What is the difference between Christianity and Judaism?

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

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

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

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

Jewish people. The primary 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. Judaism often recognizes Jesus as a good teacher and perhaps even a prophet of God.

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

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.

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

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.

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? To which 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.

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. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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