Why does the Jewish religion not believe that Christ is the Messiah?

Answer 1

Since this comes up every few days, I'll send you to a link...
And as a Jew, I can tell you that to us, he was not a prophet, and rabbi, or anything like that.. I see him as a creation of Paul and his cronies, nothing more.

Answer 2

Simple answer: he failed to fulfill a single messianic prophecies.

First of all, you have to know what the "Jewish prophecies" are in regards to "messianic prophecies"

These are:

1. Descendant of David - (Jeremiah 23:5) (there are more regarding this one), note, must also be a descendant of Solomon (1 Chronicles 22:9), but can not be a descendant of Jeconiah (Jeremiah 22:30 This is established only through the biological father (for line/tribe) Numbers 36 (Tribal lineage), Genesis 49:10, 1 Kings, 11:4, 1 Chronicles 17:11-19 (Kingship lineage), Exodus 28:4, 29:9-30, 30:30, and 40:15 (Priesthood lineage)

2. Preceded by Elijah - Malachi 3:23-24

3. World Peace - Isaiah 2:4, Exekiel 39:9

4. Universal Knowledge of G-d - Isaiah 11:9, Jeremiah 31:33, Zechariah 8:23, 14:9, 14:16

5. Building of the Third Temple - Ezekiel 37:26-28 (See also Ezekiel 40-48, Isaiah 33:20)

6. Death Will Cease - Isaiah 25:8

7. Resurrection of the Dead - Isaiah 26:19, Daniel 12:2, Ezekiel 37:12-13

8. Ingathering of Israel - Isaiah 43:5-6 (See also Jeremiah 19:15, 23:3, Isaiah 11:12, Zechariah 10:6, Ezekiel 37:21-22)

9. The Nations Will Help the Jews Materially - Isaiah 60:5, 60:10-12, 61:6

10. Eternal Joy and Gladness Will Characterize the jewihs Nation - Isaiah 51:11

11. The Jews Will Be Sought For Spiritual Guidance - Zechariah 8:23

12. All Weapons Of War Will Be Destroyed - Ezekiel 39:9

13. The Enemy Dead Will Be Buried - Ezekiel 39:12

14. The Egyptian River Will Run Dry - Isaiah 11:15

15. Trees Will Yield New Fruit Monthly in Israel - Ezekiel 47:12

16. Each Tribe of Israel Will Receive It's Inheritance - Ezekiel 47:13-14

17. All Warfare Will Cease - Isaiah 2:4

Also, we know that the messiah will be an actual king, ruling in Israel, and sitting on the actual throne in Jerusalem. And that there will be no dispute as to whether or not this Jewish male is the messiah or not. (Jeremiah 23:5-6, and Isaiah 42:1-4)

To quote a friend, "When we carefully consider that none of this has occurred, we can be assured that although many thousands of individuals have claimed to be the messiah throughout the centuries, Jesus included, none of them is. Moreover, when we ponder whether Jesus is the messiah, it is obvious that the very *opposite* occurred immediately after the Christian movement began; that is; During the first century the Romans slaughtered many thousands of Jews, the Jewish people were exiled from their land, the Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed, the knowledge of Torah and its observance decreaed throughout the Roman Empire. Clearly, there is no relationship between what the Hebrew Scriptures say about the messiah and what Christianity teaches about Jesus."

This is why Jews don't believe that Jesus was the messiah.

Answer 3

IM A CHRISTIAN, BUT HERE ARE A FEW REASONS WHY THEY DONT BELIEVE HE IS THE MESSIAH

Jewish people dont believe that Jesus was the Messiah because of a few reasons...
They believe that when the Messiah comes one of the most clear signs of his coming is that the dead will resurrect. this obviously didnt happen...
Another sign is that he will gather all the Jews from exile and bring them back to Israel...this also never happened...
There are alot of more signs and details but the most important one is that all the people will become closer to God and not be divided...in Jesus's time the opposite happened instead of all coming together a new religion was formed, thus there was no togetherness...
This are just a few, very few reasons why they dont accept him as the Messiah...
they also dont think he was a prophet, for them he was a Rabbi, a very influential one, but no more than that...

Answer 4

I guess the main reason would be is that "Christ", they would not call him Christ they would just call him Jesus, because implied in the term Christ is Messiah.

But anywho the main reason is because Jesus did not reestablish the kingdom of God on Earth. God did not put him as the King of a Jewish Nation that would last forever. Many Jews thought that if the Messiah was to come during the 1st Century that he would lead people to overtake the Roman Empire. Its all about restoring the davidic kingdom and the davidic dynasty.

Answer 5

Because he wasn't. He was the messiah of the ancient egyptian faith and foretold on papyri dating "before" Judaism.
Christians believe he was the Jewish messiah because of his "cultural" background which created the "assumptions" he "had to" be the messiah written about "coming" by the Jewish prophets. Of course, much of what "is" hebrew" was not "new." It was simply "transferred" information from another faith which existed. The one of Egypt. Read about it in the ancient egytian "Book of the Dead." Jesus was "crucified" for "blasphemy" to the Jewish faith, and a little known "fact" is that Jesus was a devout MONK of the Egyptian Therapuet order, otherwise known to the world as the "Essenes." It is "what" got him "crucified." Jesus gave many "hints" as to "who" he was, only christians miss it.

Answer 6

Some do believe. They prefer to call themselves Messianic Jews.

Jews who don't believe Jesus is Messiah state He didn't fulfill the prophesies necessary to identify Him. For the most part, this is because they do not acknowledge it possible that the Messiah would die and then come again. Biblical prophesies that appear to support this (for example, Daniel 9:25-26 and Isaiah 53) are interpreted to refer to other events, or given different meanings than Messianic Jews and Christians understand them to mean.

Answer 7

Jesus did not have the personal lineage, the proper behavior nor the societal position to satisfy the requirement of the messiah. he was not anointed by the special oil from which the word "messiah" derives, he did not fulfill necessary prophecies (and to claim that the Jews to whom these prophecies were made misinterpreted them is the height of arrogance -- should I come into your house and eat the recipe your mother gave you and tell you you made it wrong?) and he did not act the way the messiah was to act.

What seems strange to an informed Jew is why anyone thinks he was the messiah...

Answer 8

He did EXACTLY what the Messiah was supposed to do as He was/is the Messiah. Jews are blinded by misinterpretation of prophecy in the Old Testament and attribute things as being spoke of about Israel the nation, instead of Him. They also got hit with the Pharisees lie about the resurrection. They felt the Messiah would be bold, conquering, in the middle of politics, and rising their nation up as no other had before. When He came being meek and lowly they rejected Him. Again, their misinterpretation of scripture.

Answer 9

They wanted a Messiah that would set up an immediate kingdom on earth. They didn't understand what Isaiah and Jeremiah and the other prophets said about this Messiah.

Answer 10

They have a hard time with the prophecies and also a bit of a hard heart.They see prophecies talking of a suffering Messiah and a triumphant Messiah and can't reconcile the fact that there are two stage to His coming.Even His own Disciples had a hard time with it until the resurrection.Besides,Messiah or no Messiah,those rascals (Pharisees and Saducees) didn't want to give over their power and $$ to some poor carpenter from Galilee.

Answer 11

When Jesus came along, the Jews (in general) were hoping the messiah would be a rebel leader that would get them out from under Roman domination.
Jesus disappointed them.
The disappointed ones taught their children Jesus was not the messiah and those children taught their children, etc.