04-05-2020, 02:47 PM
(04-05-2020, 02:13 PM)a_Sarah Wrote: During all this lockdown I have started a conversation (via voice messages) with an openly Christian neighbor of mine about our beliefs. I asked her "why Jesus" because this is one huge part I could never understand about Christianity.
Her answers are very centered on sin and mankind needing rescue (by accepting Jesus), leading back to the concept of original sin. She said that Judaism and Christianity have this in common, but so far my understanding was that in Judaism the consequences of that incident are not that any person being born "inherits" that sin, but that people start out innocent and without sin, but can, due to their own free will, commit sins in their lifetime. Are there any other interpretations in Judaism? Or is there any passage that suggests people need to be redeemed from that original sin?
Thank you!
As I understand it, we are all born with the original sin - Adam and Eve's belief that Satan told the truth that they would not die if they ate the fruit, and not believing what God said, and subsequently eating the fruit. But we sin because we are born with a sinful nature. The Messiah, Jesus Christ came to free us from ALL sin, past, present and future.
As a Christian, I find it very easy to believe in Jesus, but I never understand why Jewish people do not. Even the first 5 books, the Torah points to a Messiah yet Jesus is rejected. Please advise me, do Jewish people read all the Old Testament or just the first 5 books?