Are Jews generally more open-minded than Christians?
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Who's to say? I think I am, but hey!
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Yes a follower of Christ is a Christian... please get to the point... Jews do not follow Christ, they cannot be called Christians. Muslims believe in Jesus but not that He is the Christ so they are not Christ followers. Im not yelling at you but cant you see why we cant come together and say "we're all christians" because we are not and Jews and Muslims will never say they are.
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I think in the case of religion, far more people are influenced by family than anything else.  The two largest religions, Christianity and Islam do not foster an atmosphere where questioning the foundations of the faith are encouraged.\n\nThis is the exact opposite in Judaism.  Jews are required to analyze their religion and question everything.  For thousands of years Jews have gathered together to discuss various facets of their religious beliefs.\n\nSo when a person is born into a Christian family, they tend to consider themselves part of the clan, so to speak, and these people are usually not independent enough to start asking the tough questions.\n\nEvery once is a while a person without any previous bias will look for a particular faith to adopt.  They read and ask questions, and then hopefully find a religion that satisfies them.
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Why do you think they are?  God created mankind equally.  Show me in the Bible where God says that Jews will be "better at everything" than those who are not Jews.  The Bible teaches me, as a Christian, to be humble.  Not to gloat.  \n\nGod bless! :)
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A great question.  I suspect tha answers have a lot to do with the evolution of Christian doctrine, because I don't believe Jesus viewed his message that way - Jesus focused on love and forgiveness, and on enjoying the gift of God we call life.\n\nCertainly the earliest Christians followed Jewish traditions, which were not necessarily negative.  The Apostle Paul focused on what he considered the abundant grace of God, particularly in allowing the Gentiles (non-Jews) into the Kingdom of God.  For Paul, born and raised a strict jew, this was an amazing thing.\n\nThe Jews were known in Roman times to oppose the licentiousness of many Romans (you recall how we got our word "orgy" from the Romans?), so it's easy to see how the early Christians maintained this opposition to much of the sexual immorality of the times.  Rome also had a barbaric streak in it - we only have to consider the gladiator fights to the death in the name of entertainment to see how Christians would be opposed to much of the prevailing world order.\n\nAs Christianity became the state religion in 325, under Emperor Constantine, the church began to assert their power.  Theology now mixed with politics, and the threat of damnation became more real, using excommunication to intimidate believers into following the established orthodoxy.  Excommunication later became Inquisition after the Crusades, and the Catholic Church taught heavily that nonconformists risked damnation.  Of course, this was as much to maintain their power as it was about theological and moral purity.\n\nToday, there are many Christians who see God as loving and forgiving, and some don't even believe in hell at all.  A Christian is not someone who subscribes to a certain set of doctrines; a Christian is someone who has placed their faith and trust in God as revealed in Jesus, who Christians follow as their savior.  Christianity is not a monolithic group of people who hold to the same beliefs - the Reformation changed all of that, and today Christianity continues to evolve and mature as a faith.\n\nI wonder what motivates your question - do you believe in a loving God, or do you question whether you are lovable, just as you are?  Christians believe God loves us, not because we are good at obeying God (none of us really are, if we're at all honest), but because He created us, and wants to have a spiritual relationship with us.  The heart of the Gospel, the good news, is that God loves us just as we are, and forgives each and every wrong we have ever committed or will commit.  Our trust in God and His son Jesus is sufficient for our forgiveness.\n\nFor those who do not believe in Jesus, I am not their judge.  The same loving God who forgives me and judges me will also judge them, and He loves them no less than He loves me.  I trust His judgment for them as well.\n\nI hope this helps!  If you want, feel free to drop me an email for more info - I'm a Sunday School teacher, and love to help others learn more about the faith.\n\nBlessings and peace to you!
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someone said "a true christian will not hate the Jews.they are gods chosen people" \nThen why don't you convert to Judaism, so you would be one of the chosen ones too? \nJust wondering? truly no offense is intended.
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I'm not a Messianic Jew (not jewish at all), but I think this is a false delineation -- Christianity and Messianic Jews agree on the divinity and purpose of Christ.\n\nIt's just that Judiasm is not just a "religion" but also a culture -- and a very rich one at that.\n\nBy becoming "Christian," Messianic Jews run the risk of rejection from the mainstream Jewish culture, but they still want to preserve the rich heritage that belongs to them -- and since they were brought up in that Jewish heritage, they have an approach and background to God that a non-Jewish Christian does not have. \n\nThey have some really interesting insight that the mainstream Christian church does not have. (After all, Jesus was Jewish and grew up in a Jewish culture, and the Old and New Testaments are best understood from that angle -- whereas modern Christians have very little understanding of the Jewish context of Jesus' life.)\n\nIt's probably FAR too simple to view them as a "denomination;" but I am saying that it's not really that Messianic Jews and Christians differ in basic belief about Jesus, but rather in how their faith is practiced and what knowledge and history they bring to the table.
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we also believe that not all so called Christians will. but there will be a lot of Jews in heaven.
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That is about my perception as well. As a Jew I cannot fathom how Christianity developed out of Judaism. The Christian god cannot be the same as in Judaism the difference are just to staggering.
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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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if Christians came from Jews, why are ther still Jews?
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The Jews and the Christians have the same God.  They both believe the old testament.  Jews just don't believe that Jesus Christ was God's son.  They believe in the same God, but the Jews just have a different name for God (just like Savior, Father, the Holy Spirit).  I woudl know, I'm Jewish, but I used to be a Christian.
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Judaism has many aspects: to be Jewish is an identity that is ethnic, national, and religious.\n\nChristians are not Jews. Firstly, Jews themselves do not regard as such, which in and of itself disqualifies us. \n\nSecondly, St. Paul called those of us from a gentile background "gentiles." What he felt he had converted them to did not convert them into Jews, and indeed, he expressed his objection to some Judaizing members of the church, such as the Jerusalem Christians who visited once in a while.\n\nNot even Jews believe that having favour with God requires one to be Jewish. As to our own religion, the early Christians pinned their entire salvific hopes on faith in Christ... that is why St. Paul so famously said, "circumcision is nothing, and uncircumcision is nothing."\n\nWhile Christians would certainly believe Jesus founded Christianity in the moment he said, "You are Peter, and on this rock I found my church," it is important to note that the word "Christian" would not originate for another ten years or more, in the church at Antioch.
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This question has been asked many times over the centuries. There are some who believe that Christ was pointing the way to a greater knowledge of God, not to Himself as the Savior of mankind. Some Christians have converted to Judaism after having pondered this point.
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I would think, for Jews, there is sufficient reason to be Jewish, and not sufficient reason to be Christian.  Part of the sufficient reason to be Jewish is being born into it (for most Jews) and believing in one God, rather than the metaphorical, hypothetical, and mystical Trinity.  The reasons you mentioned certainly contribute to wanting to keep to the Jewish community.
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When Christians speak to God or about God they mean the same God that Abraham and Isaac and company had their dealings with.  In that sense they embrace rather than deny their Jewish heritage.\n\nIf you mean why don't they interpret scripture according to Jewish tradition and why do they sometimes (ok, often) reach different conclusions--then the short answer is because it's a different religion.\n\nChristians believe that Jesus revealed new truths as well as new rules for understanding and living by the established Jewish law.  Also, from a historical point of view, Christianity's early spread was among Greeks and Italians and others.  Bit, it had relatively few Jewish converts.  The, early church were not particularly attached to Judaism to begin with, so it is an indirect heritage--academic, but not ingrained.\n\nMaybe Christian are offended by your efforts because your premises that the Bible is not literally written by God and is prone to human corruption is a challenge to values they hold dear and rely on to provide consistency in daily life.
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I think most folks will have their minds open (or closed) to both sides, even before they give it a chance.\n\nYou have to admit, the tolerance shown by Christians regarding this book, "the DaVinci Code", the so-called Jesus Seminar, the "Last temptation" -- far more benevolent than some other religions.\n\nI think if you have truth on your side, you don't have to be defensive.   Just forgiving.