2007-03-25 10:47:30 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-03-25 10:55:04 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
From a Christian perspective there is no good answer. that's why Christians have tried to convert Jews since the beginning of Christianity. Sure Christians would want everybody to convert, but they focus especially on the Jews. That's why there's "Jews for Jesus," and not "Buddhists for Jesus" or "Muslims for Jesus." To the believing Christian, Muslims and Buddhists happen to believe the wrong thing. Jews on the other hand are much more difficult. Christianity says that Judaism is outdated. "Neither Greek nor Jew, neither freeman nor slave... But all who are united in the body of Christ." it says something like that somewhere in the Bible. Excuse my poor quoting. If the Church is true representation of Judaism, then the Jews should have accepted it more readily than the heathens. Which they didn't. Jesus' early disciples were Jews, but Christianity didn't get big until Paul made it accessible to non-Jews by declaring Halakha irrelevant. Which is why the Church needs to convert Jews especially. It says in the bible "Go out into the hedges and compel them to enter.. and to the Jew first." That's the cause for the Spanish Inquisition and countless pogroms throughout Eastern Europe.
In short, there is no answers to your question (from a fundamentalist Christian perspective) and indeed, one has to try to eradicate Judaism to strengthen Christianity's claim to being the "true Jews"
2007-03-26 06:22:03 · answer #2 · answered by yolki palki 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Judaism, that one is pretty easy. There are different paths for different people. Judaism works for Jews but isn't for everyone. So other religions can formulate their path to the divine in other ways.
The Christian would have to say that Judaism is around because we rejected Jesus (unless the aforesaid Christian subscribes to a dual covenant theology which lets Jews continue).
2007-03-25 10:52:04 · answer #3 · answered by rosends 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are many religions still around older than both Christianity and Judaism. People choose to believe what suits them. New religions do not generally usurp the old.
2007-03-25 10:55:16 · answer #4 · answered by Sun: supporting gay rights 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because neither are absolutely true. The truths of these two are only strong for those who follow. To the rest of the world, these two religions are simply that...two other religions.
Or it could be that Rome failed to kill all the followers of Judaism.
2007-03-25 10:54:21 · answer #5 · answered by zentularis 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hmm..let me think...can a tree exist without it's roots? Or hmm.. isn't Christianity grafted into the truth that was the same source as Moses's? Why shouldn't the Jewish faith still exist as Christianity does now?
God revealed himself over time to mankind. And both religious faiths are astonishing evidences of this.
2007-03-25 12:50:41 · answer #6 · answered by Uncle Remus 54 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's what Christians wondered. So, the Church came up with the doctrine called teste veratatis ("the witness people").
2007-03-27 14:26:08 · answer #7 · answered by mo mosh 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because several Jews rejected Jesus as the prophesied Messiah. They overlooked the jact that over 400 prophetic scriptures in the Old Testament were perfectly detailed. They had misunderstood the prophesies and thought the Messiah would be an Earthly king to lead the nation of Isreal. Jesus was over their heads. His "Kingdom" was not of this world.
2007-03-25 10:51:28 · answer #8 · answered by RedE1 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
The Jews are God's CHOSEN people. They are believing what the Pharisee's said, but I don't hold it against 'em
2007-03-25 11:09:44 · answer #9 · answered by Defender of Freedom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because jews thought jesus was like black magic or something, so they hated him. judaism is a bit out dated. notice they only have an old testament?
2007-03-25 10:59:39 · answer #10 · answered by Zero 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋