If Jesus Christ was what we call today Jewish, then how come Christians aren't Jewish?

Question

That's my question. I mean, if Judism was Jesus Christ's supposed religion, how come people who call themselves Christians aren't Jewish instead. And it's funny, because Christians are always telling everyone that Jesus Christ was Jewish anyways. There sure ain't any logic in that concept, now is there?

Answer 1

We are gentiles.
Believers in Christ not of the Jewish race.

Answer 2

Yes Jesus was Jewish and the Jewish Messiah Yes, Israel was governed by Rome indicating Jewish rebellion against God. Yes, the High Priest was chosen by Rome confirming Jews were not Torah observate at this time like other times in their history. Yes, all Yeshua's disciples were not looking to start a new religion. However, when you are following a guy that 1. causes the dead to come back to life. 2. calms a major storm by raising his hand. 3. feed the 5,000 and 4,000 because He prayed and broke bread A logical person would conclude this guy is at least a prophet to fill the spiritual vacuum caused by the lack of faith by the Jewish leadership. However, when your leader that you watched die on the cross comes back from the dead because of God's intervention, one has to conclude this Jesus is from God as He was greater than Moses. It is alright for those who can't understand God because the Creator of the Universe is more than we can imagine. If any Jew wants to believe God is limited because a person doesn't understand, while humorous, it doesn't stop God from being God. He simply isn't bound by His Creation. But being created, those who question God and His ability will have to stand before Him an give an account. Because listening to the Spirit of God was valued by Judaism but now is not does not mean that Jews are free from these verbal commands as they never were through out Jewish history. On the day of Pentecost, the disciples of Jesus were gathered in Jerusalem as Yeshua said. Please note that it was the noise associated from the Spirit of God descending on the disciples as Joel prophesy foretold that gathered a Jewish audience. 3,000 Jews profess Jesus as their LORD that day. Not one Gentile was added. So the movement Jesus started is a purely Jewish movement. ***If all the so called christians are followers of christ, why do thy adhere to the teachings of the pope and not the teaching of Jesus?*** What?!? How many different sects of Judaism are there? Jews have many different beliefs and not one is worshiping in a Temple as Moses commanded. There is no ability to staff a Temple from the line of Aaron as Ezra 2 mandates or fill the position of messiah from the line of David. But no one is claiming that modern Jews are not Jews. So why do all the Christians that don't follow the pope's teaching get lumped together with those that do? The question makes no sense. EDIT Jeffery can also be quoted as saying, ***The Church and its Christian followers have murdered millions of Jews over the last 2000 years. This included children, pregnant women, and the elderly. How are these violent acts perpetrated by a supposed religion of love (Christianity)?*** He forgets what the Jews did when they were able to hear the Spirit of God. The battle of Jerico not only slaughtered the Gentiles as mentioned above but the family dog and poor helpless cat and even the defenseless livestock. And Jeffery has no problems with what Samson did during his lifetime. Or what about the time they lined up the boys where they stabbed each other in the stomach as the general's entertainment and they all died. Don't forget that David wiped out entire Gentile villages to feed his army and then lied and said it was a Jewish village. It is only since the era of the prophet ended and Jews no longer hear the Spirit of God that their military victories started fading. And where would Israel be without the US airforce and patriot missles plus the billions we have spent propping up her military? After saying ***Is Christianity a sick religion, or not. YES it is!!*** someone should know that nothing a Christian says or done will be tolerated by this closed minded, intolerant person.

Answer 3

Jewish people don't believe Jesus was any thing other than a minor prophet. They believe that the savior is yet to come. That's why before Jesus all the now Christians were jews, because he had not come yet. Those that therfore believe Jesus was the saviour become Christians as in Jesus Christ, and those that did not believe he was the sent one remained Jews and still waiting for the saviuor to come.

Answer 4

From that limited perspective, no there is no logic. But if you knew more about what you were asking, it would make perfect sense to you.

Christ was a Jew, and was teaching a new set of beliefs. Originally his followers knew this new religion as "The Way". It wasn't until a very long time after Christ's death that people began to call his teachings "Christianity", and call themselves "Christians". Modern Christianity is based on Judaism--in fact, Christians still study the Jewish Torah. They simply call it the Old Testament now.

That's right--the Old Testament is the Jewish Torah. Makes more sense now, doesn't it? :)

Answer 5

Because Christians are Jews who follow Christ hence the name Christian.

"There sure ain't any logic in that concept, now is there?" a quote from you.

Please don't act smart when you are dumb. Logic? OMG? Are you serious?

Christians believe that Jesus came to rid the world from sins. He came here to erase the 'wrongdoings' of the Jews and tell the people of what The Way, The Truth and The Light is.

Jesus was Jew but he came down here so that people who accept him will no longer be Jew but instead Christians.

Answer 6

The entire book of Acts answers this question. The early Christians were Jewish. Peter had a dream that indicated that Gentiles (non Jews) were not unclean and should be allowed into the church. Christianity at first was just a Jewish cult. So many Gentiles were admitted, however, that orthodox Jews withdrew altogether. So we have what we have today.


Sending you a smile to help pick up your day.

Answer 7

Jesus had no religion and he didn't preach a religion. He was not a religious man at all. He preached and taught about love and God's kingdom or his way of doing things and way of thinking. Jesus was Jewish in that he was born of a Jewish woman. That was only a physical/genealogical thing. We can't be Jewish unless our parents are Jews.

Answer 8

In a way we can be seen as extended Jewish. The Covenent with God went to the followers of Jesus. I just wish that Europeans would stop eating pork and shellfish and act more Jewish though.

Answer 9

Beause they are being lead by deception.

Rev 12:9 (KJV) And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

The apositle Shaul said.......

1Cr 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened [bread] of sincerity and truth.

So it seems that the true believers would be keeping the Feast of Yahweh, right.

Christianity is being told what they want to hear. The same thing that Eve was told, "Did Yahweh say........"

The Catholic Church was the first power shown in the Inspired Prophecies to change Yahweh's Laws by the authority of the "Holy" Roman Empire, as inspired by Satan. All other religions followed this church, and as the Prophet Daniyl said, she, the Catholic Church, devoured the world with this unscriptural rebellion against Yahweh's Righteous 613 Laws.

The Roman Empire, whose leading religion was and is the Catholic Church (the Popes), is the fourth kingdom (beast) of Daniyl Chapter 2 and Daniyl Chapter 7.

Daniyl 7:25—
And he will speak great words against Yahweh, and will wear out; mentally attack to cause to fall away, the Saints of Yahweh, and think to change the Feasts, Holy Days, and Laws; and they will be given into his hand until a time, and times, and the dividing of time.



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Answer 10

Jewish as in the people and the traditions. Christians and Jewish people disagree pretty fundamentally. I reject most of the Old Testament since I don't feel that it's compatible with what Christ taught. Most Christians choose to as well to less of an extent. We don't keep kosher or follow any of the law outlined in Leviticus. So we separated. I think it makes sense.

Answer 11

"jew" is just a shortened form for "Judah".
There are twelve Tribes, and Christ was born of Mary who's lineage was a pure mix
of the Tribe of Judah (the king line) and the
Tribe of Levite (priest line), making Jesus
Christ both King and High Priest.

The Tribe of Benjamin joined with Judah, & along with the priest line remained in and around Judea.
The ten other tribes migrated North over the Caucus Mountains being named "caucasions", and settling Europe and eventually the USA, Canada and the other Free Christian Nations of the World.
We can't all be "jews" because there are only two legal ways to be a "jew". First, be born of the bloodline of the Tribe of Judah, or second, live in the geographical location of the town of Judea, making you a jew by
residence only.
Thats why we can't all be "jews".

When you read in Scripture and the writing is addressing "Israel", its not speaking of the Country of Israel that we know of now,
instead, its speaking to those ten tribes
that went North - thats us. Sometimes God will use "Ephriam" in place of "Israel", being the largest of those ten tribes so to mean he is addressing all of them. If God is talking to Judah, Benjamin, or Levi, you will see they would be separated in Scripture because those tribes split off from the other ten - God would refer to these three as "Judah" or "Jerusalem". Then you know you are reading about the Tribes who remained.
Those ten tribes are who were promised by God to be as numerous as the sands of the sea or the stars of the sky - well, where are they? Because of Idol worship, they were scattered and lost their identity; God knows where they are and who they are, but they sure don't.
Everyone seems to put every person into one Tribe - Judah.
Yep, Christ was a "jew" if you want to use that nickname for his birth Tribe.