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- religious syncretism
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- Category:Messianic Judaism
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- Messianic Judaism
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- denomination=messianic_jewish
- different from
- Jewish Christian
- opposite of
- Jews for Judaism
- location of formation
- United States
- ethnic group
- Jewish people
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Messianic Judaism is a syncretic Protestant Christian religious sect that incorporates elements of Jewish practice. It considers itself to be a form of Judaism but is generally considered to be a form of Christianity, including by all mainstream Jewish religious movements. Its roots are in Christian missionary activity aimed at Jews in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in North America.
Messianic Jews believe that Jesus was the Messiah and a divine being in the form of God the Son (a member of the Trinity), thus taking characteristically Christian positions on distinctions that number among those that most strongly distinguish Christianity and Judaism. Messianic Judaism is also generally considered a Protestant Christian sect by scholars and other Christian groups.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Messianic Judaism” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.