Hi Peter, welcome to the fiery furnace! Of course Christ was a Jew. He has the pedigree to prove it.
The Messiah's Family Tree
The Family Tree from Adam to Jesus by Arthur Custance
But the dispersed Jews mingled with more than proselytes. Dr. Laura Schlessinger claims to be a Jew although she says her father was not religious and her mother was a Catholic. She married an "Episcopalian" who later converted. As she tells the story it wasn't until she was watching a program on the Holocaust that her young son asked her who the Jews were, to which she responded "they are your people. You are a Jew." Orthodox Jews deny her claim of being Jewish based on the fact that her mother wasn't a practicing Jew. Even after her conversion many... well, nevermind...
As I said, I care less about the Khazars than I do about the claims of modern Jewry. I just threw that out there for the historical information. If you are prepared to show an unbroken line from a Jewish family PRIOR TO the Khazars came on the scene and that continued beyond the Khazars then I am perfectly willing to look at your documentation. The Jews in Spain (and presumably elsewhere) were quite interested in the claims of the Khazarian king because they NEEDED a link to ancient Judaism (see the Khazar Correspondence).
I don't have the time tonight to get into the supposed genetic connection between modern Jews and ancient Israelites based upon evolutionary theories of DNA, but I will caution you that modern genetics can in no way prove the connection that they sought out to prove without a DNA sample from someone like Abraham or Aaron or David to compare to. I have a funny story in my archives of a man named Cohen who interviewed an African from the Bubba-Lemba tribe who had more Cohen genetic markers than he did. I believe it was on the Microsoft Network. Perhaps you can find it by doing a google search.
Grace and Peace,
--C
The Messiah's Family Tree
The Family Tree from Adam to Jesus by Arthur Custance
But the dispersed Jews mingled with more than proselytes. Dr. Laura Schlessinger claims to be a Jew although she says her father was not religious and her mother was a Catholic. She married an "Episcopalian" who later converted. As she tells the story it wasn't until she was watching a program on the Holocaust that her young son asked her who the Jews were, to which she responded "they are your people. You are a Jew." Orthodox Jews deny her claim of being Jewish based on the fact that her mother wasn't a practicing Jew. Even after her conversion many... well, nevermind...
As I said, I care less about the Khazars than I do about the claims of modern Jewry. I just threw that out there for the historical information. If you are prepared to show an unbroken line from a Jewish family PRIOR TO the Khazars came on the scene and that continued beyond the Khazars then I am perfectly willing to look at your documentation. The Jews in Spain (and presumably elsewhere) were quite interested in the claims of the Khazarian king because they NEEDED a link to ancient Judaism (see the Khazar Correspondence).
I don't have the time tonight to get into the supposed genetic connection between modern Jews and ancient Israelites based upon evolutionary theories of DNA, but I will caution you that modern genetics can in no way prove the connection that they sought out to prove without a DNA sample from someone like Abraham or Aaron or David to compare to. I have a funny story in my archives of a man named Cohen who interviewed an African from the Bubba-Lemba tribe who had more Cohen genetic markers than he did. I believe it was on the Microsoft Network. Perhaps you can find it by doing a google search.
Grace and Peace,
--C