Originally posted by one-niner:
Hi ppl, hope you ppl here can clear my doubts. just want to know the difference if any, or similarities if any.
Reason for this weird question being, if the Jews are the chosen ppl of God, why are the religion followed by the Jews different to the christians ?
Are the jews the more conservative christians as they don't eat pork, practice circumcisions etc ???
And this is not a thread to allow flame throwers to start torching this thread.
regards
circumcision is actually for hygienic reasons and to differentiate themselves from the other populace.
I can confirm the part about the Jews who do not believe gentiles could be saved , after all what's the point if they are the chosen people. However christ said everyone who accepts god is saved. They say a jew is not a jew unless he comes out from a jewish mother. Why? Because they know at least if a jew gave birth to a baby - doesn't matter whose it is , the baby is still at least a jew. They forbid those who are not borned of jewish mothers to be buried in a jewish cemetary - there was a case of a russian mom who converted to judaism and her son died in a bombing.. By right her son should be a jew but the mother was not recognised as a jew (although she converted) therefore he could not be buried there. That story came from my colleague who happens to be a distant relative of the mother.
A guy I used to date is jewish - his parents were not too happy to see me , an asian girl. Shikse was the term they used for me. I figured it out after watching some tv show. They spoke basically in yiddish in front of me punctuated with shikse....so that didn't work out too well. Not a single smile. Shikse is a degradatory name they call a non jewish girl. So go figure who is more racist - the ordinary caucasian or the jew.
Pork - it was because pigs were swimming in mud and swill in the good old ancient days. Symbolically pigs are dirty to them. Therefore they don't eat pigs. However I think the seventh adventists ( christians) don't eat pork either.