If Jesus Christ was jewish , why arent Christians jewish??

Answer 1

It was in scripture that Jesus would be rejected by his own people. There are plenty Jews who have come to find out that Jesus was indeed the Messiah. Although most Jews say he wasn't ....(or something like that)

Answer 2

What a great question!

As a new believer, I attended for a time a Jewish synagogue where the believers were Messianic Jews - Jews who believe Jesus is the Messiah. They still considered themselves entirely Jewish..................and, I thought, "Wow! What a lot of good stuff the other Christians are missing."

It's one faith...................... some Jews call themselves completed Jews............

I consider myself the same.................I observe many of the Jewish holidays as well. I don't understand why the early Christians completely left the Jewish faith - Christ fulfilled and completed it.

I suppose they felt so free of the law, etc. ..............but I think of the Old and New Testament as one Word of God and I love both traditions.

Answer 3

The Catholic Church affirms the Jewish heritage of both Jesus and Christianity, "To the Jews belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ.'

But Jesus took us to a new level. Matthew 19:17-78 states:

Now someone approached him and said, "Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?"

He answered him, "Why do you ask me about the good? There is only One who is good. If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments."

For Christians, Jesus fulfilled the Law of Moses.

Christians are not held to the ceremonial parts of the Mosaic Law concerning of dietary purity and temple worship.

Christians are held to the moral law of God, some of which is expressed in the Ten Commandments.

However Jesus took the Ten Commandments to the next step summarizing them into the two Great Commandments:
+ You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
+ You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

And teaching things like
+ Everyone who looks at a woman with lust has already committed adultery with her in his heart.
+ Everyone is our neighbor including our enemies.

Therefore we have to go much farther than the original recipients of the Ten Commandments ever dreamed.

For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, part 3, section 2: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect2.htm

With love in Christ.

Answer 4

Jesus had different ideas that led to Christianity. He was born Jewish, but did not believe in all the teachings of the Torah. What you are born as is different than what you choose to be.