You can love the Jews as a Christian, but there is no reason to also proclaim yourself as a Jew, too. You aren’t. That is why Paul was commissioned by Jesus to go to the Gentiles and proclaim the Gospel. There was no requirement to adhere to the cultural and religious practices of the Jews to be a Christian. That truly was Good News for us former pagans.
Paul proclaimed to the pagan he could become one with The People through Christ with no cultural intermediary - no circumcision, no kosher diet, no adherence to the Law.
He did not deny Judaism to the follower of Christ. Nor was he establishing a new religion apart from Judaism.
The Cooperate Church of America speaks once more! Do you think I have come to put away Torah ? No but to complete the prophecy’s. Meaning all that has been told to you by the Prophets has come true in your hearing. Not 4ooo years of history and G_Ds word have disappeared. There is every requirement to follow the Torah and the words of Yeshua. G-D said these are my Feasts and Holy Days and you are to worship me in this way. He said to follow my rules on what you eat and don’t eat. Look at it as when G.M. tells you how to take care of your new car. If you don’t change the oil and do the service it will stop working. Neither Jew nor Gentile but a Third race.
>> “You can love the Jews as a Christian, but there is no reason to also proclaim yourself as a Jew, too. You aren’t. That is why Paul was commissioned by Jesus to go to the Gentiles and proclaim the Gospel” <<
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Allow me to cut through your confusion.
Yeshua said “I am not sent but to the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel.”
The “Gentiles” to whom Paul preached were a special kind of gentile; the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel, primarily, and a few Greeks and Romans that had attached themselves to those congregations.
Perhaps you think that those dispersed Hebrews could not be gentiles? Not so! A gentile is one that is “out of covenant” or uncircumcised, both of which describe the dispersed Hebrews accurately.
Perhaps Louis erred slightly in calling himself a “Jew,” rather than a Hebrew, but his concept is accurate. All that follow Yeshua, and keep his commandments are Israel. This is the main point that Paul was attempting to communicate in his epistle to the Romans.
>> “There was no requirement to adhere to the cultural and religious practices of the Jews to be a Christian.” <<
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That is a false statement. Those that think that they are following Yeshua, but are not keeping his commandments as he so often begged them, are deluded, and will find themselves at the wrong end of the words spoken by Yeshua in Matthew 7:23.
To “believe” in someone in the sense that the word is used in the Bible, requires that one keep all of their teachings and commandments.