hobbs27
Senior Member
Hobbs,
You mentioned that the patriarchs weren't Jewish because they believed Jesus was the Messiah. With that line of thinking then Jesus couldn't be Jewish either. I'm sure he believed he is the Messiah. Matrilineality in Judaism is the view that people born of a Jewish mother are themselves Jewish. I'm not an expert in the matter myself.
I've heard Jesus referred to as the King of the Jews but I'm not sure who referred to him a such. There is scripture of Jesus being the Great High Priest although that doesn't exactly make him Jewish. Jesus is considered a priest in the order of Melchizedek.
Was Melchizedek Jewish?
Maybe in some way we can rule out that Jesus was not Jewish but then we are still stuck on that thing that he was physical and that he had a physical resurrection.
So we are back to the physical vs spiritual dilemma of the whole Christianity thing.
Art, The patriarchs weren't Jewish because Judaism didn't exist in their day. Judaism is a term explaining the beliefs of those of the house of Judah. Both the patriarchs and Jew's looked to the future coming of the Messiah, and many Jew's accepted Christ as the Messiah when He came. Those that accepted Him were the true Israel, those that denied were apostates, and we're destroyed in the days of vengeance.. IE 70 ad
Melchizedek also was before the house of Judah, and was not a Jew.