In Their Own Words 1: A Jewish Sect is Formed

So I've begun listening to an interview I did back at the beginning of my trip, with my SK friend Samson.  Samson, as you may recall, is from a small village in Kenya, which only very recently began practicing Jewish-ly.  (Click here for the original post on his interview.)
The following is an excerpt I found particularly interesting in which he describes the split which occurred in his community.

Samson at his prefect swearing-in ceremony at Semei Kakungulu Secondary School, 7/7/11.

It started that we were Messianic people in Left Valley and we met another Messianic group in Central [province].  After we met them we stayed together until we had to separate after a visit of the Nairobi Hebrew Congregation...
We claimed to be Jewish--we are following Judaism, though we were Messianic Jews.  Messianics believes that we have two types of Jews--physical Jews and spiritual Jews...they say for them they are Jews inside, but not Jews physically...
After they [the Jewish visitors] came they gave us a short lesson about Judaism and according to some people they were willing to learn from them but others they said no.  They explained more about Jesus--who was Jesus.  That's what brought the split between the two groups.
Because some of the Messianic Jews know Jesus as God or son of God.  So it was very hard to tell them that Jesus was a human being, not God.  But they [the visitors] said he was a son of God, like I'm a son of God.  Same as me.  We are all God's children--but he had no way of saying that for him he's over us--he was an ordinary person.  Some couldn't believe that.
[To] the group which split, they say--if I want to learn about America, and you are an American.  And I say, I need to know more about America--I can't know more than you know, because you belong there.  And you can't know more about my father than I do.
[This last part was the explanation for why they trusted the visitors and decided to split from the Messianic group.]


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