Would *some* Evangelical Christians promote the belief that you CAN practice...

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...Judaism and Christianity together? For example: The adherents of this religion would have services in Latin, they would celebrate Christian holidays--with Jewish tweakings here and there (Christmas would be the celebration of the UPCOMING JEWISH Messiah, who is certainly not Yeshua), exc.
if the "Yeshua" premise was removed from the Christian half of this religious amalgam?
Why does this amalgram simply ceast to be Christianity-like when it violates a core tenant of Christianity---but is forced down the throats of Jews as a "sect of Judaism" when it violates MANY of our mitzvot?
 
I am not an evangelical, just a Christian. I don't see how you could call yourself Jewish, if you believe in the divinity of Jesus. You could follow old testament law. but that wouldn't make you a Jew. If you were a Jew and couldn't accept the divinity of Jesus, you couldn't be a Christian. I don't think that you can. .
 
It is not possible, it is completely dishonest and that fake religion actually does exist. It calls itself "messianic" Judaism but is actually fundamentalist Christianity hiding in Jewish clothes.

That same religion also has a habit of deleting answers they do not like. Lets see how long it takes them to report this one.
 
No doubt there are Christians who think so. From the Christian point of view, it is not without a certain logic. After all, Jesus was an observant Jew, as were the first Christians. It took a few years before both Christians and Jews, and the Roman Empire too, understood that Christianity was not Judaism.
From the Jewish point of view, of course, the idea of being Christian and Jewish at the same time is nonsense.
In the early days of Christianity, non-Jews who wanted to become Christians were required to convert to Judaism first. However, by the end of the New Testament Book of Acts, it was clear that Christianity had separated from Judaism, and had a very different theology.
 
No, they wouldn't, because the whole premise of Evangelicals who claim they can 'also be jews' is that it's their way of getting Jews TO worship Jesus.

To understand why, we have to examine the Messianic movement within the context of Evangelical Christianity.

The "messianic jewish" movement (originally known as the Hebrew Christian movement) is a movement that places the "clothes" of Judaism on the theology of Christianity - to make Christianity more readily accepted by the Jewish people.

Currently, the "messianic jewish" movement is funded by Christian denominations such as the Southern Baptist Convention, the Church of the Nazarene, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, the Assemblies of God (Pentecostals) and many others.

The "messianic jewish" movement represents the most dishonest attempt ever created to convert the Jewish people. This includes misrepresenting and lying about Judaism, the Jewish Bible and the Rabbis. Leaders in the "Messianic Jewish" movement have even gone as far as lying about their own personal history, in an attempt to get Jews to convert.

These same Evangelicals are NOW posing also as "MESSIANIC MUSLIMS":
http://www.ajewwithaview.com/?p=2199
 
Yes and no.

Keep in mind as I answer this, I've been on staff of one of two Evangelical Christian Churches located in Skokie, IL, Chicago's most Jewish suburb. And when I'm in Chicago I worship regularly at a Messianic Synagogue near there.

Bible based Christianity is what the Jewish religion was intended to become, it is the fulfillment of the Jewish religion.

The Book of Galatians was written to answer this question.

Once Jesus died on the cross, the whole Jewish Sacrificial system ended.

Messianic Christians, worship the way first century Jews did, who believed Jesus is their Messiah.

So yes, you can be Jewish and Christian at the same time.

However, that's very different than how Jewish folks who reject Jesus as Messiah worship.

There are many similarlies, including the Torah service.

So there isn't a clear, yes or no, type of answer to this question.
 
I promote the belief that you can worship God in any way as long as it doesn't go against scripture.
I may be a bit indoctrinated but I know the only thing that saves man from eternal doom is the belief in Jesus Christ and repentance of sins. No more no less, everything else will come out of the love for God.
 
It's called Replacement Theology. Even though they deny that's what it is, that IS what it is. Judaism and Christianity are so completely opposite each other in all their doctrines that if you believe in one, it automatically cancels out the other one. So all that's left is to do things like dress up in the prayer shawls of the Jews, put out a few menorahs, say the Christian prayers in Hebrew, stuff like that. This is not practicing Judaism and Christianity together, this is practicing Christianity dressed up in Jewish drag.

Pathetic, really.
 
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