I was brought up Jewish by my mother and father, as was my sister and brother. My dad became a born again Christian. My brother calls himself a Messianic Jew. What are the religious beliefs of all three religions and how do they differ? Thank you!!!
PS-I'm looking for facts, first and foremost, along with your personal opinion on these religions.
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Here you go: here is a statement made BY the founder of the biggest Messianic "jewish" group out there:
Abridged from: "Holy Terror" by Flo Conway and Jim Seigelman
In a document entitled "What Evangelical Christians Should Know About ‘MESSIANIC JEWS’, Martin Meyer, founder of ’jewsforjesus’, again reveals his goal:
‘We define ourselves as evangelical fundamentalists and we seek the cooperation of individuals and Christian bodies meeting this description…We believe in affiliation with a local church and being accountable to the church for service and discipline. We will uphold the local church wherever we can.
‘We consider ourselves an arm of the local church. We are primarily evangelists and we are always mindful that we should not usurp the authority of the local pastor. As we win and disciple (convert) Jewish people, we urge them to take their place in a local evangelical church or establish a congregation and call their own minister. Our duty is to aid the church at large and we work as an arm of that body to gather in the Lost Sheep of the House of Israel.’
In the British NEW STATESMAN magazine, Martin Meyer said in a recent interview:
‘In the UK we are part of the Evangelical Alliance; the evangelical wing of the church. We will often be giving conferences at churches of various denominations, Baptist, Anglican, Pentecostal to name but a few.’
Let's be really clear: this is not a matter of subjective 'opinion'. The word 'Jewish' has an objective definition. Messianics are NOT Jewish.
Messianic "jew" = Christian
The Messianic movement was founded by evangelical Christians.
It is FUNDED by evangelical Churches.
Messianics worship Jesus, they pray to Jesus, they believe in 'hell' and in 'original sin'.
All of these ideas are in violation of Judaism.
TO THE ASKER:
You have been given INcorrect info by several people.
There is no such thing as a 'jew who accepts jesus'. A Jew who does this has *left* Judaism, and is now an Apostate, and their religion is CHRISTIANITY.
And it is not true that there is a division between 'mainstream jews' and 'messianics'.
99% of Messianics were *never* Jewish to START with.
Why should a Christian missionary group be included as 'jewish'???
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In most cases Messianic Jews are in reality Christians who were previously Jews. Some Jews take offense at the term Messianic Jew.
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Can someone please explain the difference between Messianic Jews, Christians, & Jews?
I was brought up Jewish by my mother and father, as was my sister and brother. My dad became a born again Christian. My brother calls himself a Messianic Jew. What are the religious beliefs of all three religions and how do they differ? Thank you!!!
PS-I'm looking for facts, first and...