Why do Christians sympathise with Jews more than Muslims , although Muslims believe in Jesus.?

Question

And they always support israel and claim it has the right to occopy jerusalem.

Jews reject jesus .. Muslims accept him as a great prophet and Massiah .. while jews call him baster and false prophet.

in addition ,Muhammad was the son of ismail the son of Abraham

Israel is the most terrorost countriy in the world .. Just read history

Jesus never claimed to be the last prophet... he instead told people how to diffrentiate between true and falso prophets by their fruits

Also humanity needed another prophet to bring people back to pure monotheism

Jesus never claimed to be the last prophet... he instead told people how to diffrentiate between true and falso prophets by their fruits

Also humanity needed another prophet to bring people back to pure monotheism

Answer 1

Christianity is connected to Judaism through Christ. We share common history in the Old Testament, so we have a bond with the Jewish people.
As far as Islam, we share up to Abraham and the belief that Jesus was born of a virgin.
I believe Jerusalem can be shared.

Answer 2

I don't pretend to know the Koran, but what I know is that it denies the vital core of Christianity which is the dying on the cross and the resurrection of Jesus. I don't think Muslims believe in Jesus, otherwise they should have believed what I just stated and should have believed Jesus' own words. They recognize him as being a prophet, but that's all.

Christians see the New Testament as a direct continuation of the Old Testament. They regard it as a part of the Bible, that's why they call the other part the New Testament. Jesus himself never denied what was stated in the Old Testament. He himself comes from the Jewish belief, the same applies to his Apostles.

And altough Jews do not consider him as a the Messiah, they didn't alter the New Testament. It is how it is. The New Testament is even backed by historical testimonies. All this at least 600 years before the foundation of Islam. Trying to "correct" things 600 years later in the Koran, is not really convincing.

So for Christianity the Koran is more like a rupture instead of a continuation.

On the more socio-political side, both Jews and Christians have concorded to have secular states. It's called the separation of church and state. And altough it's not perfect, most Christians wouldn't prefer to live in theocracies. I think most modern Muslims living in the Western world wouldn't like this either.
If I'm not wrong, Turkey is the only Muslim secular state in the world.

Having said this, lot of people in West, lot of Christians don't automatically back the policies of Israel. But they wouldn't see the Jewish state with whom they share a common heritage to be annihilated either.
All this may sound like anti-Muslim, but it isn't. I don't like the bashing of Muslims because it only incites hate. I'm just trying to give you a good answer to your honest question.

Answer 3

The Jewish community has no actual place on Jesus, although there are Jews (and Jewish texts) that have insulted Jesus. Islam, on the different hand, does have an exact place on Jesus, and it is one brazenly opposite to Christianity: that Jesus isn't God, no longer the son of God, no longer component to a Trinity. From a Christian attitude, Jews are God's chosen human beings; the Bible speaks certainly approximately them and is even adamant approximately how salvation comes from the Jews (John 4:22), all Israel would be saved (Romans 11:26), and salvation is going first to Jews then to gentiles (Romans a million:sixteen). study the e book of Revelation, and additionally you will see that even on the tip of time the Jews are imperative to God's plan (e.g. in Rev 7, the saved Israelites are pronounced first, then the saved gentiles are pronounced - in Rev 21:12 the names of the tribes of Israel are written on the gates to the hot Jerusalem, et cetera). Muslims, on the different hand, are something fullyyt distinctive. Islam is between the gentile faiths in contradistinction to (and now and returned detrimental to) Christianity. as a result, whilst the Bible form of forces Christians to admire Jews, in spite of theological ameliorations, Muslims get no such admire, and for this reason they arrive off because of the fact the adherents of a quasi-Christian heresy. That being pronounced, whilst I disagree doctrinally with Islam, I nevertheless think of it is a faith which has many alluring aspects, and that it has lots to offer to the international.

Answer 4

Jews are the rightful owners of Jerusalem.

Jews having jerusalem allows all religions who have interest to, acess to their holy sites,
a Theocratic Muslim state in control of Jerusalem would definitely NOT.

MOST christianity holds judaism in a certain degree of respect, where islam, at very least, has some sects that are much more obnoxious and make themselves hard to be friendly to. Judaism is non-offensive.
this results in a very practical "this person is loud, obnoxious and annoying, and this person can hold an intelligent, mature conversation, which one am I going to sit with?" sort of reason for preferring one over the other.

as hypocritical as it is... I think judaism's "simple non-belief" is less offensive to christians than islam's disbelief in jesus as they do, while having an extra guy... I'm not sure the psychological logic of this, but maybe christianity can call judaism as having been simply mistaken, (... which isn't true...) where islam recognizes jesus as something special, but asserts a different role to him. that make any sense?

whats really boggling in some ways, is that at least in theory, on some aspects Islam and Judaism SHOULD religiously get along alot better. both consider the Trinity to be polytheistic, and both share the absolute oneness of God. in this way Judaism and Islam are closer together htan christianity and Judaism.

honestly this sibling rivalry thing is getting a bit old.

Answer 5

Maybe because the The Bible says Jews are God's chosen people and Jesus himself was a Jew. Muslims only believe in Jesus as a prophet, not as the son of God.

Answer 6

God created adam and eve, eventually the religion of Judaism was established by Abraham and then Jesus came and established Christianity. God has had 3 "religions" the beginning, then he set up all the laws and 10 commandments ect to create Judaism, He told of Jesus, the Messiah, and Christ, Jesus came and the final "religion" of the True God was established Christianity. Islam 600yrs after God finished His job as Jesus on earth tried to create their final religion and bent the truth the same happened in mormonism

Answer 7

Abraham begat both Ishmael and Issac.

Does this tell you anything about the current state of affairs in the world?

Muslims, Jews and Christians are brothers and sisters.

And yet they hate each other intensely and commit unspeakable horror against one another. Does anyone really want their Gods?

This is the reason I have chosen to Orca Drift!

Have fun but be safe!

Answer 8

Most astute Christians, who are not enslaved by political correctness, see Islamic acknowledgement of Jesus in the Qu’ran (Koran) as not a real theological position, as much as a ploy by Muhammad to gain larger support for his fledgling religion when Christianity had gained dominance. By incorporating elements from both Jewish and Christian faiths into his theological framework, he ensured a more positive reception from both parties. It’s a common pattern you see in most budding religions that strive to get a hearing among the myriad of dominant faiths throughout history. It’s why you see so many similarities among belief systems that occupy the same region.

Secondly, the fact that Islam designates Jesus as an all too human esteemed prophet, while rejecting his divinity, doesn’t sit well with Christianity. To most Christians that position is more patronizing than it is ameliorating. Christians see it as an all or nothing proposition. Either you accept the Godhead of Jesus, or you outright deny his value. Any middle ground is seen as mere trickery and political appeasement.

Christians have a greater affinity for the Jews, because a good 50 percent of our theology is derived from their system of belief. Islam contributes nothing to the illumination of Christian morality or philosophy, and instead denies the centrality of Jesus in our salvation, the historical reality of his crucifixion, and the atonement that resulted from his execution and resurrection. Muslims believe that Jesus could not have been crucified, but only was made to appear that way - almost akin to some sort of magic trick where a proxy died in Jesus’ place. Though Jews deny Jesus was the Son of God, they do not deny the historicity of the crucifixion. That simple fact puts them in our favor.

From a political and social standpoint, the Jews and Christians have intermingled historically, and have, for the most part, worked out there differences through bloody trials and tribulations. Much of the acrimony Christians have for Muslims is the overwhelming inability of many Muslim nations to assimilate to western ways and the democratic system. The Jews who helm Israel, are much closer to us on a social and political level, and therefore are easier to relate to than Muslims living in theocratic regimes. Both the Jews and the Christians already had their Dark Ages. Islam seems to be going through its Dark Ages as we speak.

In summary, the reason Christians favor Jews over Muslims is two fold. One we are indebted to Jews for providing a great deal of our religious heritage. Conversely, we revile Muslims for distorting the tenet that is most central to our orthodox (i.e. the historicity of Jesus’ death and crucifixion), and then having the audacity to proclaim that we have a lot in common. Secondly, we align ourselves with Jews more than Muslims because their culture and political progress parallels our own, while most Islamic nations seem to be a good 600 years behind in their moral understanding and political train of thought.

Answer 9

What christians ? I am a christian but I don't support that.. False christians do that... because God's word ( I John ) says that if a person says he knows God and loves not his neighbour, then he is a liar and there is no truth in him ... for satan is tha father of all liars and they would be outside the city .. Revelation 22.

Answer 10

1) Jesus was Jewish
2) In Christian eschatology (the study of the end of the world), the Jewish people and the State of Israel play very important roles.