Before the Hebrews were Jewish, what religion were they. Was that a false God? What made them Hebrew/Jewish?
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Hebrews were part of the 12 tribes originally,...only then they were not referred to as Hebrews.  Ten of those 12 tribes, the Israelites  migrated north away from Judah.  The peoples called Hebrews name means opposite side; those who crossed over the water,...over the Jordan river.  The 12 tribes followed Torah, which is the first five books on our King James bible.  The two that remained in Judah later did not believe that Jesus was The Messiah and remain Jews and follow Judaism.  The Peoples of the Israelites later were those who followed Jesus.  God refers to these ten tribes in the bible as the ten lost tribes;..not lost to God because God knows who and where they are,...but lost in knowing who they are.  The bible says that Abrahams seed is NUMEROUS.  Those ten "lost" tribes migrated north,...crossing over the Caucus Mt's and ended up in Scottland...Britain...Canada,...and this USA.  MANY here in this USA are part of Abrahams family.  Many in this USA and many other parts of this world are Israelites,..and this USA is that land of milk and honey and is TRUE spiritual Israel.
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Being of the jewish  race they probably prayed to God as the jews are monotheistic based?Hear ye o Israel the lord God is one!says so in the Bible. check it out?Trinity was conceived at the Coucil of Nicea? I think?it explains the Father,Son,Holy Ghost most Christians believe in?One reason Muslims have a problem with Christians is their belief in a triune god[3 godhead]as they believe in Allah as the one true god?
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Yes, because the Hebrews got their customs while in Egypt which is and always been in Africa. Their was no such thing As Jew at that time. That was much later, they were call Hebrews are children of Jacob before god change Jacob name to Yisrael.
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I suggest you guys try and ignore this mouthbreather.  He asks the same questions on Judaism over and over again, with slightly different (though consistently biased and misleading) wording. If you don't believe me, all I can say is that you can verify this for yourselves.  I sincerely doubt that he is here to learn anything, at least in this area (though I feel obliged to at least commend him on his appropriate choice of screenname).\n\nThis guy's online hobby is something called Jew-baiting.  So don't take the bait, as it were, by responding on his terms and lending legitimacy to his line of questioning (which is shallow and insensitive at best, or, more likely from what I've seen, deliberate bigotry).  He has a real problem with Jews.  I don't know if it stems from a negative personal experience with Jews, or if he was raised by klansmen, or what.  But he keeps asking these same questions, and when confronted with information that contradicts his assumptions, he becomes belligerent and disregards the new information anyway.\n\nI once explained to him that he was mistaken in his assertion that a Jew had to have "Jewish blood" because conversion has a history going back through biblical history, all the way to the first Hebrew himself.  This did not sway him in his irrational belief.  And if someone here were to point out that calling Judaism a "cult of ancestor worship" is inaccurate because\n\na) it's not considered a cult\n\nand\n\nb) worshipping anything other than G-d, one's ancestors included, is the most severe form of blasphemy according to Judaism\n\nI highly doubt this gentleman would be swayed on either point.  My advice is not to waste your time.  There are plenty of people on here asking questions about Judaism because they actually want to learn.  If you are qualified to answer, answer those people.  They'll actually benefit from it.
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if Christians came from Jews, why are ther still Jews?
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Ancient nomadic Hebrews worshipped a sky god which developed into Yahweh.\n"The Hebrews had a god like the gods of others, a god with powers to be feared, a god with human characteristics such as anger and a capacity for pleasure, a god pleased by gifts - gifts created by sacrifices. Like others, the Hebrews believed that a ritual killing of an animal sent the animal as a gift to the invisible world of the gods. And, according to Chapter 22 of Genesis, Abraham was at least familiar with human sacrifice."
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I'm not a rabbi, but I am Jewish, and I can tell you that the concept of the trinity is not part of Jewish doctrine.\n\nAccording to Judaism, there's one God, not divided in any way, period.  Hope that helps!
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None of the above it was done by rabbi's. It you read it you will know that Judaism is not from God or of God. The religion of Judaism is a deceiver.
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Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were the founders of the people and men of faith, but they never called their religion "Judaism".  In fact the word "Judaism" never appears in the Bible (not even in the Christian Bible).\n\nObviously in Judaism G-d is the Creator.  But I don't think that is quite what you are asking. \n\nJudaism is founded on Torah.  Torah is the 5 books of Moses - Genesis through Deuteronomy. So Moses is perhaps the personality that you are looking for.  \n\nThe story of the Exodus is often looked upon as being like a betrothal and marriage. The descendants of Jacob - the children of Israel - had become slaves in Egypt.  G-d sees this and like an angry boyfriend comes in, curses the Egyptians with 10 plagues, takes Israel out.  He leads them through the waters of the Red Sea and kills the enemies that are following them.  He then leads them to Mount Sinai where He gives them His Covenant. (Much as the marriage contract is read in a traditional wedding.) Read Exodus 1 through 20.\n\nIsrael entered into the Promised Land and generations later the nation was split into 2 kingdoms.  Israel was the northern kingdom and Judah was the southern kingdom.  Israel was conquered by Assyria and the people there were dispersed amoung the nations and no one knows where their descendants are now.  Judah was taken into captivity by Babylon but was allowed to return.  They were later conquered again by Greeks and then by the Romans.  \n\nSince the area was called Judea, the nation was called Judah, and the people were called Jews; the unnamed religion of the people became known as "Judaism".
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Do you mean Hebrews or Israelites, Jews an a Israelites are different. A Jew is anyone who relgion is Judaism, it not a race but a religion. Jew is in the Bible but it's a mistranslation, everytime "Jew" is used in the Bible it should read Judah. Judah is one of the 12 tribes of Israel, so calling ALL Israelites Jews is incorrect. Moses was from the tribe Levi not Judah so that means that he wasn't a Jew, Abraham counldn't a descendant of his own great great grandson so he wasn't a Jew ethier. The name Jew should have never even appear in the English translation.\n\nToday many Jews are white, ask ANY Jew, what does it take to be a Jew. They will tell you to convert to Judaism or if your moms a Jew, then your Jewish.\n\nNONE of them will tell you that to be a Israelites you HAVE to be a decsendant of one of the 12 tribes of Jacob/Israel.\nNote all through out scripture the Bible says that genology is ONLY pass through the FATHER never the mom/wife.\n\nWith that been said Jews are not Israelites and Israelites are not Jews. \n\nTO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION: Todays most Jews are descendants of Ashkenaz and Khazar tribes Both are decsendants of Japhet, Genesis 10 1-5 with are European tribes, which is why todays Jews are white. Until when find some evidences of what Isrealites looked like and can proven they are Israelites, then we would know what color they are.
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There is a true God, who has as many definitions as there are people - and then there is a biblical god Jehovah, who was an ancient desert-people deity of storms and thunder who later became elevated to the god of the Jews. Few people ever consider the idea that the genuine "Creator" or "Almighty" is only seen in tiny, rare glimpses in the bible. The real God is in truth and science, and in the highest levels of human logic and understanding. Christians do a disservice to the true God by believing all the mythologies about hellfire and the wrath of Jehovah, but Christianity is a religion as much about mindless obedience born out of fear as it is about salvation and love.
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According to the Jesus myth, Jesus was a Jew who practiced the Hebrew rituals.\n\nIf Christians followed the Jesus myth, they would be attending synagogues and following Hebrew law.\n\nBut they don't, so they don't.\n\nPaul invented the Gentile version of "Christianity" and that is the version adopted by the Catholic church. The majority of the "New Testament" was written by Paul, or someone pretending to be him.
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There were many religions before Christianity. Judaism is one, just the Old Testament. Other religions have multiple Gods and Goddesses. Some have none. Christianity is not the only and not the first and maybe not even the right religion.
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Some of these questions would take a while to answer but I will try to keep this as simple and short as I can,\n\nWho are Judaism's religious leaders?  Most religious Jews study the writtings of their Sages and Rabbis that have lived throughout the ages.  A Rabbi is basically someone who  teaches Jews about Judaism.  Anciently, there was a court called the Sanhedrin that interpreted the laws and how to live by them.\n\nWhat does Judaism think about the worship or use of idols and images?  Strictly forbidden to worship or have images of God.\n\nWhat would their house of worship be?  Anciently it was the Beit Hamikdash (Temple) in Jerusalem.  Today its mostly done in a Synagogue.\n\nWhat are their beliefs about the "Good Life" and life after death.  \nThis one would take a lifetime to answer and there really are no clear answers.  I believe that the majority opinion is that you are simply dead and know nothing until the resurrection.
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They have all missed the boat, here.\n\nThe Jews saw Jesus as a heretic who CLAIMED to be the Son of the living God.  He was a madman who equaled himself to God, and for that he was made to suffer and die.\n\nOf course, the difference here is that Jesus was right.\n\nTo Christianity, Jesus is the God-man, who came into the world to free us from sin.\nTo Judaism, Jesus was a misguided heretic who paid dearly for his false teachings.
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Im not sure I understand your question. The Magen David, or Shield of David is a kabbalistic symbol historically that became our main identifying symbol about 150 years ago. Up until then, it had been the menorah. Being Jewish is both a religion and a backround. If you believe that Jesus was the messiah, then you are clearly NOT Jewish. Either by religion or backround. MEssianic Jews are another story. They are Christians. They are people of Jewish backrounds who are confused, or they are Christians who think that Ha'eretz Yisrael is their birthright. Both are delusional. We believe that the messiah has yet to come, and we hold our traditions and ancient teachings close to our hearts. We are very accepting of people willing to convert, and love to discuss the Torah. There is an old joke about getting 2 Jews to agree on the TOrah. We discuss, argue and question, rather than blindly accept rhetoric. I thank God I am Jewish.
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There was apparently a small sect of Jews who followed a rabbi they called "Christ" which would be really odd since "Christ" is Greek.\n\nBut, ignoring Hebrews who used Greek to describe their rabbi, in 325 CE (ad), Judaism was grafted into paganism by Roman Emperor Constantine and became known as "Christianity" although Constantine never referred to his brand new religion as "Christian," he called it the "Universal (Catholic means universal in Latin) Religion."\n\nThe original "Christianity," assuming it actually existed, died long before Constantine invented his brand new religion and banned its practice (if it existed in the first place).\n\nAnd anyone who refused to adopt Constantine's brand new religion was executed.\n\nThat's a summary of what most people call "Christianity."