(June 9, 2024 at 3:26 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ^’Notzrim’ means ‘Christian’, you dolt. Sack up and admit you’re a Christian.
Boru
The Notsrim were and are a denomination of Judaism. We see Yeshua as the culmination of our Judaic faith, not a replacement of it, or even an amendment to it. Those Messianic Gentiles that are at our synagogues are there to divest themselves of the western re-interpretation of what is an eastern mindset, and to find out some of what they were not taught in church.
Xtian's are followers of the Anointed one, as explained to them by Greco-Romans, in the way the Greek followers of the Apostles understood it, and indeed, still do understand it, as having nothing to do with the Jews. It has led to a number of Jews having become disaffected from their initial acceptance of Yeshua as the promised source of their salvation, and becoming passionately against what they too see as xtianity, as their understanding of Judaism eventually left them appalled at the twisting of the Scriptures they found in church. It also leads to anti-semitism and replacement theology, though there are many xtians who hold to the idea that Jews are the real source of their faith.
Those xtians that study the Scriptures in depth, as well as the Apostolic Writings, do not, as a rule, adopt the facets of Judaism that underly their faith, nor are they required to, being Gentiles and not under the Covenant, although the God-fearers referred to in the Acts 15 decree were expected to eventually take on Judaism as merely a matter of being in constant contact with the teachings of Moshe in the Synagogue on Shabbat, and indeed, their constant contact with the Jews that welcomed them there.
To you the word Notzrim may mean xtian, but it's not the same thing from the inside, you know.
