Do jews believe in a messiah?

Question

For christians, it's jesus, right...? He comes back.? Then, what about for jews... (was not raised judeo-christian...just learning)

Answer 1

Yes we believe in the concept of a Messiah.
Christians identify Messiah with Jesus and define him as God incarnated as a man, and believe he died for the sins of humanity as a blood sacrifice. This means that one has to accept the idea that one person's death can atone for another person's sins. However, this is opposed to what the Bible says in Deuteronomy 24:26, "Every man shall be put to death for his own sin," which is also expressed in Exodus 32:30-35, and Ezekiel 18. The Christian idea of the messiah also assumes that God wants, and will accept, a human sacrifice. After all, it was either Jesus-the-god who died on the cross, or Jesus-the-human. Jews believe that God cannot die, and so all that Christians are left with in the death of Jesus on the cross, is a human sacrifice. However, in Deuteronomy 12:30-31, God calls human sacrifice an abomination, and something He hates: "for every abomination to the Eternal, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods." All human beings are sons or daughters, and any sacrifice to God of any human being would be something that God would hate. The Christian idea of the messiah consists of ideas that are UnBiblical.
We are still waiting for the real Messiah.

Answer 2

Jews are still waiting for the Messiah to come. He will be a man, not G-d, or the son of G-d, as Christians believe. They say in every generation there is a man who is capable of being the Messiah. But, the world is not ready for him yet, so he never comes forth. We must make the world a better place before he comes.

Many Reform Jews (the ones who do not follow ritual as closely) say that the Messiah will not be a person, but a Messianic age, when the world has learned to live together in peace, and helping each other for a better world.

Answer 3

Most religious Jews (Judaism) expect a Messiah to come.
Some Jews do believe that Jesus is the Messiah. Some of them have become Christians, other call themselves Messianic Jews or Hebrew Christians.

David Israel (that is the name he uses to answer questions here) is a Jew that believes Jesus.

Answer 4

Complex question.

First you need to understand thattoday the word Jew is used to refer to an ethnic group made up of people who think of themselves as Jews. 90% of these people do not believe in the Jewish religion.

As for the others who believe in Judaism as presented in the BIble, Talmud, and classical commentators:

It depends what you mean by a Messiah. If you mean a son of G-d who is himself divine, no. That is not part of Judaism. We do believe in the Messiah, an 80+ year old man born in the normal way who will turn the world to goodness through his prayers and pray for the Temple to descend from heaven and be answered in the affirmitive.

So it's a little different from the Christian idea, but now you know about another religion a little more.

hope that helps.

Answer 5

All Jews who believed Yeshua the Messiah were His disciples in the early Church and there are Messianic Jews today.

Jews who were eye witnesses or close associates to eye witnesses & filled with the Holy Spirit wrote the NT. Jews that were prophets of the LORD God wrote both the OT & NT.

There is the old covenant Levitical Priesthood (Levite is a High Priest) and there is the new covenant Jesus Christ Priesthood (Jesus is the High Priest).

Answer 6

yes they do, butthey dont believe he's come yet. there are 3 different descriptions of the Messiah in the OT (well, mroe, but here's 2 i know). Isaiah 53 depicts the Messiah as a sufferer for his people, one who carries their burdens and uses "must be last (on earth) to be first (in heaven)" principle. the second is Isaiah 9 i think and it depicts the Messiah as a conquerer who reigns on earth as king

Jews looked for the Messiah around the time Jesus came because they dispised the romans. jews were looking for some sort of warrior, which is why many of them missed Jesus. Jesus in the first coming is depicted in Isaiah 52, and the second coming in Isaiah 9. does that help?

Answer 7

Yes, Jews believe in a Messiah, but they don't believe Jesus was the Messiah.

Answer 8

the word "messiah" is really not the same because when people think of messiah they think of the christian idea of a messiah which is not based in judaism. yes jews believe a messiah will come, but we don't believe he will be divine, or that he will be necessary for salvation, or anything like that. basically jesus is the exact opposite of the messiah concept in judaism. to us the messiah will be a regular man who will bring all the jews back to israel, who will restore the davidic monarchy in israel, who will lead the entire world to knowledge and love of G-d, and who will destroy all weapons of war and bring complete world peace. we don't believe people will need to have "faith" in the messiah and we believe that praying or worshipping him would be idolatry since he's just a man.

Answer 9

Still waiting.

Some Jews believe Bar Kokhba was a descendant of David, which would have aided his Messianic claim. However, since the genealogical records evidently were destroyed in 70 C.E., later claimants to the office of Messiah could not establish proof that they were of David’s family. (The Messiah therefore had to appear before 70 C.E., as Jesus did, in order to prove his claim as the heir of David. Wouldnt this show that persons still looking for the Messiah are in error?)

Answer 10

The Jews believe in a Messiah. Historically, their belief system ended in a political messiah who would be highly nationalistic. He is expected to expell foreign influence from the historical boundaries of Judah. His view of worship reform and the sacrificial system varies w/ the sect.