The Branch Davidians have many theological beliefs in common with Messianic Judaism

* Messianic Judaism

Some Christians agree that Jews who accept Jesus should still observe all of Torah, see for example Dual-covenant theology, based on warnings by Jesus to Jews not to use him as an excuse to disregard it, and they support efforts of those such as Messianic Jews ( Messianic Judaism is considered by most Christians and Jews to be a form of Christianity ) to do that, but some Protestant forms of Christianity oppose all observance to the Mosaic law, even by Jews, which Luther criticised as Antinomianism, see Antinomianism # Antinomian Controversies in Lutheranism and Luther # Anti-Antinomianism for details.

The most well-known of these is Messianic Judaism, which arose in the 1960s.

Some members of the movement are ethnically Jewish, and some of them argue that Messianic Judaism is a sect of Judaism.

Jewish organizations and religious movements reject this, stating that Messianic Judaism is a Christian sect.

Other examples of syncretism include Judeo-Paganists, a loosely organized set of Jews who incorporate pagan or Wiccan beliefs with some Jewish religious practices, like Messianic Judaism ; Jewish Buddhists, another loosely organized group that incorporates elements of Asian spirituality in their faith ; and some Renewal Jews who borrow freely and openly from Buddhism, Sufism, Native American religion, and other faiths.

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" The Messianic Idea in Judaism.

* The Concept of Messiah in Messianic Judaism

Judaism believes that Jesus is one of the false Jewish Messiah claimants because he failed to fulfill any Messianic prophecies, which include:

Some of Messianic Judaism considers its Sabbath to be kept according to Jewish doctrinal tradition, while most of Rabbinic Judaism disagrees.

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Many Messianic Jews celebrate Passover, observing all or most of the traditional observances, but adding additional readings or sacraments found in Christianity and Messianic Judaism.

* Messianic Judaism: A rabbi's journey through religious change in America by Carol Harris-Shapiro ( Beacon Press, 1999 ) ISBN 978-0-8070-1040-2

By extension, this may have later led to the idea of "' the son of man '," an eschatological Messianic figure, within Judaism.

Messianic Judaism derives most of its liturgical influences directly from Judaism.

Messianic Judaism is a syncretic religious movement that arose in the 1960s and 70s.

Messianic Judaism generally holds that Jesus is both the Jewish Messiah and " God the Son " ( one person of the Trinity ), though some within the movement do not hold to Trinitarian beliefs.

Belief in the messiahship and divinity of Jesus, which Messianic Judaism generally shares, is viewed by many Christian denominations and Jewish religious movements as a defining distinction between Christianity and Judaism.

Furthermore, Messianic Judaism generally asserts that the Messiah has a dual aspect as revealed in Scripture.

Messianic believers generally consider the written Torah, the five books of Moses, to remain in force as a continuing covenant, revised by Jesus in the New Testament, that is to be observed both morally and ritually.

Messianic Jews generally consider the entire Christian Bible to be sacred scripture.

Messianic Jews — who generally seek to combine a Jewish identity with the recognition of Jesus — are rejected by mainstream Jewish groups, who dismiss Messianic Judaism as little more than Christianity with Jewish undertones.

The important phrase Kingdom of Heaven, generally understood as referring to the Messianic age after the Second Coming.

Judaism also holds that Jesus is not the Messiah, arguing that he had not fulfilled the Messianic prophecies in the Tanakh nor embodied the personal qualifications of the Messiah.

Jewish eschatology holds that the coming of the Messiah will be associated with a specific series of events that have not yet occurred, including the return of Jews to their homeland and the rebuilding of The Temple, a Messianic Age of peace and understanding during which " the knowledge of God " fills the earth, and since none of these events occurred during the lifetime of Jesus ( nor have they occurred afterwards ), he is not a candidate for messiah.

Many Messianic Jews affirm the doctrine of the Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit as three representations of the same divinity.

Messianic allusions to some figures include to Menahem ben Hezekiah who traditionally was born on the same day that the Second Temple was destroyed.

Many were moved in the same direction by mystical Messianic reasons ; and their views attracted the enthusiasm of Menasseh Ben Israel, who in 1650 published his Hope of Israel, in which he advocated the return as a preliminary to the appearance of the Messiah.

In the modern day, there are various " Sovereign Sanctuaries " that claim a jurisdiction over the Rite, claim the same history as Yarker did ( while not mentioning him ), but also state they are exclusively " Christian in thought " and reserve the right to prohibit membership of " those who do not profess a strong believe in Jesus the Christ ", and espouse that " the Rite is Christian in its nature due to the majority of the Rituals Degrees being based upon the Christian Tradition of the New Testament, the Rite reserves the Right to only admit those that have a firm believe in Jesus The Christ, such as any Christian Master Mason, Muslim Master Mason or Messianic Jew Master Mason.

At the same time, many miracle-workers made their appearance among the Jews of Poland, as even famous rabbis of that time devoted themselves to kabbalistic practices, this mysticism culminated in a series of false " Messianic " movements, and Sabbatianism was succeeded by Frankism among the Jews of Poland.

" Some Messianic believers profess only a strict view of monotheism, rejecting Trinitarian doctrine, but this is not common.

Messianic Jews believe Jesus ' first role as Messiah was to rescue the world from spiritual bondage, and that he will return again to rescue the world from physical oppression and establish his unending Kingdom — again, a belief that is identical to the normative Christian view of the Messiah.

David H. Stern has released a one-volume Jewish New Testament Commentary, providing explanatory notes from a Messianic Jewish point of view.

Most Messianic believers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish, can be said to oppose supersessionism ( popularly referred to as replacement theology ), the view that the Church has replaced Israel in the mind and plans of God.

The two-house view, and the one law / grafted-in view are held by many identifying as Messianic, although some Messianic groups do not espouse these theologies.

The catastrophe that came upon the Pyrenean Jews made such an impression upon the minds of the best among them that many saw therein the signs of Messianic travail, ( compare Jacob Berab ); and Karo, according to a contemporary, took this dark view throughout his life.

The majority view of classical rabbis was that the commandments will still be applicable and in force during the Messianic Age.

While the historicity of the gospel accounts is questioned to some extent by some critical scholars and non-Christians, the traditional view states the following chronology for his ministry: Temptation, Sermon on the Mount, Appointment of the Twelve, Miracles, Temple Money Changers, Last Supper, Arrest, Trial, Passion, Crucifixion on Good Friday (,), Nisan 14th (,, Gospel of Peter ) or Nisan 15th ( Synoptic Gospels ), ( 7Apr30, 3Apr33, 30Mar36, possible Fri-14-Nisan dates ,-Meier ), entombment by Pharisees Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus of the Sanhedrin, Resurrection by God on Easter Sunday, appearances to Paul of Tarsus (), Simon Peter (), Mary Magdalene (,), and others, Great Commission, Ascension, Second Coming Prophecy to fulfill the rest of Messianic prophecy such as the Resurrection of the dead, the Last Judgment, and establishment of the Kingdom of God and the Messianic Age.

Limited atonement is contrasted with the view popularly termed hypothetical universalism or unlimited atonement, which is advocated by Arminian, Methodist, Lutheran, Messianic Jewish, and Roman Catholic theologians ( among others ) and which says Christ's work makes redemption possible for all but certain for none.