Why Messianic Jews will not call themselves Christians
Galatians 3:28
“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”
King James Version (KJV)
The Oral Law and Jewish Identity
From the time of its inception to the digital age, halakhah (the Oral Law, that is, Jewish law that governs the life of religious Jewish people) recognizes that Jewish people never cease to be Jewish, regardless of what they believe or how they choose to live.
Even though a Jew undergoes the rites of admission to another religious faith and formally renounces the Jewish religion, he remains—as far as the halakhah is concerned—a Jew, albeit a sinner (Sanhedrin 44a). According to Nahmanides this attitude derives from the fact that the covenant between God and Israel was made “with him that standeth here with us today before the Lord our God and also with him that is not with us here today.”(Deuteronomy 29:14; Nahmanides ad loc.2)
Those who choose to hide their Jewishness are still Jewish people to God.
Aish.com points out that “a conversion to another religion is ineffective. According to Jewish law, a person is always Jewish—regardless of whether they reject their heritage, ignore it, or practice another religion.”3
Why Don’t Jewish People Who Believe in Jesus Just Call Themselves Christians?
The answer is simple: we value our Jewishness; it is part of our past, present, and future. We see no reason to ignore or deny such an important part of who we are. And we believe that every living Jewish person is a testimony to God’s promise-keeping power. As mentioned, some Jewish believers in Jesus do not identify with the term “Christian” because some people misunderstand it as synonymous with Gentile. Most of us who use the term are quick to clarify that we are Jewish and Christian.
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But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.
12For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.
13And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
14But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?
15We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
16Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
17But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
18For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
19For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
20I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
21I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
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oxymoron (n.)
in rhetoric, "a figure conjoining words or terms apparently contradictory so as to give point to the statement or expression," 1650s, from Greek oxymōron, noun use of neuter of oxymōros (adj.) "pointedly foolish," from oxys "sharp, pointed" (from PIE root *ak- "be sharp, rise (out) to a point, pierce") + mōros "stupid" (see moron). The word itself is an illustration of the thing. Now often used loosely to mean "contradiction in terms.
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Quote from the Messianic Jewish Alliance of America:
Messianic Movement - Messianic Jewish Alliance of America (mjaa.org)
"Should Jews really attempt to assimilate into churches and forego their Jewish identity when they choose to put their faith in the Jewish Messiah? Messianic Judaism answers, “No!” As Yeshua Himself embraced His Jewishness, Messianic Jews seek to embrace theirs, by meeting in congregational communities with other Jewish believers and by maintaining a Biblically Jewish expression of their faith. Every congregation is different, but this expression often means worshiping in Hebrew, following Mosaic Law, dancing as King David did before the Lord, and keeping Biblical holidays such as Pesach, Sukkot, or Shavuot."
My response: I am a former carnal man. Should I attempt to assimilate in the Body of Christ - The Church and forego my former fallen state?
Jesus battled with the Judaism - Pharisees and so did the apostles. If you even halfway read your Bible you see the horrific suffering Paul suffered from the Judaizers and Jews. In Paul's Epistles he is continually reminding the churches to not go back into law keeping of the Jewish Custom of Religion which was now DEAD WORKS.
BEWARE LEST ANY MAN SPOIL YOU
Colossians 2:8 King James BibleBeware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Read Galatians Chapter 2; Acts Chapter 11,
Who were the Judaizers:
Galatians 2 - Who Were the Judaizers? - Reading Acts
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