Anyone here with a Jewish background that came to believe in Yeshua as Messiah?

I was raised in an atheist/agnostic Reform Jewish household, and never really knew God. I had a bar mitzvah, went to Hebrew School and went to Temple on the High Holy days but in college I pretty much abandoned the pretense and stopped practicing altogether. Eventually I embraced atheism, and was rather vehemently anti-Christian.

A rather strange confluence of events (thanks be to God), found me in Church last November. That particular Church was giving out copies of "The Case for Faith" by Lee Strobel, and I read it. The Holy Spirit worked a great change in my heart because within a month I confessed that Jesus was Lord. And to think that earlier that summer I had been reading Dawkins and Hitchens! Since then the Lord has done wonderful things with my life and the more I give up to Him the better things are.

I now attend a nondenominational evangelical church, but I feel that I am being called to a more liturgical tradition, so I am investigating Anglicanism. I would not describe myself as a Messianic Jew because I do not currently practice Jewish customs. I refer to myself as a Christian.

EDIT: Lots of answerers need to read the question carefully I believe the question was directed at those with Jewish background. I have a Jewish background but I'm now a Christian. It doesn't say that people who believe in Jesus are currently jews...

I don't really know what your question is but Jews don't believe in Jesus; he was not,is not an never will be our Messiah. Any Jew who accepts Jesus as the Messiah is an apostate and in the Jewish faith to believe in any other then G-d alone is blasphemy and idol worship.

Let's be really clear on this: any Jew that starts worshipping Jesus, has left Judaism. Same with Muslims and Islam. A Muslim who starts worshipping Jesus is an Apostate to Islam, a Jew is an Apostate to Judaism.

A Jew has, of course, the right to change religions. But call them what they are: Christians. The second they pray to Jesus, they are practising Christianity. Christian beliefs are idolatry and blasphemy for Jews, because for us it is forbidden to pray to anyone BUT G-d.

Jesus was not the Jewish messiah, and no JEW believes he was. You can't be Jewish AND worship Jesus, period.

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I am Jewish and I can assure you, Messianics are NOT Jewish. There is no 'messianic' sect IN Judaism.

The Messianic movement is an evangelical Christian movement. Founded by Christians. Funded by evangelical Churches. Messianic leaders *openly* admit their aim is converting Jews to Christianity.

Now, why would a Jew aim to convert a fellow Jew to Christianity???

The Christians that go round posing as 'messianic jews' are just that: Christians.

http://jew-with-a-view.blogspot.com/

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'Rhymes with Chalk' speaks with more honesty than some other ex - Jews in this forum who are now Christians. While I am sad that he didn't find Judaism fulfilling, at least he understands enough about both faiths to know that a person *cannot* remain Jewish and also worship Jesus.

I understand that Jews aren't raised to believe in Jesus , and so does the asker , so why not allow those who have an answer answer the question and not have to read the answers of those who haven't answered the question are we CLEAR ON THAT?

You mean Messianic Jews there are a few on here, they Christian Evangelicals as they believe in Jesus as the messiah and in Judaism they do not believe in that Jesus is the messiah!.

Edit;Who thumbed me down I was not finished with my answer!.

If a former Jew believes in Jesus, he or she is now a Christian.

Matthew 22

41While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them, 42"What do you think about the Christ[d]? Whose son is he?"

"The son of David," they replied.

43He said to them, "How is it then that David, speaking by the Spirit, calls him 'Lord'? For he says,

44" 'The Lord said to my Lord:

"Sit at my right hand

until I put your enemies

under your feet." '[e] 45If then David calls him 'Lord,' how can he be his son?" 46No one could say a word in reply, and from that day on no one dared to ask him any more questions.

John 10

22Then came the Feast of Dedication[b] at Jerusalem. It was winter, 23and Jesus was in the temple area walking in Solomon's Colonnade. 24The Jews gathered around him, saying, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ,[c] tell us plainly."

25Jesus answered, "I did tell you, but you do not believe. The miracles I do in my Father's name speak for me, 26but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. 27My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. 29My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all[d]; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand. 30I and the Father are one."

31Again the Jews picked up stones to stone him, 32but Jesus said to them, "I have shown you many great miracles from the Father. For which of these do you stone me?"

33"We are not stoning you for any of these," replied the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, claim to be God."

34Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your Law, 'I have said you are gods'[e]? 35If he called them 'gods,' to whom the word of God came—and the Scripture cannot be broken— 36what about the one whom the Father set apart as his very own and sent into the world? Why then do you accuse me of blasphemy because I said, 'I am God's Son'? 37Do not believe me unless I do what my Father does. 38But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father." 39Again they tried to seize him, but he escaped their grasp.

To start off my brother's name is YESHUA!

We are jewish by blood however my parents decided that they want us to believe in the lord and his son so they taught us Christianity. So therefore my family loves God and his son Jesus!

Incoming! *dives under the table*

you do realize that jewish people dont believe in jesus right?