Messianic Jews are Christians. And their practice is to fool Jews to think they are NOT CHRISTIANS. Their mission is to convert JEWS to CHRISTIANITY. Jews consider this dishonest and unethical.
Jews do not consider Jesus a prophet, as do Muslims. They do not consider Jesus the Son of Gd and Savior and the Messiah as Christians do.
If you consider Jesus the Messiah you are BY DEFINITION a Christian. Nothing wrong with it: own it and be honest.
Dishonesty, trickery, and deceptively converting people to Christianity is wrong.
Have there not been heretical sects through the ages, who accepted a man as Messiah or Moshiach? Were these met with violence?
Seems to me that there is far too much focus upon bad behavior directed toward Jews by religionists well after Jesus was on this earth in the flesh, and not enough upon what the man himself said and did. He was a Jew, as were his contemporary followers.
If Messianic Jews, so called, are actually being deceptive then that is not godly behavior. But, I fail to see based upon my admittedly outsider point of view, how they cannot possibly be Jewish.
Too much fixation upon “religion” and not enough upon scripture, a fair amount of which we share, that’s what it sounds like to me.
“And their practice is to fool Jews to think they are NOT CHRISTIANS. Their mission is to convert JEWS to CHRISTIANITY.”
I find it hard to reconcile these two sentences. How can you possibly convert someone to Christianity while hiding the fact that you believe in Christ?