How is it posible that the Christians accept Jesus as Son of God, when the Jews don't?
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The basic beliefs of Christianity about Jesus are against what the Bible says, and so Real Jews cannot believe in Jesus at all.\n\nThe Christian understanding is that the Messiah, Jesus, died for the sins of the people. The messiah is supposed to be a human sacrifice that is the blood sacrifice necessary for the forgiveness of sin.\n\nBut we are taught in our Torah that no one can die for the sins of another. In Deuteronomy 24:16 it specifically says this:\n\nDeuteronomy 24:16 The fathers shall not \nbe put to death for the children, neither \nshall the children be put to death for\nthe fathers: \nevery man shall be put to death for his \nown sin (eesh b’chet-o yumatu).\n\nIn Exodus 32:30-35, Moses tries to offer himself to atone for the sins of the people. To be written out of Gd's book, means to be written out of the Book of Life, which means Moses was asking to die for the sins of the People. Gd's response is No, it does not work that way, each man dies for his own sin:\n\nExodus 32:30-35 And it came to pass on the \nmorrow, that Moses said unto the people, \nYe have sinned a great sin: and now I will \ngo up unto the Etrnl; perhaps I shall make \nan atonement for your sin. And Moses \nreturned unto the Etrnl, and said, Oh, \nthis people have sinned a great sin, and \nhave made them gods of gold. Yet now, if \nthou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, \nblot me, I pray thee, out of thy book \nwhich thou hast written. And the Etrnl \nsaid unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned \nagainst me, him will I blot out of my \nbook. \n\nThe whole of chapter 18 of the book of Ezekiel is about this idea, that no one can die for someone else's sin. Further, this chapter of Ezekiel teaches us that all we have to do for Gd's forgiveness is to stop doing the Bad and start doing the Good, and Gd will forgive us:::\n\nEzekiel 18:1-4; 20-24; 26-27 .....Behold, all \nsouls are mine; as the soul of the father, so \nalso the soul of the son is mine: the soul \nthat sinneth, it shall die. Eze 18:20 The soul \nthat sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not \nbear the iniquity of the father, neither shall \nthe father bear the iniquity of the son: the \nrighteousness of the righteous shall be upon \nhim, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be \nupon him. But if the wicked will turn from all \nhis sins that he hath committed, and keep all \nmy statutes, and do that which is lawful and \nright, he shall surely live, he shall not die. \nAll his transgressions that he hath committed, \nthey shall not be mentioned unto him: in his \nrighteousness that he hath done he shall live. \nHave I any pleasure at all that the wicked \nshould die? saith the Etrnl Gd: and not that \nhe should return from his ways, and live?.... \nEze 18:26 When a righteous man turneth away \nfrom his righteousness, and committeth \niniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity \nthat he hath done shall he die. Again, when \nthe wicked man turneth away from his \nwickedness that he hath committed, and doeth \nthat which is lawful and right, he shall save \nhis soul alive. \n\nSo, the Bible is clear, no one can die for the sins of another, and this means that Jesus cannot die for anyone else's sins.\n\nChristians also believe that one needs a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sin, that one who does not have such a blood sacrifice will die in their sins, and go to hell, except for the sacrifice of Jesus.\n\nThis, too, is UnBiblical. The Bible describes blood sacrifices for the forgiveness of sin in the Book of Leviticus. But it is in Leviticus itself, in the middle of the discussion of the sin sacrifices, that we are taught that we do not need a blood sacrifice to be forgiven for our sins. Offering a blood sacrifice was an expensive thing to do for the family offering the animal. Was forgiveness then, to be only for the rich? No, because if one could not afford a blood sacrifice then one who sins could bring flour, which has no blood and no life as their sacri
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Christianity never saw itself as a "new religion". Rather, the early Jewish followers of Christ saw the faith as the natural continuation of the Jewish faith. They continued to go to the synagogues and preached that Jesus was the long-awaited Messiah. In time, the separation became complete as a majority of Jews rejected Christ as the Messiah.\n\nThe main difference is that Jewish people still wait for the prophecies of the Messiah to be fulfilled -- while Christians believe that the prophesied Messiah has been revealed/fullfilled in Jesus Christ.
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Jews are not supposed to have any particular beliefs, positive or negative, about Jesus.  He's simply not part of the religion.  Same would be with Buddha, for example.\n\nIf you intend to invoke the question of "Liar, Lunatic, or Lord," The Jewish answer would be "None of the Above," because the 'L3' argument is based on acceptance of the New Testament as historical record. Only Christians would view the New Testament as a valid historical record, not Jews.
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I believe so.  Christians follow Jesus as their savior.  Their savior just happens to be Jewish.  He took part in these observances.
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They have all missed the boat, here.\n\nThe Jews saw Jesus as a heretic who CLAIMED to be the Son of the living God.  He was a madman who equaled himself to God, and for that he was made to suffer and die.\n\nOf course, the difference here is that Jesus was right.\n\nTo Christianity, Jesus is the God-man, who came into the world to free us from sin.\nTo Judaism, Jesus was a misguided heretic who paid dearly for his false teachings.
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ok........ Jews Do NOT belive that any one person can be a child of god.. We all are, and No jews would not accept some one as a leader if they where the antichrist, even though we as jews do not belive in such a thing
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Son of God can be applied to other people besides Jesus, and it does apply to other people in the Bible.  It would be like saying Child of God.  It does not mean divine necessarily.\n\nAnyhow, Christians do see Jesus as a unique son of God, the Divine Son of God.  They feel that if he was just a man, he would not have been able to forgive people's sins by his sacrifice on the cross.  But if he is divine, and totally perfect, then he would have been a perfect sacrifice, and he can act as a mediary betweeen them and God, whom they see as totally unapproachable any other way.\n\nWhy do you believe he was a Prophet?  How do you know anything about what he said and did?  All our knowledge of what Jesus said and did comes from the New Testament, so if you believe parts of it, why not the whole thing?  I know that you think that the Qur'an gives correct information on Jesus and all that came before, BUT WHY DO YOU BELIEVE THAT?  Why not believe that the Prophet Muhammad was just speaking what was on his mind about it, giving his own human interpretation, and was NOT delivering the message of God?  \n\nYou believe this on faith, I would say.  Similarly, Christians believe what they do based on faith.
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USA Christians supports the Jews because they are their descendants even though they killed Jesus.  They have long forgiven the Israelites.
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Because the New Testament tells of Jesus and the early Christians. The Jews never accepted Jesus as their Messiah. They did not understand that Jesus had come to set up a spiritual kingdom in the hearts of men. Their interpretation was that the Messiah prophesied to come would overthrow their oppressors. Jesus being born a humble carpenter, and continually exposing the self-righteousness of the religious leaders of that day meant that they rejected him from the very beginning.
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Unlike some people here on Y!A, i will only speak for the group of which i am a part, namely, for Jews. \n\nJesus is to the Jews what the Buddha is to Christians, Jesus is Irrelevant. He was another false messiah in a whole succession of false messiahs, some of whom were mentioned in the Christians' new testament as well.
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Okay... let me start off by stating that "Jews" and "Hebrews" are one and the same. They are an ancient people, and "being Hebrew" is both a religion and an ethnic group. Those who have Jewish descent but are not "religious" are called "secular jews". A person can also be of the Jewish religion without being born a Hebrew.\n\nAs to whether or not they "believe" in Jesus, it is a complicated matter. Almost all people of the Jewish faith believe that there once was a rabbi named Jesus. The true issue is whether or not he was the Son of God.\n\nThe Old Testament does not make mention of Jesus by name, because by the very nature of the Bible, the Old Testament is mainly about the times before Jesus; it is about the history of the Jewish religion. There are many passages in the prophetic books of the old Testament that makes mention of a "Messiah" or "Savior" of the Jewish people. The coming of the Messiah was to mark the victory of the Jewish people, bring them back to the former glorious days of King Solomon. This Messiah was said to be a King of Kings, and would lead the Hebrew people out of the bondage of their enemies.\n\nEnter Jesus. His time was during the Roman Empire, when Rome had overtaken the Middle East, and has captured Jerusalem. The Hebrew people were under the rule of a pagan king, and there was a small but determined group called "Zealots", that prayed for the coming of the Messiah to lead them out of their captivity. When Jesus comes on the scene, He preforms miracles, and tries to teach the people how to live better lives. He tells people to love their neighbors and to treat others as they'd like to be treated. Jesus proved His divinty time and time again, yet still even His disciples were unable to fully believe.\nThe Jewish leaders of the time could accept that a poor rabbi from a nondescript part of their nation was the foretold Messiah. Why, he was not a great king... how could He ever lead them to victory over the Romans? And so, they begin to plot to have Him killed... He is disrupting their people... causing a revolt, some say. It is not He that is bringing the glory and attention to Himself, it is the people, witnessing to others about the miracles He had done for them. Blind men could see, dead were raised to live again, and food was made from near nothingness. It was all too much. He had to go.\n\nFor those who do not understand the Jewish religion, it is difficult to fully appreciate the sacrifice that Christ made on the cross. It might all seem like a gory, twisted sotry. But in the Hebrew faith, there was no atonement for sin except through the spilling of blood. If you stole something, you must sacrifice something for forgiveness. Typically, it was the purest, whitest lamb or animal one possessed. By this shedding of blood, one was forgiven their transgression. However, the sins of the people had become too great for lambs to pardon, and a larger sacrifice was needed. That sacrifical lamb, that pure innocent life, was the Son of God, Jesus Christ.\n\nTo this day, most Hebrew people are still waiting for the coming of their Messiah. It is in this point that Christianity branches off from Judism. Christians believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God, the Messiah. Jewish people do not accept His divinity. That is the critical difference.
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As a matter of fact there are some Jews who believe that Jesus is the Son of God. They have a website actually, though I can't remeber it now. I think it's called Jews for Chirst or something like that. They are in the minority however.\n\nI do know many Jews are put off by Jesus Christ, because many arrogant people (including some Christians) like to blame the Jews for the death of Christ. They seem to forget that GOD KILLED CHRIST. Not the Jews, not the Romans. God killed his own son, because it was part of His plan for the redemption of mankind.\n\nI also think because of all of the warnings about idol worshiping and false gods in the Old Testament some Christians (not all) tend to be a little over hyper about their attitude towars people of other religons. They don't truly mean any harm, you understand. But there is no need to degrade some one else's religon because they belive differently then you do. I don't think God's impressed with that. Just the oposite.\n\nI do believe God is concerned about our faith. I also believe God will be concerned when we stand before him about how we treated the Jews, Muslims, Gentiles the Non-Christians, if you know what I mean.\n\nYes I am a Christian.
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If Christians came from Jews, why are there still Jews around?
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Messianic Jews and Jewish Christians are essentially the same entities, but they are certainly not oxymorons. The Old Testament, or Hebrew Scriptures as Jews call it, prophesies about a coming savior who Christians believe is Jesus Christ. However, traditional Jewish thinking does not accept Jesus as this savior, nor does it accept the New Testament. There is a small amount of Jews, however, that do believe Jesus is the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecy, hence the name "messianic" (as in messiah aka savior). Basically, the messianic Jew who practices his/her religion will most likely adhere to the traditions and beliefs of the Jewish faith with the exception of believing that Jesus is the savior from the Old Testament. It's just like Judaism, adding the fulfillment of prophecy of Jesus Christ into the faith.
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Actually if you read bible then you would see that it were Jew scholars who said that the blame will be on us and our children as they thought that it was a noble task they were going to perform. And still Jews think that what they did was right as they still do not believe that Jesus was the one promised in their scriptures.\n\nOn the other hand the teachings of Christians do not allow them to harm Jews or take revenge of the death of Jesus as he did not die on the cross. If he did die on the cross then why the ointment was put on his wounds? Surely he did not die on the cross. If they think that he died on cross then they should accept that he died a cursed death and hence do not blame Jews for that as Bible itself says that whoever dies on cross dies a cursed death. This also proves that he was not the Promised Messiah and whatever Jews did to him was right. But since Jesus survived from cross he did not die a cursed death.\n\nIt is Koran which tells us that he was neither crucified nor murdered. That means he died a normal death and hence was a noble prophet of God.
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Not true.   The Jewish religion believes that Jesus Christ was a great prophet, but not the Son of God.  The Bible says otherwise.
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Christians do not hate and judge the Jews. Many people who call themselves Christians do, however. The Jews are our older brothers in the faith of Abraham. They have some things wrong, but they have a lot of things right, also. I don't believe that they are any more theologically wrong than Catholics, Unitarians, or Mormons. They are just wrong on different issues. I believe that many people from each of those other groups will be invited into God's Kingdom, but Paul wrote that "all Israel will be saved."\n\nYou are absolutely right that Jesus was a Jew. In fact, ALL of the early Church was Jewish. Every book in the New Testament was written by a Jew except for Luke and Acts, and those were written by a full proselyte to Judaism.\n\nIt's also important to know that the JEWS DID NOT KILL JESUS! The whole world is guilty of his blood, but not a single drop of it could have been spilled if that wasn't his plan from the beginning. He chose to die and went willingly with the gentile Roman soldiers who nailed him to the cross. \n\nThe Jews are our brothers in the faith, and they deserve respect as the preservers of a God's laws, including the prophecies which Jesus has fulfilled and those which he will yet fulfill. Did you know that the traditional Jewish passover is packed with symbolism of Jesus? Most Jews have never heard that, and would probably deny it vehemently. Even today, they preserve and continually repeat prophecies of him that most Christians have never heard!