Here my response to a recent post that stated “Jews and Christians will never be Judeo-Christian.”

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That is interesting because I’m both practicing Judaism and Christianity as they we’re at the time that Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism were born. I recently wrote this post for Blog Critics on Christian’s who observe Passover and other biblical feasts. With The Competing Holidays Of Passover And Easter (What Can We Learn From The Lesser Known Messianic Seder?).

Honestly, early Christianity was intrinsically “Jewish” observing all the biblical festivals, going to Synagogue regularly, having Chavurah and Oneg, observing Shabbat, praying the Amida, etcetera are all historically recorded practices of early “Christians.” Pretty solidly up until 119 CE there was a solid connection with Judaism and Roman Catholicism and Rabbinic Judaism were born during a period some have called “Middle Judaism.” There are a few goods books on the topic.

The Roman Catholic institution that hijacked the plight of Christianity blended ideas from the NT with Platonist and Mithraism and created a new religion, not the one in the text of the NT. The NT is full of reference’s to Passover, Shavuot, even Chanukah…

There are Christian’s who observe the biblical or Jewish festivals who follow the ancients traditions of Shabbat starting on Friday eve, who attend synagogues and congregations on Saturday not sunday, who pray according to the Amida and other traditions of the elders.

For “mainstream” Christianity the differences may be huge. For those who follow the biblical way, the way of Avrahamic faith rooted in Jewish heritage found in our Jewish Messiah we find more in common with Orthodox or Reformed Jews than “Christians.”

I would say for Messianic, Nazarene or other Hebraic Roots movements, we do embodied the Jewish tradition and reflect on our Rabbi and Messiah Yeshua’s impact within that context and in that sense we are truly Judeo-Christian. Like no other really can claim. It’s a unique bridge between two faiths.

There are at times similarities between Judaism and Christianity are more than any other religion due to sharing at least the Old Testament. Muslims do not upload the OT only the book of Islam they believe that Ishmael not Isaac was the son of promise. At-least Christian’s even ones who in effective practice reject the OT believe it to be true. There are those of us who accept the OT and see the NT in its right context rooted in the OT.

Anyways that’s something to consider in this discussion. There are those who actually hold to both traditions. Mind you we do not observe Xmass or Estarte festivals, we observe only biblical festivals found in Leviticus 23, Chanukah and Purim, as well as Shabbat and others Hebraic traditions.

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