How come Jews don't believe in Jesus?

Question

As far as Jews are concerned the Messaiah have not come yet... otherwise they would have been Christians today... Is that true?

Answer 1

Jews do not accept Jesus as the messiah because:

1) Jesus did not fulfill the messianic prophecies.

2) Jesus did not embody the personal qualifications of the Messiah.

3) Biblical verses "referring" to Jesus are mistranslations.

4) Jewish belief is based on national revelation.


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Answer 2

Jews in ancient Palestine (remember Judea was distroyed by Rome) considered the idea of the Messiah to be an imminant occurance. They were actively looking for Him to come and save them. The idea of the Messiah was that he would be a powerful Jew, that would either lead the Hebrew people's army to overthrow the Roman conquerors, or to the kingdom of Heaven. This poor nobody shows up, who preaches things widely different than the Law of Moses, but claims to have the true interpretation of it. Not only is he someone no one has never heard of, not a powerful speaker or a leader of men, he gets caught, tried and crucified as a common criminal. To the Jews of the day, this is just another schmuck who got what was comming to anyone who didn't keep their nose out of the Roman's business. The early Christians had a HUGE job ahead of them, to show that this guy wasn't a failure, in fact he won the battle. Sure the Romans were still there, but the Jews had been Saved in a way they didn't even know could exist. For the most part though, if you come from the tradition of a Messiah being a great leader, you can see why the Jews didn't think Jesus was "the One," he really didn't fit the stereotype that they had built up in their collective conciousness.

Answer 3

Its not that Jews (yes i'm a Jew) don't believe in Jesus as a person. They do believe he could have existed but he was not the Messiah. Jews have widely different opinions on when the Messiah will come. Some say 2012 when many calendars will say the world will end and others says not for hundreds of years.

Answer 4

Yes; the Old Testament was very specific in its prophesy of the Messaiah, and Christ did not do the things that the prophesy said he would if he were it. Christians say he did alot of the stuff, and maybe someday he'll come back and do the rest.

Answer 5

Christians identify Messiah with Jesus and define him as God incarnated as a man, and believe he died for the sins of humanity as a blood sacrifice. This means that one has to accept the idea that one person's death can atone for another person's sins. However, this is opposed to what the Bible says in Deuteronomy 24:26, "Every man shall be put to death for his own sin," which is also expressed in Exodus 32:30-35, and Ezekiel 18. The Christian idea of the messiah also assumes that God wants, and will accept, a human sacrifice. After all, it was either Jesus-the-god who died on the cross, or Jesus-the-human. Jews believe that God cannot die, and so all that Christians are left with in the death of Jesus on the cross, is a human sacrifice. However, in Deuteronomy 12:30-31, God calls human sacrifice an abomination, and something He hates: "for every abomination to the Eternal, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods." All human beings are sons or daughters, and any sacrifice to God of any human being would be something that God would hate. The Christian idea of the messiah consists of ideas that are UnBiblical.

Answer 6

"...jesus did not do any of the things that the scriptures said the messiah would do...."

biblical passages referring to the moshiach (the messiah) ...
isaiah 2, 11, 42; 59:20
jeremiah 23, 30, 33; 48:47; 49:39
ezekiel 38:16
hosea 3:4-3:5
micah 4
zephaniah 3:9
zechariah 14:9
daniel 10:14

when he will come/what he will do....
http://judaism.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=judaism&cdn=religion&tm=14&gps=154_6_835_483&f=10&tt=14&bt=1&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www.jewfaq.org/moshiach.htm


"...the jews rejected jesus because he failed, in their eyes, to do what they expected their messiah to do..."
http://www.gotquestions.org/Jews-reject-Jesus.html

"...the hebrew bible describes the messiah as a national savior who would arrive at the time of the babylonian exile (hundreds of years before christianity) and restore the nation of israel with a capital at jerusalem...."
"...there was partial fulfillment of those hopes..."
http://judaism.about.com/library/3_askrabbi_c/bl_jesus.htm


"...beliefs about jesus vary considerably. some view him as a great moral teacher. others see him as a false prophet or as an idol of christianity. some sects of judaism will not even say his name due to the prohibition against saying an idol's name...."
http://ww.gotquestions.org/Judaism.html

Answer 7

Yes it is true that we do not believe that the Messiah has come yet.
We do not believe that Jesus was the Son of G-d and we do not believe that he was the Messiah.
I suppose IF we did believe in Jesus, at least some of us would be Christians (that would make sense)

Answer 8

Some Jews do actually, they're called Messianic Jews:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messianic_Judaism
but they aren't regarded as real Jews by other Jewish people.

The Jews that don't believe that Jesus was the Messiah think so because according to them, Jesus did not fulfil the prophecies.

Answer 9

Prior to making some kind of "blanket" statement or overgeneralization about the beliefs of Jewish people or any other people different than yourself, perhaps you ought to consider meeting a couple dozen of these persons.

I understand your question is simply an inquiry. Don't be spreading misinformation around before you have the facts straight, ok? Continued Health & Prosperity.

Answer 10

If Jews accept Yeshua as the Messiah, they become Messianic Jews. "Christian" is largely a gentile term.

The majority of Jews do not accept Yeshua as Messiah because He claimed to be God, and to them, God is "one" and the acceptance of Jesus as God, to them, would be polytheistic. Of course, all of this is based one major question, was Yeshua lying when He said He was God? If He was NOT God, then He was lying, a sinner, and not a perfect sacrifice. If Yeshua was INDEED God, then He was the perfect sacrifice as dictated by the requirements of the Passover Lamb.

John 10
"I and My Father are one."
Then the Jews took up stones again to stone Him.
Jesus answered them, “Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?”
The Jews answered Him, saying, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy, and because You, being a Man, make Yourself God."

This was prophesied by God in the Tonakh in several places. Some in "type" with both Moses and Joseph being rejected by their brethren upon their first coming, but accepted as savior in their second. This was the main point of Stephen's defense before the Sanhedrin in the Book of Acts. Yeshua was also prophesied to be the "Stone of stumbing" and the "Rock of offense". Jesus confirms this after His resurrection when He said in Luke 24:25-26,

“O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken! Ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and to enter into His glory?”
http://www.schneblin.com/studies/pdfs/in_the_volume_of_the_book.pdf

Paul recognized this and called it a veil, much like the veil they put over the face of Moses...
But even to this day, when Moses is read, a veil lies on their heart. - 2 Cor. 3:15
However, if a Jewish seeker looks for the truth of Messiah, proves (like the Bereans) that Yeshua is indeed the prophesied Savior, then this veil is removed.
Nevertheless when one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away. - 2 Cor. 3:16

So it all depends on what they choose to see, and how they choose to come before God. With good deeds (which never impressed God) or with the blood of the Lamb.

http://www.schneblin.com/studies/pdfs/the_brazen_serpent.pdf
http://www.schneblin.com/studies/pdfs/joseph_and_the_seder_cups.pdf