amigo de christo
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I have only read the first sentence . YES they are christians if they believe .Salutations Amigo but I disagree. A Jew that believes in Christ is a Christian.
It alludes to an interesting topic. Two of the Apostles that wrote the Gospels, were not Jews or it cannot be confirmed.
The twelve chosen Apostles were Jewish. These Apostles made up the ministry of the Jewish-Christians. Some of them practiced what you see on the forum here....a mixing of Judaism and Christianity. Well this caused issues and a division when the Pagans started to convert to Christianity. You can read about this in acts. Christ warned against mixing these two religions when He was discussing Christianity not being a new patch on an old garment and the analogy of new wine expanding in old wine skins...in both analogies He warned that it would ruin both.... Mark 2:21-22 The Pagans that converted to Christianity took the helm of the church very early on, and they had no connections to Judaism and that is one of the reasons they survived.
The Jews considered Christianity as a offshoot of Judaism. The Jewish Christians saw themselves as center of Christianity. James being the leader felt he was giving concessions to Paul to allow the converting Pagans into Christianity. James felt that the Jewish-Christians would be the leaders, but this mind set lead to their demise. By the end of the first century there were hardly any Jewish-Christians left. That is why you will not find many early Christian writings from Jewish-Christians and Jewish-Christians were not represented at the ecumenical councils.
Now if the Jewish-Christians had had a better relationship with the Gentile-Christians there is a chance they would have survived. The reason for this is that the Roman attack on Jerusalem in 70 A.D. was an attack on Jews....but they did not see much of a difference between Jews and Jewish-Christians. The division between the Jewish-Christians and Gentile-Christians caused other issues, for instance the Gentile-Christians eventually came to blame the Jews and Jewish-Christians for the crucifixion of Christ...in time this caused hostilities between the Jewish-Christians and Gentile-Christians. And if you look at history, particularly during the witch-hunts and inquisitions the Jews were treated like witches by the Christians.
And back to my original point....Christians are Christians...it does not matter if they were Jewish...Hindu...Budist...Moslem...etc...it is just better to look at Christians as Christians...the other has caused to much problems in the past. Then again the customs and laws of Judaism or Hinduism or Buddhism or Moslems, have no part of Christianity. Attempting to mix them only causes confusion.
I am reading the rest as we speak . And its not looking good .
James had no part in the demise of chrsitanity . And all the writers were jews .
This sounds like what man has taught . And i shun the doctrines of carnal men to hades .
As for me i am gonna stick with Christ and the bible . Whatever was written is for our good . That alone is all i need to know .