they use jewish symbols to win jews over to christianity.
calling jesus "yeshu",
avoiding the term christianity, and calling it messianic judaism.. Some even call their churches "messianic synagogues". And their ministers "Rabbi". And they vary to te extent of their use of jewish symbols. Some even wear jewish prayer garments. All to win over ignorant jews.
There may be one or two that use them innocently - maybe!! But don't start embracing these groups. Honest christians are better.
The strange thing is things like Wikipedia call these people "Jewish Christians".
well, people have all sorts of ideas about what "jewish" means.
and in orthodox judaism, anybody is jewish if their mother is jewish, or they converted. simple rule, no confusion.
So, people who are born jewish, may be atheists , or any kind of bad jew, but they are still jewish.
Of Jews that don't believe in judaism , most still call themselves jews, but it's a bit meaningless. They may mean culturally jewish, or ethnically jewish. The only way they may be culturally jewish is they eat bagels. Ethnicity- sounds like just some racial thing, pathetic really. A pathetic reason to "be jewish". So calling themselves jews becomes a psychological mess.
They are self hating and really define it according to how Hitler would have. Anybody with a jewish grandparent. is jewish enough for hitler, and would have been killed for being a jew.. and so how can you be so cruel as to say they weren't jewish!
I read somewhere that 30% of american buddists are jews. Some or most of the dalai larma's best disciples are jews. (bad , off the rails, disbelieving jews, but jews).
The christian missionaries know that jews don't like to throw away the fact that they are jewish. Their parents and parent's parents kept the religion, and the ignorant jews don't want to feel like they are completely betraying their heritage. So they say you can be a jewish christian.. (And unfortunately, I think they are correct e.g. you can have jewish atheists). But they imply that that is ok, that it's not bad. And saying he is jewish gives the ignorant jew a psychological cushion. So he can say he is still jewish. If calls himself jewish for religious reasons e.g. according to judaism, then he should accept he is a bad jew. If he calls himself that for ethnic reasons then that's a pathetic racial thing. And if he calls himself that for cultural reasons , then that's just rubbish, then any muslim anti-semite can be as jewish as him by eating bagels. It is very unjewish in culture and religion! I wouldn't delve into whether are jewish or aren't jewish.. If they are then they are bad jews, so they shouldn't let calling themselves jewish be a consolation.
