Jews have traditionally seen Jesus as one of a number of false messiahs who have appeared throughout history. Jesus is viewed as having been the most influential, and consequently the most damaging, of all false messiahs. However, since the universal Jewish belief is that the Messiah has not yet come and that the Messianic Age is not yet present, the total rejection of Jesus as either messiah or deity in Judaism has never been a central issue for Judaism. At the heart of Judaism are the Torah, its commandments, the Tanakh, and ethical monotheism such as in the Shema — all of which predated Jesus.

Judaism has never accepted any of the claimed fulfillments of prophecy that Christianity attributes to Jesus. Judaism also forbids the worship of a person as a form of idolatry, since the central belief of Judaism is the absolute unity and singularity of God.

Jewish eschatology holds that the coming of the Messiah will be associated with a specific series of events that have not yet occurred, including the return of Jews to their homeland and the rebuilding of The Temple, a Messianic Age of peace and understanding during which "the knowledge of God" fills the earth, and since none of these events occurred during the lifetime of Jesus (nor have they occurred afterwards), he is not a candidate for messiah.

Noun

heretic (plural heretics)

1. Someone who in the opinion of others believes contrary to the fundamental tenets of a religion he claims to belong to.

Adjective

heretic

1. Of or pertaining to heresy or heretics.

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See also:

• Society: Religion and Spirituality: Interfaith: Interreligious Dialogue: Jewish Christian Dialogue (8)
• Society: Religion and Spirituality: Judaism (2,762)
• Society: Religion and Spirituality: Opposing Views: Christianity: Messianic Judaism (5)

• Matthew - A Gospel for Messianic Jews
  jesusneverexisted.com
  Claims that the Gospel of Matthew was fabricated to fit Jewish prophecy.
• Is Paul the father of misogyny and anti-Semitism?
  crosscurrents.org
  An article by Pamela Eisenbaum in CrossCurrents.
• Did the Jews Kill Jesus?
  slate.com
  Benjamin Soskis responds to claims in an Easter commentary by Paul Weyrich, head of the conservative Free Congress Foundation, that stated in part that "Christ was crucified by the Jews."