why dont Jews believe in Jesus Christ? and what religion is the Jews?

Question

my co-worker was asking it not me

Answer 1

Jews are Jewish- the term Jew refers to a religion already.

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)

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.

Answer 2

If you are a Jew then your religion is Judaism, and you are Jewish.

We do not accept Jesus as messiah; he did not satisfy ANY of the criteria of the genuine messiah as set out in detail, in the 'old' testament, the Tanakh.

'messianic jews' are NOT JEWISH. They are Christian. A person cannot be both. Only Judaism gets to define Jewish identify. If a person embraces Jesus as son of G-d and messiah then that person is NOT JEWISH.

'messianic jew' = Christian

'completed jew' = Christian

'fulfilled jew' = Christian

'hebrew christian' = Christian

'christian jew' = Christian

JEWISH = Jewish

COMMENT TO DAVID R

- you are not 'a jew'. You are a Christian. Be proud of your faith and stop trying to deceive both yourself and other people. If someone accepts Jesus as messiah then they are believing in something that is DIRECTLY IN CONFLICT with core Jewish theology.

The first Christians were Jews, but back then Christianity was like Reform Judaism. The break between the two faiths came the very second Jesus was labelled as 'son of G-d' and part divine. You cannot believe this AND be Jewish.

You are a Christian. You don't get to define Jewish identity. Judaism alone gets to do that.

Answer 3

Jewish is an ethnicity.

Judaism is an ancient tribal religion, practiced by most Jews to a varying degree. Judaism was the forerunner to Christianity. "Jesus Christ" according to Christian mythology was Jewish. Judaism gets its name from a legendary Semitic tribal leader named Judah whose story is told in the Torah.

Jews do not believe that Jesus was the promised Messiah, as Christians do. But if the prophecy was made by Jews, for Jews, who better than Jews to determine whether or not it's really been fulfilled? And they say "No"!

Answer 4

The word 'messiah' is the anglicisation of the Hebrew 'moshiach'. The word moshiach translates to 'anointed'. The title of moshiach was given to any person who was appropriately anointed with oil as part of their initiation to their service of HaShem. We have had many moshiachim (pl) in the form of kings, priests, prophets, and judges. There is absolutely nothing supernatural about a moshiach. This being said, there is a prophecy of a future moshiach, however, this is a relatively minor topic in Judaism and the Tanach. The Jewish requirements of hamoshiach are: * Build the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28) * Gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6) * Usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred, oppression, suffering and disease. As it says: "Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall man learn war anymore." (Isaiah 2:4) * Spread universal knowledge of the God of Israel, which will unite humanity as one. As it says: "HaShem will be King over all the world -- on that day, HaShem will be One and His Name will be One" (Zechariah 14:9) * Hamoshiach must be descended on his father's side from King David (Genesis 49:10 and Isaiah 11:1) * Hamoshiach will lead the Jewish people to full Torah observance. The Torah states that all mitzvot remain binding forever, and anyone coming to change the Torah is immediately identified as a false prophet. (Deut. 13:1-4) There is no prophecy of a virgin birth - Isaiah 7 contains a short term prophecy that was fulfilled in Isaiah's lifetime. The prophecy itself makes no mention of a virgin. The Hebrew word for virgin is 'b'tulah' which Isaiah uses throughout his writings. However, in this chapter, the word 'almah' is used. Almah means young woman and in this chapter, the young woman in question was already pregnant. The issue was that the Greeks did not have a word that was the equivalent to 'almah', instead, the translators used the word 'parthenos' which can mean either young woman OR virgin. In the prophecy itself, young woman's child simply served as the timeline for the prophecy itself: by the time the child is old enough to know good from bad, X would have occurred. There is no specification as to where hamoshiach will be born. Mentions of Bethlehem are in reference to hamoshiach being a descendant of King David. There is no specification as to when hamoshiach will be born. Daniel was talking about the destruction of the first Temple, construction of the second Temple, and then the destruction of the second Temple. As to whether Jesus met any of the requirements of being hamoshiach, the answer is that no, he did not meet a single one.

Answer 5

Being a Jew is both a religion and an ethnicity. So the Jews' religion is Judaism. There are forms of Judaism as in reformed, conservative, etc. but it's all basically the same thing.

Why they don't believe that Jesus is the promised Messiah is harder to explain. I think that most Jews at that time thought that the Messiah would be a warrior who would drive the Romans out of Israel and re-establish Israel as a formidable power as it had been in earlier times. Jesus, obviously, was not it.

Think of it this way.....If Jesus came today, in a contemporary form of how he looked and acted then, would you believe in him or think he was some kind of kook?

Answer 6

Jews practice Judaism and if they believed that Christ was the messiah, they would no longer be Jews, they'd be Christians...and don't believe what the Messianic Jews tell you, they're just Jews who haven't yet accepted the fact that they're no longer Jewish.

Answer 7

Judaism is both a religion, and an ethnic nationality.

As for why Jews do not believe in Jesus?
God took away their understanding of their own Messiah, and blinded them from seeing that it is Jesus. This He did because of their disobedience and idolatrous practices.

Isaiah 54 tells of a day when He shall open their eyes, and allow their ears to hear.
See also Zechariah 12:10

Answer 8

Great multitudes of Jews did follow Rabbi Y'shua (Jesus). Then something happened. The Roman church recreated 'Jesus' to be a pagan, demigod, semi-human deity. They created for themselves and the unsuspecting world a false Constantinian Roman demigod.

Ever notice the halos of apollo and 'Jesus' and the obelisk at the Vatican. Ever notice the popes admiration for the sun? Ever notice how they call of Mary 'queen of heaven'? Guess where that phrase came from? They even went as far as to claim his mother to be the 'Mother of God'. That's insane!

These same Romans are responsible for the mass murder and carnage of early Israel. They then, adorned their churches with pagan sun god worship, broke off into seperate nations and went all over the world conquering, murdering, pillaging, enslaving and raping 'savages' and 'heathens' in the name of their Roman empire friendly so-called 'Jesus'.

This same 'Jesus' to some Jews didn't line up with the man who was to be born of two physical Jewish parents and descendant of King David and Abraham. They also claim that this 'Christmas (Christ mass) Roman Catholic pagan 'Jesus' didn't line up with the 'Old' Testament. There is no nativity in the Tanakh. December 25th isn't Jesus' birthday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Invictus

Christians have done a poor job in representing the true Jesus by throwing out the 'Old' Testament as a solely Jewish history book and professing anti-Semitism. We can now see why many Jews don't accept the Messiah. He has taken a 'makeover' from the time He walked the earth and the present. If Jesus can be Messiah in some Jewish minds this is bad way of making it happen. The Jews see Christians as worshiping a different god - a triune, three in one god, not the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob the Messiah also worships.

I love my Jewish brothers and sisters. And, some Jews today do accept Jesus as Messiah. They need to be wary, just as Gentiles do to not fall for the pagan demigod of the churches. The Bible is God's Testimony of all things relating to the Messiah.

Answer 9

Jews do not believe in Jesus because he was not the Messiah.

Judaism is a religion, not purely an ethnicity.

I second and backup everything Julia D said. would just add one more link to that, (attached)

Answer 10

Jew is short for Jewish. They believe Jesus existed, but they do not believe he was the son of God. They are still waiting for the Messiah.