From whom do Christians origin?

Question

Most Christians are of Genntile origin, what else can you tell me?

Answer 1

Christians have no specific racial or national origin. The first to hear the Christian message were Jews. But when it was rejected by the majority of Jewish leaders, the message was preached instead to Gentiles by the apostle Paul. His first converts were in western Asia and modern day Greek.

From there, Christianity would spread across the Roman Empire - most of Europe and the northen half of Africa. It would also travel into eastern Asia, with churches in India and China that can trace their origin back to the first century AD. It would eventually be carried by Europeans to the America when they were discovered. Its strongest hold is still in the Americas and Europe.

Christianity is not based on a racial heritage, but rather on a belief in the person Jesus the Christ. That faith is open to anyone of any national origin.

Much of the Christian faith is drawn from the Jewish faith. In fact, they share much of the same scriptures. The Christian called it the Old Testament. But the Christians teach that Jesus opened the faith up to all nations, while the Jews still limit it to their race. (Although anyone can become a Jew through circumcision for male, or marriage for females.) When Jesus opened the religion, he also removed the rituals and sacrifices that are still practices by most Jews. The Christian scriptures teaches that the rituals were pictures to point to Christ. Once he had come and fulfilled them, they were no longer needed.

The Christians have added to the Jewish scriptures what is called the New Testament. It includes four biographies (gospels) of Jesus, a history of the early church (Acts), and several letters written by Paul, Peter, John and other early church leaders that explain Christian theology and answer the questions being asked by the first century Christians.

Answer 2

The very first Christians were Jewish (Jesus's disciples.) Since then though Christianity has spread so far and wide that there is not particular nationality or ethnic group that you can say Christians come from. It's a religion for all people.

Answer 3

I thought Christians originated from the Jewish people...but hey what do I know...

The term Gentile refers to anyone who is not Jewish, so I guess most Jews today would/could refer to Chriatians as Gentiles.

Answer 4

Actually being Portuguese my entire genetic makup is Sephardic Jew, Arabic and North African. Not technically a Gentile because of the Jewish thing and definatly not what most fundie Christians would consider a gentile.

Answer 5

Umm... is this a language barrier or something? I don't understand what you're talking about. Christianity is a branch off Judaism. But everyone knows that.

Answer 6

Christians are follows of Christ whom it originated from. Many people call themselves( christian ) but are far from Christ. Christ talked about theses in the Bible

Answer 7

Well, the Christian faith comes from the Jews... GO ISRAEL!!! There are some Christians who were Jews, but those are rare.

Answer 8

Paul created Christians as we know them.

He did this because he was Roman and Jewish, and needed to make a way for his Roman friends to get to heaven.

Answer 9

according to them: adam and eve
according to science: primordial sludge

i vote for the sludge : )

Answer 10

Nothing.