[HarleyD]

No he wasn't. As far as Judaism is concerned, one can be an atheist and be a Jew, but one cannot believe in Christ and be a Jew.

The way the VERY early fathers (Peter, Paul, James, etc) looked upon it, they viewed two groups, the circumcised and the uncircumcised; the Jew and the Gentile. Gentiles are grafted into true Judaism which is based upon faith, not circumcision. It doesn't matter what "Judaism" thought.

[Quix]

The way the VERY early fathers (Peter, Paul, James, etc) looked upon it, they viewed two groups, the circumcised and the uncircumcised; the Jew and the Gentile. Gentiles are grafted into true Judaism which is based upon faith, not circumcision. It doesn't matter what "Judaism" thought.
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Now, Bro Harley . . . you KNOW Bros Peter, James and Paul had NO RIGHT to pontificate different than the GALACTIC MAGESTERICAL and GALACTIC !!!!TRADITION!!!! CENTRAL!

THEY TRUMP EVERYTHING--time, Apostles, sanity, logic, consistency, congruency, plausibility, horse sense, common sense, Scripture . . . they trump EVERYTHING!

Oh, dear . . . now I'm sounding like one of them . . . I'd better go slap my fingers.

[kosta50]

It doesn't matter what "Judaism" thought

So, now some Christian groups even decide who is a Jew and who isn't? That's a new one!