Ok, i dont understand. If Jesus was a jew, then why to jewish people today think that jesus never lived?
2006-10-11 14:14:30 · 20 answers · asked by <3BeautyQueen 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Some do...God bless.
2006-10-11 14:16:14 · answer #1 · answered by John G 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
honestly, the reason why they still believe that is the same reason why most people don't even believe in Jesus. They either don't think he existed or that he was really a blaspheming profit. Jesus also says "I make all things new." He is saying that he has come to change all the original traditional ways of doing things. Many Jews believe that things should always be done the traditional way and that no one can change that, and anyone who says that automatically thinks that if any believes differently is not a Jew. Also they could not accept the fact that he was God. So they just completely ignored him. Now as you know not all the Jews didn't believe in Jesus. All the disciples and apostles believed him and followed him.
2006-10-11 21:32:29 · answer #2 · answered by Phatcat 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why would a people that followed the Ten Commandments for centuries start believing in some fellow Jew as God. The first commandment is, "I am the lord your God, thou shalt have no other gods before me". It doesn't say the first guy that comes into Jerusalem on a donkey is OK to worship as God. Jesus was turned into God by Paul, It should be called Paulianity, not Christianity. By the way, I am not Jewish, I just have spent some time studding their beliefs. Talk with a devout Jew, they will be more than happy to set you straight.
2006-10-11 21:25:33 · answer #3 · answered by Paul S 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jews, on average, believe that Jesus lived. They don't normally argue whether he existed or not.
They simply don't believe that he was the Son of God, or the Messiah.
In fact, most people who live on the planet Earth today don't believe that Jesus was the Son of God, not only Jews.
Your question is kind of like asking, if Joseph Smith was a Christian, then why don't Christians believe in the Book of Mormon? Most Christians don't believe in the Book of Mormon because they think the things inside the Book of Mormon aren't true; most Jews don't believe in the divinity of Christ because they think that the things inside the New Testament aren't true.
2006-10-11 21:21:22 · answer #4 · answered by tylerism 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jews generally think of Jesus as a false prophet. He didn't save them from the Romans, he wanted them to eat his flesh and drink his blood, and his followers are downright dangerous, historically.
Christians have generally been a very poor witness in this matter, claiming that God divorced the Jew and will have nothing to do with them ever again. Obviously, someone hasn't been reading Revelations!
2006-10-11 21:29:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They know he existed. Jesus of nazarith, but don't accept him as the messiah. I am islamic and accept him as the messiah, but not my lord. Muslims accept him as the messiah to the misconception of most. But just not GOD. Jews knew he existed and that is why there is the movement called "jesus for jews". To try and save them. They all know that jesus existed, but was not thier prophecied messiah to come.
But the funny thing about it is there is Rastafarianism who follow the bible sincerely, but also have thier own messiah. So now that is two. Jesus and Salasie. But jesus is not the Rastas messiah, but Hallie Salasie(I think I spelled it wrong. pardon self). Zionism? That truth belongs to the Rastsafarians for they know how to diagnose that truth to aknowledge peace and love. And one day, they will return back to africa. They apreciate zion as the teachings of king david(pbuh) in his heart spoken in the psalms. And they ask for the same thing. Well, at least to my understanding. PEACE!
2006-10-11 21:33:27 · answer #6 · answered by Mitchell B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the historical evidence that jesus lived is sparse..mostly you have gospel accounts and church interpolations. even if he lived, he didn't do what the jewish texts prophesied a leader would, and then he died which invalidated him even more. So there is no reason to believe in jesus and that's why we don't. Because it wouldn't make sense. Some at the time might have, and some followed bar kochba and some followed shabbtai zvi, but they weren't actually the messiah either.
2006-10-11 21:19:12 · answer #7 · answered by rosends 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because Yshua ben Ysef failed the test of being a messiah and proved that if there is a G-d and Accuser, he is of the Accuser, not G-d.
The messiah was prophecied to be a holy man, NOT G-d. Jesus made such a claim. Second, he did not fulfill all the messianic miracles. His followers would have known that to have failed to document even ONE of those miracles, it would condemn him as being of the Adversary.
If there is a G-d, Yshua ben Ysef is of the Adversary.
2006-10-11 21:22:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
here is a list of very famous writers, philosophers, etc, who all lived during or about the same time as jesus:
Josephus
Philo-Judææus
Seneca
Pliny the Elder
Arrian
Petronius
Dion Pruseus
Paterculus
Suetonius
Juvenal
Martial
Persius
Plutarch
Pliny Younger
Tacitus
Justus of Tiberius
Apollonius
Quintilian
Lucanus
Epictetus
Hermogones Silius Italicus
Statius
Ptolemy
Appian
Phlegon
Phæædrus
Valerius Maximus
Lucian
Pausanias
Florus Lucius
Quintius Curtius
Aulus Gellius
Dio Chrysostom
Columella
Valerius Flaccus
Damis
Favorinus
Lysias
Pomponius Mela
Appion of Alexandria
Theon of Smyrna
interestingly enough, none of these authors ever mentioned anything about the "great" jesus, or his disciples, or his apostles.
this should strike you as odd.
and not only that, if i was going to worship somebody because they were jewish, i'd obviously just pick myself. i am G-d, halleluyah.
2006-10-11 21:20:23 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
you got your argument backwards. If Thor is a Norwegian God, and Tommy is Norwegian, how come Tommy doesn't worship Thor?
Or even. Jesus is a Jew. Bob is a Jew. Why doesn't Bob worship Jesus?
Your argument doesn't follow logically, sorry.
2006-10-11 21:20:59 · answer #10 · answered by Skippy 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jews believe that Jesus (Yahshua) didn't go by their check list (so-to-speak) of the Messiah. Thats what a Jew told me.
-A Follower of Yahuah
2006-10-11 21:18:44 · answer #11 · answered by yhwh_loves_you 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋