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Christianity is a continuation of an older religion, not a new one.
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My goodness, yes.
However, there are so many and such significant differences, it would be hard to know where to begin.
Moses certainly did not know the Son of God as his Savior, without whom Moses could not reach heaven. How's that for starters? And Moses knew only the Law, which none of us can keep adequately enough to earn salvation...which is why Christianity is about Grace being the vehicle for forgiveness instead.
Let's say that it's an extension or outgrowth or that it's 'derived from'
Continuation suggests that it's the same thing only later in time.
That doesn't make them all members of the same religion.Abel, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Elijah, David, Isaiah, Peter, Paul, John, Luke.
What do all of these people have in common.
They all believed in the same God.
Not by any stretch of the imagination would that be correct to say.They all practised the same religion.
My point in the OP was that the way of life Christ modeled and exhorted his disciples to follow juxtaposed what was then the norm for the Jewish faith. 2,000 years later it may be argued that Christianity is now what Judaism was then.
This isn't about finer doctrinal and dogmatic points or whether or not Christianity is a continuation of Judaism. This is about if Christ stood on a sidewalk looking across the street at an example of Judaism in practice and an example of Christianity in practice, which one would he recognize as "getting the point" that he taught his disciples?
My inclination is to say the former.
Interesting. Like Democratic Socialism and Communism are the same thing or Vanilla and Chocolate are the same. I guess I just see the differences between things that have some similarity to each other as being more significant than other people do...and that the differences matter.Personally I find it impossible to separate Jews/Judaism from christianity. They are intimately linked at the hip.
I was reading some comments after an article on a website that I like, and one of the individuals mentioned that he reverted to Judaism from Christianity because of the rampant judgmentalism in Christianity.
Which sparked a thought, would Jesus do the same? Has Christianity spun so far out of control with trying to monopolize morality and become so full of small cliques of people chomping at the bit to judge anybody that doesn't align with their clan that as a whole we're unrecognizable from what Christ envisioned 2,000 years ago? If he came back to Earth incognito just to cruise the landscape and observe, would he be compelled to go to a church or a synagogue*?
When Christ walked the earth prior to his crucifixion, the portrait painted in the gospels is that Judaism was full of judgmental hypocrites (Pharisees and Sadducees) and he chastised them on a regular basis. 2,000 years later, have the roles reversed? Has Christianity of the 20th and 21st centuries become the Judaism of the first century and vice versa?
Food for thought.
*Let's not nitpick over issues like the Church didn't technically exist when Christ walked the earth so he'd probably go to temple instead if he were here because he'd recognize it. I just want to be clear about that right now.
Interesting. Like Democratic Socialism and Communism are the same thing or Vanilla and Chocolate are the same. I guess I just see the differences between things that have some similarity to each other as being more significant than other people do...and that the differences matter.
Doesn't really matter according to the universal reality of the sin problem.
So what is the solution? (I know you've answered this already.)
I guess the real question is ... is their religion irrelevant to the availability of a solution?
You'd get a lot of different answers around here if you asked that question of everyone.
According to Fox news they are!Interesting. Like Democratic Socialism and Communism are the same thing...