Can you tell me about the Evangelical attitude towarsd Jews?
356391
I don't know where you got that information from as it is wrong.\n\nThe bible itself predicts the Jews returning to Israel from all over the world after the state of Israel as a Jewish state is reformed (1948) and evangelicals also read the same bible that the Jews do and believe in the same God.\n\nBible believing evangelicals also know that through the Jewish people the whole world will be blessed.\n\nAlso Jesus the Jewish messiah will be returning to Israel.\n\nSo far from wanting to exterminate the Jewish people - the church is beginning to realize a love for the Jewish people and that the church will one day be the only friend that Israel will have in the world.
212524
Christians are not being guilt tripped by Jews, they are being guilt tripped by their own Christianity.\n\nSo, the remedy is for everyone to renounce Christianity and convert to Judaism!
537680
^Have you read the Talmud?  Have you studied it?  Can you understand it?  Do you know what it is?\n\nLet us not forget that the Old Testament is Jewish and the christians accept it in it's entirety.  Jews have to wait until Yom Kippur for forgiveness, even assuming your premis to be correct.  Cross-kissers can simply fess up at their convenience, mumble a few incantations and kiss a ring or a  statue to get theirs.  Protestants have to earn forgiveness, except for those sects who are doomed from birth (other than the select chosen ones.\nIf your question was intended to be anti-Semitic, it was a poor effort.  If it wasn't, learn a little about racism before you open your mouth because yours is blatant. \n\nAs for other racist books, try most anything put out by the monks in the Middle Ages.
501777
It's ironic that so many anti-Semites consider themselves good Christians, isn't it. Thanks for a brilliant post.
507640
The answer is partly religious and partly economic.\n\nThe Jews are historically one of the tribes of Israel and the popular belief amongst Christians is that it was the Jews who decided that Jesus (who was himself a Jew) should be put to death by crucifixion. This lead to centuries of dislike of jews by European christians.\n\nAlso from biblical times onwards Jews became prolific traders and merchants throughout Europe and the new worlds, displaying a talent for business, but a reputation for being mean and penny pinching. This is a consequence of any immigrant population becoming succesful in front of the indigineous people. It breeds jealousy.\n\nTherefore as the years rolled on, and jews became more distributed around the world, but simultaenously very succesful in business and politics resentment also built up and they became figures of hate and ridicule in most european countries.\n\nClearly that came very much to a head follwoing the German surrender in the first world war, where many Germans believed that they had been betrayed by Jewish German industrialists, when the German Army hadnt actually been defeated.\n\nThis led to the rise of the Nazi's and the systematic murder of 6 million german jews. Not as often reported but just as horrific was a similar campaign against Jews in Communist Russia. \n\nAfter WW2 the world community decided to give the Jews a homeland, back where they originally came from in a British adminstered area of North Africa called Palestine.\n\nSome of the other Arab tribes, who have now defined themselves as Palestinians took exception to this and have waged a 40 year war against the jews (Israelis). They have been helped in this by just about every other Arab country, but the Israelis have prevailed.\n\nThe sad thing is that Jews and Arabs both have a right to occupy that land as hiostorically thats where they both originated from.
809087
Christians don't think that.  What is your point?  Paul rebukes the Jewish Christians for telling the Gentiles to get circumsized.  We are to place our trust in Christ and not works or rituals.  We are to have the heart and mind of Christ.  Neither Greek  nor Jew, but we are one in Christ.
762579
it is the jewish belief that jews were chosen to have a special mission on earth - to spread the word of G-d and to be a "holy people" - i.e. by following the commandments.\n\nas for chosen in the sense of having "special priveleges", no. we believe that G-d loves and accepts everybody, regardless of which religion they belong to. there's no creepy "be a jew or go to hell!" doctrine in judaism like there is in certain other religions.
533700
I don't think that there's really a way to answer this question.  I know a couple of people who were once Catholic and are now Jewish, and they seem to still have a lot of respect for Catholicism.\nJudaism is less focused on sin, I think, and more about following the commandments and being good.  Of course, if you mess up you still feel guilty.  \nI find that most things are hard because I know what you are supposed to do, and the 'evil inclination' pulls me the other way, not because religion is trying to tell me to do something that's against my nature.  It's not really that hard to keep kosher, for ecample, it's just hard to have and keep the will to do it.  Does that make sense?
687841
Peter was a Jew who staunchly upheld the old law to a fault. he expected all new converts, no matter their culture, to adopt Jewish ways. He critized Gentile Christians for not keeping a kosher diet. God used this vision to show Peter how he was being legalistic. That Jesus Christ accepts all races and cultures, and that the "letter of the law" was not what God had in mind.
1184989
I have one big problem with your statement. Exactly how many Jews have tried to convert you? Jews have no inclination, and quite to the contrary according to Judaism there is no reason for you to convert. All people are judged on our actions not what faith we espouse. So from a Jewish perspective the only thing that truly matters is if you live a Just life or not.\n\nAnyone who claimed to be Jewish and tried to convert you had no concept of what Judaism is.
211020
There is a whole book on that subject.\nThe jist of it is that charity and love are required of Christians, not condemnation and hate.\n God's Politics (English)\n(Why The Right Gets It Wrong And The Left Doesn't Get It - ISBN: 0060558288)\nPrice range: $9.68 - $20.76 from 15 Sellers\n\nPublisher: Harpercollins\n\nFormat: Hardcover\n\nMSRP: $ 25.95\n\nSynopsis: In this call for a faith-based politics, evangelical Christian Jim Wallis excoriates both the left and the right in America for their mistaken positions on religion, a dispute which leaves the rest of us bereft and spiritually poorer. In his view, the left opts out by stubbornly refusing t... Read More
729569
Yes, I have. I think it's completely wrong to think that the Jews have to keep the law while we have to believe in Jesus. Jeremiah 31 says that God would make a completely new covenant with the Jews that would be different than the one he made when he brought them out of Egypt. Therefore, there is only one true covenant, and that's the New one --- Christianity.
305954
I'm not quite sure I understand the question.  As a Jew I am not anti-Christianity. (not even sure what anti-Christianity would mean).  I believe differently than Christians, but I can respectfully agree to disagree. I also disagree with Muslim beliefs.  In fact I even disagree with some Jewish people's beliefs!  (such as reform, reconstructionists, etc.)  \nIn short I'm not anti anybody except evil people like Hitler, Bin Laden, and so on, (if you could even call them people)...
1084092
I would say that while obviously Reform Judaism is nothing like any form of Christianity. But, if you are making comparisons then I suppose Reform Judaism is to Liberal Protestant Christianity as Orthodox Judaism is to Greek Orthodox Christianity.  The liberal end of the spectrum does less liturgy and will have less emphasis on how to live out the morals of the faith.  At the same time, the liberal end of the spectrum is going to be more accepting of those who practice immoral behavior.  If you want to find gay Jews you are much more likely to find them in the Reform rather than amoung the Orthodox.  Generally it is the same in Christianity.  You are much more likely to find gay Christians in a liberal denomination like the Metropolitian Community Church than you are in a fundamentalist church.\n\nBut at the same time I want to avoid saying anything too harsh about them either.  The Reform movement is at least still making a point of contact with Judaism, even though it isn't the fully observant Judaism that Orthodoxy requires.  \n\nSince I study with Chabad, my views on this are tempered by their approach.  They can't be too harsh in their approach with the Reform because that is one of the groups they draw new members from.  If they were too harsh, they would turn people off to Orthodoxy rather than drawing them in.  Their message is "you can do better -- there are more mitzvot that you can perform".\n\nKeep studying Torah, and keep working on improving how you live your life.  Reach upwards, HaShem meets us where we are and calls us to keep going further.
704436
I am not a Jew but I spent a year in Israel and worshipped with Messianic Jews and have friends among them. I've been to Messianic Jewish churches in England too. I know how they think.\n\nMost of the answers above are inaccurate.\n\nIn Israel there are many Christians like you who want to respect and adopt the Jewish tradition. I warn you strongly against it.\n\nRead Galatians and Acts 15. The early Church had to square up to the issue of whether or not gentiles should obey the Torah, and came down firmly against it. It leads to re-enslavement, this time to the Law, which Christ died to set us free from. We do His will by the help of the Holy Spirit, not by attempting to keep the Law, which we will fail at anyway.\n\nThe Christians I've met, mostly in Israel, who start to dabble with Judaism begin by worshipping on Shabbat (Sabbath), keeping the Jewish festivals and using Hebrew terminology. Many become more and more influenced until they believe we have to obey all 613 commandments in Leviticus. There are even extreme cases who ditch Jesus altogether. I knew a New Zealander in Jerusalem who had been baptised in the Spirit and spoken in tongues for 15 years or so. He became convinced that Judaism was correct and that Jesus was a deceiver and, in fact, (God forgive me for repeating this) that He was Satan.\n\nBEWARE!
322984
Evangelicals in the US are persecuted in the same way Germans were persecuted by Jews in the 1930s.  \n\nIt's a lie told to justify violence against those who disagree with them.
288999
Honestly, in my mind Israel is connected with Christianity and a couple of nice people whom I know from there, also of course rumors of the funny little greediness u have and a really special way to make business :)