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Jan 17 2017 11:49 AM Random Stranger:
They don't believe in the same stuff, and they interpret it differently. Likewise there are similarities in all religions. Buddhism is not the same as Christianity either even though both cherish the value of love.
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Random Stranger:
The religion would likely die and be replaced by a new one.
The difference is that Judaism is here today as separate from Christianity.
Random Stranger:
That link completely lacks credibility. Firstly, it ignores the direct prophecies made about the Messiah in regards to the Old Testament and instead the website opts in to picking out debatable quotations with no clear meaning and trying to bend this in favor of Jesus. The key and most clear prophecy regarding the Messiah was that he would rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.
There are also a number of passages that the website conveniently skips besides this key example, in Isiah 11:4 it says that evil and tyranny will not be able to stand when the Messiah arrives, it says in Isiah 25:8 that death will be swallowed up forever. In Isiah 26:19 it says that all the dead will rise up again when the Messiah comes.
The website you've cited is completely wrong. Most of it is just trying to take information out of nothing. For example it uses the quote from the Psalms: " I will proclaim the Lord’s decree: He said to me, “You are my son; today I have become your father," except, contextually speaking this is completely irrelevant as it isn't even referencing the Messiah in this passage. They've just assumed that this has something to do with Jesus fulfilling a prophecy. The passage on its own does not say or even imply that anyone (let alone an individual yet to be born) is the literal son of God.
On the other hand, when you compare it to the actual prophecies foretold in Isiah in the Old Testament they are all direct references to the Messiah and descriptions of what will be indications to us of his true identity.
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Famousdebater:
here are also a number of passages that the website conveniently skips besides this key example, in Isiah 11:4 it says that evil and tyranny will not be able to stand when the Messiah arrives, it says in Isiah 25:8 that death will be swallowed up forever. In Isiah 26:19 it says that all the dead will rise up again when the Messiah comes.
As you probably know, these prophesies are applied to Christ's second coming, so allow me to provide justification for this.
By oppression and judgment he was taken away. Yet who of his generation protested? For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished. He was assigned a grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death, though he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth. (Isaiah 53:8-9)
This passage, which is also taken from Isaiah would indicate that there is a second coming, as it would be contradictory for him to say that the Messiah came with absolute power, then suddenly is killed. Therefore we can safely assume that Isaiah intended the prophesies in question for a second coming of Jesus, which Christians now anticipate.
Most of it is just trying to take information out of nothing.
I will concede that some of the prophesies in there were a bit of a stretch. However, the purpose of the site was to counter your claim that
none
of the prophesies were fulfilled...
None of the prophecies were fulfilled by Jesus...
... not to explain that all the prophesies on the site were true.
The key and most clear prophecy regarding the Messiah was that he would rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem.
Could you provide me with a reference for that?
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Christianity was created by a Jewish sect. This is evident from the Dead Sea Scrolls. You can read more about this in "Jews, God and History" by Max Dimont.
However, Christianity diverged pretty far from Judaism because it is not mono-theistic (it has the trinity, and fancy churches, and idol worship of statues in churches). In this respect Islam is much closer to Judaism. Mohammed, in the beggining, considered Jews to be his allies, because they were monotheistic, and had all his followers pray toward Jerusalem. But the Jewish priests just mocked him, and called him a copy-cat, for he had nothing original in his religion.
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