Of course, if you consider Jesus' apostles the first Christians (cause for Jesus I'm not sure you can really say it counts as he is not supposed to be divine, so can he really have a religion if he is himself part of God?), they were born Jews and just thought they were following a Jewish prophet (historically it also seems that Jesus was actually an assassenean, which was a specific branch of Judaism)
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A gentile is anybody who is not a Jew. So a gentile Christian is a Christian who is not a Jew.
Christians believe that our religion was brought to us by the Lord Jesus Christ who was a Jew, and the first Christians were all Jews. The Jews were the apple of God's eye and are still very precious to Him.
Jews are not 'Christians' because if they were, they would be known as 'Christians', and not as 'Jews'. To put it in other words: As a 'Jew', the individual is, by definition, a 'Jew' and not a 'Christian'. Were that individual to become a 'Christian', he would then no longer be a 'Jew'. By the same token, my Aunt is not a bicycle, and my dogs are not watermelons.
The term 'Jew' comes from the 4th son of Israel, Judah, who God gave the 'Sceptre' promise to. Christians believe the promise was fulfilled by Jesus Christ.
Baisically the old testament
Because Christianity is the fulfillment of Judaism.
I think it was Jew... I don't think there were Christians then.
Of course not.
Abraham was the first Jew. Judah's only contribution was that the word "Jew" comes from "Judah".
No. Jesus, while a Jew himself, explicitly taught that his New Gospel did not require one to be a Jew. Thus, to be a follower of Jesus' teaching, one did not have to first be a Jew. In fact, the vast majority of converts to the new Christianity were Gentiles (i.e. non-Jews).
Only idol-worshipers are known as pagans. Christians and Muslims are not. The proper term for a non-Jew is a Gentile.