according to the old testament, what was the son of god supposed to do?

Answer 1

The Messiah will be a mortal man, born of a normal man and woman. He will be of the undisputed scion of David through his father. He will become uncontested ruler in the Land of Israel over all the People of Israel, that is, all Twelve Tribes of Israel. He will have at least one son, who will be king after the Messiah dies a normal death at an advanced age.

He will be as described by the Prophet Isaiah (Isaiah 11:2-4): "full of wisdom and understanding, counsel and might, knowledge and the fear of G-d . . . he will smite the tyrant with the rod of his mouth, and slay the wicked with the breath of his lips . . ." (Maimonides explains this last as merely a parable, and not to be taken literally.)

Still, the Messiah will primarily be a prince of peace. As it says (Isaiah 52:7) "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the messenger who announces peace."

The Messiah will bring an end to all suffering and war. He will rescue the Children of Israel from exile. He will teach the world how to revere truth, and they will all return to G-d (though not necessarily to Judaism). All forms of warfare will be abolished.

The Torah will be strengthened by the teachings and practices of the Messiah. It will not be weakened nor changed in the slightest.

The Jews will no longer be subjugated nor oppressed by other nations. (In fact, there will be no oppression or subjugation anywhere in the world, by anyone against anyone.) The Jews will be free in the Land of Israel. We will have the Holy Temple once again. We will have the full body of the Law restored by the full Sanhedrin and all lesser courts. And the Messiah will do all this on his first try. Indeed, this is how we will know he is the Messiah.

It will be through these signs that he will be recognized. It will not be through miracles, nor through resurrection of the dead, nor through any new creation. It will be through the total Redemption we will undergo (as described in brief above) that we will know the Messiah. And in truth, it is not for the Messiah that we eagerly wait, but for the Redemption itself. The Messiah is merely G-d's messenger and vehicle for that Redemption.

The man the Christians worship may have been a good person, and he may have taught many good things. (Although I hasten to point out that there are many teachings in the Christian Bible that are completely unacceptable to Orthodox Jews, and incompatible to the teachings of the Torah.) But he was not the Messiah for whom we await and have long awaited. He may have been crucified, and that's a horrible thing. But that merely proves to us that he was not the Messiah.

He was not the son of G-d any more than we all are; precisely no more or less. The very thought is repugnant to a Jewish person. G-d having a son in that manner? We shudder at the suggestion.

Nor do we believe he was resurrected. But even if he was, that would not make him the Messiah.

All this that is claimed about jesus is irrelevant. It has nothing to do with the Messiah. There will indeed be a resurrection, but not at the time of the Messiah's coming. That will be later. Much later.

The Jewish faith has no place for most of the Christian Messiah beliefs. Nor is there any way to reconcile Jesus with the Jewish concept of the Messiah. The two concepts have very little in common.

We still await the Messiah, and our faith is still strong.

One more thing: There is a common misconception that Jews supposedly hate jesus. The truth is that we have no feelings about him at all for good or bad. It does not occupy our minds, because it is completely irrelevant to us and to our religion. We simply don't care at all. Jesus is about as relevant to us as Mithras, or Zeus, or Apollo, Osiris, Attis, Odin, Ishtar, Tammuz, Enlil, or any of the many other ancient gods of other civilizations. We don't hate them either. We simply don't care, and we never think about any of them too much either. Those of us who know a little more about the subject might on occasion wonder if jesus really existed, but in any case we don't really attribute the creation of the christian religion to jesus, but to Paul, about whom we don't much think about either. Our only emotion is invested against those who try to get Jews to believe in christian beliefs. Other than that, we really couldn't care less. We don't hate jesus -- we don't see the point.

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Answer 2

The Bible says, "And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, He [Jesus] expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself." Luke 24:27. "For he [Apollos] vigorously refuted the Jews publicly, showing from the Scriptures that Jesus is the Christ." Acts 18:28, NKJV.*

Answer: The Old Testament predictions of the Messiah to come were so specific and so clearly fulfilled by Jesus of Nazareth that both Jesus and Apollos used these prophecies to prove to the Jews that Jesus was, indeed, the Messiah. There are more than 125 of these prophecies. Let's review just 12 of them:

Born in Bethlehem Micah 5:2
Born of a virgin Isaiah 7:14
Of David's lineage Jeremiah 23:5
Attempted murder by Herod Jeremiah 31:15
Betrayal by a friend Psalms 41:9
Sold for 30 silver coins Zechariah 11:12
Crucified Zechariah 12:10
Lots cast for His clothes Psalms 22:18
No bones broken Psalms 34:20; Exodus 12:46
Buried in rich man's tomb Isaiah 53:9
Year, day, hour of His death Daniel 9:26, 27; Exodus 12:6
Raised the third day Hosea 6:2

Answer 3

According to the Old Testament, there IS no "Son of God", only a Messiah, from the House of David, who will be sent by god to deliver the Jews from enslavement, etc. There is no mention about the Messiah being the "Son" of God. Only Christians believe that God and his/its "Son" exist and are part of the same deity. They think Jesus was the Messiah, but the Jews do not (they're still waiting for him).

According to the site below (thinkquest.org): "Christians believe God can be experienced in three ways. (refer to the Trinity) [the other way is the "Holy Spirit"].

The Jews have a similar statement which expresses their belief in one Almighty God. This statement is known as the Shema'. It only talks about the power of the one "God" and makes NO mention of a son. (This prayer is visible in its entirety on thinkquest.org, among other sites and in the Torah!).

Addendum:
Regarding the “acceptance by Jews that Jesus was the Messiah” and “proof” of Jesus’ divinity by where he was born, according to the same site above (thinkquest.org):

“The Jewish people has not yet accepted anyone as the Messiah though various figures in history have claimed to be the Messiah, such as Jesus Christ the Son of God, or Bar Kochbah, son of a star. They believe in order for God's purpose on earth to be fulfilled, these events must occur; Return to the Promised Land, abolition of immorality, war, prejudice, and discrimination. World society must be based on truth and justice. They believe that when the Messiah comes, He will turn this world into the Kingdom of God, where all nations will live together in peace.”

So far, only ONE of those things has happened (Return of Jews to the Promised Land, aka Israel). Hence, Jews do NOT see Jesus as the Messiah.

Regarding Jesus’ real birthplace, many scholars dispute the traditional story, an article on beliefnet.org states:

“For Episcopal priest and religion professor Bruce Chilton, the question isn't whether Jesus was born in Bethlehem, but rather which Bethlehem.

In his recently published "Rabbi Jesus"(Doubleday), Chilton deflates the theory that Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea. He argues the Gospel writers that town with another Bethlehem in Galilee whose existence has been proven by recent archaeological discoveries. "Because of oral traditions the Gospel writers knew Jesus' birthplace was Bethlehem, and so when they looked in the Old Testament and saw that Micah talks about Bethlehem of Judea, the inclination was to link those two together," said Chilton. "That's exactly what happened in Matthew."

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For Christians, all this “proof” about Jesus, shouldn’t be so important, many people think. As one person, Joel Green,on the site says, “Where Jesus was born is only a "secondary issue" anyway, said Wright, far from "the heart of Christianity. What's at the heart of Christianity is what Jesus did and said when he grew up…” (2)

Answer 4

Capital letters when pertaining to GOD please. lower case letters refer tosatan and manmade idols.

Jesus Son of GOD and GOD the Son became the only sacrifice for sin and guilt known to mankind.

Jesus was crucified, died, rose again and sit at the right hand of the Father as a mediator between siful man and Father GOD. There is no other wa.

Jesus said "I am the Way the Truth and The Life. Noone comes to the Father except through Me."

Answer 5

Come to earth and die ransom back for us what Adam lost so we may have eternal life in a paradise earth. Which is what he did. Colossians 1:15 he was the first thing God ever created and by means of him all other things was created in heaven and earth and he came to earth to see what it truly was like to live and die as a human. But he was a powerful spirit creature who lives in heaven with God. Stephen in Acts saw the heavens opened up and there was Jesus at the right hand of God.
This was after his resurrection. Soon he will come to this earth and destroy the wicked people and Jesus will rule the world.

Answer 6

When god will say, 'O Jesus son of Mary, remember My favour upon thee and upon thy mother; When I strengthened thee with the spirit of holiness so that thou didst speak to the people in the cradle and when of middle age; and when I taught thee the Book and the wisdom and the Torah and the Gospel; and when thou didst fashion a creation out of clay, in the likeness of a bird, by My command; then thou didst breathe into it a new spirit and it became a soaring being by My command; and thou didst heal the night-blind and the leprous by My command; and when thou didst raise the dead by My command; and when I restrained the Children of Israel from putting thee to death when thou didst come to them with clear Signs; and those who disbelieved from among them said, 'This is nothing but clear deception

Answer 7

        certainly no longer something will convince those whom p.c. to proceed to be blind. yet, for me, this replaced into doubly prophetic and wide-unfold of the Messiah, the Lamb of God: Gen. 22:7,8 And Isaac spoke unto Abraham his father, and mentioned, My father: and he mentioned, right here am I, my son. And he mentioned, Behold the fire and the timber: yet the place is the lamb for a burnt offering? (8) And Abraham mentioned, My son, God will furnish himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so as that they went the two one among them jointly.         And why ask a question and then forbid the only verse which states that the Messiah could additionally be referred to as The amazing God? (See the fulfillment in Matthew a million:23.) Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a newborn is born, unto us a son is given: and the government would be upon his shoulder: and his call would be referred to as outstanding, Counselor, The amazing God, The eternal Father, The Prince of Peace.         yet, i comprehend the respond... that's basically between the indications of the blind, wishing to proceed to be blind. yet, persevering with... right this is God's very own prophecy that His Son could rule consistently and ever -- and you won't be able to say this prophecy concerns only Solomon, because of the fact it talks a pair of fulfillment no longer basically *after* David's dying yet no longer his on the spot progeny: 1Chr. 17:11-14 And it shall come to bypass, whilst thy days be expired that thou could desire to pass to be with thy fathers, that i will enhance up thy seed after thee, which would be of thy sons; and that i will establish his kingdom. (12) He shall build me a house, and that i will establish his throne consistently. (13) i'm going to be his father, and HE would be MY SON: and that i won't be able to take my mercy faraway from him, as I took it from him that replaced into before thee: (14) yet i'm going to settle him in mine residing house and in my kingdom consistently: and his throne would be universal forevermore.         i could desire to proceed extra. you prefer extra? working example, Psalm 2:7 replaced into fulfilled the day of Yehushuah's baptism and recorded in Matthew 3:13-17. there is extra, too. God bless.

Answer 8

Everything that was recorded in the New Testament.

Answer 9

He was to be born and take the sins of the world away.

Answer 10

Exactly what he did in the new testament. Although I know you are going to ridicule all the answers you get, thanks for the points.