Jewish roots of Christianity
Salvation comes from the Jews
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Jesus was a Jew.
Paul was a Jew--a Pharisee of Pharisees.
Luke portrays the earliest Christians worshiping "in the Temple daily."
The Jews have a permanent, covenantal relationship with God.
Messianic Jews
Strange blend of old and new.
Essentially Protestant literalists, but with a new twist: they apply Torah to themselves, just as the first generation of Christians did (Jesus, Paul, the mother Church in Jerusalem).
"Messianic" because "Messiah" is the Hebrew (Jewish) word for "Christ."
Some of the dynamism in Protestantism comes from the quest to return to the original form of Christianity. Measured by this standard, the Messianic Jews outdo all other Protestants, for they resurrect a form of Christianity that died with the destruction of the Temple in AD 70.