Jews and Christians worship the same God

Let me begin with reminding that if we are concerned for the Jewish religion which is Judaism, then it might be possible that many of them are still mistaken on the foundational truth of Scripture that leads to the Messiah who is Jesus. Con is not able to comprehend how the God of Christianity and Judaism can be same and that Jesus be the promised Jewish Messiah, when the majority of Jews reject him. He is forced to think that it can’t be possible; this whole concept of Jesus being the Messiah and Savior, and doctrines like trinity must be invention of some people rather than fulfillment of Jewish law and prophets as they claim. It is important to understand- the sole authority for Judaism is the Tanakh (OT), and not today’s Orthodox and Rabbinic Jewish camps who claim some rabbis and the so called oral torah of tradition to be authority for interpretation of scripture. So that they can have whatever interpretation they want. The line that divides Christian’s belief and majority of Jewish belief is then the interpretation of the Scripture. Unless one gets a deep reading and investigation of the Scriptures both Old and New Testament, and the analysis of both side’s arguments it is not safe to form premature conclusions. If we read Matthew 13:13-15 Jesus quotes Isaiah, that he was right in saying about the spiritual blindness of hearts those people have; by rejecting Jesus, they reinforced their rejection and blindness that they have been doing from the ancient times. In Matt 23:27-38 Jesus lays out the history of hypocrisy and rejection of the prophets the Jewish leaders have been doing. The Parable of Landowner rightly explains this again, Matt 21:33-45. So I want you to understand that this rebellion and rejection among them is nothing new. Con has again misunderstood some simple arguments of mine. I never said that there is no prophesy and concept of Jewish Messiah in the tanakh; rather I gave references where Jewish rabbis way before Jesus understood some explicit prophesies of the Messiah, it is noted in the Talmud. Jews at the time of Jesus were also awaiting the Messiah. So there are many passages of Messianic prophesies, all we need is to understand them and see how they fit in the life of Jesus as the NT claims. Again, Jesus is the Jewish Messiah as promised in the Old Testament. The disciples and all early thousands of followers were Jews. He also misunderstood and misread what I argued in the point of John 12. John said Isaiah saw HIS (Jesus’) Glory. In Isaiah we read he wrote he saw God the Father, YHWH. That means John says that Isaiah saw Jesus on that occasion. Hence it’s explicit that NT testifies the Messiah to be YHWH. Then, he is mistaken to think Dead Sea Scrolls are the Greek version of OT rather it is Hebrew itself. At the time of Jesus, they were using that Hebrew as well as Greek Septuagint. Further he denied many passages where Jesus claims and affirms to be the Messiah, the Son of God, and even God. He only restricted the disciples for not to tell that, for a particular time for a reason, that’s no argument at all if you know the very basics of the Bible. Then Con tells he find the moral nature of the God of OT and NT to be conflicting on ethical grounds hence he is not able to harmonize and accept that Christianity is fulfillment of the tanakh. That’s another reason that many might hold for rejecting the doctrines based on lack of understanding of the fundamental theologies—It is a naïve view. The Israelis were living under the covenant of theocracy and monarchy, where God ruled and the law including judiciary law was based on the scripture, it was limited in geography and for a period; whereas the coming of Jesus brought the New Covenant that I mentioned earlier, the New Covenant that the authors of NT mentioned in Hebrews 8 and Acts 2 quoting Jeremiah 31. The covenant has superseded the old by fulfilling the old. New Covenant is the covenant of Grace. Refer to the link I gave earlier explaining that teachings of love and mercy from godandscience website. The new covenant is abiding for all nations till the end times. It should not be the matter that you prefer and like certain moral teachings of Jesus, hence you choose to deny the whole theology of not only NT but also of OT. If one studies in detail he would find that there is no theological conflict. Here is more detailed study for the doctrine of Trinity . http://www.biblestudying.net...