Hey everyone! My name is Jenna, and I'm new here on this forum! I'm 36, I'm a mama and a wifey. My daughter and I were just baptized on April 15th of this year. And we're both getting confirmed on June 18 by the Bishop. I'm so excited! I love to read, dance, love Disney, The Beatles, and a lot of other stuff. I've only been a Christian since last year April. I was born and raised Jewish, I go to both an Anglo-Catholic church and a Messianic Temple for my Jewishy side lol. I call myself a "Cashew" lol. Catholic, Jewish, and a lil bit nutty lol. Jenna.
Welcome aboard Jenna Rose. May God richly bless your time here. Also, many congratulations to you and your daughter on your recent baptisms and your upcoming confirmations!
Welcome Jenna, such a heart-warming introduction! I am happy to see Christians who were born and raised Jewish, and there's absolutely no conflict or tension between the two. I had been on a trip to Israel some years ago, and the many Christian sites there, as well as the growing Christian community, and the wonderful Jewish identity for Christianity made it really a memorable trip for me. Christianity is really a Jewish religion, not a gentile one; we're just guests here. As St. Paul had said, the gentiles are foreigners and strangers adopted into God's kingdom, rather than the Hebrew people who were and are the firstborn of the Father. Please be blessed and welcome!
My professor of NT would strongly disagree with you. One of his major theses is that the book of Hebrews represents a complete split from the Jewish religion. But, all that aside, welcome to Jenna!
So the Jewish Messiah and the Jewish God and the Jews who all were the Apostles suddenly cast off their identity? I don't want Jenna to feel less welcome in the Church Certain practices of the Old Testament certainly changed with the coming of the Messiah. But even Abraham was justified by faith, as St Paul shows. It was and is one religion of the one true God, forever and ever.
Weren't Peter and Paul at loggerheads about whether the faith was Jewish, as argued by Peter or had a world view as argued by Paul? Pauls view prevailed