> True, but for some reason they seem completely blind to that fact.
You know the reason. They were raised to worship a dead man on a cross. You and I know how hard it was to get rid of christianity. No wonder a Torah observant Gentile is as honorable as a proper Jewish High Priest who served in the Holy Temple. We deserve it.
The Christians I know worship a Risen Christ.
Noahid is a made up thing, so your view does not surprise me.
True, but for some reason they seem completely blind to that fact.
You know the reason. They were raised to worship a dead man on a cross.
There's a little more to it than that. Fundamentalist Protestants (which you probably have very few of in your country) paint themselves into a corner where chrstianity simply has to be true or else G-d is honor bound to eternally damn every single human being who will ever live. This is why historical chrstianity (Catholicism, Orthodoxy, etc.) to them is no different from Judaism: they all insist on human participation whereas Fundamentalist Protestantism insists on salvation via legal loophole and nothing else.
As to why the more ancient chrstians are so addicted to the religion, I honestly can't say. Growing up a Fundamentalist Protestant, the only difference I've ever seen in the Jewish ceremonial and the chrstian one is that the former is explicitly from G-d and the latter was made up by people. But Catholics/Orthodox nevertheless seem to think that the latter somehow is "self-evidently" an improvement over the former--which is impossible.
Fun fact: Catholics and Orthodox attack us for "thinking we don't need Chr*st." Yet Fundamentalist Protestants attack them for the same thing because they (Catholics and Orthodox) have to have their "salvation" mediated to them through secondary instrumentalities. To Fundamentalist Protestants, belief in secondary instrumentalities is simply another form of idolatry.
You and I know how hard it was to get rid of christianity.
And even when you get rid of it you're still stuck with it. It is no accident that the sick, materialistic "west" coincides with what used to be "chrstendom." The "west" went from chrstian "theocracy" to an inverted chrstian "theocracy" (where all positions are determined by simply taking the opposite stance to the traditional chrstian ones in all areas). The Left rebels against chrstianity because it's the only religion it takes seriously. Members of other religions to them are just more "dissidents" and rebels, no different than homosexuals.
No wonder a Torah observant Gentile is as honorable as a proper Jewish High Priest who served in the Holy Temple. We deserve it.
Unfortunately, I ain't there yet. I still have a lot of problems I'm trying to work through. Pirqei-'Avot says if one's "wisdom" exceeds ones good deeds one's "wisdom" will not stand. Unfortunately, I'm more light than heat. But I tell myself it's better than doing absolutely nothing.
“For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, 23but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, 24but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.”
Thanks for proving St. Paul correct, lol.
Maybe that's what it appears to those who use Catholicism as their primary example of Christianity, but the Savior I worship rose from the dead and is seated at the right hand of the Father in heaven.