Thread:SoKeepherOfTheLostCities/@comment-38861504-20191206225820/@comment-44044902-20191207002920

Here's the thing: it's a bit complicated. Traditions and beliefs have changed, so I'll tell it how it is now.

I'm not religious, but here's what I was taught (or can remember, at least). Some people do believe that Jesus was messiah. I'm not one of those believers, as are many others, because I was taught that those were merely Christian beliefs. It's a bit complicated, because really, our religions are quite similar. Anyway, Jews do not entirely believe that he was raised from the dead. That's one thing that seperates us. He was born as a Jew, and his first people were recorded as Jews. The religion believes he did exist, and that he was crucified (much like your religion), but not by the Jewish people as some may believe. Some Jewish people that I know have thought that Jesus may have been closer to Judaism than the Gospels or traditional Jewish accounts would indicate. Ugh, these sentences are so choppy, but that's the gist of it.