If Jesus was Jewish, wouldn't he want everyone to be Jewish and not Christian?

Question

And not the other way around?

Does he really want people to worship him so much?

"Jesus wanted everyone to love God and fellow Man.

He never mentioned a denomination."

So does that mean Jesus would like me to be Pagan if I still believed in God?

I'm referring to the Jewish religion, not the race. There is a difference.

And Jesus was of the Jewish faith.

Answer 1

That's exactly what he wanted. He was not trying to start a new religion, but complete one that already existed. A good number of Jews did not follow him, however, so there had to be a way between those that followed Christ and those who did not. It is like what happened with Luther. He did not intend to start a new sect, but to point out what he thought was flawed with the current one. The peole that followed his teachings had to be distinguished so they were called Lutherans.

Answer 2

Good, good question :)

Jesus did live and die as a practising Jew. Christianity teaches that he stated Judaic law was no longer relevant because he 'fulfilled' it. But this makes no sense! Why would G-d, after making an eternal covenant with the Jews, then suddenly recant and claim it was no longer applicable?

Answer: Jesus never suggested that the covenant was being 'replaced'. That was an idea that developed decades after his death, by people such as Paul. Paul is surely the true founder of Christianity, and he never even met Jesus!

The only people today who truly follow the same faith as Jesus, are the Jews.

And yes, as the first person answered, we are forbidden to try and convert others. That said, people can and of course do convert to Judaism. In the Talmud it says that converts are especially dear to G-d, as they have chosen Judaism as opposed to being born into it.

If Jesus could somehow see what had happened after his death I can only imagine that he would be stunned. In Judaism, we believe that G-d NEVER takes on human form. So Christians are in fact following beliefs that Jesus would never have agreed with!

SORRY BUT I have to correct some totally MAD comments that I've just read in earlier answers.

1) You CANNOT be both Jewish and Christian. This is lunacy. Could you be both Muslim and Catholic? No? Same logic, then. Christianity contradicts most if not all of what Judaism teaches and stands for. They are mutually exclusive. Only Jewish religious law can define who is Jewish and it makes it very, very clear: once someone embraces Jesus as part divine, and as messiah, then that person is not a member of the Jewish community, they are an apostate.

2) the Jews did not murder Jesus. Only the Romans ever practised crucifixion. The Jews had no authority to demand that the Romans get rid of Jesus, and to suggest they did flies in the face of all the knowledge we have of what went on back then. The Jews had no need to want rid of Jesus; to them he was just one more young radical.

3) a person who converts to Judaism is a Jew, full stop. They are totally Jewish. There is no question of their having some weird type of 'semi Jewish' status - it simply does not happen.

I really do wish that people would not, however well meaning, answer on behalf of Judaism when they don't know the facts. It is really exasperating!

Answer 3

Your right he would want everyone to be Jewish. And we Christians are the Jews. Because not all the Jews(but most) followed Jesus, they still called themselves Jews. We had to distinguish the Jesus-following Jews and the Jesus-rejecting Jews. So the Christ-following Jews were called Christians and the non-Christ following Jews were just called Jews. But of course those who accept both of God's testaments are the true Jews.

And I'm not quite sure what your trying to say about denominations for a few reasons:

1. First and foremost paganism isn't a denomination of Christianity, if anything its a denomination of Satanism.
2. Christ did say we must follow Him to enter the Eternal Kingdom.
3. Christ established a/the denomination when he ordered Peter to be the rock of his Church and to start his Church. Peter did this, travelled to Rome, and founded the Catholic Church where he is the first Pope.

Answer 4

Jesus wanted everyone to work together to build the Kingdom of God - that is my shorthand but I hope you will know what I mean. He wasn't concerned by organisation.
But I think he would have seen his work firmly within the Jewish faith. The split came about when Paul taught that non-Jews (Gentiles) were fully accepted without circumcision although in Jerusalem there was very close relationship until it was destroyed by the Romans.

Answer 5

Jesus wanted you to believe in him and follow him. He took Judaism and changed the rules and made them more extreme. Christianity didn't start until around 300 AD. When Jesus was around, there were jewish that believed in him and jewish that didn't. In the Christian viewpoint, Christianity is Judaism only that we DO believe in Jesus as the Messiah. But now since the Jewish don't believe in Jesus, I would think that Jesus would want people to be what we call christianity today.

Answer 6

God wants people to live full, happy, rewarding, and abundant lives; it has nothing what-so-ever to do with being Jewish or Christian. And true religion is not a set of rites practiced robotically, but it is a Way of life.

Jesus wanted the Jews to act more GODLY, not become Christian -- remember, that word didn't even exist when Jesus was in the flesh.

Answer 7

The point is that He said He was the Jewish Messiah....His own people rejected Him. But He does want them to accept Him, and there are many who do - like Jews for Jesus for instance.

(And being "Jewish" is more than just physical bloodline...)

Also, Christianity is a further revelation of Judaism...that is what Jesus wanted for everyone - to have the full understanding of the Old Testament - which is only possible through Christ!

Answer 8

There is NO Jewish race. One can become a Jew by birth OR by conversion. Any children born to a converted Jewish convert is born a Jew. Jesus, the Jew, would have been appalled that anyone would worship him.
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Answer 9

Well being that Christian means "follower of Christ" this may have been a bit difficult. Up until the birth of Christ, Jews and and "Christians" were in the same religious group. Christians split off from Jews because Jews are still waiting on the Messiah and Christians believe in Christ. Thus if Christ were alive today he would have been a Christian because he would believe that he is the Messiah!

Answer 10

Jesus was an orthodox Jew from the West Bank who told his Jewish followers to keep the law from Mt. Sinai and not "change" it.