Was G-D free to reform the Jewish laws when he sent Jesus?

Question

If G-D was free why did not the Jews convert to Christianity

Answer 1

G-d did no such thing

Answer 2

Many Jews did convert to Christianity. The first Christians were Jewish. G-D sent Jesus into the world, and the Law and the Prophets testify to that fact and prophesy his coming. Abraham looked forward to Christ's coming. Many Jews of Jesus's time did not convert or realize who was among them, like today, we see modern Jewish people rejecting the Messiah that was promised to them. Because the Jewish people rejected G-D's son the message was preached to the Gentiles where the gospel took root and spread throughout the world. Future Biblical prophesy says (Romans) that once the non-Jewish people of the world, Gentiles, have heard the message then G-D will turn the hearts of his chosen people, the Jews, towards Him and then they will come to believe that Jesus is who he is.

Answer 3

Very simply put, Free will it is throughout the whole bible. They followed after their own will. G_D dealt with them many times,harshly, but many at the time decided that Christ would rule the world not be this miracle worker who taught love and the ability for each individual talk to the Father through prayer.
There may be some who may argue this but it is apparent that these so called Jews never read their own Torah because their prophets fore told of a savior, just like this Moses character, their is more prophesy on the coming of a Messiah than that of Moses.

Answer 4

Some Jews did convert. You are asking two different kinds of questions.

1) God is free to change what he asks of humanity as he sees fit. He is the ruler of the universe. He makes the rules.

2) God's ability to do anything is not contingent upon the reaction of his creation. He acts; humanity reacts--in that order. In the Old Testament, God gave many messages through the prophets, some of which the Jewish people heeded, some of which they rejected. Even so, this did not change the truth of the word of the Lord.

Answer 5

They knew the prophesies concerning his First Presence of Christ on Earth were being fulfilled, but they expected to have all Jews taken up in the Rapture and for Armageddon to that place. When it didn't they rejected him as the Messiah and say the prophesies only mean he is still coming.

Christians have the same problem with the Second Presence of Christ. They know that the prophesies of the last days and the second presence of Christ have been taking place since 1914, but because they were not taken up in a Rapture and Armageddon didn't take place. They reject his presence, or say the prophesies only means he's still coming, but the word translates as presence, not coming. So, either he is already here, and most Christians have missed it, or we are not in the last days and the prophesies are not being fulfilled. Can't have it both ways.

Answer 6

HaShem is at absolute liberty to do whatsoever She/He wills but in establishing an eternal covenant with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and delivering Torah to our teacher Moses has bound the divine will within the hedge that is haTorah in her Written and Oral form. As sefer Deverim (Deuteronomy) says, whoever adds or removes from this Law shall be removed from the book of life and lose their portion in the world to come. The Nazarene teacher admits to this himself in the Christian writings; Matthew 23 has Jesus proclaim that the rabbis sit upon the seat of Moses and that they have the truth thus the gospeller admonishes the first Christians to rabbinical Jewish praxis. As a matter of fact the earliest Syrian and Palestinian Christians did not see themselves as divided from the synagogue and nor did they understand Jesus to be divine. Saul of Tarsus clashes with these 'Judaisisers' in his epistle to the Celtic converts at Galatia. We do not get to see the formulation of a man sharing the 'same substance with the Father' until Christianity met neo-platonic philosophy with the Cappadocian Church Fathers, who infamously broke the rules of ontological reasoning when they created a split in the 'ousia' (essense) of God. Further to this, haTorah is most demanding that the essential unity of G-d cannot be divided (Dt 6.4).

Answer 7

A lot of the Jews did follow Jesus and become His disciples. Jesus accused the Jewish leaders of changing the laws, and not following the laws of God in their simplicity. Relationship with God is more important than developing a legal system and moving away from God.

Answer 8

because Jesus was not the jewish messiah.

the jewish messiah was not god incarnate, or more divine than regular people.
the jewish messiah was NOT meant to be a sacrifice.
the jewish messiah could not have been a bastard child (that is must have a biological father and mother)

The Jewish Messiah would be a leader, a regular man, not a spiritual savior, but a leader to rebuild israel.

a spiritual savior wasn't needed, because we already had spiritual salvation from god himself.

Answer 9

He is the God of everyone, not just the Jews

Answer 10

Jesus is a fictional character.

The Jesus story is a composite of several ancient legends.

Answer 11

G-d did not send jesus. and the torah is eternal - it says so itself. in deuteronomy G-d says that any "prophet" who adds to it or diminishes from it is a false prophet and ought to be put to death.