A Christian is Christ in the inward humanity; and a Jew is Christ in the figure, and in the office of his law, viz. according to nature.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Jews do not have to be Christians. Christianity is an offshoot of Judaism, but too utopian, too hopeful, too unrealistic a turn.
Because Judaism and Christianity are both covenantal religions, the relationship of the individual Jew or Christian to God is always within covenanted community.
Jews focus on the Torah, the embodiment of God's will; Christians, on an embodied God.
A fully positive relationship between Christians and Jews is one that would elide all differences.
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place.
Christianity and Judaism are united above all in their common affirmation and implementation of the moral teaching of the Hebrew Bible, or 'Old Testament,' and the traditions of interpretation of that teaching.
The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew.
Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.
For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.