What is the difference between Christianity and Judaism?

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What is the difference between Judaism and Christianity? We're going to answer that question.

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Of the major world religions, Christianity and Judaism are the most similar. Mutually, they believe in one

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God who is almighty, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, and infinite. Both believe in a

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God who is holy, righteous, and just, while at the same time loving, forgiving, and merciful.

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Christianity and Judaism share the Hebrew scriptures, the Old Testament, as the authoritative word of God.

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Although Christianity is the only one that includes the New Testament. Both religions believe in the existence of heaven and hell and they share the same ethical code,

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Judeo -Christian. Together, they teach that God has a special plan for the nation of Israel and the

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Jewish people. The primary difference between Christianity and Judaism is the person of Jesus Christ.

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Christianity teaches that Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies of a coming

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Messiah. Judaism often recognizes Jesus as a good teacher and perhaps even a prophet of God.

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However, Judaism does not believe that Jesus was the Messiah. Taking it a step further,

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Christianity teaches that Jesus was God in the flesh and that he became a human being in the person of Jesus Christ so he could be the sacrifice for our sins.

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Judaism strongly denies that Jesus was God or that such a sacrifice was even necessary.

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Jesus Christ is the all -important distinction between both religions. The person and the work of Jesus Christ is the one primary issue that Christianity and Judaism cannot agree upon.

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Jesus declared, I was sent only to the lost sheep of Israel. The religious leaders of Israel in Jesus' time asked him,

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Are you the Christ, the son of the blessed one? To which Jesus replied, I am.

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And you will see the son of man sitting at the right hand of the mighty one and coming on the clouds of heaven.

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But they didn't believe his words or accept him as the Messiah. Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the

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Hebrew prophecies of a coming Messiah. Old Testament scriptures paint a clear picture of the crucifixion in Psalm 22 verses 14 through 18 and the person of Jesus in Isaiah 53 verses 3 through 6.

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The apostle Paul, a Jew and a strict adherent of Judaism, encountered Jesus Christ in a vision.

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He proceeded to become the greatest witness for Christ and the author of nearly half of the

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New Testament. Paul understood the difference between Christianity and Judaism more than anyone else.

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What was his 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

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Jew and then for the Gentile. That answers the question, What is the difference between Judaism and Christianity?

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