Reconciling Religions
The main difference between the three great world religions of today, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is the way each religion views the man known as Jesus of Nazareth. For many Jews, Jesus is a scholar, or perhaps a rabbi in the Jewish community, who overstepped his boundaries into self-proclaimed divinity; to some Jews, Jesus Christ did not exist at all. To Christians, he is the son of an all-loving and all-powerful god.
Judaism and Christianity
We live in a world where religion is a major part of our society. We have been discussing Judaism and what other questions can rise from that topic. That leads to my question about Judaism. My question is, “How is Judaism different from Christianity?” My answer was Judaism is different from Christianity because Jews don’t accept Jesus as the promised Messiah.
Lastly, the Hebrew tradition consisted of scriptures, the law that regulated life, and that God is the source to morality. Judaism, even though it is an interpretation of the Hebrew religion, it’s different from Hebrew itself. They believed in Messiah, their revelation was the Old Testament, and they used parables as a way of teaching using heroes and villains, flipping their roles to create doubt. Also, Christianity had different interpretations on some aspects of the Hebrew religion. Yet, Christianity became popular and had many contributions to the reason why. At the end, both Judaism and Christianity are interpretations of the Hebrew religion.
Christians believe in Jesus Christ was the Messiah, and Jews believed that God made an argument with them and they are the chosen ones. In Early Jewish art, individuals were not allowed to worship idols but many words of art were created for the reason to worship their idols. One of the first Jewish Temples that was a spiritual center, ended up being destroyed
Great post Hannah! Christianity and Judism are closely related in all sorts of ways like you said. When you said "both believe in Jesus, they have thier discrepancies where one much choose whether to be Christian or a Jew" it blows my mind how christanity came from judism and now both religions are total opposites. Even thought both scriptures contain the same stories and teachings about Jesus and the law of the land the religion are so far apart from one another. Today each religion has different beliefs, traditions, and holidays. I wonder why Christianity ended up being so different from Judism.
When an individual relates to the Bible and refers as God as an ultimate power and a divine power, it would be identical to Judaism. Learning about Judaism has put a whole different perspective on my outlook of life because it doesn’t mean that Christian’s only believe in God, Jews do also. Their services and rituals are very similar to Christianity but not identical.
The biggest difference in my opinion might be how each of one view Jesus Christ. In Christianity Jesus Christ is the son of God and he is one with him and the Holy Spirit in what Christians call Trinity “and behold, a voice out of the heavens said, "This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well-pleased" (Matthew 3:17). On the other hand, Judaism and Islam don’t believe in Trinity or that Jesus is the son of God. Islam acknowledge Jesus as a true prophet from God, and that he was born from Virgin Mary “O Maryam! From where have you got this? ' She
Islam and Judaism are two belief systems which are beliefs in a god or gods. These religions are still being practiced today and shape the world as it is now. The two religions have similarities as well as differences. Islam was founded by the prophet Muhammad when he was praying and meditating in a cave. God sent an angel to tell him to “Recite! Recite!” Muhammad did and in the process he created what is know as Islam. Judaism was founded when God told Abraham to leave his home in Mesopotamia. God promised to lead him to a new land and make his descendants into a mighty nation. Later, a man named Moses lead the Jews out of slavery in Egypt, which is called the Exodus. Islamic followers are know as Muslims. Judaism followers are know as “Jews”.
In the Jewish religion God is viewed as one and unique and that he is eternal. They believe that God will punish the wicked and reward the good. One of the main differences from the catholic faith and the Jewish faith is Judaism believes that the Son of God has not come yet. They do believe he will come on day to judge the living and the dead, but he has not yet. The Jewish religion doesn’t have the concept of Salvation. They believe that one must do well and they will be allowed into heaven, but
totally different religions but they have similarities. Here are some of the many reasons.Judaism originally came from the Hebrews, it is one of the oldest religions. They use athingcalled The Torah, it is composed of The Five Books Of Moses. The Five Books Of Moses areGenesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. They also have the Prophets whichare Joshua, Judges, Samuel, the Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. The Torah and theProphets tell twin stories of exile from Paradise. The Jews are monotheists which means theyonly believe in one God.Theyuse the Qur’an. They believe that Islam is God’s eternal religion because the Qur’an says “The primordial nature upon which God created mankind.” Muslims believe that God is in everything,