Are Judaism and Christianity the most closely related religions?

Answer 1

A:One of closest things is the Old Testament because it is the same. B:Christianity and Judaism are two branches coming from the one stream, however:

1. Christianity defines itself as believing in the message and following Jesus Christ.
2. Judaism does not have a place in its system for Jesus, his teachings, or the teachings of Jesus' disciples.

Both share some of the same scriptures, called the Old Testament in Christianity, and the Tanakh in Judaism.

Both worship God, as revealed in the Old Testament/Tanakh, although Christians believe that Jesus revealed more about God's nature than is found in the Old Testament.

From the time of the baptism of the Roman centurion, Cornelius, Christianity has been open to acceptance of non-Jews, without the requirement to undertake the Jewish law. In this regard, it divided itself sharply from Judaism, and the division between them became irreparable soon after AD 70, when Christian Jews (Nazarenes) were excluded from the synagogues of Judaism.

Answer 2

This question can be read two different ways for which the answer in either case is "No", but for different reasons.

If the question is asking "Out of all of the religions that exist today, is the similarity between Judaism and Christianity greater than the similarity of two other clearly distinct religions?", the answer is "No". Baha'i, Druze, and Islam are much closer and share much more in common than Judaism and Christianity share with each other. Yazdanism/Yazidi and Zoroastrianism share more in common than Judaism and Christianity.

If the question is asking, "Is the closest religion to Judaism Christianity and the closest religion to Christianity Judaism?", the answer is still "No". Judaism shares much more with Islam than it does with Christianity, primarily as concerns the nature of Christ's Messianism, the three-part Godhead, the nature of original sin, and the Expiation on the Cross. Christianity, however, is more similar to Judaism than to any other religion because the similarities that it shares with Judaism are more numerous than those it shares with Islam.

Answer 3

Because the Lord Jesus Was Jewish, & the Old Testament comes from the Jewish Torah & Tenach.