Some of J****' teachings seem to Jews either contradictory or simply immoral. This does not negate the possibility that Jesus was a great moral teacher, but he was far from perfect in his moral outlook. The idea that eternal punishment would follow from rejecting J**** seems downright evil. That someone could live a noble life and not be saved, when another could live a depraved and cruel life and through a true conversion of his heart at the end of life still be saved, is hard to tote up on the moral balance sheet. I am aware that many Christian groups reject this doctrine today, but for centuries it was normative church doctrine.
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2007-01-09 05:17:23 · 12 answers · asked by jewish n proud 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Why are editing out Jesus?
2007-01-09 05:19:58 · answer #1 · answered by U Luv It 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jews don't accpet Jesus because they don't accept the New Testament. The Old Testament prophets...well prophesied a very detailed explanation of where, when, and how the Messiah was gonna come. They just thought he was gonna free them from the Romans. They didn't expect Him to free them from sin.
Jesus was either a loony dude or the Son of God so moral teacher doesn't quite fit. As to His teachings, how were they not perfect? If someone lives a cruel life to the end and thinks he'll get away by saying "save me jesus" he's got something else coming. You example fits perfectly with Paul and Job. Paul persecuted Christians as Saul and was converted and became a well known Christian leader. Job was a faithful Christian and he was wiped out of everything, but he passed the test and got everything back twice as much.
2007-01-09 13:25:45 · answer #2 · answered by Droppinshock 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many Jewish people, including theologians except him as a Rabbi.
The Reformist movement did just about EVERYTHING Jesus Preached on it's own for Judaism.
And just exactly what was so wrong about some of Jesus teachings. What, not to STONE a woman for being loose unless you are without sin all together.
Jesus expected everyone to keep the Pesach and Sedar dinner, he just wanted us to incorporate and remember him in that traidtion.
Jesus was basically a Good Jewish Boy out to change some of the harshness of the Jewish religion and REFORM it into a more peaceful, toleranant and forgiving motif.
Jesus, despite Christians to the contray, never said be a whipping boy. He did want to teach the hot headed Semites that when struck, don't get into a full out brawl, but be tolerante. He also said carry a sword and don't be a martyr, but also don't hurt a hair on the head of the other person. Just draw your sword with such skill that you put the fear of God into the enemy.
Didn't Israel do just that in 1967 when they bombed the advancing Tanks and those not so nice Semite boys quickly vacated them and headed back to Mecca on foot!
You didn't genocide them. You had a good laugh as they ran away and then you got yourself some nice tanks to add to the arsenal!
You also got some nice desert sand you didn't have before and YOU GAVE SOME OF IT BACK.
Like it or not, some Israellis and JEwish people are doing JUST AS JESUS ASKED.
We are all, however, a long way off from totally doing it right.
2007-01-09 13:27:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's still doctrine today! The Jews of Jesus' day were too proud due to their strong hold upon OT law to realize that Jesus came to be a suffering servant first, then a conquering King. They failed to realize their personal morality wasn't bought by their own individual blood sacrifice, but by something God had ordained. Same thing with Christ; they didn't believe they needed a man to free them from their sins, when they already had a "priest" commissioned to perform the cleansing ritual for the people with the bullock's blood every year. Problem was, that if the the people fell back into sin and DIED before the next Passover rolled around, they were LOST regardless of their perceived morality. It takes a TRUE conversion and an HONEST walk with God, being OBEDIENT to His Word to get into heaven, not some man's ideal of morality. If that were the case, EVERYONE would get in and there'd be no need of a sacrifice for us to wash our sins away with, rendering Christ's death a tragic mistake.
2007-01-09 15:49:07 · answer #4 · answered by bigvol662004 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A lot of Jews do believe Yeshua Messiah. They are born of God, reborn spiritually. Actually the Prophetic Messianic Jews wrote the bible while inspired of the Holy Spirit.
2007-01-09 13:32:47 · answer #5 · answered by t a m i l 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was indeed a great moral teacher. But I think accepting Jesus as God and his teachings as the word of God makes you Christian...
2007-01-09 13:21:32 · answer #6 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People play politics with religion, as always, it's a human evil to justify our desires in God's name. Jesus wanted people to open their hearts to God, worship God, listen to his words but not worship him so much as take his words as truth. We are all God's children, he said so himself. In Jewish scripture their great Messiah is yet to come, where to Christians, He will return. Anyone who accepts God and lives noblily will be judged as such, taht is not for any religion, preacher or society to determine, it is up to God to hand out the reward or punishment for what one believes. It is not the excuse for hatred, violence, theft, oppression or war, to kill in God's name is the worst blasphemy and one most deserving of eternal damnantion. We kill for earthly desires, greed, envy/avarice and simply to defend ourselves from the evil desires of others.
2007-01-09 13:27:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why are you pushing your beliefs on us? People always seem to think that us Christians do that--which we don't. You are no better than the people you point fingers at.
2007-01-09 13:31:15 · answer #8 · answered by ♥Sodas♥ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why are editing out the name of Jesus? i assume because we can do it that Yahoo is not censuring that name?
2007-01-09 13:22:43 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We accept J*****, after all it is just a letter followed by five punctuation marks.
2007-01-09 13:27:07 · answer #10 · answered by Jimfix 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋