Jews: What do you find contradicting about the teachings of Christianity?
Explain everything. On a question, i saw a comment by this Jew,i think who believed Adam&Eve and the serpent has different interpretation in Judaism than the one thought in Christianity. If you have scripture proof,that would be lovely (:'
Judaism has the same story of the Garden of Eden. The text is the same, but Judaism does NOT see the concept of original sin there. Judaism interprets it differently.
Christians should be familiar with the concept of different interpretations since the reason for all the different Christian denominations is because of different interpretations.
The snake is just a snake. Otherwise, it wouldn't make sense to punish snakes by taking their legs. In addition, HaSatan (The Adversary -- a job title, not a name) is an obedient angel in the Book of Job. He wasn't the snake.
Lucifer, in the Book of Isaiah, is the metaphorical nickname for the king of Babylon, a mortal human. His once-shining kingdom fell. It was described poetically as a fall from heaven. It clearly wasn't literal. Anyone who claims that Isaiah was describing a fallen angel is simply bending over backwards to misinterpret.
Jews believe in one indivisible God. This is the most important thing in Judaism (and Jews share that with Islam).
Judaism is expecting a messiah who is a national redeemer, NOT a personal savior. This redeemer will rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem. He is mortal, not to be worshiped. He has nothing to do with getting people into heaven. Righteous people of all nations have a place in the world to come. There is no hell.
Im not a Jew, but i am a noshed and i am working on converting... and i used to be a devout Xian. Not to disagree with my friend above me.... but the concepts are different, depending which sect of sanityTyou are reffering to
and for original sin, as he stated... xtians believe because of eve all humans have this original sin thing.... no. we're not born as sinners. Cain committed the first sin, not eve.
"Explain everything"? LOL. Y/A's space isn't big enough. However, you can readily discover them all on your very own by taking a Tanakh and reading it from Genesis forward ...now here is the important part...entirely in it's own context without using any redefined concept/replacement theology or doctrine, without using any other texts to tell you what specific passages pulled out of context mean, and reading it also with a little understanding of the secular history of the place and time of the authors. This requires much more work than any one individual can give you, however, Eddie J has given you some good references to reputable pages where scholars can point out some of the major problems that happen when the Torah, Nevim and Ketuvim are redefined with mistranslations and attempts to redefine them to negate the laws of a people to assimilate them out of existence as a people.
Please, don't take my word for it. If you only spend 15 minutes a day reading on this, it will take you less than a year to do all that I've suggested and you will know without doubt, why the New Testament ( or Quran for that matter) remain meaningless to redefine and negate what is actually written in the Tanakh.
IMHO after decades of study of the origin of Christianity through a study of ancient history and the religions of the entire region and the texts and works by many scholars, both secular and sectarian, I believe that Christianity was an attempt to eliminate the Jews as a distinct nation people within the Roman empire by utilization of synchronizing the beliefs of the 'conquered' with those of the "empire".
This is why the New Testament redefines almost every aspect of belief and claims authority to negate the eternal covenant and replace it with one whose definitions and doctrines are contradictory. It took a religion that taught that God was not exclusive to one people and claimed that only those who believed as they did could know or connect to God. It took a religion that called the notion of human sacrifice as a complete abomination and changed the prophetic vision of a King who will lead all the world to peace, brotherhood and universal knowledge of God to be a human sacrifice whose blood atoned for sin, and then also made him an incarnate deity ( the MOST egregious violation of Torah there is!) From the lesson of the Exodus that showed how Israel rejected a notion of men as deity and sacrificed a representation of the false man god of Egypt and the symbolic blood of that false god on their doors..to the affirmation of faith in a monotheistic incorporeal deity who is ONE. every aspect of Torah was turned inside out with the replacement theology of the Roman empire. Read my past answers below to help you understand some of the history involved, then read the Tanakh in it's own context. Faith in God isn't threatened by using discernment to determine what is or isn't real or true. This isn't about trying to convince you which God is real, this is about determining what any author means when they string together words to form sentences. When I write something, I don't mean anything other than the contextual meaning of the words as used, and certainly wouldn't appreciate the notion of someone coming along 800 years from now to tell everyone that when I said one thing, I actually meant something else entirely. I cannot imagine that any of the authors of the books of the Tanakh would feel any different about their words. It really isn't that difficult to determine what they mean when you stop focusing on what someone a thousand years later explains what it was supposed to have meant *instead*,.and simply read the words in context.
http://www.whatjewsbelieve.org/ addresses the book of Genesis and the Christian claim of "original sin" that is contextually, not found within the story of Adam and Eve, but is explained as being in it by attempt to Sucrets beliefs originating in the Greek mystery religions and worship of incarnate deity kings whose deaths atoned for the sinful nature of their subjects throughout the ancient levant ( and also into Europe in ancient times!)
I suggest the ArtScroll Tanakh for an English translation of the Jewish Bible but below I'll give a free online Torah translation to get you started
http://bible.ort.org/books/torahd5.asp
Of the major world religions, Christianity and Judaism are likely the most similar. Christianity and Judaism both believe in one God who is almighty, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, and infinite. Both religions believe in a God who is holy, righteous, and just, while at the same time loving, forgiving, and merciful. Christianity and Judaism share the Hebrew Scriptures (the Old Testament) as the authoritative Word of God, although Christianity includes the New Testament as well. Both Christianity and Judaism believe in the existence of heaven, the eternal dwelling place of the righteous, and hell, the eternal dwelling place of the wicked (although not all Christians and not all Jews believe in the eternityTyf hell). Christianity and Judaism have basically the same ethical code, commonly known today as Judeo-Christian. Both Judaism and Christianity teach that God has a special plan for the nation of Israel and the Jewish people.
The all-important difference between Christianity and Judaism is the Person of Jesus Christ. Christianity teaches that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies of a coming Messiah / Savior (Isaiah 7:14; 9:6-7; Micah 5:2). Judaism often recognizes Jesus as a good teacher, and perhaps even a prophet of God. Judaism does not believe that Jesus was the Messiah. Taking it a step further, Christianity teaches that Jesus was God in the flesh (John 1:1,14; Hebrews 1:8). Christianity teaches that God became a human being in the Person of Jesus Christ so He could lay down His life to pay the price for our sins (Romans 5:8; 2 Corinthians 5:21). Judaism strongly denies that Jesus was God or that such a sacrifice was necessary.
Jesus Christ is the all-important distinction between Christianity and Judaism. The Person and work of Jesus Christ is the one primary issue that Christianity and Judaism cannot agree upon. In Matthew 15:24, Jesus declared, "I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel.? The religious leaders of Israel in Jesus' time asked Him, ?Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed One?? Jesus replied, 'I am,' ... And you will see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand of the Mighty One and coming on the clouds of heaven" (Mark 14:61-62). But they didn?t believe His words or accept Him as the Messiah.
Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Hebrew prophecies of a coming Messiah. Psalm 22:14-18 describes an event undeniably similar to Jesus' crucifixion, "I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax; it has melted away within me. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; you lay me in the dust of death. Dogs have surrounded me; a band of evil men has encircled me, they have pierced my hands and my feet. I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me. They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing." Clearly this messianic prophecy can be none other than Jesus Christ whose crucifixion fulfilled each of these details (Luke 23; John 19).
There is no more accurate description of Jesus than Isaiah 53:3-6, "He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered him stricken by God, smitten by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all."
The Apostle Paul, a Jew and a strict adherent of Judaism, encountered Jesus Christ in a vision (Acts 9:1-9) and proceeded to become the greatest witness for Christ and the author of almost half of the New Testament. Paul understood the difference between Christianity and Judaism more than anyone else. What was Paul's message? "I am not ashamed of the gospel (of Jesus Christ), because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile" (Romans 1:16).
Jews: What do you find contradicting about the teachings of Christianity?
