Why Jews do not accept Jesus as the Messiah?
The Bible claims the Messiah will accomplish certain signs:
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Build the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26-28).
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2. Gather all Jews back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5-6).
3. Usher in an era of world peace, and end all hatred, oppression, suffering and disease. As it says: 'Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall man learn war anymore.' (Isaiah 2:4)
4. Spread universal knowledge of the God of Israel, which will unite humanity as one. As it says: 'God will be King over all the world—on that day, God will be One and His Name will be One' (Zechariah 14:9).
The historical fact is that Jesus fulfilled none of these messianic prophecies.
Christians counter that Jesus will fulfill these in the Second Coming, but Jewish sources show that the Messiah will fulfill the prophecies outright, and no concept of a second coming exists.
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Who is the Messiah?In Abrahamic religions, the messiah or messias is a saviour or liberator of a group of people.
Who was Jesus?Jesus of Nazareth, born in the first century BCE in Bethlehem, is the central figure of Christianity. Most historians agree he was a real historical figure who worked as a craftsman and lived in Galilee and Judea under Roman occupation. Around the age of 30, he became an itinerant preacher
gathering disciples and performing miracles while teaching messages centered on love, forgiveness, and compassion. His life ended with his arrest and crucifixion by Roman authorities in Jerusalem, after which his followers claimed he rose from the dead, an event that formed the foundation of the Christian faith.
What is Jews?Judaism encompasses the religion, philosophy, culture and way of life of the Jewish people. Judaism is a monotheistic religion, with the Torah as its foundational text (part of the larger text known as the Tanakh or Hebrew Bible), and supplemental oral tradition represented by later texts such as
the Midrash and the Talmud. Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenantal relationship that God established with the Children of Israel.
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Judaism includes a wide corpus of texts, practices, theological positions, and forms of organization. Within Judaism there are a variety of movements, most of which emerged from Rabbinic Judaism, which holds that God revealed his laws and commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai in the form of both the Written and Oral Torah.
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The Jews are an ethnoreligious group and include those born Jewish and converts to Judaism. In 2012, the world Jewish population was estimated at about 14 million, or roughly 0.2% of the total world population. About 42% of all Jews reside in Israel and about 42% reside in the United States and Canada, with most of the remainder living in Europe.
