Was reading Lilly's blog on faith, something twigged. On the face of it, can Christians really have more in common with Muslims than with the Jews?
Yet as Christians, we align ourselves with the Jewish faith. Browsing Wikipedia, managed to glean the following.
Christianity is a religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as recorded in the gospels and the letters of the New Testament. Christian derives from the Greek word Christ, a translation of the Hebrew term Messiah. Meaning CHRISTians believe in JC, pretty obvious this.
Wiki goes on to say almost all Christian groups regard Jesus as the Messiah who suffered death by crucifixion and rose bodily from the dead and will come again to judge the living and the dead. So far so good.
But Wiki explains that in Islam, Jesus is considered to be a Messenger of God and the Messiah who was sent to guide the Children of Israel with the Gospel. According to the Qur'an, Jesus was born to Mary and was given the ability to perform miracles. However, Islam rejects assertions that Jesus was crucified by the Romans, instead claiming that he had been raised alive up to heaven. Islamic traditions say that he will return to earth near the day of judgement to restore justice and defeat the Antichrist and the enemies of Islam. Hmmm...
But Judaism holds that Jesus is not the Messiah, arguing that he had not fulfilled the Messianic prophecies in the Tanakh nor embodied the personal qualifications of the Messiah. According to Jewish tradition, there were no more prophets after Malachi, who lived about 420 BC.
Huh?? Well, Christians, what's with all the discrimination and Islam-phobia?
3 comments:
Oh thanks for the shout out and great post. Yes like everything else we humans try and focus on the differences between us as opposed to what is the same. This was interesting and we will no doubt all end up going to the same place when all is said and done.
Just to make this Easy Christianity( the Anglican version ) is the light( lite ) version of Judaism.end of debate...the other stuff is the static...how do you discern...see their works....
Lilly said it well.
I get lost among all the differing theologies sometimes - I just figure the point is we are all trying to love God - whoever we think he is or whatever name we give to him.
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