What's the difference between the Jewish and Christian religion?

Answer 1

God loves Jews better.
Christ leans towards Christians.
The Holy Ghost abstains.

Answer 2

The biggest difference is that the Jewish people are still waiting for the Messiah to come. Christians believe that in Jesus Christ the Messiah has already been here.

Answer 3

The difference, as has been pointed out numerous times is that the ONLY necessary difference between the two is that one believes the Messiah has come already, and the other believes the Messiah has not come yet.

Since this is, fundamentally, a Jewish question, I hope it is now plain to everyone that Christianity is an overgrown Jewish sect. It is ONLY Judaism that believes the Messiah has come.

That is ALL. So in truth, your question is like asking "What is the difference between Honda and a Civic?" The Civic is a part of the category 'Honda'. "What is the difference between the Simpsons and Bart?" Bart is an element in the bigger category 'The Simpsons."
"What is the difference between Christianity and Judaism?" Christianity is one sect in the bigger category 'judaism.'

'Course, nobody thinks this way in the modern world. But they should. It's plainly true to anyone who cares to think about it.

-Stephen

The post after mine cites numerous other differences between Modern Judaism and Modern Christianity, including:
G-d, commandments, scripture, the afterlife, the messiah , atonement, history,
and much more.

Notice first that modern Judaism is highly fractured in its opinions on these very subjects. I'll assume that the poster refers to Orthodox Judaism, or even Hassidic Judaism. Jacob Neusner points out that these are MODERN forms of Judaism in his work "The Way of the Torah." (For the record, Jacob Neusner is the single most important Scholar of Judaism in the world today.) I'm not saying it's wrong, only that it is not the original form of Judaism. It is not even the dominant form of Judaism in history.

Importantly, his objections are a question of history, as he refers to MODERN Judaism and MODERN Christianity, which, admittedly, differ in most of these regards. However, this is because of the animosity that developed between these two branches of Judaism in their development. Both the christians and the rabbinics had fairly pressing reasons for seperating themselves from each other, which over time reduced their influence on each other.
HOWEVER: The top scholars of 2nd Temple Period Judaism (the period in which xianity sprang up) see that Christianity WAS A FORM OF JUDAISM.
See Nickelsburg, Vanderkam, etc. etc. etc.

So, in summary, both modern Judaism and modern Christianity are branches that came from the root of 2nd Temple Period Judaism. They are two pieces of the same religion, in the same way that Catholicism and Protestantism are two peices of the same religion.

Answer 4

Jewish God is the Father of Christian God, so Jews and Christians are close relatives there is no big difference between them.

But Jewish peoples claim that their God doesn't need a successor, and they refuse to accept Jesus as their messiah.

Answer 5

It's really simple. Those who are Jewish believe that the Messiah as foretold in the Old Testament is still to come. Christians believe that the Messiah has already come and that it was Jesus who fulfilled those prophecies.

Answer 6

Jews believe that the Messiah is yet to come. They also do not believe in the New Testament and take their scriptre from the Old Testament, which the Torah is part of.

Christians on the other hand believe that Jesus Christ was the Messiah and accept the Old Testament and New Testament as scripture.

Answer 7

There's a much bigger difference between judaism and christianity besides Jesus (whom we do not think was a prophet).
We have different understandings of...
G-d,
commandments,
scripture,
the afterlife,
the messiah ,
atonement,
history,
and much more.
Clearly, christianity is a very different religion from the one it branched off of.

Answer 8

Most Jews don't believe that Jesus was the Son of God. I'm a Christian and I do. Jews also have a bunch of other traditions if you've ever seen Fiddler on the Roof you'll understand about their traditions.

Answer 9

Jewry is a closed society; you have to be born one. On the other hand, although selected for special responsibility, they are not the only ones who will be save. Why can't Zionists take that seriously?

Christians try to proselytize like mad. And they've got quite self-righteous.

Both observations apply to those in each religion who push themselves forward. Why can't the religious be humble?

Answer 10

Christians believe that Jesus was the son of God; the messiah promised in the Old Testament

Jews believe the messiah hasn't been on earth yet and that Jesus was just a prophet

Answer 11

The truth is the Jewish religion believes in the truth of the old testament and the Christian religion believes in the truth of the old and new testament of the bible.

Christians know the whole story is "His" story.