How can Christianity and Judaism both exist?

[nnmartin]

I am confused.

Christianity claims that Christ was the Son of God and that this is the only true path to follow.

Judaism does not recognise Jesus as being the Son yet the Jews are the chosen people.

Both religions share the same God - therefore one religion must be wrong, right?

This is like some kind of religious paradox.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

duh ...

 

[nnmartin]

^ explain then please....

 

[Flankerl]

Judaism has nothing to do with christianity. You could have also asked how judaism and hinduism coexist.
Again two different religions that have nothing to do with eachother.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

A paradox is self-contradictory. There is nothing self-cotradictory about two entities holding counterposed positions. The OP is simply vapid.

 

[nnmartin]

Judaism has nothing to do with christianity. You could have also asked how judaism and hinduism coexist.
Again two different religions that have nothing to do with eachother.

I thought they shared the same God and also the Old Testament.

Also the Christians commonly refer to the OT. Much more similar than Hinduism.

Why do we have the term Abrahamic religions then?

A paradox is self-contradictory. There is nothing self-cotradictory about two entities holding counterposed positions. The OP is simply vapid.

I see little point in having a debate over the English language.

However, it could be a paradox depending on how you look at it.

 

[Bob Dixon]

How is it so odd that different people have different viewpoints?

 

[Villager]

I thought they shared the same God and also the Old Testament.

Not the same God, in practice. But exactly the same inheritance. It's just that they make different things of it. But that difference is part of the inheritance.

It's true, they cannot both be right.

Why do we have the term Abrahamic religions then?

Politeness? Though I suspect it's to give a leg up to Islam, which actually has no genuine claim of link to Abraham of any sort. And maybe to try to confuse people into thinking that Christianity is legalistic, needing to observe Mosaic commandments, a very common distortion in the USA.

 

[nnmartin]

Not the same God, in practice.

That's news to me - I thought the Biblical God was the same for both religions - how is it different?

 

[Villager]

How is it so odd that different people have different viewpoints?

It's not odd at all, if biblical prophecy is accepted. What is crazy is that people can think that Abraham was a severe schizoid.

 

[Tamar]

I thought they shared the same God and also the Old Testament.

Also the Christians commonly refer to the OT. Much more similar than Hinduism.

Why do we have the term Abrahamic religions then?



I see little point in having a debate over the English language.

However, it could be a paradox depending on how you look at it.

Muslims worship the same G-d too.....

Christians took the Hebrew Scripture and added the New Testament and got their Christian Bible.....

Actually it is not a paradox if you ask, first there was Judaism and Jesus came along and was Jewish. He had a following who after his death believed he was a messiah. Then Christianity became a new religion.

 

[Villager]

That's news to me - I thought the Biblical God was the same for both religions - how is it different?

One deity came as a man to die for sins, one didn't, can't.

another question: could it be possible for a Christian to be welcomed in a synagogue

No, even though Jesus started his ministry in one. "You will be thrown out of the synagogues." Synagogues are rightly Christian, arguably.

or a Jew in a Christian church for example?

Not as a member, no.

There has to be distinct conversion, major change of mind, either way. East is east, and west is west, and never the twain shall meet, as Kipling nearly said.

 

[Villager]

Muslims worship the same G-d too.

They worship a deity imagined by Muhammad? Like the one imagined by Joseph Smith?

What a merry bandwagon that Jesus started.

 

[Heathen Hammer]

They worship a deity imagined by Muhammad? Like the one imagined by Joseph Smith?

What a merry bandwagon that Abraham started.

^^ fixed

 

[Villager]

^^ fixed

By a few nails, too.

 

[Villager]

What a merry bandwagon that Jesus started.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

I see little point in having a debate over the English language.

However, it could be a paradox depending on how you look at it.

"Curiouser and curiouser ..."

 

[Villager]

Then Christianity became a new religion.

Messiah-anity, a new religion?

Let's not confuse ourselves.

 

[mohammed_beiruti]

Judaism has nothing to do with christianity. You could have also asked how judaism and hinduism coexist.
Again two different religions that have nothing to do with eachother.

don't the have the same O.T. ,do they?

 

[mohammed_beiruti]

They worship a deity imagined by Muhammad? Like the one imagined by Joseph Smith?

What a merry bandwagon that Jesus started.

what is your proof?