Do Jews believe that Jesus was not the son of God?

Question

I know very little about Jewish people.

Answer 1

Yep- thats exactly what we believe. And below is why we believe that:

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)

NOTE ON MESSIANIC JUDAISM/JEWS FOR JESUS
Both of 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.

EDIT: SOme people seem to think Jews view Jesus as a prophet. We don't. Jesus is completely irrelevant to Judaism. He is not seen as a prophet, rabbi, teacher or anything else. He is completely and utterly missing from Jewish religious texts as he is completely and utterly irrelevant to Judaism.

Answer 2

No we do not. Many people assume that we do believe Jesus was G-d incarnate or the Messiah - just to clear up any confusion, this is the basis of Christianity, not Judaism. What throws people is the fact that Jesus himself was a Jew, so, how could we not believe in him? But so was Trotsky, and Communism is no more compatible with Judaism than Christianity is. I often hear complaints about Jews "hating" Jesus or Christianity. The truth is, I can tell you from experience, most religious Jews simply don't care. We're too busy learning Torah to bother with other religions, so our default position is basically: you take Jesus, we'll take G-d. Jesus doesn't play any part in our belief system whatsoever. As far as we're concerned, he's just a Jew and a false messiah who lived two thousand years ago. We've had plenty of those over the years, Jesus, Bar Kochba, Shabtai Tzvi. The only thing that makes Jesus special is that his cult (Christianity began as a Jewish cult, focused on Jesus as the messiah, well before the doctrine of Messiah-as-G-d was fabricated) really caught on. There are no Sabbateans anymore, and the followers of Bar Kochba realized that when he died without fulfilling any of the messianic prophecies, he couldn't be the one. Jesus also died without fulfilling any of the prophecies, so early Christian theologians invented the doctrine of the "Second Coming," by which he would return at the end of days to do all the stuff a messiah is supposed to do. But what's to keep me from making that claim about any dead Jew?

If you want to learn more about Jewish belief, particularly the Jewish position on Christianity, you may find the following helpful:

http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/jewsandjesus.htm
http://www.jewsforjudaism.org
http://www.messiahtruth.com

And for an explanation of the whole "G-d" thing, see my answer to the following:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AnlFvT50i0DkDWVKWJeXEsnty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20071021131144AArWcbp&show=7#profile-info-0e7b07cdf6e8c12a160967910b6a605eaa

I hope this helps clear things up.

Answer 3

some Jews do believ that Jesus was the son of God - they are called Messianic Jews. Most Jews do not believe this, and the split between Judaism and Christianity that occurred in the first generations after Jesus was because of this controversy

Answer 4

For us, Jesus was a Rabbi, or teacher; he was a learned and somewhat rebellious man, but nothing more. We don't regard him as a prophet and for us he was not the son of G-d, nor the messiah, for reasons that have already been outlined.

I'd just like note that the term 'messianic jew' is utterly meaningless. They are Christians, as they believe that Jesus was the messiah. This belief goes against the core ethos of Judaism, so for them to label themselves 'jewish' is laughable.

Judaism defines very clearly 'who' is Jewish. You are a Jew if
a) your mother is Jewish
b) you convert to Judaism

'messianic jews' are dishonest because they claim to represent Judaism when in fact, they do the precise opposite.

So any time a person tells you they are Jewish, but also says they believe in Jesus as messiah, then you know you are not speaking with a Jewish person, but a Christian.

I doubt any other faith would like being misrepresented; we don't appreciate it either!

Answer 5

Yes. Jews believe that Jesus was also not the Messiah because Jesus failed to fulfill the prophecies of the Messiah.

In fact, few if any believe he was even a prophet, considering his claims to be that which he was clearly not.

Answer 6

Not Just Jews,

Muslims & Christians also believe that Jesus is a Prophet.

Only a small portion of Christians brought the feel that he is a son of god.

Off course, Jesus also called everybody as children of God.

Even in Bible old testimony we have the same

Answer 7

Silly question no they don't believe Jesus was the son of God. They had Jesus killed because he said he was.

Answer 8

Believing Jews consider that there is only one God, who does not have any material form, and that the idea that Jesus was the son of God (except in the sense that all humankind are children of God) does not make any sense.

Answer 9

22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

23 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the Father: he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also.

24 Let that therefore abide in you, which ye have heard from the beginning. If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you, ye also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father.

25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us, even eternal life.

Answer 10

Yes, because Jews believe in the Old Testament only. The Jesus they know is Him being a prophet. It was in the New Testament that they referred Jesus as the Son of God.