For over two millennia both Jews and Christians have been taught that Jesus Christ is the founder of Christianity.
I would say it is true that the man-made messiah called “Jesus Christ” is credited with being the founder of Christianity, but in truth the real Messiah, Yeshua, never did.
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First of all, it isn’t correct to say Yeshua was Jewish because he IS Jewish- he was risen as the Messiah of God, who is, was, always will be, and had been planned from the beginning of creation to be a Jew.
It is because he obeyed God’s Torah completely throughout his life that he was resurrected, as anyone who could have done that would have been; the problem is, of course, no human born of man and woman can do that.
So why is it Christianity has taught that having obeyed the Torah, which allowed him to be resurrected to eternal life in God’s presence (which, for the record, is what being “saved” means), if you believe Yeshua is the Messiah you don’t really have to obey anything?
What is the purpose of doing something to show us how it is done, just to say now that you know how to, you don’t have to?
That’s right, it don’t make no sense!
The first thing to understand is that God has no religion- he gave the Jewish people his Torah, after having chosen us to be a nation of priests to the world (Exodus 19:6) so that after learning it ourselves, we would be able to teach it to the Goyim (Nations, i.e., everyone else in the world).
God gave us the Torah so that all people God created (that includes you) would know how to worship God and how to treat each other in the way that God wants us to do, so that we can be righteous in his eyes.
Again- the way God wants you to be, not the way a religion teaches you it wants you to be.
Of course, proper obedience to God can’t happen because we are a rebellious, sinful, egocentric, and just plain stupid species. If not for Messiah Yeshua, we would have no chance for eternal life in God’s presence, whatsoever.
Ya know… it’s funny that God put mankind in charge of the animals, but in the end, the animals can teach us about how a society should be better than we can teach ourselves.
It isn’t about being Jewish or being Christian, or anything else: it is about doing what God wants us to. In Ezekiel 18:23, God tells us he doesn’t want anyone to die, but to do t’shuvah (turn from sin) and live.
Remember: when God says live or die, he doesn’t mean from a mortal viewpoint, but from an eternal one.
Yeshua never preached anything against the Torah; in truth, what he taught was a deeper, spiritual understanding of the Torah (called the Remes) so that we could be able to live it better. He did not do away with anything, but added to our ability to do as we should.
The idea that he died a Jew but was raised a Christian is so stupid that the only way anyone with half a brain would believe it is if it had been drilled into their head from early childhood, when they had neither the knowledge of the Bible or ability to question what they were being told, so that by adulthood it was an a priori truth.
God said what he wants everyone to do in the Torah, and because we can’t do it as we should, he sent Yeshua to cover our tuchas when we fail. Without Yeshua’s sacrifice replacing the need to bring an animal to the temple in Jerusalem (as a sin sacrifice), which is the only Torah commanded way we can ask for forgiveness, there is no hope for anyone not accepting Yeshua as their Messiah to be saved, no matter what their religion tells them.
Here is a truth that leads to eternal life: anyone who rejects the Torah rejects God, and that ain’t gonna do you no good, at all!
Yeshua never taught against the Torah, and neither did Shaul (Paul), or any of the Apostles- what they did was try to teach Gentiles how to live according to the Torah a little at a time. After Shaul died (around 60-64 AD), the Gentiles that led his congregations started to stray from the proper path and by the time they decided to change things around (their reasons for doing that are being beyond the scope of this message) what had been a Jewish movement accepting Gentiles became a Gentile religion that rejected Jews.
But Yeshua is still a nice Jewish boy sitting at Daddy’s right hand, probably saying to himself …
“Oy gevalt!
How could they so screw up something so simple?”
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That’s it for today, so L’hitraot and Baruch HaShem!