If Jesus was a Jew...

[jollygreen]

And Christians believe this (because it says so in the bible), why aren't all Christians Jewish?

Naive question maybe but I really don't know the answer. Is it just because the men don't want to be circumcised? or do you all like your pork sausages? ;-)

[Theland]

Luna - Enjoy your well earned rest, recharge the batteries. Now how will you do that? What are your plans? Wine women and song, and then another song?

[naomi24]

Theland, perhaps Paul didn't see it as deception - perhaps he, himself, was deluded. Have you considered that? You could ask why any of those who found new religions do it. We've been talking about Joseph Smith on another thread. He claimed to have met and spoken to an angel several times, but despite the huge following his newly founded religion has managed to accumulate in a relatively short space of time, you ridicule him. Why? If you believe the words of a man from 2000 years ago, who wasn't an eye witness, and you are well aware that the doctrine of the church was agreed upon by committees of men centuries after the event, why don't you believe someone who claims to have experienced religious revelations that apply to your god and to your messiah less than 200 years ago? How do you differentiate?

[luna-tic]

Is it a belief based in fact or a fact based on belief?

[Theland]

Paul believed that he had encountered God on the road to Damascus. That encounter certainly changed him to the complete opposite to what he was before. He then went on to suffer incredibly for his new found belief in Jesus Christ.
His belief was well founded, in the Son of the one true living God. We have the benefit of looking back over time to see if the prophecies made came true, and they have done so, and continue to be fulfilled in our day. Therefore, Paul was not deluded, as had he been, he would have been putting his faith in a prophet who was false. Jesus was not a false prophet.
Look again at the prophecies He made and tell me which ones are erronious?

[ixychip1001A]

Jesus (Jehuda Ben Miriam) never said he was a. The Messiah b.The son of G-d...different things by the way.

He said 'My Father in Heaven' (later used by some but by no means all, others to bestow divinity on Jesus) but the problem with that statement ...as with 'i am the way the truth and the life' is that they are what you would expect to hear from any observant Jew.

Jewish law is a way of life and an observant person is held up as an example of the way to be close to God...Jesus is regarded as a mystic teacher and in effect, a Rabbi/Rebbe.
Observant Jews (like Muslims) are not supposed to say the name of G-d because it is blasphemy...so say Hashem or Eloheim ect meaning....dah dah dahhh!!!

'My Father in Heaven'

So yes Christians, You have your religious origins in Judaism and are in effect Jewish provided you believe in and try to be close to G-d...not Jesus. Ok?