I put this in a gd thread that was already started, and afterward I figured I’d probably get a better response from gq…so here goes, Jesus was Jewish. How can people who call themselves Christian (i.e. Baptist, Catholic, etc.) worship Jesus who was Jewish. It seems to me that if you are going to worship somebody, you should have the same beliefs of that person. Not trying to piss anyone off, just looking for a good answer that i’m sure i’m not seeing.
Jesus was indeed Jewish, and his apostles and the people who worshipped him as the Messiah were Jews as well. But most Jews at the time he was around rejected him as the Messiah, and so eventually the Jews who worshipped Jesus became a seperate religion.
That’s the simple version, anyway.
Why don’t you make sure you don’t get any good responses from GD first, before you start another thread? You only posted that question five minutes ago.
Jesus was the founder of Christianity. He had to be some other religion (or no religion at all) before he made Christianity a religion. Those who believe Jesus was God in human form, I believe are calling him Jewish out of ancestry, not belief.
If you accept the Bible’s take on it, Jesus also believed that he was the son of God, and was sent to cleanse the sins of humanity. Christians share this belief.
Well, as I understand it it’s because Christians believe that Jesus, while he was Jewish, preached a new set of beliefs that replaced Judaism as “correct” (or at least made them evident). So the idea is that Jesus would believe more of what Christians believe than what Jews believe.
I’m not sure what you’re asking. I think you’re suggesting that the people who worship Jesus ought to be following mainstream Judaism, just like Jesus did.
If that’s what you’re asking, then your error is in presuming that Jesus did in fact follow mainstream Judaism. He did not.
Jesus broke off from mainstream Judaism. His beliefs were sufficiently different from that of many other Jews that it got him into a certain amount of unpopularity with those other Jews. (Whether he was “more correct” or they were “more correct” is off-topic for this thread, and belongs in GD. For this thread, it is sufficient to point out that the views were different.) Those beliefs which Jesus had got expanded and developed after his death by many others.
In the first decades, this set of beliefs was regarded as a version of Judaism. Eventually, the core group gave up on trying to spread their views among other Jews, and they turned their efforts toward spreading it among non-Jews. I think it was around that time that Christianity started to be known as a distinct religion from Judaism.
x-ray…after half an hour of waiting, i’ve received 5 responses in GQ…0 in GD…so I was indeed correct, no need to be a meanie
Waiting half an hour for a response is not a terribly long time on this board. Some questions can take many hours to be addressed.
You’ve asked an essentially GD question. The core of your question is not the factual, “Was Jesus Jewish?” but the more debatable, “If you worship a Jew, shouldn’t you be Jewish?”
The GQ answer to that is ‘no’ - there is no particular rule that requires followers to be of the same religion as those they worship. The reasons that it might make sense to be, or not to be, are GD material. The factual answer to your question is ‘no’.
I agree with Bricker. Jews do not worship Jesus. Christians do. That is the factual answer. The rest is a Great Debate.
This is closed.
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