Is Christianity really just a rip off of Judaism?

Answer 1

Yeah, it's also a rip off of several other religions. Take the Egyptian God Horus for example. Or take the fact that Christmas was originally a pagan holiday that they stole for their own purposes.

Answer 2

Muslims are not "ripping off" christians because of the fact in case you looked on the text cloth they have few in straight forward while it includes have confidence. yet lots in straight forward while it includes morals (besides the reality that Islam discourages beating toddlers with a rod). Christians particularly even skim the assumption of Judaism besides the reality that the assumption of a God is comparable, it remains no longer adequate because of the fact Christians divide the God into 3 entities Father, Son, and Holy spirit. Asking a Christian student or any non secular student he allow you to be attentive to the comparable as he informed me. Christianity greater heavily resembles the pagan faith of the Romans. Judaism, isn't precisely what you may call a ripped off faith. Judaism is a faith that has been replaced hundreds of situations over the years. in case you asked a Jew a hundred and fifty years in the past no count if or no longer they deserve the holy land they might respond: no, we ought to go through diaspora to instruct God's devotion and to earn his mercy and finally be common into paradise. So... the Judaism of the previous ( the authentic words of God) has been lost an prolonged time in the past and easily little products might nicely be got here upon interior the Torah.

Answer 3

Conundrum has the most thorough answer, and I'd have to agree with them.

No, it isn't a "rip-off" per se, any more than any other religion is a rip-off of the first religion.

Christianity COMES from Judaism, it has its ROOTS in Judaism, but is not a rip-off.

Oh, and it's not a rip-off of Horus either. Egyptian mythology professors have said this.

Answer 4

I would say it's more like the scientology of ancient Rome. Some guy wrote a book, and made it into a religion that was rather silly at the time, but started to take off eventually... In a thousand years, see if I'm not right! The great leaders of scientology will be badmouthing some "new kid on the block" as they control half the world, with whatever flavours of Islam exist controlling the other half, and they will both blame all their problems on the Jews, who will, like now, have seen it all before...

Answer 5

Christianity "borrows" heavily from a number of belief system, and makes some up as it goes. I'm not denigrating them; just stating facts. If that's what someone wants to believe, that's their problem.

I'm pretty familiar with both Christianity and Judaism; I was raised as a Christian, but converted to Judaism as an adult. I learned just how MUCH was "borrowed" from Judaism when I did. Things like "Do unto others..." was stated by Judaism long before Jesus came along - he was simply teaching what HE had been taught.

I'm sure some of the blind followers of Christianity will not like what I have to say; the fact that they don't like it doesn't make it any less true. Jesus was just a nice Jewish boy teaching Judaism 101 to the goyim ;-)

Answer 6

No, it is nothing like Judaism. It is more like a rip off of Mithra, Greek paganism and Egyptian paganism

Answer 7

Judaism built the foundation for Christianity. Figures and types of Christ in the old testament prove Christianity.

Answer 8

Actually it's just a continuation of Abraham's abundant faith (or in other words Judaism). It's (Christianity) just the part that lost all the unfaithful Hebrews in the dust. It was too big a step of faith for them to take and so they stumbled and then fell.

Answer 9

No, because all three major religions: Islam, Christianity, and Judaism came from the same God.

Answer 10

No its Not.
The Jewish religious leaders, though, had added to the written Word many verbal traditions that they viewed as indispensable to true worship. Paul (Saul), as a Pharisee before his conversion to Christianity, was unusually zealous to follow the traditions of Judaism. These would, of course, include the unobjectionable ones as well as the bad ones. But by following the “commands of men as doctrines,” he was led to be a persecutor of Christians. (Mt 15:9) For instance, they ‘did not eat unless they washed their hands up to the elbow, holding fast the tradition of the men of former times.’ Among those men, this practice was not for hygienic purposes, but it was a ceremonious ritual that supposedly had religious merit. (Christ showed that they had no basis for criticizing his disciples for not following that and other unnecessary “commands of men" Furthermore, by their tradition regarding “corban” (a gift dedicated to God) the religious leaders had made God’s Word invalid, overstepping the commandment of God.
Neither Jesus nor his disciples ever quoted oral Jewish tradition to support their teachings but, rather, appealed to the written Word of God. Once the Christian congregation was established, observance of the unscriptural Jewish traditions amounted to a “fruitless form of conduct” that Jewish persons had ‘received by tradition from their forefathers Upon becoming Christians, those Jews abandoned such traditions. When some false teachers in Colossae urged taking up that form of worship, Paul warned against “the philosophy and empty deception according to the tradition of men.” Evidently he meant, especially, the traditions of Judaism.—Col 2:8, 13-17.