Why do the followers of Judaism not believe in Jesus as the Messiah?

Question

I would prefer those that are of the Jewish faith to answer this question.

Answer 1

We (Jews) do not believe J.C was the messiah because he did not fulfill the following prophecies:
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 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, see also New Covenant)
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 2

1) Jesus did not fulfill the messianic prophecies.
2) Jesus did not embody the personal qualifications of the Messiah.
3) Biblical verses "referring" to Jesus are mistranslations.
4) Jewish belief is based on national revelation

Answer 3

Many of the prophesies from the Tanakh (OT) that Christians believe point to Jesus are prophesies that had actually been fulfilled prior to the writing of the Bible. There were many, many prophets in ancient days, but the only prophets included in the canonized Bible are those prophets who had accurately predicted the future.

There are many places in the Bible where you will find the statement, "....to this day." In other words, the prophesy had been made many decades (centuries?) earlier and had been proven by later events, i.e. Jeremiah's predictions about the fall of the 1st Temple.

There are many clues in the Bible pointing to the time of the writing, i.e. Exodus seems to have been written after they had crossed the Jordan into the Promised Land. Can you imagine a scribe writing about the Garden of Eden? How about the scribe who wrote about Moses? Do you really think Moses wrote about his own death?

The people of those days were no different from people of today. They didn't miraculously become perfect examples after Revelation at Sinai. It was (is) a long and tedious learning experience! That's why God gave us the Tanakh -- our instructions for life on earth!
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Answer 4

Because Jesus does not fit the description of the Messiah, did not fulfill any prophesies that the Messiah would (Christians often post prophesies that were clearly meant for others, and some were not even prophesies or had anything to do with the messiah)

Answer 5

I am not Jewish. Accepting Christ as the Messiah today would be an embarrassing if not suicidal reversal of philosophy founded prior to and during the age of Christ. The Jewish religion in a continuity from the age of Christ never accepted Christ during his life as the Messiah. In fact, history suggests that Jewish governors of Christ's time played the integral role in having him condemned, reasoning for which was maintenance of the status quo in power hierarchy within the church. One must keep in mind that organized religions are usually businesses bent on bringing in money perhaps primarily for the sustenance of those working within the church. These businesses are founded upon the philosophies of the church, and these philosophies are guarded as sacred by leaders who would cower to admit fundamental errors - hence threatening income. These facts if acceptable should not threaten the faith of those truly faithful, however.

Answer 6

Soldiers at the time of Jesus' death were bribed into passing meassages around to the Jews that Jesus' body was taken away by the disciples when in actual fact He had risen to Heaven!! Because the commander at the time was afraid the Jesus was really the Son of God!
So to this day Jews still belive that He will come
But He has and WILL come again. Interesting but true!

Answer 7

because, according to Judaism, The true Messiah was expected to perform some drastic changes in the life of the Jews, release them from subjugation to the Romans, and many other things, and Jesus failed in all these tests, as did many others, who claimed they were "the true messiah"

Answer 8

*drink*

Because they have a set of ideas about what the Messiah will be like which are based on the Torah, and Jesus did not live up to them, if he lived at all.

Answer 9

Choice

Answer 10

In addition to what kismet said, many of the "prophecies" in our Bible have come via mistranslation of the Hebrew or taking things horribly out of context. Two examples: 1) the word "almah" in Isaiah 7 does **not** mean "virgin", it means "young girl". And in Isaiah 53, the "suffering servant", when taken **in context** with Isaiah 52, clearly refers to the nation of Israel.