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 Jesus is Jewish, read the Bible! nostr:note14zsjg76yr7apcxx99rj494vzq5a9exenzjmmxcw38q0kwdwuh0fq8ps95v 
 He came to the jews and they rejected him

you read the Bible 
 And Christians are the true inheritors of the promises to Abraham, not the Jews, since they rejected their Messiah. Romans 9 and 11, Galatians 3, etc. 
 Correct. The only way to God is through Christ. No other way. 
New Covenant surpassed Old Covenant 
 One might even call it a "better covenant."

Hebrews 7:22 ESV
[22] This makes Jesus the guarantor of a better covenant. 
 Jesus was Jewish. No one and nowhere in the Bible does it say otherwise. His Jewishness is never rejected by anyone. Only him being King and the son of God is rejected by some. Why are you trying to argue Jesus wasn’t Jewish with verses that say he was fulfillment of Jewish prophecy? Your choices don’t make sense here 
 yeah pretty sure this is just pedantry

the fact that most Jews didn't accept the new covenant doesn't make Jesus not Jewish. 
 And to say “non-believers are Jewish” is to say that all of the “12 apostles” are also nonbelievers. These people are insinuating that the Jewish woman Mary Magdalene was a”nonbeliever” because Jesus was her rabbi??? The first person to see the Lord risen from the dead and proclaim it to others is a “nonbeliever” now because she’s Jewish?? Lord help me idek how people get to the point of making such an outrageous claim! “Jewish are nonbelievers” just absurd claim!! I! Can’t! Even!!!!!! 
 I think their point is basically that since he is the Son of God he transcends his ethnic and cultural heritage. Everyone who believes in Him joins the *new covenant of God but those who don't remain with the old.
In this case they remain Jewish or gentile.

While those who believe partake of the Eternal.

it's pedantic in the end.  
 They’re being weirdos and they need to read the Bible more!!!! iMO!! Just a suggestion coming from me to them 😤 
 Sorry that I gave the impression that I agreed with nostr:nprofile1qqsr836yylem9deatcu08ekfj8qj9f2aypq8ydt0w8dyng8zp8akjsqpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuur0wd6x2u3wwpkxzcm99uz2gxag that Unbelievers are Jewish. I do not. Quite the opposite, in fact. ONLY believers are Jewish.

Romans 2:28-29 ESV
[28] For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. [29] But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God. 
 I would not agree with nostr:nprofile1qqsr836yylem9deatcu08ekfj8qj9f2aypq8ydt0w8dyng8zp8akjsqpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuur0wd6x2u3wwpkxzcm99uz2gxag's assertion that unbelievers are Jewish. Rather, I would say that ONLY believers are truly Jewish. And yes, Jesus is a Jew, not t just by ethnic origin, but by faith.

Likewise, only Christians are truly Jewish, or part of the People of Israel.

Romans 2:28-29 ESV
[28] For no one is a Jew who is merely one outwardly, nor is circumcision outward and physical. [29] But a Jew is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not by the letter. His praise is not from man but from God. 
 Now, if nostr:nprofile1qqsr836yylem9deatcu08ekfj8qj9f2aypq8ydt0w8dyng8zp8akjsqpr9mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuur0wd6x2u3wwpkxzcm99uz2gxag is meaning that those who profess to be Jewish, but do not have faith in their Messiah, are unbelievers, I would definitely agree with that.

But no, I would not claim Jesus isn't Jewish. He is the promised Messiah, the suffering servant, the son of David and Son of God who will sit on David's throne forevermore. Cannot get much more Jewish than that. 
 Galatians 3 is a weird choice for your argument tbh because that’s the letter that says there’s no such thing as Jews or Gentiles or males or females! Why did you pick that chapter of that letter to back up this statement?? 
 Romans is also a weird choice but for different reasons 
 Romans 9,Paul laments that his kinsmen according to the flesh (the Jews) have by and large been cut off from the covenant of God, and are accursed. Romans 11 he explains that they were broken off from the vine of God's covenant and Gentiles were grafted in, but that they can be easily grafted back in, should they turn to Christ. 
 This has nothing to do with the fact that Jesus was Jewish. It doesn’t say anywhere in Romans or Galatians or the entire Bible that Jesus wasn’t Jewish. Again, your choices are weird and irrelevant to the discussion at hand. 
 You seem to think that the discussion at hand is whether or not Jesus is Jewish, with the assumption that @verita84 and myself both believe that he is not, but looking back through the conversation, neither of us ever made that claim, so how can that be the discussion at hand? 
 I made the claim Jesus is Jewish in response to the idiotic “nonbelievers are Jewish” which would mean Jesus, and majority of earliest followers (12 apostles, Saint Paul, Saint Mary Magdalene, etc etc), are nonbelievers. It’s bogus hater nonsense and in direct opposition to the gospel truth. Furthermore all sorts of paganism exists and atheism exists. But no; weirdos just want to pick fights with me for saying Jesus is Jewish and then idk ig not really follow the discussion at hand. 🙄 
 Galatians 3:7-9 ESV
[7] Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham. [8] And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be blessed.” [9] So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith. 

Galatians 3:16-18 ESV
[16] Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, “And to offsprings,” referring to many, but referring to one, “And to your offspring,” who is Christ. [17] This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void. [18] For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.

Galatians 3:28-29 ESV
[28] There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. [29] And if you are Christ’s, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to promise.

In other words, Paul's point of saying there is now no distinction between Jew or Greek is because the promises made to Abraham are only applicable to those who believe in Christ. So neither Jewish descent or Gentile descent matters. Christians, whether descended from Jews or any other nationality, are the only legitimate heirs of the promises made to Abraham and his seed. 
 None of this has anything to do with the discussion at hand which is that Jesus was Jewish. None of this says that Jesus wasn’t Jewish. Nowhere does anyone in the Bible ever say that Jesus wasn’t Jewish. Jesus died, resurrected from the dead, and ascended into heaven long before the term “Christian” was ever invented. This is why the word “Christian” is only used twice in the entire Bible. Read your Bible! 
 None of what you’re saying supports the bogus claim that Jesus’s Jewishness was rejected by anyone. 
 I don't believe I ever claimed Jesus isn't Jewish. 
 What is more, I don't think @verita84 ever stated that Jesus isn't Jewish. He said "Jesus is Lord" but never said "Jesus is not Jewish."

I would read that as saying, "Jesus is Lord, and therefore transcends being MERELY Jewish," but I will let him speak for himself as to what he meant by it. 
 I think Blossom Rot blocked me a long time ago but I said he is Jewish and I don't care. Jesus is Lord, God is not Jewish and being Jewish does not mean anything after Christ. Through Christ you will be with God. Jews screwed themselves over by rejecting God to this very day and hating his son in their satanic hollybook, The Talmud 
 Are you emphasizing Christ's deity at the exclusion of his humanity? God is not Jewish, but Jesus certainly is, and at the same time, Jesus is also God. It's a paradox, but not a contradiction. 
 And being Jewish certainly DOES matter even after Christ's coming. At least, being a true Jew does. No one who isn't part of Israel, true Israel, will be saved. The thing is, that has nothing to do with ethnic origin. It has everything to do with having faith like Abraham, and specifically faith in the promised JEWISH messiah.

If you are a Christian, you are part of true Israel, a Jew by faith, regardless of your ethnicity.

Meanwhile, if you are a Jew by ethnicity, but have no faith in Jesus, you are no Jew at all. You are cut off from the covenant people of God. Most who profess to be Jews are no Jews at all in the eyes of God. 
 I am sure that Christ loves the satanic Star of David on all the Jews too lol  
 The verse doesn’t mean these differences don’t exist. Clearly males, females, Jews, Greeks, slaves, and free people exist and are different from each other in some way. What the verse is saying is that these differences don’t define believers compared to their unity in Christ. 
And most critically for this conversation, with the following verse, “And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s descendants, heirs according to promise” it’s hitting home that regardless of physical bloodline, all Christians are Abraham’s descendants in spirit and covenant. 
 I know the verse doesn’t mean those differences don’t exist. The term Christian means follower of Christ. Both Jews and Gentiles/Greeks were followers of Christ. Jesus himself was not a Christian because he is literally the Christ. 
 Jews do not believe that Christians are descendants of Abraham and do not like Christians. Jesus litteraly said that if you reject the son, you hate the father. Jews reject the son very harshly and therefore hate God 
 He was born and raised Jewish, some rejected him as their savior, not his ethnoreligious status within society though. That is actually why they killed him. 
 If he hadn’t been Jewish then he wouldn’t have fulfilled the prophecies. Read the Bible! 
 Many Jews embraced him. The twelve disciples, Paul, and the church written to in Hebrews. 
But the entire Church is God’s priestly nation now, no matter one’s ethnicity. Galatians 3:28 says of believers:  “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” 
 No, but neither do I, and I am a true Jew, because I believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and have not rejected the Messiah promised to them, but have embraced him as my Savior and Lord, the son of David, who is the ultimate fulfillment of God's promise to Eve in the garden, at the time of the fall, to Abraham that through his seed all the nations would be blessed, and to David that a king of his lineage would sit on the throne of Israel forever.

Jesus is and always will be the Jewish Messiah. He can't NOT be Jewish, regardless of what he is eating or wearing. Though he is now seated at the right hand of the Father, he is still fully God AND fully man. He did not lay aside his humanity at the ascension any more than he laid aside his deity when he was born of a woman. If he was Jewish then, he is Jewish now.

It's the Jews who are not Jewish anymore, because they have rejected HIM. They are the ones who have ceased to be Jewish, not Jesus.