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From: rjb@akgua.UUCP (R.J. Brown [Bob])
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Subject: Re: question regarding Christian Jew
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 07:58:07 EDT
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Perhaps the contributors to n.r.j. could handle this
one for modern Jews, but certainly Peter, James, John,
et al. were Jews in good standing after the resurrection.
In fact the Book of Acts shows us that the Jewish Religious
Leaders of the day disciplined them for their "heresy" of
teaching and healing in the name of Jesus - i.e. they did
not kick them out and say "You are not Jews anymore."

However, if you mean can you be a Jew by being under the Law
and keeping the Law for your justification before God the
answer is emphatic...NO.  Christians are anti-nomian in that
respect in that we look to Jesus as the fulfillment of the
Law.  In fact He embodied all the Law in his greatest commandment
- the Shema ( of Israel) that we should love God with everything
we've got in us and the further admonition that we should love
our neighbor as ourselves.

A famous Jew (Saul of Tarsus) who became the Apostle Paul wrote
a significant letter to the Galatians which dealt in part about
this very subject.


Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb}