How many Jews believe Jesus was the messiah?

Question

I know that there are a group of Messianic Jews that believe he was. Why do they believe so? Also, what do mainstream Jews think about Messianic Jews? Thanks.

Answer 1

Messianic Jews, Jews for Jesus, Hebrew Christians, Completed Jews or whatever other label they use these are deemed as nothing more than Christian sects using deceitful means to convert Jews. EVERY Jewish denomination denounces these sects as Christians and nothing more. However, by Jewish law, once a Jew, always Jew- whether born or converted. Thus once a person is Jewish they are always judged by Jewish standards, and if they revert/convert to a different religion they are still considered Jewish by Jewish law. BUT, someone practising a religion other than Judaism is considered outside of the community, may not be a member of the community, receive any community honours, be a representative for the community, be buried in a Jewish cemetary, marry a Jew or be treated as a Jew for the purposes of the laws of mourning. However, since they never stop being a Jew- they merely have to repent, return to Judaism and go to mikveh in order to once again be a full member of the community.

As for Jesus- he was meaningless to the Jews then and he is meaningless to us now.

He was NOT a Rabbi. In those days only the Head of the Sanhedrin could appoint Rabbis- and it was done very rarely- and only for those who were acknowledged masters and teachers of every aspect of Judaism- Torah, Mishnah, Agadah, Sifrei, Tanakh and more. On top of it- all the Rabbis were widely acknowledged with numerous students- an example in this regard is Rabbi Akivah who had 24,000 students- an itinerant preacher with little to no following and not even recognised as a judge by the Sanhedrin would not have received smichah from the head of the Sanhedrin.

Answer 2

No, Jesus was no Messiah. If Paul/Saul had never existed then Christianity would have been a small sect of Judaism that would have faded from memory in one or two hundred years. Why do Christians think that they must save Jews from themselves. That we have to see the light unless we will go to Hell. For the last several weeks I have seen a sharp increase in the amount of Jewish questions. Most lean towards the let us convert the Jews type of question. The Jews have no missionaries. The Jews do not want any converts. In fact it can take one to two years to convert to Judaism if you can prove to the Rabbi that you have truly converted. Finally there was no CNN or Fox News back then. Most of the people never heard of him. There are no Roman or Palestinian records of Jesus that have been found. There is the common misconception that either he was a carpenter or the son of a carpenter. But G-d no way. You have to follow the rules or you can't win the game. Jesus did not follow the rules. Bill

Answer 3

Today, there are approximately 150,000 Messianic Jews in the world that we know of. That number is probably higher, because some Messianic Jews do not have access to a Messianic congregation, so they attend a Gentile congregation and therefore were not counted. Conservatively, I would think you could add another 1,000 to that number.

Messianic Jews believe Jesus (Yeshua) is Messiah because they see that He fulfilled the prophesies. While the majority of today's Jews will vehemently tell you Jesus did not fulfill them, they have very little knowledge about this subject. In my experience, most merely repeat what their Rabbis have taught them instead of doing their own research.

If you want to know why Messianic Jews believe Jesus fulfilled the prophesies, I recommend you read all four volumes of Dr. Michael L. Brown's incredible series, "Answering Jewish Objections to Jesus." Dr. Brown has debated many "anti-missionaries" who preach against Messianic Judaism. If you want to hear Dr. Brown "wipe the floor" with leading anti-missionary Rabbi Tovia Singer, you can listen to the debate here: http://www.realmessiah.com/debates.htm It's about an hour long, but VERY worth listening to. Actually, the other two discussions on that page are recommended as well.

Answer 4

If all they do is believe the messiah has already come, but otherwise follow Jewish law, they're still considered Jews. There are many messianic Jews who says the messiah was not Jesus, but some old rabbi who died a few years ago. I doubt there are many though, maybe a couple thousand.

Answer 5

Messianic Jews believe that Jesus was/is the Messiah of Israel based on the writings of the Tanakh, the Old Testament.
Jews who reject Jesus as their Messiah think of them as either misguided, or not Jews at all.

Read up on it more and you be the judge.

Answer 6

I think that most main stream Jews think that Messianic Jews are Christians. Not that there's anything wrong with that. But if you are going to belong to a certain group than do it - don't pretend that you are something else. It would be like Christians that believe in Krishna. It's just weird.

Answer 7

How Many Jews Are Christians

Answer 8

Mainstream jews think messianic jews are nothing but christians that were converts from judiasm (if I were to use some christian thinking....they were never really "true" jews in the first place).

Answer 9

Actually Messianiac Jews arent Jews at all they are christians who follow Jewish laws and worship in synagogues in an attempt to convert Jews. Real Jews do not believe Jesus was the messiah

Answer 10

If you believe in Jesus then you are not a Jew, so Messianic Jews make no sense. That is like saying you are Muslim who believes in Baha'ullah