Does today's Jew despise Jesus Christ?
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Yes, in the sense that they do not recognize Him as the Messiah.  They bad mouth him and even called Him the bastard child of a Roman soldier with the Virgin Mary..\nThey look at Christ as an outsider and just the son of a carpenter who was crucified for nothing.  They think that their Messiah should come as a conquering hero and an overpowering person, or maybe they think their Messiah should come from within the ranks of their Pharisees or Sanhedrins.  They do not honor and respect God's will that the Messiah should be a role model or the epitome of humility and perfect obedience.\nUnless they recognize Him and accept Him as the Messiah, they wil never, never obtain peace like their counterpart the Islamists who also reject Jesus Christ.
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Congratulations on a great question.  As a Jew I would like the priviledge to  answer your question.  The main prayer for Judiasm says, "Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One."  Jesus' believers hold to the Trinity which is, The Father, The Son and the Holy Ghost which are three,  Three minus one are two, which are two too many for Jews.  I do not know a Jewish person who does not respect Jesus and his great teachings.   Thanks for acknowledging our past suffering and may God bless you.
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Why? The reasons (or should I say "excuses") are as old as prejudice itself...\n\nEconomic  ~ People hate Jews because they possess too much wealth and power. \n\nChosen People ~ People hate Jews because they arrogantly claim they are the chosen people. \n\nScapegoats ~ Jews are a convenient group to single out and blame for troubles. \n\nDeicide ~ (the killing of a deity) People hate Jews because they killed Jesus. \n\nOutsiders ~ People hate Jews because they are different than they are.\n\nRacial Theory ~  People hate Jews because they believe them an inferior race. \n\nOn can only assume because frankly, hatred of the Jews is ancient and nearly universal. Some believe (including many Jewish Scholars) the real reason they're hated is because......the Jews are right...\n\nThere is no easy answer, but there are literally 100's of books on the subject you could read
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Traditionally people have hated jews for a variety of reasons:\n\n1. They were without a "homeland" so jewish people lived in other countries.  They were pockets of this very ethnic group (with VERY different religion, practices and appearance) in the middle of another country.  These kinds of "very different" people are always hated by the majority group.\n\n2.  They "killed Christ" so were persecuted.  (Nevermind the logic that Christ himself would have been jewish by default)\n\n3. As an ethnic group they were often better educated than the "majority ethic group" of the country they were living in and they did well by material posessions.  They often engaged in banking (before there were proper banks) and were the "money lender" for the town.  Some would say "loan shark."  And people who borrow money from that person , hate that person.
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Hi,\nAs a Jewish believer in Jesus, let me give you my perspective.  In a nutshell, most Jews aren't willing to consider Jesus to be the Messiah because (1) there has unfortunately been a lot of anti-Semitism carried out under the banner of the Church - one of the biggest reasons - (2) many Jewish people consider putting faith in Jesus to make them traitors to the Jewish people - going over to "them" instead of "us" - this is true regardless of whether someone is Orthodox or secular.  We're raised to think that if we become Christians / Messianic Jews / whatever term you like, we've stopped being Jewish.  Not true, but that's the sentiment in most of the Jewish community.\n\nAbout atoning for sin - well, most Jews today are no longer traditional and sin plays about as big a role as it does for anyone else in modern society - very little.  For those who recognize that they do need to atone for sin, in Judaism sacrifice has been replaced by repentance, charity, and fasting.\n\nHave you ever checked out www.jewsforjesus.org, you can find a lot of material there to help you understand.\n\nOh and by the way, about the prophets and the Messiah - the majority of Jewish people today would not consider it to be "God's Word".  The Orthodox (10%-20% of Jewish people) believe God gave an "Oral Law" alongside the Written Law and therefore the Bible (Written Law) needs to be interpreted in accordance with the rabbis (Oral Law).\n\nHope this helps,\nRich
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Jesus was a Jew, as were his disciples. They believed in the words of the Old Testament. Most of what Jesus taught was from the Old Testament, he also taught new and revolutionary ideas, or so we are told. Remember that most of the New Testament was written a very long time after the events happened, by people that never saw Jesus or had any contact with him. Since Jesus was a real person who lived in ancient times in Judea, Jews would certainly believe that he existed, many Jews believe that he was a great prophet. Jews do not believe in the divinity of Jesus, as they believe in only one God, not in a God made up of three persons in one.\n\nJews, have been persecuted throughout history, going back to the time of Jesus and before. Mainly, they were persecuted for their strong religious believes, by people hung up on their own religious believes. Unfortunately, the Catholic Church for centuries maintained that the Jews were responsible for killing Jesus. This was a license for persecution. It is only in the twentieth century that the Catholic Church has apologized for their mistreatment of the Jews, a little late to help the millions of Jews that have been killed in the past. \n\nUnfortunately, people don’t need much of an excuse to persecute others. The fact that Jesus was crucified has been blamed on the Jews for centuries. He was actually crucified by the Romans, the Jews that may have had some complicity in his death were a very small minority of the people living in Judea at that time. To persecute people for the misdeeds of others is insane, especially if the guilty ones lived thousands of years ago. \n\nI suggest that you do some reading outside of the Bible about the history of the Jewish people, and the time of Jesus, and form your own opinion.\n\nGood Luck,\n\nPS. By the way I am not Jewish myself, I do hold the Jewish people in high esteem. There are very few groups that have done as much for the world in general as the Jews, and all this in spite of persecution by others.
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u my friend r quite mistaken. i am an orthodox  jew, im the first to admit it and very proud of it. what ur saying now is not only rediculous but insulting towards the christians and catholics alike. hitler, may his name be erased, was a psycopath. he was a monster who was out of mind and barely human. his beliefs and morals (or lack there of) had nothing to do with christianity. his focus was about killing the jew en route to creating the perfect nation. learn some history.
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Yes, Jesus was Jewish until He fulfilled the Old Law and brought in the New Law, which we call Christianity because we accepted Him as the Christ. The New Law allows us to eat pork, which was formerly forbidden.\nMy family happens to eat Tamales for Christmas. Yum! Our ancestors were from Castile, Spain, so that is our tradition.
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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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because he was not the Messiah\n\ndo you think that 99.9% of Jews rejected him without reason?\n\nan for those who say that Jesus fulfilled the prophecies of the messiah email me your best five and I will blow them out of the water.
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Well, I guess it would all depend.\n\nIslam was founded after Christianity, so that religion actually has a firm, somewhat uniform stance on Jesus. He is honored as a prophet.\n\nChristianity is younger than Judaism and could be considered almost a kind of Jewish heresy because it is, in part, based on Jewish scripture and claims to be the plan of the Jewish G-d for the salvation of the world through the prophesied Messiah. \n\nMany horrible things have been done to Jews in the name of Christ, so a really negative opinion of him is not uncommon and is certainly understandable. There are Jews who see Jesus as a good man and teacher whose followers made false claims about after his death. There are Jews who believe anything in between those two extremes or even that there never was such a person.\n\nSo I guess between the two, Judaism could be thought to be more insulting, but that is only on a purely theoretical basis. In reality, views vary wildly. Actions even more so.
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You really don't PRACTICE Christianity if you don't like Jews.
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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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Besides for a bit of resentment for missionaries that go after the young and the ignorant. I have a fairly positive outlook on Christianity today. Some of my best friends are Christians. As for Judaism we believe that a person can be Christian and go to heaven.  Our religion states that all a gentile needs to do is believe in G-d and be a moral person. On the other hand Christianity is unacceptable for a Jew in part due to the Christian concept of the trinity it for us (and only us) would equate to idol worship and it is better to sacrifice ones life than to do this. For more info email me.
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it's my understanding that the name "judas" has morphed over the centuries into "jew". since judas wasn't a good person, this word became associated with him and his betrayal of jesus gave early christians a reason to dislike the jewish people.
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Although Arabs, Jews and other Semitic people of the middle east are closely related, Jesus was not a Jew, either ethnically or linguistically. Jesus would have been much akin to a Sephardic Jew of today.\n\nAnd yes, I believe Jesus would find much to object in our governments and behaviours of today. One need only read the red letter sections of the Bible to see he really is at odds with the politicians we vote for, as well as the way we conduct ourselves.\n\nRepentence and humility should be our response. What else can we do?
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Interestingly, such "hatred" should be expected by true Christians in this time of the end, and it actually helps identify Jehovah's Witnesses as Christ's true disciples:\n\n(John 15:19) If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.\n\n(Luke 6:22) “Happy are you whenever men hate you, and whenever they exclude you and reproach you and cast out your name as wicked for the sake of the Son of man.\n\n(1 Peter 4:4) Because you do not continue running with them in this course to the same low sink of debauchery, they are puzzled and go on speaking abusively of you.\n\n(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.\n\n\nIt seems signficant that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are the ones best known for their worldwide preaching work. Yet Jesus commanded that ALL who would call themselves "Christian" perform this public work:\n\n(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And, look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.”