Judaism Tries To Invade Christianity

Some disciples witnessed only to Jews
For several years, not clearly aware
That Jesus died for all, and the good news
Of redemption was for mankind to share!
Their puffed-up attitude towards Gentiles*
Was not in accord with Jesus; teaching;
They would walk many out-of-the-way miles
To avoid Gentiles, not even spealing!
When a non-Jew asked to be baptized,
He must a Judaic convert become;
By a rabbi he was first circumcized,
And then an adult bar mitzvah would come!
It took a clear thinker like Saul** to clense
The new sect of this false perverted sense!

*Gentiles = every non-Jew in the world; **Saul = Paul

The Israelites, God’s Chosen People, had strayed far from God’s teachings by the time Jesus, the Promised Messiah, came to earth 2000 years ago. Not only were they disobedient, idolatrous and wicked; they misinterpreted God’s meaning in just about everything He instructed them. Jesus devoted most of His first sermon (the Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5-7) correcting the meanings they had been taught by the teachers of the Mosaic Law and Pharisees. These He had the greatest anger and scorn for. Read Matthew 23 for the scathing denunciation He gave them in the temple in Jerusalem. One denouncement, for example, reads:

“ ‘Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.’ “ (Matthew 23:13)

Jesus blamed the religious leaders for Israel’s strayibg and their breaking the covenant relationship with God. One of their worst sins was that of considering Gentiles inferior to them. The Pharisees had inculcated the people with rules about not mingling with Gentiles; even after they became Christians, Jewish believers would sit at separate tables from Gentile Christians in dining at church. Another misinterpretation was the great importance they placed on keeping man-made rules--- keeping the rule was more important than showing love to others. For example, the Pharisees scolded Jesus about allowing His disciples to pull an ear of corn and eat the grains on the Sabbath, because they had a rule not to work on the Sabbath, keeping the rule was more important than feeding the hungry.

Since most or all of the first believers in Jesus were Jews, they had a terrible time shaking off these Pharisaical rules after becoming believers saved by grace. Many continued to observe the Judaistic customs, and some demanded that Gentile believers first convert to Judaism before being baptized. Saul (or Paul) knew that bringing Judaism into Christianity would fatally cripple the new faith. He fought the “Judaizers’ throughout his life and succeeded in making a clean break between the two religions.