Who are Jews and gentiles?

Answer 1

Gentile is a someone who isn't Jewish. Gentiles can be of any religion.

A Messianic Jew is Hebrew nationality by birth, follows the Hebrew Religion, and believes in Jesus Christ and the New Testament. Allow a Messianic Jew believes in Jesus, a Messianic Jew still follows all the laws of the Old Testament.

Answer

As the majority of those who refer to themselves as "Messianic Jews" have no Jewish ancestry at all, there really is no difference between Gentiles and Messianics. The Messianic movement is just Christianity that has taken some Jewish traditions and applied Christian meaning to them.

Answer 2

The tribes of Israel and Judah are presumably the ancestors of modern Jewry. And the history of Torah is about bloodlines. Although in practice it has been acceptable to take on converts, theoretically I don't think one can convert one's bloodline. However, the problem here is, most Jews are white, and the question is, why are we white? So who are the Jews and who are the Gentiles? Perhaps we are both. Years ago a Jew was not only a bloodline Jew he/she believed in Torah, Talmud and Oral Law. Nowadays a Jew is still a Jew by blood even if they don't share such beliefs.

Jew/Gentile names are unimportant, what is important is to respect Him who created us all, and respect those who He created, no matter colour or creed or shape or faith.

Answer:

The above answer is completely garbled.

1) Jews are those who were born Jewish; descendants of Jacob in the Hebrew Bible. Plus those who converted to Judaism according to Jewish law.

2) "Gentiles" means non-Jews: everyone other than the Jews.

Isn't that simpler and more readable?

Answer 3

A Gentile is generally taken to mean non-Jewish person. Not necessarily a Christian, but anyone who is not an adherent of Judaism.

The term is a translators "fix" for the Hebrew term goy or annokhri or the Greek word ἔθνηt.These terms generally mean other "peoples" or "nations" who were non-Israelite peoples or nations. It wasn't until the time of the Roman Empire's conversion to Christianity that "gentile" became the equivalent of "non-Jew".

As a secondary usage Mormon (the Church of Latter Day Saints) may use the term gentile to refer to all non members. This would make both Jews and Christians (along with everyone else) "gentiles" in their view.

Answer 4

A Gentile is anyone who isn't Jewish.