Should Christians be classified as members of a denomination of Judaism?

[Boojatta]

[LiberalFighter]

1. They copycat the Jewish religion just like there are different denominations of Christianity.

[dimbear]

2. No. Religions aren't cladist.

Humans are descended from tree shrews, but aren't in general considered to be tree shrews today.

No comparison with any religion intended.

[ZombieHorde]

3. No. Denominations, or sects, use the same material as the parent religion.

New religious movements (cults) may use the old material, but they also use new material and/or material from another religion.

Christianity uses the same material as Judaism, but Christianity also uses new material; The New Testament.

[moobu2]

If so then so should Islamic sects.

[Pterodactyl]

4. Christianity has Jewish roots, but it is so radically different, it cannot be considered the same.

Jesus and his original followers were, of course, Jewish, but the beliefs of Christianity - the trinity, the forgiveness of sins through Christ, the resurrection and more - can't be considered part of Judaism.

[Meshuga]

9. Exactly

They are totally different theologically and they have different goals and focus.

Both religions share terminology but with context so different that the shared terminology between Christianity and Judaism is foreign to each other.

It is really easy to look at Judaism with Christian goggles since we live in a society where Christians are a majority so people generally fall into the misconception that Judaism and Christianity are similar but only separate because they disagree on who is the true messiah. Jews for Jesus, for example, take advantage of this general ignorance to say that their Christianity is Judaism in hopes that they will convert Jews to Christianity.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. They couldn't. Christians proclaimed the Messiah and the Jews decided to keep waiting.

Not to mention Original Sin.

[Rowdyboy]

6. Judaism springs from the descendants of Abraham, likewise Christianity and Islam....

The tree has many branches but its one tree.

[edhopper]

7. Classified by whom?

Aren't religions self-classified?

[BillStein]

8. Just my opionion

but xianity is Greek theology made modern, with a pantheon of saints to supplement the three true gods, and all the difficult parts (circumcision, kosher diet etc.) suddenly irrelevant

[Deep13]

10. Christianity is a distinct religion...

...that owes as much to Platonic dualism as it does to Judaism. The distinction between the sinful physical body and the pure spirit mirror Plato's idea of a realm of imperfect forms and a realm of perfect ideals.

[struggle4progress]

11. IIRC this question was settled quite a while ago