The Jewish ruling concering Christians is that they are Idol Worshippers ?

Question

Jewish Ruling concerning Christianity :

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


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Answer 1

No, the term is False G-d worshipers. They feel that Jesus was not the Messiah and anyone that considers him to be the son of G-d or G-d Himself, worship a false G-d. See the difference?

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

All Jewish authorities agree that Christianity considered an idolatry FOR JEWS. So, Jews cannot practice it.

However, most authorities on the subject will say that Christianity is OK for non-Jews.

Answer 4

That is neither the official or widely-held view concerning Christianity by Jewish persons.

You can't judge anyone or anything by only looking at the extremes. You can't learn anything about anybody or anything by looking at the extremes. Second law of logic.

Answer 5

ho hum- the same thing posted - AGAIN! Note- the sitew that they have taken this abbreviated quote from is a NON-JEWISH site. So a bunch of non-Jews misquote something, and then the bright sparks that continuously repost the same tewaddle link to the same NON-JEWISH misquote again...

Answer 6

Our Jewish brothers have absolutely no authority ... and even less credibility ... to make any type of rulings about Christianity.

Answer 7

You asked a question and then you answered it. Did you need an answer?

Just one small question related to your answer.

Since people, like your father, can be both a son and a father do the Jewish people believe that God is less than man since they claim God cannot be both a father and a son.

That is what it sounds like to me. People can be more than one. God can't be more than one.

In my "trinitarian" world God is capable of much more than people are and is not limited by the understanding of religious leaders.

You are welcome to believe in a very limited God though, if that is what makes you happy.

Answer 8

We believe God is one being not 3 divinities and respect Christianity

Answer 9

...and your point in dragging up an obscure fringe group would be ... ???

Oh, forgot one thing: since when do *you* have the ability to provide a "Jewish Ruling"??

Answer 10

That is another attempt to maligned christianity, that's an old rusted issue that Christians already answered clearly since time immemorial..If Jews are right in their faith, why only a handful of them now exists in this planet? compared to Christianity's covering of almost two-third of the world's population.