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Adherents of Judaism do not believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah or Prophet nor do they believe he was the Son of God.In the Jewish perspective, it is believed that the way Christians see Jesus goes against monotheism, a belief in the absolute unity and singularity of God, which is central to Judaism; [1] Judaism sees the worship of a person as a form of idolatry, which is forbidden. [2]
The other forms of worship described in the more ancient books were deemed merely ancient superstitions or misguided foreign religions. [31] Idolaters were no longer making Yahweh jealous by making offerings to foreign gods—rather, they were making offerings to imaginary gods that had no power to reward them with any kind of benefit.
After the time of Solomon [63] and particularly after Jezebel's attempt to promote the worship of the Lord of Tyre Melqart, [62] however, the name became particularly associated with the Canaanite storm god BaĘżal Haddu and was gradually avoided as a title for Yahweh. [63] Several names that included it were rewritten as bosheth ("shame"). [64]
Art historians believe that there was a tradition in antiquity of illuminated manuscript scrolls of books from the Tanakh among Hellenized Jews that influenced Christian works of the Late Antique and Early Medieval periods whose iconography is thought to derive from works in this tradition.
Similarly to Jews, Muslims explicitly reject the divinity of Jesus and don't believe in him as the incarnated God or Son of God, but instead consider him a human prophet and the promised Messiah sent by God, although the Islamic tradition itself is not unanimous on the question of Jesus' death and afterlife. [56] [57] [58]
Jesus the Son of God: Some Messianic Jews, who reject Trinitarian doctrine and Arian doctrine, believe that the Jewish Messiah is the son of God in the general sense (Jewish people are children of God) and that the Jewish Messiah is a mere human, the promised Prophet. Some Messianic Jews believe Jewish Messiah is the pre-existent Word of God ...
Traditionally, Jews believe that God is the creator of the universe. Different sects of Jews view this in different ways. Different sects of Jews view this in different ways. For example, some strictly-Orthodox groups reject the concept of evolution and believe the earth to be only a few thousands years old .
Some believe that there may be some sort of Messianic Age (the World to Come) in the sense of a utopia, which all Jews are obligated to work towards (thus the tradition of Tikkun olam). In 1999, the Central Conference of American Rabbis , the official body of American Reform rabbis, authored "A Statement of Principles for Reform Judaism", meant ...