01-31-2009, 08:26 AM
boakham Wrote:
I am interested to know, from a Jewish point of view, what you consider to be the difference between a Jew who believes that Jesus was the Messiah, and a Christian. Is Messianic Judaism effectively a subdivision of Christianity?
Messianic Judaism is a denomination, or subdivision, of Christianity. A "Christian" is a "Christ-ian", meaning "of Christ" or "Christ follower". I myself was born a "mamzerah" who grew up in a gentile Christian home, and the Jewish side of my family were crypto-Jewish or actual Roman and Byzantine Catholics until recently. Some of my Jewish side has become Protestant or were born into Protestant families (like I was. Both of my parents became Episcopalian around the time that I was born or a year old.).