"but he didn't build his church on Judaism, "
Jesus said he did, and you say he didn't.....who to believe?
"The Gospel of Matthew begins with a
recitation of the long lineage of Jesus, to demonstrate that the Nazarene son of Mary descended from both Abraham and King David. This is not coincidence: It is necessary to establish Jesus’s messianic credentials according to the Hebrew Bible.
... it is impossible to extricate Jesus and his mother from Judaism. Indeed, from a Christian perspective, the great tragedy of the life of Jesus is that he came first of all to redeem the Jewish people (“He came to his own, but his own did not receive him,”
John 1:11), and through them, all the world."
Actually the Jewish people, and adherence to the Bible were the light unto the nations.
In Matthew, Jesus makes that clear......
Matthew 5:18, the eighteenth verse of the fifth chapter of the
Gospel of Matthew in the
New Testament and is part of the
Sermon on the Mount.
Jesus has just reported that
he came not to destroy the law, but fulfil it. In this verse this claim is reinforced.
Matthew 5:17–18 is a key text for interpreting the Sermon on the Mount and the entire gospel of Matthew:
Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Here Jesus says that
not one iota (jot) or dot (tittle) will pass away from the law. These most likely refer to the smallest strokes of the Hebrew alphabet, indicating that the Old Testament is completely trustworthy, even to the smallest detail. This is consistent with Jesus’ attitude elsewhere. Never do we find Jesus disagreeing with Scripture.
There is a single religion based on the Ten Commandments......the Judeo-Christian faith.
