People say that Jesus was Jewish but I thought Jewish people don't believe in Jesus ????

Question

So how could Jesus have been Jewish? Does that mean he didn't believe in himself?

Answer 1

Jesus Christ was Jewish. But the Jews rejected him....except for a few, who became his disciples and followers. The first Christians were Messianic Jews who believed Jesus Christ was the Messiah.
There are still Messianic Jews today...but they are rejected by their fellow Jews, who consider them Christians.

Answer 2

Geez.....
Jesus and his followers came from the Judaic faith. They were Jewish and most scholars believe that his followers, and he himself also thought that he was still Jewish even though he had revelation from God that changed the way he practiced his faith and beliefs.

Why couldn't he have been Jewish?? He had a revelation from the Jewish God who told him that he (Jesus) was the new law, that his death would result in the saving of the world.

Each of the three gospels which portray Jesus' death in the New Testament vary in the way Jesus believes that he is the one, that he is going to die, is the savior, etc. SO as far as him believing that he himself what the answer? Hard to say. Depends on which gospel you choose to believe.

Answer 3

everyone belives in jesus, just like evryone believes in George Washington. He was a real person. Jesus of Nazureth was a jew. The key difference between judaism and christianity is whether or not he was resurected as the messiah. Christians belive that he came back as "the savior," whjile jewish people don't believe that. while jesus was alive,(the first time,) christianity didn't even exist yet.
All of these religions are intertwined and co-mingled, take everything with a grain of salt!

Answer 4

I don't know of any Jew who doesn't believe that Jesus was a living person . Most Jews just don't believe that he was a god .
How could he have been Jewish ? By being born in a Jewish land of Jewish parents.

Answer 5

Even a cursory reading of the New Testament shows that He was very much Jewish. While most MODERN Jews don't believe He was the Messiah (although they realize that He was indeed an historical figure), all those who first followed Him were Jewish - and there's quite a few of us around even today (regardless of the claim we're not "real" Jews - oiy!)

Answer 6

You are not making any sense. Jesus was Jewish because his mother was Jewish. Since he was not the Messiah, nor the son of G-d, nor a prophet, nor a rabbi then that constitutes what Christians call "not believing in Jesus".

Answer 7

from Reasoning from the Scriptures page 211
Why did the Jews in general not accept Jesus as the Messiah?

The Encyclopedia Judaica says: "The Jews of the Roman period believed [the Messiah] would be raised up by God to break the yoke of the heathen and to reign over a restored kingdom of Israel." (Jerusalem, 1971, Vol. 11, col. 1407) They wanted liberation from the yoke of Rome. Jeswish history testifies that on the basis of the Messianic prophecy recorded at Daniel 9:24-27 there were Jews who expected the Messiah during the first century C.E. (Luke 3:15) But that prophecy also connected his coming with 'making an end of sin,' and Isaiah chapter 53 indicated that Messiah himself would die in order to make that possible. However, the Jews in general felt no need for anyone to die for their sins. They believed that they had a righteous standing with God on the basis of their descent from Abraham. Says A Rabbinic Anthology, "So great is the [merit] of Abraham that he can atone for all the vanities committed and lies uttered by Israel in this world." (London, 1938, C. Montefiore and H. Loewe, p. 676) By their rejection of jesus as Messiah, the Jews fulfilled the prophecy that had foretold regarding him: "He was despised, and we esteemed him not." ---Isaiah 53:3, JP.

Before his death, Moses foretold that the nation would turn aside from true worship and that, as a result, calamity would befall them. (Read Deuteronomy 31:27-29.) The book of Judges testifies that this occurred repeatedly. In the days of the prophet Jeremiah, national unfaithfulness led to the nation's being taken into exile in Babylon. Why did God also allow the Romans to destroy Jerusalem and its temple in 70 C.E.? Of what unfaithfullness had the nation been guilty so that God did not protect them as he had done when they put their trust in him? It was shortly before this that the had rejected Jesus as the Messiah.


Was Jesus merely a prophet whose authority was similar to that of Moses, Buddha, Muhammad, and other religious leaders? page 210

Jesus himself taught that he was the unique Son of God (John 10:36; Matt. 16:15-17), the foretold Messiah (Mark 14:61, 62), that he had a prehuman existence in heaven (John 6:38; 8:23, 58), that he would be put to death and then would be raised to life on the third day and would thereafter return to the heavens. (Matt. 16:21; John 14:2, 3) Were these claims true, and was he thus really different from all other true prophets of God and in sharp contrast to all self-styled religious leaders? The truth of the matter would be evident on the third day from his death. Did God then resurrect him from the dead, thus confirming that Jesus Christ had spoken the truth and was indeed God's unique Son? (Rom. 1:3, 4) Over 500 witnesses actually saw Jesus alive following his resurrection, and his faithful apostles were eyewitnesses as he began his ascent back to heaven and then disappeared from their view in a cloud. (1 Cor. 15:3-8; Acts 1:2, 3, 9) So thoroughly were they convinced that he had been raised from the dead that many of them risked their lives to tell others about it.---Acts 4:18-33.

Read what I have and you will at least know why.

Answer 8

No, jewish people don't believe that jesus was the messiah. They believe he existed, but that he was a prophet - same with the muslims.

Answer 9

Before Jesus there was no such thing as Christianity. Jesus preached the true faith and belief in ONE God. The Jews did not want to follow him and would rather continue following the teachings as written in their holy book Torah. They did not want to accept the Bible.

Then Mohammed came and the Christians did the same thing. Did not want to accept him as a prophet and did not want to accept the Quran.

Answer 10

Jewish ppl believe Jesus was a real person
but they dont believe he was the messiah that was prophecized in the old testemant christians believed he was