Judeo Christian Beliefs And Practices

Who Are Judeo-Christians and What Practise They Believe?

What is all of this about being Judeo-Christian? How can someone be a Jew and a Christian at the same time? And why would a Christian be a Jew? These are all expert questions, and they each have a good respond.

What'south in a Proper noun?

If you lot are a Christian, your faith is based upon the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the Scriptures surrounding them. Your Savior is the Male monarch of the Jews, Yeshua (Jesus) HaMashiach (the Messiah, Christ in the Greek). This is our foundation. This is what we are built upon.

The body of Messiah began with all Jewish believers. The disciples were all Jewish, and the outset congregation of believers was Jewish, 3 thousand alone coming to belief in Yeshua on the twenty-four hour period of Pentecost. The outset believers did not follow a pope, merely James the brother of Yeshua; and they were non located in Rome, only in Jerusalem. Believers in Yeshua were a sect of Judaism and they went to the synagogue and they remained practicing Jews, assertive in their Messiah Yeshua, and this was all after the Resurrection. So you see, a Jewish person can be a believer, and throughout the centuries in that location have been many Jewish people who were too believers in the Jewish Messiah Yeshua.

What Happened to the Jewish Messiah Yeshua?

Well, other than it beingness a long story (centuries long), church history is far from hidden. But today, many believers do non know how we got hither. As Roman persecution came throughout the years, many Gentile believers did not desire to be associated with their Jewish brothers, so they distanced themselves from Judaism and the Jewishness of the Bible. Many of the church fathers began to teach this separation first by anti-Judaism rhetoric, which so turned to anti-Jewish rhetoric. And so they taught replacement theory, which is that the church building (the Gentile place of worship) and the Gentile believers replaced the Jews and the synagogue.

But a lot has to do with anti-Semitism. Quite frankly, nosotros simply did not want to be associated with the Jewish people. In fact, we wanted to be better than the Jews, because we defendant them of killing Jesus. We now had all the blessings of God, and the Jewish people, the chosen people of God, were no longer His people. Nosotros changed His name, Yeshua, to Jesus to conform with the Greco-Roman globe. Many believers today do non fifty-fifty realize that Jesus (Yeshua) was a practicing Orthodox Jew. He kept the seventh day (Saturday) Sabbath (Genesis 2:1-3, Luke four:14-21, vi:5-6, xiii:10) and all of the rest of God'southward Appointed Times (Leviticus 23): Passover, Unleavened Staff of life (Luke 22), Pentecost, Trumpets, the Twenty-four hour period of Atonement, and Tabernacles (John seven:1-two, 37). He even kept Hanukkah (John 10:22-23). He wore a prayer shawl and went to the synagogue and paid the Temple tax. We stripped Him of His roots and we toppled our foundation. We called the Hebrew Scriptures old and obsolete, and we chosen the Apostolic Scriptures new and but for believers. We became anti-Torah, or as Paul used the term, Lawless.

We lost our identity, our foundation, our whole purpose for why nosotros exist, and we likewise changed the Biblical Gospel message (which has to do with the true work of the Messiah in regards to State of israel) into a Salvation just message (see our teaching on the good news). In doing all of this, we have recreated a Messiah that looks more than Western than Middle Eastern. The Church replaced the Synagogue and Rome replaced Jerusalem. Only Paul makes information technology quite clear that we have been grafted into Israel and they support us, not the other way around (Romans 11:17-nineteen).

People believe that Paul was 1 of these church fathers that condemned Judaism, simply in fact, He boldly said, "I AM a Pharisee," a Hebrew of Hebrews (Philippians 3:5)! He said the Law (Torah) is holy (Romans 7:12). In fact, Yeshua Himself said inMatthew v:17-19,"I did not come up to do away with the Torah merely to fulfill it." Now, what we do not understand (because we have not been taught to understand) is that Yeshua was Jewish and that He kept the Torah because He was the living Torah, the Word made mankind. And then what is the Torah? Let'due south take a closer look.

The Torah

The Torah is the first five books of the Bible. Information technology was written downward by Moses as God gave him the revelation on the mountain at the same time He gave him the Ten Commandments. Nosotros believers accept the book of Genesis, just for the most function we practice non interest ourselves with the rest. The book of Exodus speaks of the deliverance of Israel from slavery and bondage from the Egyptians, the edifice of the tabernacle, and the giving of God'due south commands. Leviticus speaks of the sacrifices and God's Appointed Times. Numbers speaks of the wanderings of Israel for forty years, but information technology also shows the states the difference between those who believed God and those who rebelled. The last volume, the book of Deuteronomy, speaks of the Torah equally a whole, similar a recap. But hither we see that the Torah is written out like an ancient covenant or treaty of its day between God the King and State of israel His people. It is also washed similar a Ketubah, which is a Jewish wedding ceremony contract.

And then that is a short summary of the Torah. In time, we volition take a closer expect at these books.

Should Christians Get Jewish?

And so if Yeshua was Jewish, and the early believers were all Jewish, does that mean that we need to become Jewish? Practise you accept to be Jewish to be a Judeo-Christian? NO! Judeo-Christians believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Nosotros besides believe in Yeshua (Jesus), who is the Messiah of Israel. Yes, Yeshua is the Messiah of Israel, and He volition fulfill all the Scriptures that accept been prophesied about Him concerning Israel. As Judeo-Christians, we also accept our beliefs in the Scriptures of Israel, the Creation, all of the books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, the X Commandments, the Psalms, and the Prophets. We are the simply people who believe this way.

Paul's message to the Gentiles was very clear: Gentiles did not need to become Jewish. Now, what Paul meant was that Gentiles did not need to become ceremonially Jewish, that is, the works (circumcision, sacrifice, and Mikvah) required of them to actually become a proselyte Jew. Paul did not mean that a Gentile could not keep Sabbath or God's Appointed Times, for we see that even at the giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai there were those non-Jews who went out of Egypt with Israel, and they were chosen God-fearers. God-fearers were those who believed in the one true living God, the God of Israel (Leviticus 24:22, Numbers 9:14, xv:14-16). We come across in the Gospels (Luke 7:1-v) when the Centurion asked Yeshua (Jesus) to heal his slave, the people tell Yeshua that this human being loves the nation of Israel and helped build their Synagogue. We as well see Peter with Cornelius inActs 10:1-4,just to mention a few. Keeping God'south Word does not brand you lot Jewish; what information technology does brand you is a kid of God. God'south word is ane but as He is one, and nosotros must not call God's discussion old or obsolete. What we exercise need to call it is holy, and we need to embrace it considering Yeshua is the Give-and-take of God made mankind, that same word that created the world into beingness, that same Give-and-take that died for our sins. A Judeo-Christian is one who believes in the whole counsel of God and lives past it; for Yeshua tells us if nosotros dear Him, we will keep God's Commands.

And then That's Why We Do That!

As Judeo-Christians, nosotros may think that how nosotros worship is unique to us, but we are going to look at how the church, mainly the Catholic church, took their cue from the Jewish synagogue. So let's take a closer look at what is like between the two.

We see Jewish men wear prayer shawls, and most of them have a stitched collar around it like a stole; the priest wears his vestments with a stole.

A Jewish man will wear a caput roofing chosen a kippa; many priestly orders, monsignors, and even the pope wear a skull cap.

The Jewish people call their teacher Rabbi; we call ours Pastor. Jewish people use a prayer book called a Siddur in which they recite their prayers; believers as well use a prayer book to recite their prayers. The Jewish worship service reads a portion each week from the Torah coil. Before Yeshua'due south day, the reading cycle went from a three yr bike to a one year bike. In the Catholic church, they read from the lectern, and they nevertheless use a three year cycle. They both read from a podium, and they both bless the readers who accept come up up to read. In Yeshua'southward day, nosotros read of the sanhedrin, a group of men who fabricated decisions based upon their behavior. The Catholic church has the Quango of the Cardinals who assemble in Rome. The Jewish worship includes songs and times of fasting. The Catholic church also sings songs and has times of fasting. The Jews say a prayer chosen the Amidah, and we say the aforementioned prayer in a shortened version called the Lord's prayer. The Jewish people say prayers iii times a day, and the church building would ring their steeple bells in accordance to those three times, for they besides would say prayers. The Jewish people take the X Commandments as their moral code, so exercise we. They accept baptism, Communion, banquet days, and they believe in the Messiah, all things nosotros accept in mutual. And so let's now take a closer expect at what is different betwixt the 2.

First, I want to look at two Scriptures.Romans 3:ane-two says, "And then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God."Romans 9:four tells usa, "…who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption equally sons and the celebrity and the covenants and the giving of the Torah and the temple service and the promises." Now I point this out first considering nosotros take not been taught according to God's Discussion, but according to the flesh of men; our baptism came from the Jewish practice of immersing oneself in water. This is what the Greek give-and-take "baptizo" means, "to immerse." The Jewish custom of the Mikvah is a ritual cleansing where i submerges in water for religious purification and holiness. One might immerse before Sabbath or a feast day or even before marriage; Yeshua (Jesus) did not brainstorm this exercise. John baptised for repentance, not for salvation or to vest to any given faith.

Our communion is taken right from the Passover Seder. The Matza which Yeshua bankrupt is chosen theafikoman. It is broken in half, and one-half is wrapped in a white cloth and subconscious till later on in the meal. This is what Yeshua lifted up and said it represented His body, and the loving cup that He lifted up was called the cup of Redemption, one of four cups in the Seder meal. Yeshua tells us that when we practice this, the Seder, in its context, nosotros need to recall Him. Yeshua did not beginning a new practise. We gloat feast days, or holy days, but they are not Biblical days. These man-made feast days and holy days are not what God has told us to keep.Leviticus 23 speaks of these days, and equally you read through information technology, yous will encounter that these feast days include the sojourner who is in the midst of the Jews. These sojourners were chosen God-Fearers, for they were Gentiles who believed in the one truthful God of Israel and left Egypt along with Israel at the exodus, and they are mentioned all throughout Scriptures and even in the Gospels.

God's Biblical calendar is a lunar calendar. In the creation story, nosotros run into that there was night and so solar day. Nosotros too run across that God creates the Sabbath, the 7th day, for He rested and made information technology holy. The Scripture tells us that the Sabbath was created for man and non the other fashion effectually (Mark two:27). It was given to man at cosmos. Yeshua tells u.s. that He is the Lord of the Sabbath (Matthew 12:eight); this is the seventh solar day and not the starting time. He never says to go on the offset day because He resurrected on that day. This too was human-made. We believe in the Messiah and and so do the Jewish people; the difference is that we have fabricated our Messiah Christian, and we take lost His Jewish identity.

The Jewish people are waiting for a Jewish Messiah, the one who has been prophesied for thousands of years through the prophets. They tin can non believe in our Messiah Jesus because he does not go on the Sabbath, nor Torah, nor does he gather the exiles of Israel or proceeds the victory over Israel's enemies or rebuild the Temple; that is what Yeshua will do when He returns considering this is what has been prophesied of Him. Even in the gospels we see the affections giving the skillful news (Gospel) that the Messiah has been born in the city of David (Jerusalem) and His kingdom will exist forever. Where will His kingdom be? In Jerusalem, not Rome, for He volition sit on the throne of King David forever.

Conclusion

Then you come across, we take many things in common, but nosotros accept turned from and do not understand our Jewish roots, the roots that supported us from the offset, and we have gone our ain style, the mode of man, and turned from truth, God'southward Word. We think that the tabernacle, or temple, has been destroyed because Yeshua came. Simply what we practice non understand is that the temple in Heaven still exists, and we are to be a imperial priesthood, yet nosotros do not know what that all ways. We must come up back to Biblical living and follow the One True God, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Paul, Luke, John, and yes, the God of Yeshua our Messiah. We must remember what Paul tells us: that we have been grafted into Israel (Romans xi:17-18) and that the root supports us, not the other way around.

So, become part of our regular viewers and participate in our discussions. Learn what nosotros have been grafted into then that we tin can bear much fruit for the Messiah.