christians? why did jesus found a church? wasn't judaism enough?

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then jesus needed to make a new religion in order to save the humanity because the judaism wasn't enough why?
 
Jesus was sent to reform Judaism because the increasing sophistication of Jewish society demanded it.
 
Christ did not establish a church.. but what he did was to fulfill the on what the Jews were believing.
The church is not a doctrine or a place, it is the people, the believers themselves.
(temple = OT; NT = church [because God is omnipresent])
Christianity is not a religion... it is accepting Jesus and the things He has done for You. It does not follow any rules of dos and donts. It is a relationship with our Daddy, God.

What Jesus did was to pave the way for man to come to their Daddy.

Be free :)
 
YAHUSHUA did NOT come to start a new religion. He came to re-establish the covenant of life which men have broken. YAHUSHUA kept Torah, and His followers will also.
 
If you read the Holy Bible, you will learn that Jesus did not found a new Church. Jesus came to bring the Jews back into God's path. They refused to return to God, and ultimately the people He left behind had to evolve a new practice with men and women who were not Jews.
 
Simply put, the followers of Jesus, the ones who believed he was the Son of God, and followed his teachings, called themselves Christians. The ones who didn't believe, who STILL don't believe that he was the Messiah, the Son of God, are still Jews.
 
If you read the stories he did not found a new church - he was just another reform rabbi that came down from the hills.
The stories feel strange because the Greek writers did not understand the Jewish stories. They were writing down the stories after Jerusalem had been razed to the ground.
 
Jesus founded a church in order to make all people's one. Obviously Judaism wasn't enough.(:
If you read the books Matthew mark Luke and John then you can see that Jesus brought many people to faith who did not even want to believe in anything.
I'm catholic and I'm not pretending I know everything because I don't and no one but God knows everything... He founded the church so to be the true faith and the teachings of truth.(:
 
God as a direct authority can destroy the old religion that He Himself set up.
As the Temple of Jerusalem was destroyed in 70AD and the Holy of Holies was defiled, there was no more Judaism as they knew it up to that point.

Once the ark of the covenant was gone, there was no more Jewish religion....only an empty sort of hollowness.

...No offense to any Jewish people here. There is only the Wailing Wall, you can't deny that.
 
Judaism itself underwent many changes. It started with the decision to worship only one god but didn't deny the others existed. But gods were linked to the land and were powerful on their home turf. As nomads, they had to carry their god with them--hence the ark. There was no afterlife; God helped you in this life if you pleased Him. Satan didn't exist until they were exposed to Zoroastrianism in Babylon with their two competing gods. When good things happened, the good god was winning and when bad things happened, the bad god was winning. But the belief persisted that you could please God if you followed enough rules. So there were more and more to obsess about. Somewhere along the line they accepted an afterlife but you couldn't enjoy it unless you followed all the rules. When Jesus came along, he introduced a new idea: there's no way a mere human can be good enough to earn salvation; it depends on the mercy of God. Not that you could behave abominably and say, "Sorry--my bad," and get a free pass. You had to accept that you were powerless and turn your life over to God. That faith is what was supposed to make you behave--the desire to please God as a creator and father instead of an unfeeling brute to be feared and appeased. This so enraged people who had staked everything on earning their way in on the basis of their own actions that they killed him. But the notion that God is so powerful that he can forgive anything persisted because there were plenty of people who had no hope otherwise. The tax collector was to only collect his due instead of extorting more (which was common) but he didn't have to stop being a tax collector; it was only a job. The centurion wasn't told not to be a soldier but to be satisfied with his wages and not loot and take advantage of those under his power. One man was inspired to turn away from his job, which was to persecute followers of Jesus. He became a follower himself. But there still wasn't a "Christian church" except as a label to persecute these heretics. That came later when there were enough followers and congregations that they embraced that epithet.

What makes it different is rejecting the idea that you can go through life without hurting others. That's a juvenile view of the world, unfortunately embraced by many. Atheists follow that path; so do vegetarians. Regrettably, so do many Christians who started to make a new encyclopedia of laws. But the concept that God wants to draw His creation back to Him is still very much alive. The message that only faith will save you and that inspires you to do what's right was never lost. The belief that only God is powerful enough to truly forgive and accept you is reflected in Luther's statement to a friend, "When you sin, sin boldly." He was pointing out God's power and desire to forgive if you can abandon your natural pride; he wasn't encouraging sin. He didn't set out to make a new church, either. He would much rather have seen the Catholic church turn aside from the salvation by works (and money) theology that they fell into. So they wanted to kill him for it, too.

Did you ever watch the movie, "The Devil's Advocate"? It's good. At the end, Satan appears and says that pride was always his favorite.
 
Because Jesus was the messiah, and told us the way we should really be worshiping.
 
if one religion is enough for everyone there wont be others.
 
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