How are judaism and Christianity similar?

Answer 1

This asks for a qualitative answer and therefore is up to the discretion of the answerer. The best way for someone to come to a reasonable conclusion would be to examine the similarities and differences and come to a personal conclusion.

Answer 2

Answer 1

They believe in God and they both have values based on family. Christianity evolved out of Judaism, giving them most of the same values as well as the same ancestry and history up until the birth of Christ.

Answer 2

No. Judaism is a monotheistic religion based on the Tanakh, while Christianity is a pagan-influenced religion based on the teachings of Jesus and codified by emperor Constantine three centuries after Jesus was alive. They share very few common traits.

Answer 3

Both Christianity and Judaism are heavenly religions - given by Almighty God for the guidance of people. They spring from the same source. Many Prophets succeeded one after another for the guidance of the Jews who didn't fully accept many of them, and killed two of the Prophets (AS). Hazrat Christ (May peace be upon him) announced that he had been sent by Almighty God for the guidance of the Jews. His teachings were the same as of Hazrat Moses (AS) and succeeding prophets. Unfortunately, the Jews, instead of believing in him, tried to crucify him. A

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They both have Abraham as their Father in faith, and many of the same Prophets.

Answer 3

Yes, what a lot of people don't realise is that Christianity was based on the rejection of Judaism. The majority of core tenets found in Christianity completely go against the teachings of Judaism.

Examples of differences are that Judaism doesn't accept:

• The Christian concept of salvation and grace
• The concept of original sin
• The concept of damnation
• The concept of heaven and hell
• The existence of the devil
• The Christian concept of of messiah
• The concept of the trinity
• Praying through intermediaries
• The concept of a literal child of God
• The idea that one man can atone for the sins of another

These are just some examples, there are far more differences between Judaism and Christianity.

Answer 4

Yes, they are all Abrahamic religions. They all worship One God.

But there the similarity ends. Christians believe Jesus Christ is the son of God and salvation from sin and death is only found in Christ. Christians believe The Bible is the word of God, inerrant and infallible.

Judaism and Islam do not believe this.

Answer 5

No. They both believe in one God (though they differ on how they understand God), and both believe in the Hebrew Bible.

Philosphically and ethically, the two religions are completely different.

Answer 6

The only real difference besides their customs is the fact that Christians believe in Jesus Christ, wheras Jewish believers do not. Christianity comes from Jesus' name "Christ," (obviously), but originally rooted from Jewish faith. Jews only believe in God, or Yahweh. Christians believe that Jesus was the son of God, and Jews do not. Jews have a very different, traditional custom, that deeply roots into Hebrew tradition, whereas Christianity is far more modern and have different traditions and lifestyle. <3

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Answer 7

No, although both the modern Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity formed their theological structure in the same period of time right after the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem and derived it largely from the same "Old Testament" Jewish scriptures. However they made very different interpretations of that scripture.

Answer 8

In reality, there really is no similarity to best describe the Judeo-Christian
beliefs of God to the Muslim Islamic belief.

Judaism and Christianity have the Old Testament in common. Islam believes both
OT and NT have been partially corrupted in transmission while the Koran is
believed by Muslims to be the final and infallible revelation of God's will.

Though Muslims believe in God which they call Allah, Islam teaches that Allah
is all-powerful, sovereign and 'unknowable' while Judaism and Christianity both
teach the Creator God to be revealed as merciful, compassionate and knowable
(see Jeremiah 9:24 and John 17:3).

The Christian text teaches the God of the Old Testament was the Word and it was
He who Abraham and the other patriarchs and prophets worshiped. Islam teaches
the Word, aka Jesus 'as one of perhaps 124,000 messengers of prophets Allah has
sent and is one of the 25 listed in the Koran - but He is not the redeemer'
(Marvin Olasky, "Islam vs. Liberty," World, Sept 10, 2011).

All in all, there are more differences and conflicts between the
Judeo-Christian texts and the Muslim text, as well as the Koranic conflicts with
secular history.

Answer 9

They are two separate religions. Christianity is a daughter-religion of Judaism. Christianity believes in Jesus and the Christian Testament, while Judaism does not.See also:

Why didn't the Jews accept Jesus?

Other information:

Islam and Christianity (especially Islam) are recognized by Jews as having some of the same core beliefs, since they repudiated the ancient worship of idols and other pagan faults.
However, Islam and Christianity also have unbridgeable core differences from Judaism. Some examples: Christianity believes in a trinity, Original Sin, a messiah that has already come and will have a second coming, the concept of one person atoning for his believers through their faith, and that most of the Torah's commands are (now) unnecessary. Islam accepts Jesus as a prophet, views the Qur'an as prophecy, and has Isaac as the son of Abraham who was not chosen by God.

Answer 10

NO. The core message of Christianity is: "God made Himself incarnate through His Son, the Messiah, who sacrificed Himself on Earth as atonement for all of humanity's sins." None of that has anything to do with Judaism.

God, in Judaism, does not take physical form or self-incarnate. The human sacrifice of Jesus and communion is at fundamental odds with the Torah's prohibition on Human Sacrifice, its prohibition of blood consumption, its prohibition on cannibalism, and its prohibition on expiation for another's sins. There is no verse in the Old Testament that explains that one of the purposes of the Messiah is to die for sin at all (never mind for the sins of other people), even though there are numerous explicit requirements that Jews point to the Messiah needing to perform. The Jewish Messiah is to be an Earthly King. As a result, a person claiming to be God himself is instantly recognized as not being the Messiah in Judaism.