If jews where christians 2000 years how come today there is a separation between christianty and judiasm?

Answer 1

Because Jews weren't Xians 2000 years ago, they were Jews. Some Xians were Jews up until the point that JC was declared a god and such--then pretty much all the followers (and some deluded Jews) were gentiles

Answer 2

Jews weren't Christian 2000 years ago. You got it backwards. Christians were Jews 2000 years ago.

To answer your question, the separtation was due to Jesus's life, which was such a transformative event (whether or not he really was a god) that it caused some Jews to break away from Judaism.

Initially, it wasnt a big deal, after all, there were many different ways of practicing Judaism at the time. However, after several decades, it became more serious.

Jesus's disciples were dying off, and his teachings went with them. So there was a rush to write everything down, whatever could be remembered from whomever could remember it. The resulting resurgence in the faith became a threat to other groups, but it also caused a difference in belief within the christian community.

This was because some of the writings contradicted each other. Also, some of them didnt upohold the various beliefs about Jesus and his teachings which evolved after his death.

Christian communities started distancing themselves from Judaism and from other christian communities with different beliefs. Each community had a collection of acceptable doctrines. All this happened within a the first hundred years after his death.

In 382 AD, Pope Damascus I decided to consolidate Christian beliefs into one, unified standard. All the existing manuscripts on Jesus's teachings were collected, analyzed, and determined to be sanctioned or heretical scripture by a board of members appointed by the Pope. Approved doctrines were combined into the Bible. Others were destroyed to prevent them from being used in the future.

And that is a brief history of early Christianity.

Answer 3

The Hebrews that were converted to the new Law, and "saved" or baptized, were opposed to those that still followed the old Law. The new Christians were viewed as having sold their heritage in exchange for personal safety during a time of social strife. This in effect may have created a rift, because of persecution by the State.
Of course this is over-simplifying a complicated historical event.
The fact is though that at the time, there was no term "Christianity" such as we have today. What later became known as Christian, were Jews who followed the teaching of the Christ (messianic term) because they believed Jesus to be the Messiah.
One way to illustrate the answer is: All cognac is brandy, but not all brandy is cognac.

Answer 4

Because Jews believe that God is One. The belief that God would become human is the ultimate heresy! It wasn't the Jews who converted to Christianity -- it was the Romans -- as in ROMAN Catholic Church.

From "Judaism for Everyone" by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach:
…Jews felt that, in Christianity, their core teachings had been perverted and abused. They read some of the New Testament’s insidious attacks against them and wondered how a book claiming divine authorship can be so blatantly anti-Semitic. Although Christianity stemmed from Jewish origin, it took the concept of the Jewish God and associated it with a man; took the concept of sacrifice and associated it with a human sacrifice. Christianity took their cherished Torah and said that it had been superseded by a new testament. And finally, it took the concept of the chosen nation itself, claimed that the Jews had been abandoned by God, and called themselves the new Israel. Jews reacted with outrage. The Jews withdrew from mainstream Christian society. Christians’ burning Jews at the stake as heretics would do little to make them draw closer.
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Answer 5

What!? The majority of followers of Christianity have always been non-Jews and for good reason. Jews then, as Jews now, have no good reason to give up their traditions. There has always been a separation between Judaism and Christianity, but it was Christianity that departed from the traditions of its fathers, abandoning even what Jesus would have followed in his day. More Jews have died upholding their traditions than Christians trying to properly follow their own.

Answer 6

This is true that Jews were Christians and the difference is that the Jewish people did not believe that Jesus was the Messiah and that is were the two different religions were formed. Both believe in God but Christians believe the Messiah has already come (Jesus) and the Jews believe the Messiah is yet to come.

Answer 7

Arrogance, misinterpretation, ignorance and no desire to reconcile differences. All characteristics of the human EGO. If we would all just completely face God and dissolve our differences in Him then we would have no separation....

It's like a Judge in a courtroom. We are the congregation, He is the Judge. We are quarreling amongst ourselves(nobody can hear Him, cause we are all speaking SO loudly;figuratively) and actually taking His job from Him(He is the Judge.....but He is ever Patient and lets us to quarrel, cause He gives us freedom of choice. And it is up to us to decide whether or not this freedom of choice is really serving us. If we just had ORDER IN THE COURT and listened intently (quiet our mind)in reverance then He would show us how to live in Harmony. But we all need to SHUT UP and listen.......That is how we can all live with God's Peace... The peace of Jesus and all the Prophets....

Separation is the Grand Illusion, we are all really United as One in the deep way, in our hearts, in His Reality, as we will all return to face our final Judgement in the Last Day......WE are the same people regardless of what we believe....We have the same Creator, the same Fashioner and to Him alone we shall return. We are judged today and everyday..this is why it is important to live His way now and follow the Truth....Listen to what He is saying...LOVE EACH OTHER with MY LOVE......once and FOR ALL......

Answer 8

You seem to be confused. There was mainly the Jewish faith, as well as other beliefs in that time period. The movement that began with Jesus and his apostles began the "Christian" faith, which was still in the minority in those times. Some believed in the new faith, others stayed with the old Judaic faith being that they did'nt believe that Jesus was the messiah. This difference persists up to today. As far as the modern Jewish belief goes, the messiah has'nt arrived yet.

Answer 9

Well, many Jews did not believe that Jesus was the son of God and so, held on to their old religious beliefs. Most Jews believe that Jesus lived and died as told in the Bible, though.

And most Jews believe that there is a Messiah, but that he has yet to come.

Answer 10

Christians were jews actually. The religions separated when jews didn't accept Jesus to be the Messiah