".

Actually, I would guess that Jesus would most likely have been an Egyptian-Jew that lived in Alexandria, (or at least the people that made up the stories about him were).

Answer 4

Well, Jesus's real last name was "Nazareth" (and his middle name was "of").

Seriously though, when people say Jesus was Jewish, it is because he was born Jewish, and was supposed to be the messiah for Jews. Those who believed that Christ was the Jewish messiah are called Christians.
In a sense, Christianity is a sect of Judaism started by Christ. This is why people say Jesus was Jewish.

Are you a monkey made of balls?

Answer 5

How could he be a Christian if Christianity was fashioned after him?

He was Jesus of Nazareth ( not jesus Christ)

He is the son of Christ.

Jesus was Jewish. The main difference between Christianity and Judaism ( as far as core beliefs go) is that Jews don't believe that Jesus has come yet.

Jesus preached his beliefs which later became Christianity.

Answer 6

Jesus WAS a Jew....

Christians follow Christ...Jesus could not follow himself, that would just lead Him in a circle.

Jesus was a rabbi, a teacher, He was a Jew, He followed Jewish law, He was circumcised, He was raised in the synagogue.

Jesus did not actually have a last name...His name is Jesus THE Christ...not just Jesus Christ...get it right.

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As far as your add details go...no He isn't...He is the King of the Jews...but they refused Him!

Christians are Jews that follow Jesus...Jesus' law and not the Laws of Leviticus...

Answer 7

You are seriously an idiot.

First of all...there is no dispute among ANYONE with half a brain that Jesus was born a Jew, lived as a Jew and died a Jew.

Second 'Christ' is not a name, you pathetic moron. It is a title. It comes from the greek translation of the hebrew word 'moshiach' which means 'anointed one'. In greek, the word is 'krystos' and in english, christ.

Now get back in line and demand the gray matter you so desperately are lacking.

Answer 8

Jesus was born in Bethlehem which was a Jewish town. According to his genealogy He was Jewish. He even said He came first to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. "Christian" denotes a follower of Christ, not a race of people.

Answer 9

Jesus Christ is the expected JEWish messiah. Jesus Christ didn't abolish the Jewish law, but fullfilled it. The Jews that believed that Jesus was the Christ (The Messiah) became Christians, those Jews that didn't accept Christ, remained Jews. God bless.

Answer 10

Because everyone after Moses that was allowed to live till Jesus was named Christian by his enemies was a jew the rest where made into detested apes......oh but wait lolol
What about Abraham he wasn't a Jew Moses brought Judaism.....hmmm wonder what Abraham was surely he was a Christian right..........not!
3 : 67

67. Ma kana ibraheemu yahoodiyyan wala nasraniyyan walakin kana haneefan musliman wama kana mina almushrikeena
Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian! He was a righteous man who had surrendered to Allah and distanced himself from idolatry!

(Hence neither the Jews can claim that he belonged to their faith, nor can the Christians say that he belonged to their faith, nor can the idolaters say that he belonged to theirs. He was a righteous man who surrendered to Allah alone and waged a fierce war on idols and those who worshipped them. If he was present in their midst, he most certainly would have waged an even fiercer war on those who claim that Jesus was the son of God, display his and his mother's statues in their churches and cathedrals and offer them worship!
For the benefit of readers of this translation who belong to a denomination other than Islam as well as its critics, it should be pointed out that, realizing how dangerously close devotion could be to deification, our Prophet Mohammed, - may peace be upon him - forbade people from drawing or painting his pictures, with the result that, despite his being the man who launched one of the greatest and most widely practised religions in the world, no picture exists of him to this day except a few caricatures drawn by western artists which no one has ever taken seriously.
He always vehemently insisted on his being treated as no more than just an ordinary mortal with an extra-ordinary mission, which he carried out with great insight and sincere dedication.
It is, therefore, not too surprising that, certain western scholars who did an analytical study of the Qur'aan and its propagator, dubbed him 'a tape recorder' because he said no more than what he was asked to say by the Revealing Angel, who was himself carrying out the command of his Lord).