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There are many. We have difference about...
the nature of G-d
G-ds will
The torah
the messiah
mitzvot (commandments)
and many more.

We are as different from christianity as islam is from christianity. Two very different religions.

oh, and jews do NOT think jesus was a good person (let alone a prophet!, let alone god! lol); to us, jesus was either a lunatic or an evil dude.

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2006-10-10 16:28:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

First of all Jesus was born a jew, he was circumsised and studied the Torah (the Torah is the first five books of the bible), he also studied the bible (old testament) as a jew he did observe the law, he practiced judaism.
All the appostles and all the first diciples were jews.
So the early christian church was a jewish sect.

It has spread out to the nations after Peter had a vision about it.
Jesus's name in hebrew is Yeshuah.

Christians believe he is the Messiah, (that he came) and that he will come again.
Most jews believe the Messiah has not come yet but is coming.
Some jews believe Jesus is the Messiah, they are Messianic jews.

For more information go on google and type:
jewsforjesus.com

2006-10-10 23:40:45 · answer #2 · answered by THE CAT 2 · 0 1

Jews do not believe in Jesus as the Messiah. They believe he was a great prophet and teacher (they would also have to believe him to be a liar but won't admit it). And they only follow OT laws and the man written Talmud which keeps changing after generations. The New Testament was given to all who believes in Jesus and their faith in Him is their salvation. After all you can follow all the OT laws and not be a loving person. I doubt a loving God would find integrity and love in that.

2006-10-10 22:53:41 · answer #3 · answered by LIVINGmylife 3 · 0 0

Here are two differences that I, a Christian, believe are big ones:
1. Jews believe that Christ was just a good prophet, while Christians believe that Christ is the Son of God.
2. Jews believe that God is God, while Christians believe that God is three in one (God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit)

2006-10-10 22:52:43 · answer #4 · answered by eviesspecialbuddy 1 · 0 1

Jews don't believe that Jesus is God's son. They are still waiting for the messiah to come for the first time. Christians believe that God sent his son, Jesus, to earth once (Christmas-Easter etc) and are now waiting for the second coming of Christ.

2006-10-10 22:52:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

The Jews are still waiting for the Messiah...

Christians believe he has come and his name was Jesus Christ.

2006-10-10 22:51:45 · answer #6 · answered by analystdevil 3 · 0 0

Jews think Jesus is not the messiah and that He's still coming and Christian believe Jesus fulfilled the prophecies and is the messiah. That's it.

2006-10-10 22:52:36 · answer #7 · answered by Lupin IV 6 · 0 0

We Jews believe in the Torah, as it was given and interpreted by the Rabbis. We believe that your messiah was a man, not a prophet, and we're not sure how bad he was, since we don't know what he actually said, and what was said for him.

2006-10-11 10:54:12 · answer #8 · answered by ysk 4 · 0 0

christians believe jesus was the son of G-d, the messiah, and died for your sins, jews don't believe in human sacrifices or that anybody else is accountable for your sins except for youself.

christians believe in "original sin", jews believe people are born pure, free of sin.

christians believe anybody who doesn't believe in jesus goes to hell, jews don't believe in hell, and we also don't believe a person needs to be jewish to be a righteous person in the eyes of G-d.

christianity focusses on faith, jews don't care very much about faith, its ethical actions that are important to us.

christianity is meant to guide you to the afterlife, judaism doesn't have much opinions on the afterlife, many jews do not even believe that there IS an afterlife, judaism focusses more on the life your are living right now than on the next life.

here is a good link to read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparing_and_Contrasting_Judaism_and_Christianity#Love

2006-10-10 23:03:30 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1 1

this is the difference between jews and Christians:

To Christians, the central tenet of their religion is the belief that Jesus is the Son of God, part of the trinity, the savior of souls who is the messiah. He is God's revelation through flesh. Jesus was, in Christian terms, God incarnate, God in the flesh who came to Earth to absorb the sins of humans and therefore free from sin those who accepted his divinity.

To Jews, whatever wonderful teacher and storyteller Jesus may have been, he was just a human, not the son of God (except in the metaphorical sense in which all humans are children of God). In the Jewish view, Jesus cannot save souls; only God can. Jesus did not, in the Jewish view, rise from the dead.

He also did not absorb the sins of people. For Jews, sins are removed not by Jesus' atonement but by seeking forgiveness. Jews seek forgiveness from God for sins against God and from other people (not just God) for sins against those people. Seeking forgiveness requires a sincere sense of repenting but also seeking directly to redress the wrong done to someone. Sins are partially removed through prayer which replaced animal sacrifice as a way of relieving sins. They are also removed by correcting errors against others.

Jesus, for Christians, replaced Jewish law. For traditional Jews, the commandments (mitzvot) and Jewish law (halacha) are still binding.

Jesus is not seen as the messiah. In the Jewish view, the messiah is a human being who will usher in an era of peace. We can tell the messiah by looking at the world and seeing if it is at peace. From the Jewish view, this clearly did not happen when Jesus was on Earth or anytime after his death.

Jews vary about what they think of Jesus as a man. Some respect him as an ethical teacher who accepted Jewish law, as someone who didn't even see himself as the messiah, who didn't want to start a new religion at all. Rather, Jesus is seen by these Jews as someone who challenged the religious authorities of his day for their practices. In this view, he meant to improve Judaism according to his own understanding not to break with it. Whatever the Jewish response is, one point is crucial. No one who is Jewish, no born Jew and no one who converts to Judaism, can believe in Jesus as the literal son of God or as the messiah. For the Jewish people, there is no God but God.

2006-10-10 22:56:38 · answer #10 · answered by Christine S 2 · 2 0

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