Jewish Christianity

Jewish Christianity does not refer to Jews who become Christian or to Christians who become Jews, but to an early heretical sect which believed that the Law of Moses had not been fulfilled and so had to continually be obeyed.

They are condemned by the Apostle Paul in the Epistle to the Galatians, and all later Jewish Christian sects rejected Paul, branding him a false apostle.

See also

• Ebionites - A Jewish Christian sect which denied the divinity of Jesus and survived until the 7th century
• Epistle to the Galatians - An epistle of Paul which condemned those who were teaching that Gentile Christians must follow the Law of Moses
• Elkasaites - A Jewish Christian sect with Gnostic influences that existed in Persia
• Islam - A religion partially influenced by Arabian Jewish Christianity
• Mani Hayya - The major prophet of Manicheaism who grew up in a Jewish Christian community