Christianity and Judaism: Difference between revisions

Christians refer to the biblical books about Jesus as the New Testament, and to the canon of Hebrew books as the [[Old Testament]]. Judaism does not accept the [[wikt:retronym|retronymic]] labeling of its [[scripture|sacred texts]] as the "Old Testament", and some Jews{{who|date= November 2018}} refer to the New Testament as the Christian Testament or Christian Bible. Judaism rejects all claims that the Christian New Covenant [[supersessionism|supersedes]], [[Abrogation of Old Covenant laws|abrogates]], fulfills, or is the unfolding or consummation of the covenant expressed in the Written and Oral Torahs. Therefore, just as Christianity does not accept that Mosaic law has any authority over Christians, Judaism does not accept that the New Testament has any religious authority over Jews.

 

{{See also|Antinomianism|Biblical law in Christianity|Christian anarchism}}

Many Jews view Christians as having quite an ambivalent view of the Torah, or Mosaic law: on one hand Christians speak of it as God's absolute word, but on the other, they apply its commandments with a certain selectivity. Some Jews{{who|date=November 2018}} contend that Christians cite commandments from the Old Testament to support one point of view but then ignore other commandments of a similar class and of equal weight. Examples of this are certain commandments that God states explicitly be a "lasting covenant."<ref>[[NIV]] {{bibleverse|Exodus|31:16–17|niv}}</ref> Some translate the Hebrew as a "perpetual covenant."<ref>{{bibleverse|Exodus|31:16–17|he}}</ref>