I need more info on how Jews view Jesus Christ?

Question

Hi, Can some Jewish people help me resolve this question-
Do Jewish people (who aren't born again Jews) view Jesus Christ as a prophet- God's son, or someone else?
Do Jews consider it blasphemous to say that JC is God's son, or that God has come in the flesh?
Seeing as how there are so many references in the NT to JC being the lamb of God- why don't Jews accept him as the sin offering?
thanks for your help

Answer 1

LISTEN, JEWS BELIEVE THE MESSIAH HAS YET TO COME.
JESUS WAS A PROPHET, THAT'S ALL HE WAS.

Answer 2

There are no "born again Jews." All Jews believe God is One -- NOT three. That is the only "belief" all Jews share!

As for Jesus, there is nothing written about him in either the Torah or the Talmud. He was only one of many rabbis teaching differing versions of Judaism of the time. Christians broke away from Judaism when they could no longer find converts willing to be circumcized. It wasn't until the 4th century when the idea of the trinity became the consensus, and it wasn't long after that when the Roman Catholic Church declared that all Jews and other heretics must be slaughtered and burned along with their Torahs and Talmuds.

As far as being a sin offering, you can read the criteria in Leviticus. God would never allow a human sacrifice (Isaac) -- only grains, oils, little critters, etc. All sacrifices had to have been without blemish (was the body of Jesus without blemish)? All sacrifices had to be made in a prescribed manner on the altar in the Temple. And finally, the only part of a sacrifice meant for God was the aroma. Did the body of Jesus rotting on the cross emit a "pleasing" odor?

The Temple was destroyed a few years after the death of Jesus. Because sacrifices could ONLY be made in the Temple, they have been replaced by prayer and the altar is now the family dining table.

As mentioned above, you can find more criteria for the messiah at www.jewsforjudaism.com. The main criteria being that he will be a great *human* leader who will rule when there is peace on earth and justice for ALL humanity. No one will be punished for all eternity.

"...they shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore." (Micah 4:3)
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Answer 3

Jewish people belive that Jesus was a prophet. They feel that the "real" savior is yet to come. They have nothing against Jesus, they just do not feel that he is/was the Son of God as we Christian folks do.

As far as your last question, without being Jewish I can't say for sure what the answer is. Maybe they don't want to be responsible for his death. That is the reason we have always been given as far as to why Jews in Jesus' time refused to acknowlege him as the Christ, the Son of God etc... I hope someone that is Jewish will answer that.
I have many Jewish friends but have never put that question to any of them.
I did have one recently ask me if I thought he would go to Hell because he did not believe that Jesus was the Son of God? As a Christian I believe that everyone has a chance to go to Heaven as long as they live their live according to the laws that God has given us...That is all I can say. I can not pass judgement on others for there is only One that can do that....

Answer 4

Jews do not accept Jesus as the Messiah. Muslims accept Jesus as a great prophet sent from God. Neither believe he is the Son of God as they say there is only one God, therefore how can God have a Son. Christians believe that there are three persons or manifestations in the one God, not three Gods. This is called the mystery of the Trinity. Jews and Muslims believe that God is undivisible. Christians believe that the three persons or manifestations contain the one essence of the Godhead. Should one limit what God can do?

Answer 5

Simple answer.............

Jews consider Jesus a man who lived 2,000 years ago. He was a teacher, a good man, but, he died and that is it.

Yes-it is blasphemous to say Jesus is the son of G-d. G-d is One, not a trinity. There is no G-d but G-d.

He did not fulfill all the prophecies the Holy Scriptures stated. Christians twisted words to fill their own needs. The Messiah is to be a man---not G-d, for one thing. They say that in each generation there is a man capable of being the Messiah, but the time has never been right, so he has never stepped forward.

We, the people of the earth, must first bring peace and understanding among men to bring that time about. We are nowhere near ready for the Messiah.

Answer 6

Take it from a Jew. We don't consider Jesus at all. From a purely religious stanpoint, he is completely irrelevant to us. He was a man who lived and died 2,000 years ago. He was not the messiah, G-d, or even a prophet. He did not fulfil any part of our scripture. He deserves no more treatment by Jews than any other Jewish man who lived during that time. We also do not recognize the New Testament as holy or divinely inspired. It is not part of our Bible.

Answer 7

some jewish people accept christ as a prophet some don't and look at him as a blasphemous psycho while some jewish people have become christians anyway the jewish people who don't accept him as the messiah only do so because when they think of the word messiah they think of a king who has tons of wealth and power when in reality the bible taught that he would be a simple looking man who will come riding on a donkey to preach the gospel and to come and save the world by sacrificng himself to save the world from sin and to atone for the sins of mankind

Answer 8

Just to add something, although everybody above me answered correctly they forgot to address the NT question. Jewish people do NOT believe in the NT.. The Torah consists of the first 5 books of the OT and that is it. Therefore, no matter what is written in the NT, most Jewish people have not read it.. I know I have not

Answer 9

well I am not Jewish but I do have a lot of jewish friends and some think he a great prophet. some think he a great man. none of them think he is is the son of God. They don't believe Jesus has come they are still waiting for him to come. no they they don't believe he is the son of and therefore since they don't they refuse to accept him. I hope this answers your question.

Answer 10

First of all, most observant Jews don't spend a lot of time bothering with this question - they're too busy following G-d's Torah.

That being said, Jesus is seen not as the Messiah, not as G-d incarnate (and this is indeed blasphemous in Judaism, and was never the intended role for the Messiah to begin with), and not even as a prophet. He was a Jew. And pretty much every true thing that he taught can be found in the Jewish Oral Tradition (later partly codified in what is called Talmud). It's the other stuff that we don't much care for, and most of that didn't even come from Jesus so much as it did from Paul of Tarsus, who in practical terms, is the founder of Christianity though obviously not its namesake.

In addition, the "New Testament" is not a part of Jewish scripture (and just for the record, we don't really appreciate having our Bible referred to as the "Old Testament"), so just because it says something is not proof in and of itself. Also, Jews have never believed in vicarious atonement (one man cannot atone for the deeds of another), nor has sacrifice ever been the only, or even the most important, aspect of expiation of sin. And what's more, and this is my favorite, if Jesus was to be seen as the "lamb of G-d," then he couldn't possibly be a Jewish sin offering. Goats were used for sin offerings - they should be calling Jesus the "goat of G-d". And this is all in addition to the facts that:

1) Jesus was executed by the Romans (as for the methods of execution prescribed, though rarely employed, by Jewish law, crucifixion was never among them).

2) Sacrifices were only permitted on the altars of the Beis HaMikdash.

3) Human sacrifice is explicitly prohibited by Torah.

4) Murder is strictly prohibited by Torah.

The one question you really need answered is "do Jews consider Jesus the Messiah," and I'll tell you why. Because that's how Christianity started - as a Jewish cult based around Jesus as the messiah. All the other stuff, "son of G-d" (a meaningless phrase inasmuch as we're all made in G-d's image), G-d incarnate, the Trinity... none of these things have their basis in Jewish thought, and are Christian conceptions based upon a fundamental misunderstanding of the Messianic concept. However, if you assume that the Christian theology is firmly rooted (that is, that being G-d in the flesh somehow follows logically from being the Messiah, which again it doesn't), then what you need to ascertain is simply whether Jesus was that Messiah.

If you look at the criteria (derrived from scripture) for the Messiah, you'll see that Jesus doesn't meet any of them other than being Jewish (which puts him in the same category as every other Jew, some of whom throughout history have also claimed the throne). To draw attention away from this distressing fact, missionaries have gone out of their way to invent prophecies (or rather, to take prophecies out of context and attribute them to the Messiah), but most of these are of little to no actual importance, and their fulfillment based on individual testimony, as opposed to the millions of witnesses that stood at Sinai. In short, who cares whether Jesus rode into town on a donkey, and that's what such and such a verse says about the Messiah, when scripture also declares that the Messiah will reign in a time of universal peace, with the Jewish people gathered into their land and the temple restored, with no mention of a "second coming" that was created to excuse Jesus for dying without fulfilling these primary tasks, and in fact, the exact opposite of those things came to pass after his death.

For a brief but well-rounded list of the criteria for the messiah, and an explanation as to why Jesus doesn't actually fulfill any of them, see Jews for Judaism at http://www.jewsforjudaism.org/jews-jesus/jews-jesus-index.html

I hope this helps clears things up. Jesus role in Jewish history (though those claiming to act in his name have been responsible for much of our suffering) is peripheral at best. Most Jews don't like or dislike him - they simply don't care. Just not relevant. The attitude is basically like this: "Fine, you take Jesus. I'll take G-d."

Answer 11

The solutions you get carry of relies on what Christian you talk to. some Christians, incredibly evangelicals and fundamentalists, have self assurance that Jews ought to incorporate Jesus as Savior to be perfected. different Christians have self assurance that God's covenant with the Jews will consistently stand because of the fact God will by no ability harm his word to them. that's called "twin covenant" theology and that's somewhat complicated to respond to in a talk board like this. which you need to to Google it. The attitudes of Christians to our Jewish friends could nicely be complicated because of the fact of contemporary evangelical eschatology and what it teaches approximately Israel, the conversion of the Jews, etc. mixed with anti-Semitic thoughts and ideology that "the Jews killed Jesus" it makes it very annoying to deal with. My own ideals are that God will by no ability abandon His human beings, and that Christians owe them a great debt, for without them we would not have Jesus. And all that aside, they're our friends and fellow travellers via existence.