Was Jesus Muslim?

Oxy said:
As Jesus started Christianity, was he therefore by default a Muslim?

Is the Muslim religion older?

If he wasn't a Muslim what religion would he have been? Did he believe in the Christian God?
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You're asking if the founder of Christianity believed in the Christian god. If he didn't and was using it as a scam to gain power, nobody would know. It's rather more likely that he believed in what he was saying.

You seem to be mistaking Islam for Judaism. Judaism is version 1 of the religion, Christianity is version 2 and Islam is version 3. Islam didn't exist until about 600 years after Jesus died, so he can't have been a Muslim without a lot of time travel being involved. He was a Jew, though. Same god for all 3 anyway, although there are people who dispute that.
 
Monserrat said:
Same here. I took touch-typing lessons in place of RE when I was 13/14. Employers will look more favourably when they see an RSA level II on the CV.
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Depends on the job. If your in a job where you have to interact with anyone, ever, it might be advantageous to know what they believe, their practices etc.

Personally I would be a bit miffed if you cost me money because you offered a bunch of muslims a free bacon butty with the koran they just ordered.
 
Angilion said:
You're asking if the founder of Christianity believed in the Christian god. If he didn't and was using it as a scam to gain power, nobody would know. It's rather more likely that he believed in what he was saying.

You seem to be mistaking Islam for Judaism. Judaism is version 1 of the religion, Christianity is version 2 and Islam is version 3. Islam didn't exist until about 600 years after Jesus died, so he can't have been a Muslim without a lot of time travel being involved. He was a Jew, though. Same god for all 3 anyway, although there are people who dispute that.
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Christ didn't found Christianity, he was the primary subject figure of a Messianic Jewish Sect that grew into Christianity based on his teachings which were primarily Jewish albeit influenced by the Messianic and Hellenistic ritual influences of John the Baptist. Christ was his Title (almost certainly not used by him) not his name.
 
Evidence of Jesus being a Muslim:

*tumbleweed*

Evidence of Jesus being Jewish:

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Case closed! I love posting in religious threads with this username. :)
 
Castiel said:
Christ didn't found Christianity, he was the primary subject figure of a Messianic Jewish Sect that grew into Christianity based on his teachings which were primarily Jewish albeit influenced by the Messianic and Hellenistic ritual influences of John the Baptist. Christ was his Title (almost certainly not used by him) not his name.
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True, but not a counter-argument. I never claimed that Christ was his name, so I'm not sure why you mentioned that. If you want some more irrelevant details, Christ wasn't his title either - it's an Anglicised transliteration of the Greek title.

The detail of whether Jesus founded Christianity as a spin-off from Judaism or the more detailed statement that he founded a form of Judaism that became a spin-off from Judaism that became Christianity is irrelevant to whether or not he believed in the god that's common to Judaism and Christianity, which was the point in question.
 
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