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Comparing Christianity And Judaism
Judaism differs from Christianity when coming to the Person of jesus Christ, the Christianity teaches that jesus christ is the fulfillment of the old testament prophecies while the Judaism takes jesus as a good teacher and a prophet of god not a messiah (gotquestion.org).
They do not believe that he is the messiah because the word “Messiah” is an English rendering of the Hebrew word “Mashiach”, which means “Anointed” and a person initiated into God’s service by being anointed with oil (Rabbi Shraga Simmons: 2017) and jesus is not anointed by oil but by the holy spirit the day he was baptized (mark 1:10 – 11 nkjv)
According to rabbi james scott glazier (2017), Christians accept jesus as messiah and savior while in Judaism jesus is not part

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