Welcome to What Jews Believe
Jewish
beliefs concerning life, death, sin, forgiveness, and atonement are
different from Christian beliefs. For this reason, there can be no such
thing as a "Jew for Jesus" or a "Messianic Jew." People who call
themselves such are Christians who espouse Christian beliefs. They
often claim to be Jews, but their beliefs are distinctly Christian. On
this website you will learn why, and in so doing, learn about genuine
Judaism.
Below and to the right, you will find a menu
of belief statements which distinguish Judaism from Christianity. You
may begin with any one of them, and browse as long as you like.
Click here for suggestions for further learning.
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Jews believe that one person cannot die for the sins of another person. |
2 |
Jews believe that we do not need a blood sacrifice for the forgiveness of sins. |
3 |
Jews believe that Jesus was not the messiah. |
4 |
Jews
believe that God hates human sacrifices. Who died on the cross? Was it
Jesus-the-god, or was it Jesus-the-human? If it was Jesus-the-god, Jews
don't believe that God can die. If it was Jesus-the-human, then all
Christians have in the death of Jesus was a human death, a human
sacrifice. Jews believe that God hates the very idea of human sacrifice. |
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Jews
believe that one is born into the world with original purity, and not
with original sin. Jews do not believe in original sin. |
6 |
Jews believe that God is one and indivisible. Jews do not believe in a trinity. |
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Jews believe in The Satan, but not in a devil. There is a difference between The Satan and the devil. |
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Jews believe that God is God, and humans are humans. God does not become human nor do humans become God. |
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Jews believe that "Jews for Jesus," "Messianic Jews," and "Hebrew Christians" are no longer Jews, even if they were once Jews. |
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The "Jewish roots" of Christianity? |
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