Jewish scholars consider Christians to be "of the idol worshippers" ?

Question

"...according to the known Jewish ruling that Christians are idol worshippers." (Likkutei Sichos 37:198)

http://www.noahide.com/infiltration/xmas.htm

Answer 1

Nope- Rambam states that we consider Christianity to be like idol worship for a jew- since we are complelled to believe in a single, indivisible deity. For non-Jews it is NOT considered idol worship since they do not deny the divinity of God, or claim that icons/crucifixes etc have any power in themselves. thus, for a jew it would be idol worship since our obligation to recognise God is in a specific form- for a non-Jew it is NOT idol worship. Teh Noahide website has cut a LOT off from that quotation- but then they are not Jewish and are not bound by jewish law!

Answer 2

TRUE.
This is the second time I agree with you.
Allow me to add this:
The Jewish idea of God is that God is One and Indivisible. We cannot divide God up into separate parts, where each part of God is UnEqual to each of the other parts, but somehow they are one and the same. The Hebrew Scriptures describes God as an absolute One, but the Christian's New Testament describes the Christian idea of God as divisible into three parts called a trinity. In the Christian's New Testament, Jesus at one point claims to have different knowledge than other parts of the Christian Trinity. For example, Matthew 24:36 or Mark 13:32. In another verse, Jesus does not have the same power as other parts of the Christian Trinity, for example, Luke 23:34. And in Matthew 26:42, Jesus's will is not the same as the will of the Father. Indeed, Jesus often contrasted himself with the Father, for example, in John 14:28, or Luke 18:19. Furthermore, Jesus supposedly said that the punishment for blaspheming against one part of the Trinity is not the same punishment for blaspheming against another part of the Trinity. In the Hebrew Scriptures, however, God is One, as we read in Deuteronomy 6:4, as well as in Isaiah 44:6, where God tells us, "I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God." When Isaiah tells us that God said, "I am the first," it means that God has no father. When Isaiah tells us that God said, "I am the last," it means that God has no literal son. And when Isaiah tells us that God said, "Besides me there is no God," it means that God does not share being God with any other god, or demi-god, or semi-god, or persons, and there is no trinity.

Answer 3

It's the whole Trinity thing. The idea of a three-in-one deity, to Jews, smacks of polytheism. Equally foreign to Jewish thought is the idea that God could have relatives or a body.

I suppose Unitarianism wouldn't be considered idolotrous, then. Although I read somewhere that other Christians don't consider them really Christian.

Answer 4

Look what making pronouncements based on ignorance results in,considering all the ignorance that Christians have proclaimed about Jews over the centuries.

Some folk just can't resist making that "idol worshipper" accusation;it must be the cadences of the phrase.

Answer 5

Now, that's not from the Torah is it? You seem as big a fanatic as some of the Christian or Muslim fundamentalists around. I'm not very comfortable with your views. They only serve to create mistrust & misunderstandings between religions.

Answer 6

Christians that believe in the trinity yes, but ones who deny the trinity and see Jesus only as prophet are seen as monotheists

Answer 7

what did you're God tell you in those ten commandments
Christians worship Jesus which is not their Gods so basically in the eyes of Jew Jesus is just a false idol

Answer 8

I went to your link. If the sponsor's intention is to promote bigotry, religious intolerance and religious wars this is the way to go. Enough of this BS.

Peace and every blessing!

Answer 9

Of course, it is the Image of God that begins with Christianity.

Answer 10

They are idol worshipers. Of this, there can be no doubt.