if Jesus was a Jew and told his people to abandon the Torah and embrace the bible, why didn't Jews listen?

Question

instead they (jews) killed the carpenter.

Answer 1

The Romans killed him.

Answer 2

If you understood the prophecy of the Old Testament, you would answer your own question. Jesus was a sacrifice for our sins. Thus, he had to die...and while it seems people tend to blame the Jews for his death, somebody had to do it...so there should be no blame for anyone involved.

When you consider that the Jews were under Roman rule at the time, they were looking for a military-type Messiah to overthrow the Romans and lead them to freedom. What Jesus was saying in effect is, that we find freedom and peace from our belief in Him.

Also, He never told the Jews or anyone else to abandon the Torah...but rather to embrace God's New Covenant...which was Him. Remember almost all of the New Testament wasn't even written while he was alive.

Answer 3

He didn't say to abandon the Torah. He said he was the fulfillment of it. He proved this at the Mount of Transfiguration when he spoke with Moses and Elijah face to face. SOME Jews didn't understand, particularly the legal and spiritual "authorities" of the time. But many believed.

What would you do if somebody showed up today claiming to be the Son of God?

Answer 4

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Answer 5

it's pretty unlikely that jesus told the jews to embrace the bible seeing as the new testament was written after his death, and only compiled hundreds of years later.

many jews see jesus as a great prophet, but as he does not fufill all of the specifications of what the messiah will be according to the Torah or old testament of the bible, they do not see him as a messiah.

Answer 6

Jews did listen, but what he said fit one of two catagories:
Old news: Stuff you can find in the OT
or
"New" News: Stuff that went against the OT
They already had the old stuff, did not want or need the New stuff..
The Romans did not like the new stuff either, so they nailed him to a pike (not a cross, they did not use crosses for executions at that time).

Answer 7

Part of the problem of Jesus and Jews is that the perceptions of what the 'messiah' would be like were conflated by images of past Jewish leaders and their prophets: David, Solomon, Joshua, etc.

In many respects, Jesus did not come to do away with the law, but he did seek to go beyond it. A person can knock down walls (like Joshua) without ever lifting a finger ("do not bang your head against the wall, sit down quietly and wait for the wall to fall down" Henry Miller), a person can stop an army (like David) without killing anyone (think of the image of the man in Tiannamen Square), and a person can lead his 'followers' to the 'promised land' (like Moses) without being there himself except in spirit (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.)

Imagine, if you will, going to meet a blind date. She tells you she's sexy, passionate, caring, loyal, etc... everything you've ever wanted. So, you go to meet her, but she doesn't look or act quite the way you imagined her. Her clothes are kinda dumpy, she smells awful, she doesn't seem all that sure of herself, but she won't stop looking at you all through dinner.

Now, she COULD be everything that she says she is. The clothes were dumpy because she had no opportunity to change, she smelled because of something that happened after work, and she looked awful because of the same. But if after dinner you excuse yourself as politely (or not) as possible and run as fast as you can, how will you ever know that?

The Jewish people did not want to hear someone tell them to be 'gentle and forgiving'. And it's perfectly understandable why they would (and do) think that way. But that doesn't mean Jesus turned his back upon them, or consideres himself seperate from them. If he did that, why would he incarnate as Jewish? No matter what anyone believes, I am more than certain Jesus knows the Torah by heart, and could recite a mean kaddish if he needed to.

Answer 8

When you look at history at the story of messengers sent to people, their first reactions are always, of denial.

Jews were comfortable in their ways..they had brought trade into the temples..had made a lot of money and they didnt want anyone telling them they were doing wrong.

It is human nature to not listen when theyre told theyre doing wrong tho.

And it takes courage to embrace the truth.

There were a bunch of things that were seriously wrong with the Jews of the era, not because of Torah per se, but because their practices were faulty, these practices did not coincide with what Moses had brought to them.

And Jesus was ordered by God to tell them that and he did. Knowing full well they would shun him but true faith demands courage in the face of oppression.

Answer 9

First of all, he did NOT tell them to abandon the Bible---the Torah is the scripture that existed at the time of Jesus....the New Testament is simply the "rest of the story" telling of God and his work once Jesus came...

Jesus asked everyone to listen to him and consider his message and his personhood as the Son of God and Son of Man, not just the Jewish nation, and still only a minority of people listen to him

Answer 10

The more pertinent question would be, IF Jesus told people to abandon the Torah, why do Christians still quote Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, or Deuteronomy?

And why do they selectively use those books to justify things that they do?

Answer 11

well, Jesus never told any Jew to abandon the Torah.

Mat 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.


and it wasn't the Jews who executed Jesus. it was the Romans.
the idea that a ruthless Roman governor would kowtow to the leadership of the peoples his troops were occupying by force is rather silly.