God is Jewish if Jesus was Jewish

[Bill_Martin]

God doesn’t belong to a religion any more than your destination belongs to the road you take to get there.

Christianity is really a fulfillment of Judaism rather than a separate religion too. Most people who we would now call Christians in the years immediately after Jesus did not see themselves as a separate group. They saw it as a branch of Judaism (branch is not the right word, but close enough), albeit the completed one whereas the others missed the Messiah they had been promised. The idea of Christianity as a totally separate religion did not come until later, probably due in part to the Roman-Jewish wars that were going on and the desire for Christians to demonstrate to the Romans that they were a distinct group from the one the Romans were fighting.

 

[SonSearcher]

God is God. He doesn’t need to be pigeon holed into a religion. He is bigger than that.

We as humans become Catholic or Jewish or Muslim…so on and so forth.

We identify as Christians “little Christs”

 

[frjohnmaryt]

But seriously, we all know that Jesus the Christ was what we call “Jewish”.

So if Jesus is Lord and Jesus is Jewish, doesn’t that make God; Jewish?

God doesn’t change the days of the week, that would be man.

How Jewish understand the word Christ? Who is Christ to them then and today?

 

[paulrxp]

As Moses said he would be among the Jews, and the Jews shall do what he says. We Catholics have remained true since, and forever thankful to Moses for sharing his prophetic gifts with us given to him by God

[BIBLEDRB]Acts 3:22-23[/BIBLEDRB]

ps: use the other Bible translations, Douay Rheims can be complicated, surprised they never had a Douay Rheims for dummies book back in the day

 

[ericc]

This statement needs a lot of qualification. For one, the Romans, not the Jews, tortured and killed Jesus. As for the participation of Jews, it was a particular group, not the entire Jewish people. Statements like yours, written as is, serve no good purpose.

Agreed, not directly. Didn’t they ask Pilate to crucify him? And if you get someone to do your dirty work, aren’t they equally as guilty? By the same reckoning, only a few select Roman soldiers tortured/killed Jesus and not Pilate.

Agreed, only a particular group was guilty. My mistake to over simplify things. Notwithstanding, although I have no statistics to back me up, didn’t the majority of Jews rejected Jesus and his teachings, after his death and even now? What I was trying to emphasize to OP (and I did a terrible job at it, sorry) that race, even the chosen one, don’t mean very much.

 

[JamesCaruso]

I like your answer! I have never heard anyone say that christianity is “completed and fulfilled Judaism”.

Don’t forget, though, that Christianity marks a new covenant with God. The old covenant based on the Mosaic law was replaced with a new covenant based on Jesus Christ who had become our mediator with the Father. So, it is more than just a completion and fulfillment of Judaism, it is the beginning of something altogether new. If you remember, at first, Peter required that anyone who wanted to become a Christian to become a Jew. But Paul had gone forth as the Lord commanded him and baptized non-Jews and witnessed their infilling with the Holy Spirit from the laying on of hands. When Peter and Paul met and discussed what was happening, Peter decided that it was not necessary to become a Jew as a prerequisite to becoming a Christian. Christianity may have completed and fulfilled Judaism, but it began an altogether new religion, which today is called Catholicism.

 

[Fisha]

So, Fisha, what are you trying to prove by saying that Jesus was Jewish, and therefore God was Jewish? That you guys MESSED UP?

What exactly are you getting at?

Lmao. “That you guys MESSED UP?”
Is that a cheap shot at the Jews? Jesus was a Hebrew. duh.
And that makes God a Jew. duh.

Who would believe that Jesus was the Christ? There were all kinds of false prophets in His time. Are you going to blame people for following the Pharisees blindly? Sheeple do that too.

This is Philosophy. duh.

 

[Fisha]

God is God. He doesn’t need to be pigeon holed into a religion. He is bigger than that.

We as humans become Catholic or Jewish or Muslim…so on and so forth.

We identify as Christians “little Christs”

Amen.
As followers of Jesus +, we should walk like He walked and talk like He talked.

 

[Fisha]

How Jewish understand the word Christ? Who is Christ to them then and today?

It depends on what type of Jew you are asking. Some will say Jesus was a rabbi or prophet. A Jew today will still deny that Jesus was/is The Messiah.

Even though Christ is a Greek word, Jews and Gentiles alike will associate the word “Christ” with the Mashiach.

 

[JamesCaruso]

God doesn’t belong to a religion any more than your destination belongs to the road you take to get there.

Christianity is really a fulfillment of Judaism rather than a separate religion too. Most people who we would now call Christians in the years immediately after Jesus did not see themselves as a separate group. They saw it as a branch of Judaism (branch is not the right word, but close enough), albeit the completed one whereas the others missed the Messiah they had been promised. The idea of Christianity as a totally separate religion did not come until later, probably due in part to the Roman-Jewish wars that were going on and the desire for Christians to demonstrate to the Romans that they were a distinct group from the one the Romans were fighting.

I am not comfortable with your explanation. Paul preached to the Gentiles and thousands of them became Christian, filled with the Holy Spirit, and never once practiced any of the Jewish customs or rituals, became circumcised or became obedient to the Mosaic Law. It was Peter and the other Apostles who mainly felt that one should first become a Jew to be a follower of Jesus,

1AND some coming down from Judea, taught the brethren: That except you be circumcised after the manner of Moses, you cannot be saved. 2And when Paul and Barnabas had no small contest with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain others of the other side, should go up to the apostles and priests to Jerusalem about this question. 3They therefore being brought on their way by the church, passed through Phenice, and Samaria, relating the conversion of the Gentiles; and they caused great joy to all the brethren. 4And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received by the church, and by the apostles and ancients, declaring how great things God had done with them.

The Council at Jerusalem

5But there arose some of the sect of the Pharisees that believed, saying: They must be circumcised, and be commanded to observe the law of Moses.

6And the apostles and ancients assembled to consider of this matter. 7And when there had been much disputing, Peter, rising up, said to them: Men, brethren, you know, that in former days God made choice among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel, and believe. 8And God, who knoweth the hearts, gave testimony, giving unto them the Holy Ghost, as well as to us; 9And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. 10Now therefore, why tempt you God to put a yoke upon the necks of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear? 11But by the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe to be saved, in like manner as they also.

12And all the multitude held their peace; and they heard Barnabas and Paul telling what great signs and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them. Acts 15

 

[PRmerger]

It depends on what type of Jew you are asking. Some will say Jesus was a rabbi or prophet.

What do you say to the fact that Jesus, a Jew, said that he was the great I AM, the name reserved only for God?

 

[PRmerger]

Amen.
As followers of Jesus +, we should walk like He walked and talk like He talked.

:clapping:

Just a note of interest: the ONLY way we know how Jesus walked and talked is through the Catholic Church. It was she who discerned which of the over 400 ancient Christian texts actually have the revealed Word of God, and which were apocryphal.

 

[frjohnmaryt]

It depends on what type of Jew you are asking. Some will say Jesus was a rabbi or prophet. A Jew today will still deny that Jesus was/is The Messiah.

Even though Christ is a Greek word, Jews and Gentiles alike will associate the word “Christ” with the Mashiach.

Therefore they are still waiting for another Messiah even when the Messiah was already born among them, surprised the scribes at younger age, combated with satan in his erroneous teachings, healed so many sick people; cast out demons, restore health to the sick; lame, blind, and deaf. He perform miracles in their midst; feeding thousands with bread and fish, change water into good wine and even raise the dead so that they can see in him the love of His Father. His teachings are words of life and love. What is more surprising to the Jews then and people today is that He suffered and died once, to save all peoples - a culmination of His total sacrifice to attain salvation for humankind. He offered Himself for all. But the story did not end there, but He rose gloriously and appeared to His apostles and disciples. Then ascended into heaven as His apostles and disciples watched him with hope for the Holy Spirit to empower them and guide them as they reached out to the world spreading the same message of their Master, Lord and Messiah - (a different kind of ‘warrior’ and ‘soldier’ who delivered humankind from their slavery of sin by His Love and obedience to His Father).
I hope they understand a man who was a Jew who was sent by His Father, the God of Abraham and Isaac, Elijah and Moses to redeem the world.