#where they sort of assume jews read the torah as a prologue to the new testament | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

vamptastic · 9 months ago

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ach to be fair i may be Judaism Georg here. i tend to wildly overestimate how much the average christian or even secular jew would know because i am a massive fucking nerd about judaism. but still, i thought 'jews do not believe in jesus' was well known, at least. it's literally the only thing you learn about our theology in public education.

#i have been told by many a goy that i should convert because the torah says so. so i do see where this may be stemming from #prefiguration is uniquely Catholic i think but it does seem to show up in other sects #where they sort of assume jews read the torah as a prologue to the new testament #and thus see jewish figures in a wildly different light than we do #moses being the worst probably but all of it is pretty bad. just a very different reading #most of it seems to be predicated on the idea that like. god used to be Really Mean and then jesus made him nice. or something.#most like ahhhh Reformed Christians (?) seem to really emphasize jesus and see him as a sort of counterpoint to the ' abrahamic god '#while in Judaism that's just god. we don't have a second nicer version of god. we grapple with the fact that god does shit we don't like.#and generally seem to see god in a much less uhhh black and white view #so if you see our god as being cruel and don't understand that we Know That i can see why it would be confusing #that we don't have any other figures to worship

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