Question about Jewish people...PLEASE no smart azz remarks Im serious.....?

Question

I guess I could probably just google this but Im curious, what exactly is the Jewish religion? I mean what is SO different about the Jews than other people?? Im not trying to be rude or anything buit Im honestly curious as to this culture/religion/way of life.....do you have to be born Jewish to be of this religion or can you marry in? Just some basic facts & information woul dbe greatly appreciated....Thanks much in advance, Im just trying to broaden my knowledge on different cultures n such.

Answer 1

Well, here's the short version. The Jews are the "chosen people". They are God's chosen people. Despite everything that has transpired since the beginning of time, God has promised that, in the end, the Jews, and all who support the Jews, will be in God's good graces, and will enter the kingdom of Heaven. Jesus was a Jew. His mother, Mary, was a Jew, and his step-father, Joseph, was a Jew. The Jews kinda messed up when they didn't accept Jesus as their savior, and as their king, but it was prophesied, so that made it kinda OK. Jesus had to be mocked, falsely tried, and killed on the cross to fulfill prophesy. Still, today's Jews do not accept Jesus as the Son of God, just merely a prophet. The Jews are still waiting for the Son of God to appear. The biggest difference between Jews and Protestants is that Protestants accept Jesus as the Son of God and as our Savior. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

The Torah (Old Testament) is the basic governing book of the Jewish nation. But i'm not sure if they have special concordances which add things like, what you can and can't do on the sabbath etc.

Yes you can become a Jew, you must be circumsized (if your male) and take up there customs, i'm not sure by which tradition they embrace you on, in the Torah, they allowed strangers to dwell amongst them and become circumsized etc.

Answer 3

The Jews keep to the Old Testament and don't follow Christ. They still believe a messiah will come but they deny Jesus. It's all based apon the same ugly book called now the HOLY BIBLE.

Answer 4

the jews is the brethren of the arabs.

Abraham a.s. sons;
Ismael a.s. giving rise to the Arabs
Isacc a.s. giving rise to the Jews

Answer 5

THE CHOSEN PEOPLE

God chooses His Messengers and God chooses His People, In the realm of the Spirit no nation was as favoured as the Jews and yet Moses (pbuh) is made to bewail against his own people —

Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day I knew you.
Deutronomy 9: 24

In this last will and testament of Moses (pbuh) the Israelites frustrate their "meek and gentle" Messenger who is forced to rail against their continual stubborn resistance and arrogant attitudes to God's guidance —

For I knew thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the lord; and how much more after my death?
Deutronomy 51:27

Alas how true! I am not going to philosophise on God's choice. But in the very next chapter the fire of God's anger is kindled to a blaze and He decries the Jews -

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they (the Jews) have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are Not A People; I will provoke them to anger with a Foolish Nation.
Deutronomy 32:211

1. Emphasis are mine.

JEWS SUBSTITUTED
Anyone with a modicum of Scriptural knowledge will be able i guess who in the eyes of these arrogant, racist Jews is "not-a people" — a non-entity and "a foolish nation" if not the Ishmaelite cousins — the Arabs who in the words of Thomas Carlyle have been "ROAMING UNNOTICED IN ITS DESERT SINCE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD."!?

THE ARABS. Alexander the Great passed them by: the Persian. passed them by; the Egyptians passed them by; and the Roman; passed them by. It would have been an absolute liability for any nation to conquer and colonise them. But the Creator did not pass them by. He picked them up from the depths of darkness and transformed them into torch-bearers of light and learning to the world. "I will move them "I will move them (the Jews) to Jealousy"1 This jealousy is a cultivated sickness. Remember, Sarah and Hagar the two wives of Abraham (pbuh) — the Friend of God. The jealousy of Sarah was bequeathed to her children and on to nations and tribes yet unborn.

1. If the Romans or the Greeks had displaced the Jews as the "Chosen of God" then the envy would not have been as acute or as intolerable to the Jews.

Not so long ago I read a book on the discovery of medicine written by a Jewish medical man. I can unfortunately not remember the name of the author and failed to retrace the book. However, the wordings of the tribute paid by this Jewish author to his Semetic (Arab) cousins have made an indelible impression on my mind. And I quote from memory:

"GOATHERDS AND CAMEL DRIVERS SITTING ON THE THRONE OF THE CAESARS"

Full of spite, venom and sarcasm, but how true! This is what God did and always does. He honours whom He wills. This is what He does to show His Mighty Hand (Power)?

THE LAST WARNING

The foregoing is the exact fulfilment of Jesus Christ's (pbuh), (the last of the great Jewish prophets) own prediction of the displacement of the Jewish race in the spiritual guidance of man. In the words of the Master himself —

Therefore I say unto you (Jews), The Kingdom of God shall be taken away from you (Jews), and shall be given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
Matthew 21: 45 1

1. "Kingdom of God:" The honour, the privilege of being God’s chosen people to guide mankind – "Ye (Jews) shall be unto me (God Almighty) a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation." (Exodus 19:6) This grand commission ended with Jesus (pbuh).

JESUS FOR JEWS ONLY

These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them saying,
Go ye not into the way of the Gentiles, 1 and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go ye rather unto The Lost Sheep Of The House Of Israel.
Matthew 10:5-6

1 Gentiles: non-Jews

NOT FOR DOGS

And behold a woman of Canaan 1 came ... and cried unto him saying, have mercy on me ... my daughter is seriously possessed with a devil.

But he answered her not a word.

And his disciples came and begged him, saying. Send her away: for she crieth after us.

But he answered and said, I am Not Sent But Unto The Lost Sheep Of The House Of Israel.

But she came and knelt before him, saying. Lord, help me.

But he answered her and said, It is Not Fair To Take The Children's Bread And Cast It To The Dogs. 2
Matthew 15:22-26

1. Mark 7.26 says that the woman was a Greek.

2. Meaning non-Jews.

It goes to the credit of this Jewish prophet, that he practised what he preached. In his lifetime he never converted a single Gentile (non-Jew). And of his hand-picked elect (his twelve disciples), he made sure that they belonged to his tribe so that his other prophecy might Find fulfilment: "when the son of man (Jesus pbuh referring to himself) shall sit on the throne of his glory, ye (the disciples) also shall sit upon twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel" (Matthew 19: 28).