Christians: Why do you find the Jewish reasons for denying Jesus as the Messiah unconvincing?

Question

I'm not Jewish by the way. I'm atheist.

I think I'm getting so few answers because the Christians don't know why the Jews deny Jesus.

Answer 1

The main reason why Christians find such reasons as unconvincing is because they are taught the 'proofs' backwards and have been inculcated with the idea that that is the only proper way to interpret the scriptures. In other words, they take their desired answers, ie the New Testament, and then try to find the questions in the Old Testament, usually taking the OT out of context or deliberately changing the meaning or even the text itself to 'prove' their result.

The only logical way to determine if Jesus was the messiah is to identify all the messianic prophesies. Eliminate all those that are too general...for example that the messiah will ride into Jerusalem on a white donkey. When one simply looks at those messianic prophesies that remain, understand what they say in context, and search for any fulfillment of those prophesies in the known life of Jesus, one comes up empty.

Further, using the Christian method yields the same result. Based on the accounts of Jesus' birth, applying the applicable biblical law, Jesus has ZERO PROBABILITY of being messiah. Of course, this means nothing to Christianity as they use a prophesy that has nothing to do with the messiah to 'prove' that the birth of Jesus is as foretold. UTTER NONSENSE.

Answer 2

I totally understand where they are coming from. The Bible says that many Jews will reject him the first time (Isaiah 53).
They were looking for a political leader to save them from, then the Romans. Jesus is reigning spiritually now, but will one day come back to reign politically as well.
Read Zecharian 12:10-11! It is very convincing.
One day, all the Jewish people will realize that he was indeed the Messiah they were looking for & will all accept him (Romans 11-13). I look forward to that day!
Lastly, many Jewish people do beleive. In fact the first disciples were Jewish & my pastor is Jewish.
Peace to Israel! May their Messiah return soon.

Answer 3

Because I have read some of their reasoning, and I have been shown over 300 OT Messiah prophecies fulfilled in Yeshua Messiah.

It would be impossible for me to deny Yeshua Messiah when I see all the OT prophecies.

Prophecies in an answer: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070204120019AA8U30N

Answer 4

Christians are blinded to the real motives that Jewish human beings as a rule do not develop into Christians. the real reason is that the needed innovations of the hot testomony are at odds with elementary innovations of the Jewish bible. the hot testomony rejected some elementary Jewish innovations, and for this reason there's a chop up that Jews commonly understand and may want to't connect. there are quite some, yet possibly the most important is that the Jewish Bible says that each and every one those who love God and attempt to adhere to His ideas of ethics etc are 'righteous' and forgiven their sins even although they are not proper and do sin now and again. the hot testomony although rejects that Jewish Bible preparation and says somewhat that each and every one human beings, no count how a lot they love God and no count how a lot they follow His ethics etc, are going to pass to an everlasting and awful suffering for failure to completely follow the regulation. This Christian theory then finally ends up in the needed Christian theory that there is one way and in elementary words one thanks to stay away from this destiny, and that is Jesus etc. because Jews understand the Jewish bible and recognize that there is no such awful destiny for sturdy those who love God etc., there is 0 foundation for them to even complication about, now to not indicate settle for, the hot testomony theologies. Jews at the on the spot are not rejecting Jesus, and really might want to frequently consider each and every thing Jesus is asserted to have taught. in case you lifted the alleged rates of Jesus from the hot testomony and set them except for the stuff his followers got here up with after he replaced into useless, you may discover Jesus taught to adhere to the regulation; he taught to hearken to the rabbis on subject matters about the regulation; he taught to adhere to the regulation with a honest coronary heart; and he taught that the spirit of the regulation replaced into more desirable important than the letter of the regulation. Jews might want to almost universally consider each and every of those Jesus teachings. certainly, they're widely used Judaism teachings. the issue is that the followers of Jesus who wrote the hot testomony rejected elementary Jewish Bible teachings and got here up with their personal conflicting theology. that's the position the disconect is.

Answer 5

Because he was the messiah, NEXT

Answer 6

Jews: Why do you guys still believe the lie you made up, "God's Chosen People" ?

Answer 7

Because they refuse to believe anything could possibly be true if it's not in their poxy story book (sorry Bible).