Why Jesus was Not a Jew by Banjo_Billy In the first place, Jesus was not a Jew. He was a Hebrew, yes, but not a Jew. It is a common misconception that is actually fostered by the Jews, themselves. The historical facts are these: the Hebrews were the Semitic -language ETHNIC group of people who lived in the highlands of Palestine. As an ethnic group of Semitic people, they had a belief system that was divided into various sects. Just as modern day Muslims can all be called Muslims even though they have divided themselves into two main SECTS called Sunnis and Shiites; and just as modern day Christians can all be called Christians even though they have divided themselves into various SECTS called Catholics, Protestants, Methodists, Presbeterians, etc.; so too were the ancient Hebrews all called Hebrews even though they had divided themselve into several SECTS which they called Pharisees, Sadducees, Scribes, Essenes, etc. They were all Hebrews but they were not all Pharisees. They were all Hebrews but they were not all Sadducees. They were all Hebrews but they were not all Scribes. So, once you understand that the Hebrews as a people all generally followed a certain belief system even though they were also divided into several SECTS, then you can understand why Jesus was not a Jew even though he was, indeed, a Hebrew. Among the Hebrews, the Sadducees followed the teachings of the Torah (the Old Testament) and were generally part of the rich and "politically correct" social climbers of their times, being close to the king and the ruling elite who liked riches and admired Roman culture. While the Torah was generally accepted by the Pharisees, they also followed some extra-curricular beliefs that were invented by their rabbis and which were known as "The Tradition of the Elders". These teachings were mainly various methods of evading the Commandments and for making the rabbis into mouthpieces for God. These Traditions were considered by the Pharisees to be of a higher order than the teachings of the Torah, even though they were basically rules for overturning all of the Laws of God that they had learned from Moses. "The Tradition of the Elders" was an oral teaching that only the Pharisees followed and passed on to their sons. So, when Jesus arrived on the scene, He had a special condemnation for the Pharisees whom he called, "liars, deceivers, hypocrites, murderers and the very children of their father, the Devil." While Jesus had plenty to say against the Sadducees who put their service to God second to their service to making money and enjoying wealthy pastimes, it was the Pharisees upon whom Jesus heaped the hottest coals for their falsifications and rejection of the teachings of the Torah. So can you see that although Jesus taught all of the Hebrews -- of which He was one of them -- he condemned what the Sadducee SECT and the Pharisee SECT and the Scribal SECT were teaching and corrupting. Thus, Jesus was a Hebrew but he was not a Sadducee or a Pharisee or a Scribe. The Hebrew faith encompassed all of these SECTS. And Jesus taught all of them although he was not a member of any of these SECTS. Why would Jesus be a member of a small sect when His Message was for all of the Hebrews and not just some of them? Once you understand this, then the next step is to ask, "Then what are the Jews?" The history plays out this way: After Jesus was crucified by the Pharisees and some of the Saducees (who had bribed and blackmailed Pontius Pilot), these SECTS prospered under Roman rule for another 70 years. But their intrigues against Rome and open rebellions and murders of Roman citizens and soldiers finally forced Rome to act. As punishment for the Hebrews of Judea, Rome attacked Jerusalem and plundered the city in 70 AD and prohibited any Hebrews from ever again setting foot inside that city. All Hebrews in the city were either put to the sword or enslaved in the mines and Roman galleys. And all Hebrews in all of Palestine were ordered to leave and never come back. And from that time the Hebrews began to fan our across the Middle East and Europe in what they call the Diaspora. With their spiritual center of Jerusalem destroyed, what Hebrews who were able to escape and those who were not in the city itself, ran off to the surrounding regions to regroup. Of course, they asked themselves why God had punished them so much. The Sadducees, being believers in the Torah, concluded that in fact they had mistakenly crucified the Messiah. And so, the Sadducees converted to Christianity and disappeared from history as a SECT of Hebrewism. But the Pharisees, being obstinate of heart and corrupt in virtue, and not believing in the clear signs of the Torah as to who the Messiah would be, thought of themselves as superior to the teachings of the Torah. So, these rabbis concluded that they had been destroyed by Rome as a test of their faith in their understanding of the "Tradition of the Elders". This Tradition was an ORAL teaching of the rabbis and which they had elevated to holiness by a belief that these had been secret teachings given orally to Moses, whispered into Moses' ear by God, Himself, and thus superior to the written teachings in the Torah. And so, these Pharisees regrouped and continued the teachings that had been condemned by Jesus as the works of the devil. And since the Saduceees had been converted to Christianity, and the Essenes had been destroyed by the Roman legions, the Pharisees found themselves as the sole inheritors of the Hebrew belief system. And as the sole inheritors of the Torah and the oral Tradition of the Elders, they assumed leadership of all of the remaining Hebrews who followed the teachings of Moses and not the teaching of Jesus. These Pharisees wandered across the eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamia in search of a place to live, since they were forbidden to return to Jerusalem or the country of Judah. And so, they were often asked by the native people, "Who are you and where do you come from?" They did not say that they were Pharisees or Jerusalemites who were condemned by both Christians and Romans. They said that they were from the land of Judea. And they became known as Judeans or, using a shorter pronunciation, Jews. And so, you can now see that Jesus was not a Jew. And that the Jews of today are the very SECT whom Jesus condemned the most. And this is why the Jews hate Jesus and Christianity to this very day because they are the very ones whom Jesus called, "liars, deceivers, hypocrites, murderers and the very children of the devil". The Jews of today are the Pharisees without change, teachings the same evils and vices as they did from those ancient times. And this is why the Jews hate and slander the Ku Klux Klan because the Klansmen believe what Jesus said about the Jews. When someone says, "Oh look!" and points to the moon, people naturally look at the moon and not at he who points. The Jews are experts at pointing their fingers at others to avoid being seen as they are. That the Jews were the primary slave traders all throughout European history up to and including the American Civil War, is something that they hide behind their hypocritical masquerade of being the "friends of black people against white oppression". And so, today, in Jewish media you will find that the Jews point their fingers at the KKK for being "anti-Negro". But in their lies and hypocrisy, they are actually trying to cover up the fact that they were the one's who sold the black slaves to the white Americans in the days when slavery was still legal. And they want to blame others for their own sins while hiding the fact that it was white Christians who freed the slaves, fighting a Civil War that cost a million white people their lives for the sake of freeing the Negros. And they oppose the Klan because the Klan believes what Jesus said about the Jews. That the Jews were the monopoly owners of the slave trade throughout Europe, the Mediterranean and North Africa since pre-Roman times up to and including the slave trade of both North and South American, they hide behind their crocodile tears and their hypocritical grins while they lie and say that today they are the "fellow minority brothers" of the very people whom they enslaved, tortured and oppressed and say they are adamantly opposed to the "white man's oppression of their fellow minority people" -- this in the face of the facts that it was white Christians who ended slavery after it had been in this world since civilization began 12,000 years ago! That the Jews were the sole propriators of the Opium Monopoly that ravaged China and destroyed the lives and fortunes of tens of millions of Chinese, they cover up with the lie that it was the British who spread opium into China and not Jews and only Jews working under British passport. And then to protect the Opium Monopoly of their fellow Jews in India and China, the Jews of England forced the English government into two Opium Wars against China. That the Jews were the originators, inventors, promoters, financial backers and profiteers in the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, they hide behind the lie that they were only revolutionary Russians and not that they were Jews living in Russia and Jews financing the whole revolution from Wall Street banking houses. Mao Tse-Tung did not found the Chinese Communist Party which resulted in the murder and enslavement of a billion Chinese. It was founded by two Jews from Russia. To cover up the fact that Jewish Communism by even the most conservative estimates of the Communist historians, themselves, is responsible for the death of one hundred million people since 1917, the Jews promote a fraud that tries to make six million Jews more important than the one hundred million that they are responsible for murdering, starving and torturing. Now, do you understand why Jesus was not a Jew?