TO JEWS: why are you still waiting for the messaiah? it a funny thing ive wanted to know about your religion?

Answer 1

boy im going to back quietly out of the room on this one.

Answer 2

We are still waiting for the messiah for the following reasons:
1) He has yet to arrive.
2) We are commanded to wait for him per the 13 principles of faith.
We will know when he arrives because he will have fulfilled the following textual requirements:
* The Sanhedrin will be re-established (Isaiah 1:26)
* Once he is King, leaders of other nations will look to him for guidance. (Isaiah 2:4)
* The whole world will worship the One God of Israel (Isaiah 2:17)
* He will be descended from King David (Isaiah 11:1) via King Solomon (1 Chron. 22:8-10)
* The Moshiach will be a man of this world, an observant Jew with "fear of God" (Isaiah 11:2)
* Evil and tyranny will not be able to stand before his leadership (Isaiah 11:4)
* Knowledge of God will fill the world (Isaiah 11:9)
* He will include and attract people from all cultures and nations (Isaiah 11:10)
* All Israelites will be returned to their homeland (Isaiah 11:12)
* Death will be swallowed up forever (Isaiah 25:8)
* There will be no more hunger or illness, and death will cease (Isaiah 25:8)
* All of the dead will rise again (Isaiah 26:19)
* The Jewish people will experience eternal joy and gladness (Isaiah 51:11)
* He will be a messenger of peace (Isaiah 52:7)
* Nations will end up recognizing the wrongs they did to Israel (Isaiah 52:13-53:5)
* The peoples of the world will turn to the Jews for spiritual guidance (Zechariah 8:23)
* The ruined cities of Israel will be restored (Ezekiel 16:55)
* Weapons of war will be destroyed (Ezekiel 39:9)
* The Temple will be rebuilt (Ezekiel 40) resuming many of the suspended mitzvot
* He will then perfect the entire world to serve God together (Zephaniah 3:9)
* Jews will know the Torah without Study (Jeremiah 31:33)
* He will give you all the desires of your heart (Psalms 37:4)
* He will take the barren land and make it abundant and fruitful (Isaiah 51:3, Amos 9:13-15, Ezekiel 36:29-30, Isaiah 11:6-9)

Answer 3

first of all, let's be perfectly clear.
if you believe that jesus was the messiah, you're not jewish. i don't care who your parents were (although your grandparents that suffered in the holocaust are rolling over in their graves), i don't care what holidays you celebrate, if you believe in christ, you are christian, not jewish, by definition.
you cannot be both.
if i told you that i didn't believe in jesus but i wanted to call myself christian, what would you say? would you say that i can't be a christian without christ? would you say that it's disrespectful to even say so. please have some respect. believe what you want, but if it's christ, you're not jewish.

now, we are still waiting for the messiah because we don't think that jesus was the messiah. for us, he didn't fulfill old testament prophecies, and he was a false messiah.
(some prophecies not fulfilled are that the world will be in peace after, no new religions will be started, etc. Christianity gets around this with the idea of a 2nd coming, but we don't believe in that, and there's nothing in the OT that mentions that.)
also, our concept of the messiah is different.
it's not so much about the person, it's about the time in history. we talk about the messianic age more than the messiah himself. the man is just a messenger. and he will be a man, not god come down in the flesh, we don't believe in that.
we're also not looking for the messiah to save us from sin. we don't believe in original sin, we don't believe in hell or damnation. our concept of sin in like missing the mark, we learn and try to do better, but we are not condemned to hell.

hope that answers your question.

Answer 4

Here is why we don't believe that Jesus was the messiah in simple terms:
1) The dead were not resurrected
2) The Jews did not beome priests to the other nations
3) There is no world peace
4) The temple is not standing
5) There is no temple service
6) There is no parah adumah or its ashes to render us tahor
7) The messiah is from the House of David. your house/tribe is inherited from your father. Your father is your BIOLOGICAL father- there is no adoption in Judaisim to another father- if God is the father of Jesus- then Jesus cannot be from the House of David as God is not frm the House of David.
8) Human sacrifice is completely forbidden in Judaism- remeber God stopping the sacrifice of Isaac? The idea of a human being sacrificed is the opposite of anything from Judaism!
9) You have to atone for yourself! An essential part of the atonement process is being repentant. Someone cannot be repentant for you- you have to do it for yourself. ONly communal sins can be forgiven communally- not individual, private sins!

And no- the messiah does NOT proclaim himself- he will be recognised by his deeds- not by his claims- in other words, through doing the above he will be recognised as the messiah. On top of that- mashiach is a HUMAN being, with HUMAN parents- the idea of an anthropomorphised God going around and impregnating young woman is completely alien to Judaism- though it fits very nicely into the pagan religions of the time which had their heroes being fathered by gods (ala Hercules and his daddy Zeus)


As for Messianic Judaism, Jews for Jesus, Hebrew Christians, Completed Jews (whatever ambiguous and misleading name they come up with next...) these are deemed as nothing more than Christian sects using deceitful means to convert Jews. EVERY Jewish denomination denounces these sects as Christians and nothing more. However, by Jewish law, once a Jew, always Jew- whether born or converted. Thus once a person is Jewish they are always judged by Jewish standards, and if they revert/convert to a different religion they are still considered Jewish by Jewish law. BUT, someone practising a religion other than Judaism is considered outside of the community, may not be a member of the community, receive any community honours, be a representative for the community, be buried in a Jewish cemetary, marry a Jew or be treated as a Jew for the purposes of the laws of mourning. However, since they never stop being a Jew- they merely have to repent, return to Judaism and go to mikveh in order to once again be a full member of the community.

Answer 5

Jews are not the only ones waiting for the Messiah.

Answer 6

Because his promised (by God) arrival has yet to occur. God never reneges on an unconditional promise, as this one is. So we wait, hope and pray that today is the day that the Messiah will be revealed.

Answer 7

Clearly you are misinformed. Very few are sitting around waiting for a messiah.

The focus is on living a moral life.

In the meantime, nobody has met the qualifications. the potential is always there, but right now there is life to be lived...

Answer 8

Simple: he has not shown up yet, and we would really like him to. However, nobody is really wasting their life waiting for him--if he comes, that's GREAT. If he doesn't, well....we have our lives that we still need to live.

Answer 9

Because it gives them something to look forward too. Have you ever heard of hope, it's a powerful thing. I believe, and I can't wait.

Answer 10

Because he has not come yet.