I dislike the use of the phrase “Judeo-Christian.”
Why?
First, there is no such thing as a “Judeo-Christian” religion. Even the Jews recognize this. Observe:
“You will notice that a great difference exists between the Jewish and the Christian religions. But these are not all. We Jews consider the two religions so different that one excludes the other...we emphasized that there is no such thing as a Judeo-Christian religion... There is not any similarity between the two concepts...” —Rabbi Maggal, President, quoted in the National Jewish Information Service, August 21, 1961
Jews have abandoned the faith of Abraham in place of the traditions of the scribes and Pharisees. Also, Christianity does not have “Jewish roots.” It has nothing to do with the tribe of Judah nor the religion of Judaism, both of which the term “Jew” accurately reflects.
Second, the purpose of the phrase “Judeo-Christian” is to give credit for the good and wonderful things of Christianity to people whose rejection of Jesus forms the core of their identity.
We must stop lumping in an alien religion that holds its additional holy book (the Talmud) as of equal or greater authority than the Bible, just as Muslims (the Qur’an) and Mormons (the Book of Mormon) do. There is no “Judeo-Christian” morality any more than there is an “Islamo-Christian” or “Mormono-Christian” morality.
If God’s people are going to rebuild Christianity in the same way Christ’s apostles did in the first century, we must be just as exclusively Christian as they were. We have to dispense with the fantasy that a religion that has rejected the true Israel—Christ Jesus—has anything more to do with the Christian faith than Muhammad’s or Joseph Smith’s fantastical fabrications.
“I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. ... No one comes to the Father except through Me.”
Not through Moses.
Not through Muhammed.
Not through Moroni.
Only Jesus. Only Christian.