if jesus was jewish, why are there christians?
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The first Christians was Messianic Jews, a very small jewish cult.  it wasn't until several decades later that the messianic jews started to call themselves Christian.\nMessianic Jews still exist today and they worship Christ but follow the old Jewish ways.  Christians don't follow the old jewish ways!
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Because the orgin of Jewish hatered stems from the cruxcifixion of Jesus Christ.  In the Bible, the Book of Matthew, Jesus told us that the world would hate us because we are like him. He wasn't talking about being Jewish but being Christian.  However, the Jewish people in the Bible are the ones who hung Jesus to the cross. Some of the hatered comes from the Jewish belief that Jesus was just a man and not the son of God.  Others come from the secret control of entites in the Amercian and global business world.  It is never right to hate, but it happens.\n\n\nHope this helps.
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Jews are still waiting for their Messiah to come.  They don't believe that Jesus is the Messiah because supposedly the guard that was watching Jesus' coffin was busy doing something else when Jesus was taken up to Heaven by an angel.  They don't believe that Jesus died for our sins and that is why they only go by the Old Testament.
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Judaism does not accept that Jesus was the son of god or the Messiah. They do not accept the New Testament as the word of God. \n\nThere have been and are Christian Jews most notably Jesus himself, the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene and the 12 Apostles. Christianity began as a Jewish sect.
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The Jews of Jesus' Time were looking for a Deliverer King, who would drive Israel's enemy's out of Israel. Jesus came as a Suffering Servant, to show them what being God's Chosen really meant.\n\nGod's intention with Israel was for them to be a Light to the Gentile Nations, representing Him to the World. Unfortunately they failed in this. With Christ's,(Messiah's), coming the door to the Gentiles was opened.\n\nThe Church is ,"The Wild Olive Branch grafted into The Cultivated Olive Tree..." We have not replaced Israel, but we are Spiritually Israel. Israel remains The Root of Christianity.\n\nWhy did the Jews miss all the Old Testament Prophecies ? Their Leaders did not ! They KNEW who Jesus was, and rejected Him for the above reason. I have not personally counted, but I have read that there are over 700 Messianic Prophecies in The Old Testament.\n\nTrust me. The Day is coming when Israel will recognize who their Messiah is, and turn to Him ! They will weep for Him as one weeps for one of their own children.  Israel will be Saved.
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no, all christians donot have jewish roots. the christian faith does. jesus was born jewish and raised jewish  and had followers from the jewish faith.   basically,  christians have converts from the begining and some were jewish and some were pagan and there are and where others.
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nope, not at all. jesus is not part of our theology or teaching. he might have (historically) been a jew who wanted to reform judaism, or he might have been a trouble maker who coopted certain mysitical jewish practices. but he was unimportant to judaism and he remains so.\n\nand btw, judaism does not teach that he was a prophet AT ALL.
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If Christians came from Jews, why are there still Jews around but no Mithraists?
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WELL I AM JEWISH AND I BELIEVE THERE IS A GOD BUT FOR THE CHRISTIANS BELIEF ON JESUS.. WELL I DO NOT HAVE A CLUE
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Well, because Jesus isn't God himself.  Though that certainly is a very hard question, one that many have pondered over.  This was awful, why weren't more saved?  And it wasn't just Jews that died in the concentration camps, it was also people who were disabled or coloured, or basically not liked that weren't "aryan".  The Jews are the "chosen ones" and Jesus himself was a Jew.  So the only thing I can say would be there must have been some awfully huge cosmic lesson needed to mankind for God to not intervene sooner.  Or maybe he did, but just in smaller ways.
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The Jews are and always will be God's chosen people. Unfortunately because of this, the powers of spiritual darkness in the world have targeted Judaism for that very reason. As a Christian, I for one have to say thank you, you have given us the Patriarchs as an example. God Bless you.
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Jesus was not killed by the Jews. He gave His life willingly as a sacrifice for sin. This was prophesied and fufilled. The Jews rejected their Messiah, yes. But this was also prophesied to happen. The Jews will be redeamed and saved in the end. This is also prophesied and illustrated in Romans. It is very important that you read 17 verses further...\n\nRomans 11:25\nFor I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.\n\nOnce the number of gentiles is come in, God will remove the blinders from Israel.\n___________________________\nSorry, I always want to make that point regarding who killed Jesus. Just want to get it straight. ;)\n\nAs to your detail, Christians should NEVER ignore the Jewish people. They should take great interest in, for example, their Seders. I even did an interesting study on it. http://tinyurl.com/nchkw\nI have always been a proSemitic. I also designed the Holyland Virtual Tour CD. I have been to Israel 3 times (working on 4) and always encourage people to tour there. You will learn so much about the Jewish people there without media bias to poison what you see. I encourage my kids to bless the Jewish people whenever they can. The Jewish people have come to realize they have only one true friend who has stood by them through thick and thin... the evangelical Christian. It perplexes them, but they appreciate it with tears. And I appreciate them and all of the incredible benefits they have developed for our world in medicine, technology and agriculture. Too many benefits to list here.
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Although Arabs, Jews and other Semitic people of the middle east are closely related, Jesus was not a Jew, either ethnically or linguistically. Jesus would have been much akin to a Sephardic Jew of today.\n\nAnd yes, I believe Jesus would find much to object in our governments and behaviours of today. One need only read the red letter sections of the Bible to see he really is at odds with the politicians we vote for, as well as the way we conduct ourselves.\n\nRepentence and humility should be our response. What else can we do?
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Messianic Jews and Jewish Christians are essentially the same entities, but they are certainly not oxymorons. The Old Testament, or Hebrew Scriptures as Jews call it, prophesies about a coming savior who Christians believe is Jesus Christ. However, traditional Jewish thinking does not accept Jesus as this savior, nor does it accept the New Testament. There is a small amount of Jews, however, that do believe Jesus is the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecy, hence the name "messianic" (as in messiah aka savior). Basically, the messianic Jew who practices his/her religion will most likely adhere to the traditions and beliefs of the Jewish faith with the exception of believing that Jesus is the savior from the Old Testament. It's just like Judaism, adding the fulfillment of prophecy of Jesus Christ into the faith.
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Yes, Jesus was Jewish until He fulfilled the Old Law and brought in the New Law, which we call Christianity because we accepted Him as the Christ. The New Law allows us to eat pork, which was formerly forbidden.\nMy family happens to eat Tamales for Christmas. Yum! Our ancestors were from Castile, Spain, so that is our tradition.
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For all - let's get our facts straight. Christianity evoloved out of Jewism. Jesus was a Jew and the Isrealites were Jews. Christianity evolved from this. We are NOT all decendants of Adam and Eve - the Isrealites were. Were the other white people come from  is a mystery. There were some angles outside the garden and  what other people there were - we don't have an idea. I don't beleive in evolution but are also having a hard time believing creation. So who were outside the garden..maybe the animals and who created them...no idea
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Followers of Judaism reject both the Christian belief that Jesus was the Messiah and the Muslim belief that he was a prophet. Judaism states that there were no prophets after the prophet Malachi, and still awaits the coming of the Messiah. Jewish belief does not completely reject all of the historical information contained in Gospels, but does reject all of the confessions by early Christian adherents, especially Paul.\n\nChristianity diverged from Judaism in the first century AD: for this reason, the Jewish view of Jesus is important for a historical understanding of Christianity's initial reception. The first Christians were Jews, and, as far as is known, subscribed to Jewish beliefs and practices common at the time. Among these was a belief that a messiah—a descendant of King David—would restore the monarchy and Jewish independence.