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There's quite a lot of hostility toward Israel in many countries of the world, the given reason being about their militarism and the way they treat the Palestinians. The U.N. is always passing anti-Israel resolutions, because there are more countries there that don't like them, than countries that do.
I also think that Jew and christian are just the same. Wasn't that Jesus was a jew? And i was confuse when many christian blamed Jews for Jesus death.
This is a complicated question that I'll try to be as brief with an answer as possible. To start with, Jesus and the Apostles were all Jews, and Christianity started out as a sect of Judaism. However, mainstream Jews and the followers of Jesus went their separate ways very early in their history: the Apostles Paul and Peter spread their new teachings across the Greek world and into Rome, and along the way decided that Christians did not have to follow the Jewish laws, which ipso facto made them non-Jewish. Eventually a system developed of having a bishop (or supervisor) in charge of a given geographical area, with the churches in that area being run by presbyters (elders, or what we now call priests and ministers) under the bishop's authority.
In 70 AD, in response to an uprising, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem, including the Temple that was the center of their religion, and scattered the Jewish population across the known world. This was devastating to the Jews, and they had to reform themselves into communities that centered on local synagogues led by ordained rabbis, instead of on the Temple in Jerusalem led by hereditary priests.
So Judaism and Christianity became separate religions almost right away, and have remained so since. Jews don't accept Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah, and Christians don't follow the Jewish laws; Christianity also has additional scripture, the New Testament, consisting of eyewitness accounts (the Gospels and Book of Acts); letters, mostly from Paul, but from others as well; and one very weird bit of scifi/fantasy (the Book of Revelation) that nobody can agree on what it's supposed to mean. The Jews have the same books in their Tanakh as we have in our Old Testament, but they arrange them a bit differently, and to them the New Testament is no more scripture than is the Book of Mormon.
As to blaming the Jews for Jesus death, this has always puzzled me, because Jesus' death and resurrection is the center of Christian religion, so you'd think even if they were responsible, that would be a good thing. The whole idea of the Jews collectively being "Christ-killers" started in the Middle Ages when people were making up anything they could think of to persecute the Jews with, and the idea lasted well into the Twentieth Century. Contrary to what some people think, it was never an official doctrine of the Catholic Church, and they formally rejected this teaching in 1964.
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@RusA #9858416
There's quite a lot of hostility toward Israel in many countries of the world, the given reason being about their militarism and the way they treat the Palestinians. The U.N. is always passing anti-Israel resolutions, because there are more countries there that don't like them, than countries that do.
I also think that Jew and christian are just the same. Wasn't that Jesus was a jew? And i was confuse when many christian blamed Jews for Jesus death.
This is a complicated question that I'll try to be as brief with an answer as possible. To start with, Jesus and the Apostles were all Jews, and Christianity started out as a sect of Judaism. However, mainstream Jews and the followers of Jesus went their separate ways very early in their history: the Apostles Paul and Peter spread their new teachings across the Greek world and into Rome, and along the way decided that Christians did not have to follow the Jewish laws, which ipso facto made them non-Jewish. Eventually a system developed of having a bishop (or supervisor) in charge of a given geographical area, with the churches in that area being run by presbyters (elders, or what we now call priests and ministers) under the bishop's authority.
In 70 AD, in response to an uprising, the Romans destroyed Jerusalem, including the Temple that was the center of their religion, and scattered the Jewish population across the known world. This was devastating to the Jews, and they had to reform themselves into communities that centered on local synagogues led by ordained rabbis, instead of on the Temple in Jerusalem led by hereditary priests.
So Judaism and Christianity became separate religions almost right away, and have remained so since. Jews don't accept Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah, and Christians don't follow the Jewish laws; Christianity also has additional scripture, the New Testament, consisting of eyewitness accounts (the Gospels and Book of Acts); letters, mostly from Paul, but from others as well; and one very weird bit of scifi/fantasy (the Book of Revelation) that nobody can agree on what it's supposed to mean.
As to blaming the Jews for Jesus death, this has always puzzled me, because Jesus' death and resurrection is the center of Christian religion, so you'd think even if they were responsible, that would be a good thing. The whole idea of the Jews collectively being "Christ-killers" started in the Middle Ages when people were making up anything they could think of to persecute the Jews with, and the idea lasted well into the Twentieth Century. Contrary to what some people think, it was never an official doctrine of the Catholic Church, and they formally rejected this teaching in 1964.