can a semite refer to anyone else but jews?
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There are several Semitic peoples. However the term "anti-Semitic" is a term that specifically means a hatred of Jews.
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That is in the New Testament, which is irrelevant. Jews determine who is a Jew, not the Jewish wannabees.
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No because the Jews came from a very distinct family line.  It started with Abraham and then through Jacob which God later names Israel. There were many people on the Earth when Abraham was around.
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Well, then you could say since Jews are humans, all humans are Jews
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I'm not Jewish, but I know a helluva lot about them, if no actual Jewish persons offer--I'm your man.\n\nMessage me.
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Israel's definition of "Jewish" has absolutely nothing to do with religion. After WWII, in which Hitler killed Jews regardless of their religious inclinations, Jews around the world wanted a safe place for all people who considered themselves Jewish to be able to go, hence Israel. Thus, everyone whose mother is Jewish or who has converted to Judaism is eligible to be a citizen of Israel. In addition to this method of naturalization, people who become permanent residents of Israel and live there for several years and break off all ties to their former country are able to apply for citizenship, regardless of their heritage or religion.
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Or a jew, or a christian.
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Yes, only the doctrines differ slightly. Some muslims refer to Jewish and Christian peoples as "infidels", because muslims say that the Jewish and Christian peoples altered the work of God, by altering the bible from it's original form. Some Jewish people say that they are God's chosen people, while some Christians would argue that the Jewish people turned their backs on God when they called for the crucifiction of the Christ. But, that is all arguable and since I wasn't there, I will stay out of it.\nBut in summary; yes, they all worship the same God. Each had a prophet. Jewish-Moses. Christians-Jesus. Islam-Muhammed.
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He said those who claim to be Jews. To answer this we have to define what a Jew is. When the scripture was written the word Jew meant Judah. Just Judah a member of the tribe of Judah only and not all the tribes of Israel. So what he is saying is their will be those who claim to be Jews(Judahies thus Israelites) and are not but do lie. So if you are not a seed of Judah and call yourself a Jew then your a liar. This is who it's talking about, it also say HE will make them the synagogues of Satan, b/c of their false claims.
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no\nthere are three distinctions.  jews, gentiles, and the church (christians)\njews- physical desendents of abraham\nchurch- believers on Jesus as God\ngentiles (or nations)- everyone else
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""Jews" for Christ," also called, Messianic "Jews," are not Jews! \n\nMany people, Christians and some Jews as well, erroneously believe that just as one can be Black and Christian, just as one can be Oriental and Christian, one can also be Jewish and Christian. It is not true. The Jews are not a race. There is no genetic code passed from either mother or father to the child that makes that child a Jew. Even if all, or some, of the genetic code in a child could be proved to be of Jewish Origin, that would not make the child a Jew. Jewish law determines who is a Jew, and Jewish law is quite clear. If a person's mother is a Jew, and that person has not converted to another faith, then that person will be considered fully Jewish, so long as that person wishes to identify solely as a Jew. Although one cannot convert to become a member of a race, one who converts to Judaism does, indeed, become fully a Jew. Similarly, if one converts from Judaism to another faith, one is no longer a Jew.\n\nMessianic "Judaism" is a product of the successful missionizing campaign of such ministries as the "Jews" for Jesus, who try to make it look as though one can be a Jew and a Christian at the same time. BY definition, one who believes in Jesus as their savior is a Christian. One who accepts Jesus as anything other than a man who once lived, but died without doing anything the Real Messiah will do when he gets here (hence the reason for a Second Coming!), is a Christian and no longer a Jew.\n\nThe Orthodox Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, writing for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, for the National Conference of Synagogue Youth, the Orthodox Youth Group, in his book The Real Messiah, on page 21 wrote:\n\nThis brings us back to our original question: \nWhat can a Jew lose by embracing Christianity? \n\nThe answer is: Everything. \n\nChristianity negates the fundamentals of Jewish \nfaith, and one who accepts it rejects the very \nessence of Judaism. Even if he continues to keep \nall of the rituals, it is the same as if he \nabandoned Judaism completely. \n\nA Jew who accepts Christianity might call himself \na "Messianic 'Jew,'" but he is no longer a Jew. \nHe can no longer even be counted as part of a \nJewish Congregation.\n\nWe Jews define for ourselves who is and who is not a Jew, and not the Jewish wannabees, and the targets of this newest technique in missionizing Jews. \nAs a matter of fact, the majority of their members were not ever Jewish up until recently, and this is also true about their messianic ""rabbis."" Many of them change their names to something that sounds stereotypically Jewish, in order to better target those they want to convert to Christianity.\n\nAs the success of this newest technique in missionizing the less knowledgeable Jews increased, the percentage of membership of ex-Jews as members of their messianic congregations has also increased, now running about 50-50.\n\nIt is also interesting to note that a large number of people converting TO Judaism have come to real Judaism from having been exposed to Messianic ""Judaism."" \n\nWhat you should expect at a messianic congregation is that all references to Christian theology has been changed to make it sound more Jewish, and therefore more pallatable to their targets. They will only refer to Jesus as 'Yeshua' (which would not have been his name), they will say 'moshiach' instead of 'christ,' they will say 'synagogue' instead of 'church,' and on and on, in keeping with the techniques described in the book Understanding Church Growth by Donald MacGavran, who helped the idea of Indiginous Cultural Evangelism get started. \n\nThe services will sound very Jewish, usually a lot of (mispronounced) Hebrew, and prayers will have been changed to add the Christian theology of Jesus to them, again, to make the service more f
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No.\nSome Jews changed their surname when they immigrated somewhere, but generally speaking it is not a Jewish name.
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They are downright weird. The number of Jews who would actually agree with the JTF on everything could probably be counted on one hand. The JTF calls some people "race tratiors" they sound more like neo-nazis! If it were not for the fact that I know these guys are Jewish I would suspect it was someone's idea of a joke.
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A Messianic Jew is someone who is an ethnic Jew, they are descendants of Abraham, but who believes in Jesus Christ as savior.  Jew can mean two things.  It can mean someone of the religion of Judaism, or it can describe someone who is of the Jewish ethnicity.
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Hang on a minute. I thought Muslims looked to Allah and Mohammed as their Saviour/Prophet and Islam as their religion? Regardless, there is nothing on record that says Jews are the 'chosen people'. The only people who say this are Jews themselves, and these interpretations are based on THEIR interpretation of a 'Bible' written by fellow Jews...who played down their role in the execution of another Saviour of mankind. \n\nIf we all believe that the Lord/Allah/Jesus/Jehovah is our saviour (because God has many faces), we are ALL chosen people - not just one race or one nation of people and certainly not because one race of people has written a 'Book' biased in their favour...\n\nWhy ask such a stupid and ill-informed question on this board if not to provoke ill feeling?
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Just for the record: in this country, jews have notoriously helped and supported all minority groups in this country... I am jewish and know my American-Jewish history very well.\n\nYou do realize that everything you said is no better than any of those you accuse to be preaching hate and separatism?
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Jews come from all ethnic backgrounds, white, mixed, black (there is a tribe of black jews in one of the african countries)