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The Birth of this Blog
I was born Jewish and have always been interested in Religion but I have never really taken the time to learn about my Religion and other Religions. The topic is certainly interesting. Therefore, I thought this Blog would be a great exercise in learning about Religion.
I plan to tackle Religious topics and just learn about them and write about them. I will never be mistaken for a scholar because I won’t go that in depth on each topic as well as being too lazy to actually spend the time that is necessary to really delve into the world of Religion. Lets face it, there are people that spend their whole lives researching and learning about Religion. I hardly have time other things in life so that certainly won’t be me.
I guess you can look at this as practically the Idiots Guide or Cliff Notes to religion because I will likely not provide much substance in my posts but just on overall summary of the topic at hand. So if you are casually interested in Religion you might enjoy this Blog.
Why the Followers of Christ are not Jewish
There is always controversy in Religion. There are many different opinions around and I understand that many believe what they think is fact. Therefore, my explanation on this topic isn’t me telling you this is fact. This is just the best answer I found to explain the reason.
Yes, Jesus was Jewish and he practiced the religion until his death. What he preached was Judaism but he also called for change within the Jewish religion. His intention was to unite the people, not to create a new religion that divided the people. After Jesus died it was his followers that developed his teachings and there was, as we all know, resistance to Jesus and his teachings by the leaders of the Jewish faith.
Emperor Constantine also sought to promote the new following of Jesus to help unite the Roman Empire. Christianity spread rapidly because of his support and some elements of Pagan faiths were also included in the religion to help spread the unity further. At this point Christianity was already moving further away from it’s Jewish roots.
Decades after his death Jesus was deified and that was the ultimate breaking point of Christianity from Judaism. In the Jewish faith it is blasphemy to state that G-d ever takes human form and Jews were forbidden to worship any human. Therefore Jews cannot embrace Jesus.
Jesus could also not be the Jewish Messiah because he did not fulfill any of the Jewish Messianic prophecies in his lifetime. The Jewish Messiah has only one “normal” human lifetime in which to fulfill all the prophecies.
This may seem like it is the Jewish perspective of this topic but that is the only perspective that really matters. If the leaders of the Jewish religion decided to accept the teachings of Jesus and alter the religion then this whole thing would have been a different...