Why do Jews have a day of atonement and they don't believe in Christ Jesus?
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Jews believe in God, the same God that christians worship, the God of Abraham, the God of Moses, etc.  They believe in sin and in forgiveness.  The day of atonement is the day to seek forgiveness for sins.
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Bible students are encouraged to consider:\n\n: 0% of faithful biblical Jews celebrated birthdays\n: 0% of first century Christians celebrated birthdays\n: 100% of birthdays celebrated in the bible were by debauched enemies of God (See Mark 6:17-29; Gen 40:19-22) \n\nBible historians (M'Clintock, Strong, and others) have noted that faithful Jews of the bible did not celebrate birthdays, and that ancient pagan birthday celebrations were at least partially intended to honor the patron gods of the particular day.\n\nBy comparison with such paganisms, the bible does not even tell us the birthdates of Jesus or ANY of his apostles!\n\n\nJehovah's Witnesses practice strict political and nationalistic neutrality, so they do not celebrate nationalistic holidays such as Independence Day and Memorial Day.\n\nOther holidays derive from false religion, and so are incompatible with pure worship as adulterating interfaith. For example, Easter derives from the pagan god Oestre and celebrates "rebirth" and "fertility" instead of commemorating Christ's Last Supper and death as Jesus commanded:\n(Luke 22:1-22) [Jesus] dispatched Peter and John, saying: “Go and get the passover ready for us to eat.” ...14 At length when the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. 15 And he said to them: “I have greatly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer; 16 for I tell you, I will not eat it again until it becomes fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” ... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.”\n\nSeemingly innocuous holidays may have only a tangential connection with false worship, such as Mother's Day and Father's Day (although arguably derived from ancestor worship). Understated observance of these is not generally considered interfaith by Jehovah's Witnesses, but it is too easily misunderstood in some cultures.\n\nSince such celebrations are not required in true worship, and can easily become a distraction, so Jehovah's Witnesses focus their attention elsewhere. In particular, they are focussed on the preaching work which *IS* a requirement for Christians:\n\n(Luke 10:1-17) [Jesus] the Lord designated seventy others and sent them forth by twos in advance of him into every city and place to which he himself was going to come. 2 Then he began to say to them: “The harvest, indeed, is great, but the workers are few. Therefore beg the Master of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/e/20050101a/article_01.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/rq/article_11.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/w/2000/12/15/article_01.htm
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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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Jews do not believe that Jesus was the G-d of son. He was just one of the false prophet and troublemakers in our history that caused us lots of hardship. He was a Heretic and turned his back on his fellow Jews and G-d - he did not follow the laws of the Torah. \n\nYou can call Jesus whatever you want - he can be your messiah/boyfriend/G-d or whatever - I really don't care. We try not to think about him and don't associate ourselves with that traitor. But once again, I respect what you believe and - I just don't see how you don't understand our point of view.\n\nThe reason why Jews have so many rules is because G-d gave the Torah to the Jews (when they were in the desert - on Mount Sinai). Therefore only the Jews have to listen to its laws. They are many laws and they are strict but they become a way of life. Actually they define our lives and set our goal in life. \n\nI don't see how anyone can live without the guiding hand of the Torah.
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It is not that the Jews are blind, it is that Christians see the Hebrew Scriptures through Jesus-colored glasses. Since they read the Christian's New Testament first, then the TaNaCH, they see the TaNaCH through the lens of Christianity. If read on its own, with no knowledge of, or belief in, Christianity, the Hebrew Scriptures would not be seen as being about Jesus.\n\nJews dont see the Christian interpretation in Isaiah 53, because it contradicts what the Hebrew Scriptures, the Bible says, clearly and consistently, in at least 3 places:\n\nIn Exodus 32:30-35, Moses tries to offer himself as an atonement for the sins of the people. To be written out of God'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. God's response was "No, it does not work that way, each man dies for his own sin:"\n\nExodus 32:30-35\nAnd it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses \nsaid unto the people, Ye have sinned a great \nsin: and now I will go up unto the Eternal; \nperhaps I shall make an atonement for your \nsin. And Moses returned unto the Eternal, and \nsaid, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, \nand have 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 which \nthou hast written. And the Eternal said unto \nMoses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him \nwill I blot out of my book...nevertheless in \nthe day when I visit I will visit their sin \nupon them.\n\nIn Deuteronomy 24:16 it specifically says this:\n\nDeuteronomy 24:16\nThe fathers shall not be put to death for the \nchildren, neither shall the children be put to \ndeath for the father. Every man must die for \nhis own sin.\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 God's forgiveness is to stop doing the Bad and start doing the Good, and God will forgive us. Nowhere in this chapter does it say that we have to have a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins.\n\nEzekiel 18:1-4; 20-24; 26-27\n.....Behold, all souls are mine; as the \nsoul of the father, so also the soul of the \nson is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall \ndie....The soul that sinneth, it shall die. \nThe son shall not bear the iniquity of the \nfather, neither shall the father bear the \niniquity of the son: the righteousness of the \nrighteous shall be upon him, and the \nwickedness of the wicked shall be upon him. \nBut if the wicked will turn from all his sins \nthat he hath committed, and keep all my \nstatutes, 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 Eternal God: and not \nthat he should return from his ways, and live? \n\nSo, either Deuteronomy 24:16, "Every man must die for his own sin" does not mean that 'every man must die for his own sin,' and the Christian interpretation of Isaiah 53 is correct, or the Christian interpretation of Isaiah 53 is not correct, and Deuteronomy 24:16, 'Every man must die for his own sins' means exactly what it says.\n\nFurthermore, Jews read Isaiah up to (and including Isaiah 53) and Isaiah repeatedly refers specifically to the Jews as Gd's servant. Read Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 44:21; Isaiah 45:4; Isaiah 49:3; Isaiah 44:1; Isaiah 48:20 and Isaiah 49:7 \n\nLets concentrate on Isaiah 43:10::\nIsaiah 43:10 \n"You are my witnesses, saith the Etrnl, and my \nservant whom I have chosen: that ye may know \nand believe me, and understand that I am he: \nbefore me there was no Gd formed, neither \nshall there be after me." \n\nThe above verse refers to the Jewish People in the plural, when Gd
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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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They don't celebrate the Christian holidays, because they are all based on Pagan holidays:\nAll Souls (saints) Day, Halloween/Samhain\nChristmas/Yule, WInter Solstice\nEaster/Oestre\nGroundhog Day (I know, not Christian)/Imbolc\n\nRejection of Holidays\n\nOne of the more well-known practices of the Jehovah's Witnesses is their non-celebration of holidays. All holidays, including birthdays, are considered "pagan holidays" and may not be observed by Witnesses. The official website of the Jehovah's Witnesses explains:\n\n    Jesus never commanded Christians to celebrate his birth. Rather, he told his disciples to memorialize, or remember, his death. (Luke 22:19, 20) Christmas and its customs come from ancient false religions. The same is true of Easter customs, such as the use of eggs and rabbits. The early Christians did not celebrate Christmas or Easter, nor do true Christians today.\n\n    The only two birthday celebrations spoken of in the Bible were held by persons who did not worship Jehovah. (Genesis 40:20-22; Mark 6:21, 22, 24-27) The early Christians did not celebrate birthdays. The custom of celebrating birthdays comes from ancient false religions. True Christians give gifts and have good times together at other times during the year. {1}
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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!
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No, honey, we don't! We try to follow very closely in Jesus' footsteps as to our behavoir, and Jesus was Jewish. Jews did not celebrate birthdays..they celebrated a persons life accomplishments at their death. The only birthday celebrations mentioned in the Bible are two that involved brutality and false religions. In our family we recognize the birthday,(how could you not?) but we don't make it a big deal or do any kind of celebrating or making the day above another. Thank you for your attitude in asking! It helps when someone who has a question about Witnesses asks in such a non-combative and inquisitive way!!
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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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"Jews" for Jesus are not Jews, and there is no difference between them and fundamentalist Christianity, who are the ones paying for such ministries as the "Jews" for Jesus who missionize 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\n""This 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. \n\nThe majority of the membership of Messianic ""Jewish"" congregations, as a matter of fact, were not ever Jewish up until recently, and this is also true about their Messianic ""rabbis."" Many of these "rabbis" 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\nAt a messianic congregation, 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\nTh
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Actually, No, the Jews of Jesus's day rejected the message of Christianity, as is evident from the Christian's New Testament itself. Repeatedly in the Christian's New Testament, when the Early Christians would go into the synagogues and preach, or even just explain what they believed, they would get kicked out. \n\nThe reason why this was so, is that the Jews to whom they preached recognized the story of Jesus in the stories of other Hellenist and Mediteranean gods. For example Mithra, who was born of a virgin human by a god for a father, who was born in the Winter, and who died in the Spring, and who came back to life three days later, and whose death and resurrection was proof for those who believed in him that they, too, would not die. Mithra was the patron god of the city of Tarsus, where Paul, called by many the true founder of Christianity, was born and raised. See also Dionysus, Attis, Ra, Adonis, and other gods that pre-date Christianity. Even Hercules had a human mother and Zeus for a father.\n\nWhen Christianity failed to take hold among the Jews, that is when the Early Christians took their faith to the non-Jewish world, and made it more attractive to the non-Jews by removing from it, Biblical requirements of keeping the Biblical laws, especially those of keeping kosher and circumcision.\n\nIn Jesus's day, (as now) the vast majority of those Jews who converted to Christianity were very assimilated, very Hellenized Jews, to whom the story of Jesus would have sounded very familiar.
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Jews do not believe Jesus is the Messiah, so yes, they are still waiting on him or her.\n\nThey believe in a Covenant with God as seen in the Ten Commandments, the Noahide Commandments, and the laws expressed in the rest of the Torah (First Five Books of the Bible.)\n\nThey believe in one God and deny all other gods. (That used to be a big deal, not so much anymore.) (BTW, Allah, Jewish God, and Christian God are generally accepted as being the same or a similar being, just worshipped differently.)
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It's a historical thing. Ever since the advent of the Christianity, there has been lots of anti-Semitism. Popes encouraged the poor treatment of Jews, and in other countries whenever anything went wrong Jews were blamed. \n\nIn medieval times, the Church forbade Christians from charging interest of anything. This meant that no Christians wanted to be moneylenders, so Jews took up the role. This has led to the idea that all Jews are rich and stingy, although this was one of the few jobs Jews were allowed to do.\n\nMany Christians also think that Jews are "Christ-killers" and hate Jews for killing their God. They also think Jews are stubborn for not believing in the Messiah that they believe already came, and will come again. Jews believe that   a messiah has not come.\n\nUnfortunately, it hasn't changed much. People still have a perception that Jews are rich and stingy (much like the stereotype that all Asians are smart) and this shows in TV and high schools. "Jew" is a common insult for a frugal person. If you pick up a quarter on the ground in the average high school, you are likely to hear an anti Semitic joke.\n\nWhat's more, Hitler jokes and Nazi music are become increasingly popular. \n\nIn Europe, there has always been even more anti Semitism. The birthplace of Hitler is a holy place for Neo Nazis, and in France Jewish graves are commonly "decorated" with swastikas.
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I am not familiar with why the JW's do not celebrate Christmas and birthdays.  \n\nI do know why I do not celebrate Satanic holy days.\n\nChristendom has been taught to ignore God's holy days.  Most could not even name ONE of God's holy days.  Yet, believers in Christ are instructed to keep them.  God said they are to be perpetual throughout all generations.\n\nThis lack of care for God's instructions stems from the notion that the Old Testament is Jewish and the New Testament is for the "Church".  This notion has been taught and handed down through the centuries and modern Christians believe it.\n\nThe mystery of the gospel is this:  All those who by FAITH believe in God and His Son, Jesus Christ inherit the Promised Land.  God's people are the "elect"...those who have faith in Him alone.  God's people are to obey Him and His instructions for living.  But, modern Christians have tossed out God's instructions for living by saying that "grace" has replaced "law".  The "law" is for the Jew they say.  And I agree...because the New Testament tells us who the "true Jew" is.\n\nPAY ATTENTION:\n\n"For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:\n\nBut he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God" \n\nRomans 2:28-29\n\nAlso, to the believers in Galatia, Paul wrote:\n\n"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.\n\nAnd if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise."\n\nGalations 3:28-29\n\nTrue Jews are those who believe in Christ.  God's people have always been those who by faith believe Him.  This is the mystery of the gospel.  \n\nSo, the "Israel of God" are his people who have FAITH in him.  It has always been so.  And anyone who has faith in Him demonstrates that faith by their obedience to him.\n\nHis instructions for living are found throughout scripture and those who love Him obey Him.\n\nGod commands His people to keep His holy days, which are found in Leviticus 23. God's holy days hold great significance and meaning to His plan of salvation for mankind.  Unless one knows and understands these, he does not know God's plan.\n\nThree of the holy days have already occured in history but we are still to keep them.  Four of the holy days foreshadow events that have not yet even taken place!  Why would these be "obselete", or just for "the Jews", or "not worth studying"?!\n\nSatan has counterfeited almost everything God has planned for mankind, including God's holy days.  Satan has deceived the world, including mainstream Christianity, by creating holy days (holidays) that direct attention from God's holy days.\n\nGod's holy days foreshadow His plan of salvation for mankind as seen in the harvests of the fall.  The firstfruits are brought in before the larger harvest, which replicates the firstfruits at Christ's return and the larger harvest of salvation after the millenium (Ezekiel 37:1-14).  This last VITAL harvest is not even taught in mainstream Christianity!\n\nSatan has distracted most with Halloween and Thanksgiving.  Few keep God's Feast Days of the fall, which are great blessings to remember, keep, and celebrate.\n\nChrist mass is supposedly the birth of Christ, yet scripture never emphasizes the date or instructs celebration of it.  It is really a celebration of Mithra, a sun god.  Ever read Jeremiah 10:1-4?  "Learn not the way of the heathen..."  Easter is really a celebration of Ashtar, a sex goddess.  Halloween is obviously not a holy day of God.\n\nAll of Satan's holy days are 13 weeks apart and fall on high human sacrifice days.  The
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No.  Jews do not accept Jesus as the messiah because:\n\n1) Jesus did not fulfill the messianic prophecies.\n2) Jesus did not embody the personal qualifications of the Messiah.\n3) Biblical verses "referring" to Jesus are mistranslations.\n4) Jewish belief is based on national revelation.
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they are the extremists, trust me.  Most christians can accept and will respect Judaism as a religion.  However, in the bible, it says that A Jewish man betrayed Jesus.  Thats why *some* christians *hate* Judaism.