For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew this cannot be.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.
I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
The most that one of Jewish faith can do - and some have gladly done it - is to say that Jesus was the greatest in the long succession of Jewish prophets. None can acknowledge that Jesus was the Messiah without becoming a Christian.
As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew.
No Jew was ever fool enough to turn Christian unless he was a clever man.
Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious everywhere.
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.
The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew.
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.
There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common.