What is the difference between Judaism and Christianity? Arent they both similar in some ways?
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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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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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Islam and Christianity are both monotheistic faiths(One GOD). The Koran even mentions people like Moses, Noah, Adam & Eve, Isaiah, and Jesus. But they differ on who Jesus actually was. So if christians believe that Jesus is Divine and Muslims don't then they don't worship the same God. Judaism should also be included. but again they differ on the subject of Jesus.
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""Jews" for Christ," also called, Messianic "Jews," are not Jews! \n\nMany people, Christians and some Jews as well, erroneously believe that just as one can be Black and Christian, just as one can be Oriental and Christian, one can also be Jewish and Christian. It is not true. The Jews are not a race. There is no genetic code passed from either mother or father to the child that makes that child a Jew. Even if all, or some, of the genetic code in a child could be proved to be of Jewish Origin, that would not make the child a Jew. Jewish law determines who is a Jew, and Jewish law is quite clear. If a person's mother is a Jew, and that person has not converted to another faith, then that person will be considered fully Jewish, so long as that person wishes to identify solely as a Jew. Although one cannot convert to become a member of a race, one who converts to Judaism does, indeed, become fully a Jew. Similarly, if one converts from Judaism to another faith, one is no longer a Jew.\n\nMessianic "Judaism" is a product of the successful missionizing campaign of such ministries as the "Jews" for Jesus, who try to make it look as though one can be a Jew and a Christian at the same time. BY definition, one who believes in Jesus as their savior is a Christian. One who accepts Jesus as anything other than a man who once lived, but died without doing anything the Real Messiah will do when he gets here (hence the reason for a Second Coming!), is a Christian and no longer a Jew.\n\nThe Orthodox Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, writing for the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, for the National Conference of Synagogue Youth, the Orthodox Youth Group, in his book The Real Messiah, on page 21 wrote:\n\nThis brings us back to our original question: \nWhat can a Jew lose by embracing Christianity? \n\nThe answer is: Everything. \n\nChristianity negates the fundamentals of Jewish \nfaith, and one who accepts it rejects the very \nessence of Judaism. Even if he continues to keep \nall of the rituals, it is the same as if he \nabandoned Judaism completely. \n\nA Jew who accepts Christianity might call himself \na "Messianic 'Jew,'" but he is no longer a Jew. \nHe can no longer even be counted as part of a \nJewish Congregation.\n\nWe Jews define for ourselves who is and who is not a Jew, and not the Jewish wannabees, and the targets of this newest technique in missionizing Jews. \nAs a matter of fact, the majority of their members were not ever Jewish up until recently, and this is also true about their messianic ""rabbis."" Many of them change their names to something that sounds stereotypically Jewish, in order to better target those they want to convert to Christianity.\n\nAs the success of this newest technique in missionizing the less knowledgeable Jews increased, the percentage of membership of ex-Jews as members of their messianic congregations has also increased, now running about 50-50.\n\nIt is also interesting to note that a large number of people converting TO Judaism have come to real Judaism from having been exposed to Messianic ""Judaism."" \n\nWhat you should expect at a messianic congregation is that all references to Christian theology has been changed to make it sound more Jewish, and therefore more pallatable to their targets. They will only refer to Jesus as 'Yeshua' (which would not have been his name), they will say 'moshiach' instead of 'christ,' they will say 'synagogue' instead of 'church,' and on and on, in keeping with the techniques described in the book Understanding Church Growth by Donald MacGavran, who helped the idea of Indiginous Cultural Evangelism get started. \n\nThe services will sound very Jewish, usually a lot of (mispronounced) Hebrew, and prayers will have been changed to add the Christian theology of Jesus to them, again, to make the service more f
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The Jewish 'bible' is the Christian Old Testament. We recognize Moses and Abraham and basically everyone in the Old Testament as true men of God. We differ on the person of Jesus Christ. The Jews, overall, reject Him as the true messiah. Whereas Christians believe He's the one that was to come. We're both monotheists, meaning, we believe there's only one true God. Unlike Hindus who believe in many gods.
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The same reason christians and jews are.
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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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Christians use the creation story from the Jewish Bible -- Genesis.  The main difference is that Jews do not believe in "original sin."  We believe that all humans are created as a blank slate -- we become good/evil according to our choices and actions.\n.
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2,000 years of history proves that the Jews were right!\n\nThe Jews ARE special.\n\nThey read the Bible in the original language with NO translation or interpretations.  No VERSIONS.\n\nThey have it straight.\n\n\nThere are 45,000 Protestant Churches in the U.S. because NONE of them agree on what Christianity is.\n\nChristianity murdered Jews, Jews never murdered Christians (except by individuals).\n\nChristians banned Judaism, Jews never banned Christianity.\n\nWhich religion behaves like 'Jesus'?  Not Christianity.\n\nVirgin Birth, Immaculate Conception?  99% of Christians don't know the difference.
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no\nthere are three distinctions.  jews, gentiles, and the church (christians)\njews- physical desendents of abraham\nchurch- believers on Jesus as God\ngentiles (or nations)- everyone else
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There was apparently a small sect of Jews who followed a rabbi they called "Christ" which would be really odd since "Christ" is Greek.\n\nBut, ignoring Hebrews who used Greek to describe their rabbi, in 325 CE (ad), Judaism was grafted into paganism by Roman Emperor Constantine and became known as "Christianity" although Constantine never referred to his brand new religion as "Christian," he called it the "Universal (Catholic means universal in Latin) Religion."\n\nThe original "Christianity," assuming it actually existed, died long before Constantine invented his brand new religion and banned its practice (if it existed in the first place).\n\nAnd anyone who refused to adopt Constantine's brand new religion was executed.\n\nThat's a summary of what most people call "Christianity."
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Very similar.  Greek Orthodoxy is a national church.  Catholicism is more universal in its leadership an application of faith.  Calendars for feast days do differ at times.  Prayers, saints, liturgies are similar.
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Simple answer:\n\nAll religions (except Biblical Christianity) teach that one can reach God on their own merit by performing certain rituals or ceremonies and generally being "good." \n\nChristianity teaches that there is nothing you can do to get to God and that your own merit falls far short of reaching God. The others teach man reaching to God. Christianity teaches God reaching to man.\n\nThose are the similarities.\n\nhope this helps.
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Jewish is a religion, but Jewish is also a race of people. Jewish is the newer word for Hebrew. Jesus is Hebrew/Jewish
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Catholicism is most definitely NOT Christianity. If you people knew both of the religions, you would be able to make the distinctions between the two. Christianity may have derived from Catholicism, but they are not the same things.\n\nJust thought I'd clear that up...
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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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Judaism:  The Religion of the Hebrews\n\nThe Jewish religion was unique in the ancient world because it was monotheistic.\n \nAlmost 2,000 years ago, many Jews were forced to leave their homeland in Palestine. This diaspora, or scattering of people, sent Jews to different parts of the world. Wherever they settled, Jews maintained their identity as a people by living in close-knit communities and obeying their religious laws and traditions. These traditions set Jews apart from other people. Yet they also helped them survive centuries of persecution. \n\nJudaism is numbered among the world's major religions for its unique contribution to religious thought as well as its influence on two later religions, Christianity and Islam. Both these faiths, which also emerged in the Middle East, were monotheistic. Jews, Christians, and Muslims all honor Abraham, Moses, and the prophets, and they teach the ethical world view developed by the Hebrews.