Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!rex!ukma!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: YZKCU@CUNYVM.BITNET (Yaakov Kayman) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Of Christians and Jews (was Re: Questions about the Messiah) Message-ID: Date: 8 Mar 91 05:45:18 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center Lines: 39 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu [This responds to a discussion between David Wagner and Erik Hardy, talking about possible cooperation between Christians and Jews. Hardy wanted to know how Christians could possibly cooperate with Jews, when they have quite fundamental differences. David responded that for Christians to acknowledge a spiritual unity with rabbis who deny that J____ is the Messiah, is a sin. He comments >Jews worship a false image of God. From the Christian >perspective they are unbelievers and idolators. Hardy also asks how Jews for J____ can exist, given the rather negative impact that the coming of J____ has had on Jews. --clh] As my Jewish views about G-d and the Messiah are pretty clear by now to the readers of this newsgroup, I need not restate them in any detail. Suffice it to say that they are completely at odds with Christianity's views, and that I, along with all Jews who have not abandoned Judaism in favor of other faiths, do not accept J____ in any capacity. I deliberate- ly say "faiths" since Islam accepts J____ as a prophet. My views of Mr. Wagner's cited statements (the ">"s above) require *NO* elaboration at all. This said, I should like to express my curiosity about the evident preoccupation by some/many/most Christians, in this newsgroup at least, with the Jews, and what we do and do not believe. As Jews spend virtually no time whatsoever mulling over what Christians do or do not believe, or do or do not practice except when it causes adverse results to Jews, I'd like to ask "Haven't you got things more germane to your own faith to discuss, rather than spending so much time discussing a people that has made it eminently clear throughout two thousand years that it is just not interested in Christianity and wants nothing of Christians other than to be left alone? Why not just give it a rest?" Yaakov K. -------- Yaakov Kayman (212) 903-3666 City University of New York BITNET: YZKCU@CUNYVM "Lucky is the shepherd, and lucky his flock Internet: YZKCU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU about whom the wolves complain"