[Hyman Roth]

A lot of people don’t understand Jesus is a Jew but he’s the central part of Christianity. I have a hard time explaining it.

[Eccl 10:2]

“A lot of people don’t understand Jesus is a Jew but he’s the central part of Christianity. I have a hard time explaining it.”

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Simply put, Jesus is the Messiah that Jews had hundreds of prophecies about in the Old Testament. Jews WANT a Messiah, but they don’t believe that Jesus is The One. Why, I don’t know.

The Old Testament, and Judaism, is all about The Law (The Ten Commandments, the first five books of The Bible, etc.). God’s plan is that we cannot get to heaven by works, or by staying true to The Law. It is impossible for humans to remain sinless. So He gave us Jesus, who atoned for all of our sins in God’s eyes, by dying on the cross. Jesus paid the penalty and atoned for all our sins.

[montag813]

A lot of people don’t understand Jesus is a Jew but he’s the central part of Christianity. I have a hard time explaining it.

Mohammed wanted so much to be a Jew that he fashioned himself a Jewish prophet, and went to the Jews of Medina with high hopes. It didn't quite work out as he expected.

[Cronos]

Jesus is God who was incarnated as a Jewish man.

Jesus fulfilled Judaism and a sect of 2nd temple Judaism was formed in 33 AD at Pentecost. This was the Jesus movement Jews, or, as theh called themselves “followers of the way of Jesus”.

They got the exonym (name given by outsiders) of Christian. The other 2nd temple Jewish sects like the Pharisees and Sadducees persecuted the Jesus movement Jews until 70 AD when, with the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, those ptyer sects died out. The Pharisee rabbi Yohanan bin Zakkai created Rabbinical Judaism after 70 AD and, after the kitis war of 116 AD (when the Rabbinical Jews committed genocide against the gentile pagans in Cyrene (Libya) and Cyprus, the Cheistians decided to completely disassociate themselves from the Rabbinical Judaism, and Jews became restricted to onky Rabbinical Judaism.

These followers were part of the universal community of Jesus. “Universal Community” translates as “Ecclesia Catholic” ie Catholic church.

[Sirius Lee]

I have a hard time explaining it.

I'd flip the script. Are Gentiles who have accepted Christ, Jews? Are Gentiles who have chosen Christ his chosen people, or not? If not, why not?

[Svartalfiar]

A lot of people don’t understand Jesus is a Jew but he’s the central part of Christianity. I have a hard time explaining it.

Catholicism is simply an offshoot of Judaism, the same way Methodists/Baptists/Lutherans/etc are offshoots from Catholicism (so Judaism is their grandparent basically). The split was around a single thing: Jew-Jews are still waiting for the Messiah, while Christians are simply Jews that believe Jesus was the Messiah.