Judaism is not defined by the rejection of Jesus as Messiah it's defined by following Old Testament traditions and festivals. The concept of Judaism that we have today-rabbinic teachings about the Messiah-didn't exist in the Bible. Rabbinic Judaism comes from the Pharisees.
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How can a Jew reject Jesus as the Messiah?
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Judaism is not defined by the rejection of Jesus as Messiah it's defined by following Old Testament traditions and festivals. The concept of Judaism that we have today-rabbinic teachings about the Messiah-didn't exist in the Bible. Rabbinic Judaism comes from the Pharisees.
. . . and in Christianity the Culture is Western languages (particularly Greek and Latin), holidays, dominance of Anglo-Saxon Roman culture, and the interpretation of a Western OT and NT.
Everything the Messiah is meant to do can be found in Tanakh. I've posted the list on RF at least 4 times now with sources. These are the reasons why Jesus wasn't and will never be accepted, but whenever we give the list many Christians just want to reinterpret or say 'he'll do it next time', which is nonsense.
How do different cultures result in wrong interpretations of the Old Testament?
Judaism isn't defined by a rejection of Jesus as the Messiah-Abraham was Jewish and the gospel was preached to Abraham.
It is a fact in all the religions of the world the belief in God or Gods are described and named fro the perspective of their culture.
Different languages, culture, concepts of God. In the West the anthropomorphic Gods are the rule. In fact the Trinity is a Western interpretation of polytheism, and not a Hebrew Tanakh belief in God.
No Judaism is not defined as the rejection of the Christina Messiah, Abraham preached a Hebrew belief in God.
@Skywalker you said this. Those concepts are in the Tanakh.
Abraham was a Jew. He didn't use the term Christian because he looked forward to the coming of the Messiah in the context of a Jewish expression of that faith. Messianic Judaism and Christianity are the same faith with different forms of expression. I wouldn't argue if somebody used the term Christian to refer to the Old Testament saints, or didn't. Linguistics are a non issue.
Are you saying that the Old Testament believers didn't use the term Judaism for their beliefs?
No.
I'm saying that the Jewish concepts of Messiah that you are saying are made up by Rabbis are in the Tanakh.
The Trinity is mentioned in the first book of the Bible. Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Numbers 23 and 1 Samuel 15 say God is not a man. God is invisible and cannot be seen, and yet He's seen at different times. The elders of Israel-74 people, see the God of Israel on Mount Sinai, in Exodus the 24th chapter. How is it that God is unseen and yet seen? It's through his Son. He's complex in His unity. The memra is a reference to God being complex in His unity. MEMRA - JewishEncyclopedia.com
The Tanakh never rejects the divinity of the Messiah or the Messiah's second coming-that just an interpretation that people have about the scriptures. THE MOSHIACH
Where does it say these things?
The Old Testament never says that the Messiah isn't a divine Savior-that's just the interpretation that rabbis have.
So, The Tanakh doesn't say it's not therefore it might be.
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I'm saying that the Jewish concepts of Messiah that you are saying are made up by Rabbis are in the Tanakh.
Let me make this simple for you:
1. Jewish concepts of what the Messiah is and does are taken directly from the Tanakh.
2. Christian concepts are not taken from the Tanakh or are reinterpreted and twisted Tanakh verses, while still acknowledging the things the messiah is meant to do, per Tanakh, he hasn't done and he will come back and do again.
You seem to think that Judaism changed its concept of what the Messiah is meant to do because of some dispute with Christianity. It's the other way. They disputed Christianity because their Messiah didn't do what the Tanakh says he should.
The Old Testament saints didn't have the concept of the Messiah being a mere man.
The 'Old Testament Saints'? Who are they and what evidence have you that the Messiah is more than a man?