Messianic Judaism There are few offshoots of Judaism from its inception in 1500 BCE. One of the most famous and popular offshoot of Judaism is Christianity, which itself uses most of the Tanakh, the Jewish Scripture. The other offshoot of Judaism is Messianic Judaism, a faith based on the mixture of Christianity and Judaism. Messianic Jews came to believe that the Messiah has arrived as Jesus or Yeshua but kept their Jewish traditions. They claim to not be Christians and that they are Jews, blood and soul. They want all Jews to believe that Yeshua is the Mashiach, or the Messiah, that was predicted by the prophets. However, they want to keep the Jewish traditions handed down to them by generations of Jews before its modern founding in 1960s.
HISTORY
Messianic Jews believe that their faith originated the same time as Christians believe Christianity begin; …show more content…
They begin to take over some of the existing Hebrew Christian organizations and reform them to be more Jewish than Christian. Messianic Jews begin to adopt a more Jewish lifestyle and in the same time, upheld the belief that Yeshua is the Messiah. They begin to proselytize their faith among Jews, especially those of recent entry to Israel and those in the United States. Their activities have brought conflict with the main religious authorities of Israel and condemned their actions. The major Jewish sects came to believe that Messianic Judaism is a Christian movement that cover itself in Jewish clothing. Messianic Jews, meanwhile, sees the actions of the Jews, especially in Israel, as comparable to what the Pharisees and the Sadducees had done to the Messianic Jews before the destruction of the temple. However, as of today, Messianic Jews numbers varies widely from low estimates of 40,000-50,000 believers to as many as 350,000 believers
HISTORY
Messianic Jews believe that their faith originated the same time as Christians believe Christianity begin; …show more content…
They begin to take over some of the existing Hebrew Christian organizations and reform them to be more Jewish than Christian. Messianic Jews begin to adopt a more Jewish lifestyle and in the same time, upheld the belief that Yeshua is the Messiah. They begin to proselytize their faith among Jews, especially those of recent entry to Israel and those in the United States. Their activities have brought conflict with the main religious authorities of Israel and condemned their actions. The major Jewish sects came to believe that Messianic Judaism is a Christian movement that cover itself in Jewish clothing. Messianic Jews, meanwhile, sees the actions of the Jews, especially in Israel, as comparable to what the Pharisees and the Sadducees had done to the Messianic Jews before the destruction of the temple. However, as of today, Messianic Jews numbers varies widely from low estimates of 40,000-50,000 believers to as many as 350,000 believers