Explain The Beliefs And Practices Of Individuals From Two P2

(M1) COMPARE THE SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES IN THE PRACTICES AND BELIEFS OF INDIVIDUALS FROM TWO CONTRASTING RELIGIOUS OR SECULAR GROUPS
Indeed, Christians and Jews share lots of common heritage – after all Jesus was himself Jewish. This leads to many things in common between Judaism and Christianity which include:

Religion 1
Religion 2
Similarities
Differences
Definition/history
Christianity is a religion based upon the teachings and miracles of Jesus.
Judaism is the name of the religious faith and set of practices that are shared by the Jewish people.
Judaism and Christianity are both monotheistic religion.
Judaism insists on a notion of monotheism, the idea that there is one God. As Judaism understands this idea, God cannot be made up of parts, even if those parts are mysteriously united. The Christian notion of trinitarianism is that God is made up of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Such a view, even if called monotheistic because the three parts are, by divine mystery, only one God, is incompatible with the Jewish view that such a division is not possible.
The Jewish revolutionary idea is that God is one. This idea allows for God's unity and uniqueness as a creative force.
Thus, for Jews, God is the creator of all that we like and all that we don't. There is no evil force with an ability to create equal to God's. Judaism sees Christianity's trinitarianism as a weakening of the idea of God's oneness.
Jews don't have a set group of beliefs about the nature of God; therefore, there is considerable, and approved, debate within Judaism about God.
However, all mainstream Jewish groups reject the idea of God's having three parts. Indeed, many Jews see an attempt to divide God as a partial throwback, or compromise with, the pagan conception of many gods.
Beliefs
Christians believe in the trinity (that is, God is one substance but three persons in one namely the Father, Son and Holy Spirit). The Jews believe in God being just one substance one person.
Both Christians and Jews believe in one God who is called Jehovah or Almighty God by Christian, while the Jews refer him as Yahweh.
Both Christians and Jews believe in the existence of angels and demons as spiritual beings.
They also both believe in an afterlife where there is existence of heaven and hell.
The differences in both religion is that to Christians, the central tenet of their religion is the belief that Jesus is the Son of God, part of the trinity, the saviour of souls who is the messiah. He is God's revelation through flesh. Jesus was, in Christian terms, God incarnate, God in the flesh who came to Earth to absorb the sins of humans and therefore free from sin those who accepted his divinity.

To Jews whatever wonderful teacher and storyteller Jesus may have been, he was just a human, not the son of God (except in the metaphorical sense in which all humans are children of God).
In the Jewish view, Jesus cannot save souls; only God can. Jesus did not, in the Jewish view, rise from the dead.

He also did not absorb the sins of people. For Jews, sins are removed not by Jesus' atonement but by seeking forgiveness. Jews seek forgiveness from God for sins against God and from other people (not just God) for sins against those people. Seeking forgiveness requires a sincere sense of repenting but also seeking directly to redress the wrong done to someone.
Sins are partially removed through prayer which replaced animal sacrifice as a way of relieving sins. They are also removed by correcting errors against others.
Jesus, for Christians, replaced Jewish law. For traditional Jews, the commandments (mitzvot) and Jewish law (halacha) are still binding.

Jesus is not seen as the messiah. In the Jewish view, the messiah is a human being who will usher in an era of peace. We can tell the messiah by looking at the world and seeing if it is at peace.
From the Jewish view, this clearly did not happen when Jesus was on Earth or anytime after his death.
Jews vary about what they think of Jesus as a man. Some respect him as an ethical teacher who accepted Jewish law, as someone who didn't even see himself as the messiah, who didn't want to start a new religion at all. Rather, Jesus is seen by these Jews as someone who challenged the religious authorities of his day for their practices.
In this view, he meant to improve Judaism according to his own understanding not to break with it. Whatever the Jewish response is, one point is crucial. No one who is Jewish, no born Jew and no one who converts to Judaism, can believe in Jesus as the literal son of God or as the messiah. For the Jewish people, there is no God but God.
Sacred Holy Book
In conducting their spiritual duties, Christians use the bible (which comprises of both the old and new testaments) as their spiritual authority.
On the other hand, Jews use the Torah, Tanakh which is the Jewish bible and the Talmud as their religious authorities.
In comparison, both religions use the Old Testament in their study.
The Christians holy book is the Bible, which contains both the Old Testament and the New Testament. Which records the giving of God's Law, and the New Testament shows how Jesus the Messiah fulfilled that Law (Matthew 5:17; Hebrews 10:9).
The Jews holy book is the Tanakh, Hebrew Bible. It does contain basically the old Testament.

In the Old Testament, God's dealings are mainly with His chosen people, the Jews; in the New Testament, God's dealings are mainly with His church (Matthew 16:18). It is difficult for the Jews to accept the new testament, because they believe Jesus Christ (who is the coming messiah is yet to come).
Form of worship The Christians are known to worship in churches.
The Jews worship in the temple or synagogue
They both observe Sabbath worship
However, there is a point of contention on the actual Sabbath day observance between the two religions. For example the Christians worship in churches/chapels on Sunday, praising God in music and speech, readings from scripture, prayers of various sorts, a sermon, and various holy ceremonies (often called sacraments).
While worship is often thought of only as services in which Christians come together in a group, individual Christians can worship God on their own, and in any place.
While the Jews worship from sunset on Friday to sunset on Saturday in the temple/synagogue.
The Jew Pray 3 times daily, with a fourth prayer added on Shabbat and holidays. Shacarit prayer in the morning, Mincha in the afternoon, Arvit at night; Musaf is an extra Shabbat service. Synagogue services can be led by a rabbi, a cantor or a member of the congregation.
Traditional Jewish worship requires a minyan (a quorum of ten adult males) to take place.
In an Orthodox synagogue the service will be conducted in ancient Hebrew, and the singing will be unaccompanied.
Festivals and Holy days

Christian Festivals and Holy days includes: Christmas (celebration of the birth of Jesus), Good Friday (death of Jesus), Sunday (day of rest), Easter (resurrection of Jesus), Lent (feast days).
Rosh HaShanah, Yom Kippur, Sukkot, Simchat Torah, Chanukah, Tu BiShvat, Passover, Pirum
Lag BaOmer, Shavout. Sabbath most important—one day a week no work, just peace, joy and prayer.
Both the Christians and the Jewish have Festivals and Holy days, but they have different ways of celebrating it.
When it comes to festivals and holy days, Christian and Jews have different festivals and holy days e.g. the main Christian day is Sunday, which is seen as a day of rest. Christians celebrate many festivals; the main one is Easter, in (April), which celebrates the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Another major festival is Christmas in (December), it on this day that Christians all over the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.
Ash Wednesday (in March), the first day of Lent, the Penitential season for Christians. Many Christians receive a cross of ash on their forehead in church services on this day. The cross of ash means mortality and penance. Lent (The forty days (not Sundays) after Ash Wednesday until the day before Easter Sunday. (This is a time of penance and fasting, it is to remember Jesus Christ's forty days of fasting in the wilderness).

Palm Sunday
(April) Palm Sunday is the first day of Holy Week (Holy Week is the seven days leading up to Easter). Palm leaves are made into crosses; which are sometimes given to people. The palm crosses help Christians to remember the way Jesus Christ was welcomed to Jerusalem a few days before he was crucified.
Good Friday: The Friday before Easter (March/April), it commemorates Jesus’ passion (suffering) on the cross.
While the Jews have numbers of festivals, and holy days, including
Passover, or Pesach (15-21 Nissan) this is one of the most important Jewish festivals. During Passover, Jews remember the story of the Israelites liberation from slavery in Egypt.
God unleashed ten plagues on the Egyptians, culminating in the death of every family's eldest son. God told the Israelites to sacrifice lambs and mark their doors with the blood to escape this fate. They ate the lambs with bitter herbs and unleavened bread (unrisen bread without yeast).
These form three of the components of the family meal, called the seder, eaten by Jews on the first two nights of Passover.
There are blessings, songs and other ingredients to symbolise parts of the story. During the meal the adults explain the symbolism to the children.
Other important holy days are
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement (10 Tishri) the Day of Atonement is regarded as a sacred and solemn occasion, on which synagogue attendance is particularly important. On Kippur Jews believe God makes the final decision on who will live, die, prosper and fail during the next year, and seals his judgement in the Book of Life.
It is a day of fasting. Worship includes the confession of sins and asking for forgiveness, which is done aloud by the entire congregation.
Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish New Year, when Jews believe God decides what will happen in the year ahead. The synagogue services for this festival emphasise God's kingship and include the blowing of the shofar, a ram's horn trumpet.
Shabbat (Sabbath) is the weekly holy day, which lasts from sunset on Friday evening to Saturday night.
Purim (14 Adar) celebrates the events told in the Book of Esther, in which a wicked Persian nobleman named Haman plotted to murder all the Jews in the land.
Shavuot (6 Sivan) or the festival of Weeks, is a harvest festival. Historically, at this time of year the first fruits of the harvest were brought to the temples.
Tisha B'Av (9 Av) this is a day of commemoration for a series of tragedies that have befallen the Jewish people, some of which coincidentally happened on this day, for example the destruction of the first and second temples in ancient Jerusalem.
Other tragedies are commemorated on this day, such as the beginning of World War I and the Holocaust. As Tisha B'Av is a day of mourning Jews observe a strict fast and avoid laughing, joking and chatting.
Synagogues are dimly lit and undecorated and the Torah draped in black cloth.
Food
Though the Old Testament of the Bible says certain meats should not be consumed, Christians usually feel this information does not apply to them (in the New Testament) and so eat what they want to eat.
According to the Jews certain foods notably pork and shellfish, are forbidden; meat and dairy may not be combined, and meat must be ritually slaughtered and salted to remove all traces of blood.
Both religions eat food, but the different is that some foods are forbidden according to the Jews law.
Although in the old testament of the Bible says certain meats should not be consumed by the Christian, but Christian believes that the law doesn’t apply anymore since Jesus Christ has pay the price with his blood, that they are no longer bond under the law of the old testament.
Kashrut is the word given to the whole set of Jewish food laws, which are found in the Torah. These laws have been developed through the ages by the rabbis. The Jewish celebrate the Shabbat by eating bread called challah, made in the shape of a plait, and drink wine. Meat must be killed and prepared in a special way, so Jewish people buy their meat and other foods from specialist kosher shops and butchers. They do not eat pork, rabbit or shellfish and they have different sets of utensils, one to use with meat and one with milk, because meat and milk foods are never prepared or eaten together.
Dress
Christians are allowed to wear dresses they are comfortable with and are decent (no specify dresses given)
Right from time, God abhorred indecent dressing. “A woman shall not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment, for all who do so are an abomination to the Lord your God” (Deut. 22:5). Christians are expected to hate what God hates.
Orthodox Jewish men wear Tefillin, which are cubic black leather boxes with leather straps, on their head and their arm during weekday morning prayers.

Orthodox Jewish men always cover their head by wearing a skullcap known in Hebrew as a kippah or in Yiddish as a yarmulke.

The Jews have their ways of dressing which includes their men wearing Tefillin, which are cubic black leather boxes with leather straps, on their head and their arm during weekday morning prayers. The Jewish men must always cover their head by wearing a skullcap know in Hebrew as a Kippah or in Yiddish as a yarmulke.
While the Christians don’t have any specify ways of dress, but are only instructed by God in the Bible that a woman should not wear anything that pertains to a man, nor shall a man put on a woman’s garment. Though different Christian’s domination have their ways of dressing to church.
Symbols
The main symbol of the Christian faith is the cross. It reminds Christians that Jesus died on the cross to save them.

The symbol or emblem of the Jewish people is the Magen David (Shield of David). The Menorah is one of the oldest symbols of the Jewish faith. It is a candelabrum with seven candle holders displayed in Jewish synagogues. It symbolises the burning bush as seen by Moses on Mount Sinai.

Both religions have symbols but they are different and symbolize different meaning
The Christian symbol is the cross on which Jesus Christ was nailed for the sin, which he never committed. This cross also reminds Christians that Jesus died on the cross to save them.
The Jews symbol or emblem of the Jewish people is the Magen David (shield of David). The Menorah is one of the oldest symbols of the Jewish faith. It is a candelabrum with seven candle holders displayed in Jewish synagogues. It symbolises the burning bush as seen by Moses on Mount Sinai.
Health/
medical beliefs
Christians have no specific health or medical beliefs although they may have personal beliefs, which affect their care.
The Brit Milah (circumcision ceremony) is an important initiation rite for young Jewish boys.
No similarities in both the Christians and the Jews Religion.
The differences in the Health/medical beliefs of both religion is that the Jews every Jewish boys must be circumcised. While the Christians have no specific health or medical beliefs.