2007-04-07 14:12:01 · 9 answers · asked by Ask Meg 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
We generally believe that he was either a (if we even believe he existed, some of us don't)
1. good rabbi whose teachings were distorted by his followers
2. the worst thing that ever happened to us
3. a nonentity that matters nothing in our religion
2007-04-07 14:32:29 · answer #1 · answered by LadySuri 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Jews rejected Jesus because He failed, in their eyes, to do what they expected their Messiah to do--destroy evil and all their enemies, in this case the Romans, and establish an eternal kingdom with Israel as the preeminent nation in the world. The prophecies in Isaiah and Psalm 22 described a suffering Messiah who would be persecuted and killed, but they chose to focus on those prophecies that discussed His glorious victories, not His crucifixion.
The Jews believed that the Messiah, the prophet which Moses spoke about, would come and deliver them from Roman bondage and set up a kingdom where they would be the rulers. Two of the disciples, James and John, even asked to sit at Jesus' right and left in His Kingdom when He came into His glory. The people of Jerusalem also thought He would deliver them. They shouted praises to God for the mighty works they had seen Jesus do, and called out "Hosanna, save us" when he rode into Jerusalem on a donkey (Matthew 21:9). They treated Him like a conquering king. Then when He allowed Himself to be arrested, tried and crucified on a cursed cross, the people quit believing that He was the promised prophet. They rejected their Messiah (Matthew 27:22).
2007-04-08 01:14:17 · answer #2 · answered by Freedom 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1) Jews completely ignore Jesus- he is meaningless to us and is completely irrelevant to Jewish thought, belief and practice.
2) He is NOT mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud EVER. The references usually attributed to referring to him are distortions by the anti-Semitic crowd and have no basis in fact. the only time that the name of Jesus is used (and it was a fairly common name in that time period) was in reference to an incident four hundred years before the the Roman rule of Israel.
2007-04-11 09:30:55 · answer #3 · answered by allonyoav 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It differs with every Jew. Some believe he was a good teacher, some believe he was plain crazy, some believe he may not have even existed. Whichever it is, they still don't believe in jesus the way xtians do.
2007-04-08 06:00:27 · answer #4 · answered by -♦One-♦-Love♦- 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A liar and an impostor. He is mentioned about a dozen times in the Babylonian Talmud,which is a vast compendium of rabbinical commentaries. He is characterized as boiling in excrement in hell,which is interesting since the Talmud otherwise makes no provision for a hell. Jews are intensely hostile to Christians and always have been; that's why I'm always amazed at the way they carry on about their alleged trials &tribulations. So who cast the first stone. It's no different today. Savagely anti-Christian jews like Hyam Maccabby are routinely published in mainstream jewish journals like Commentary. I never met a jew who didn't hate Christianity.
2007-04-07 21:20:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
Opinions range from 'He was a very good man, but he wasn't the Messiah' to 'The worst thing that ever happened to us'.
Both have a point.
2007-04-07 21:16:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
My understanding is that they view him as a good man and a rabbi (teacher), but that they do not view him as the Son of God, as is the case with Christianity.
2007-04-07 21:16:26 · answer #7 · answered by Rynok 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I think Jewish people believe Jesus will come for the first time in the future. i think the bible says something about the jewish people not seeing jesus coming.
2007-04-07 21:18:05 · answer #8 · answered by david d 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋
That he was a prophet.
2007-04-07 21:15:20 · answer #9 · answered by S K 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋