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Catholicism vs. Judaism
The history and origin of Judaism as well as the founder or the most influential person
Historically, Judaism is an old religion that is known to have originated from the eastern region of Canaan currently referred to as Israel. According to Schwartz (2009), Judaism was established during the 1st century with the Israelites having their own beliefs and practices they followed. The establishment of Judaism was through a certain person from Israel by the name of Abraham. It was through Abraham that God made His covenant to bless him and all his descendants. God also was to make these people His sacred people to take to the Promised Land.
Judaism is regarded as a tradition developed to meet the religious, ethical and social factors, as they are required. This is proven through the first five books of the bible, which are referred to as the Torah. The existing branches of Judaism are different from the texts in the first five books in the way they are interpreted and applied. However, currently, there are four main movements included within Judaism these are Orthodox, Conservatists, Reformists, and Reconstructionist (Louis 45). All these movements start from traditional, to liberal to religiously spreading of their applications of the first five books of the bible. Judaism mainly concentrates more with practices than beliefs. The most influential people of the culture of Judaism are Abraham as the founder, followed by Isaac, Jacob and then Moses the prophet with whom God gave the Ten Commandments on Mt.Sinai.reseach shows that after Abraham finding out the truth about his father’s faith, he noted that the earth was created by one Creator. This motivated him to start spreading the belief throughout the world.. Therefore, Abraham is shown as a very influential person in the establishment of Judaism.
Three Similarities and three differences between Catholism and Judaism
There are a good number of significant similarities and differences between Catholism and Judaism. All religions share the same belief that God is the Creator of all human beings and everything in the world thus all people are God’s children. The two religions believe that all human beings are equal before God. Both catholism and Judaism have a belief that God’s love mercy and assistance is upon all human creatures. For instance, in Judaism, a person needs to only be ethical to acquire salvation.
However, the two religions differ in several ways including the concept of the existence of one God. According to Judaism, it is impossible for God to be made up of three components even when these components are united. In contrary, catholism believes in trinity of God. For instance, catholism believes in God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. The Jewish believes that God is one thus, they do not agree with the idea that God is divided in three parts the way Catholics do (Steinberg 28).
According to catholism, Jesus Christ was a son of God who came to the earth to save people from sins. They see Jesus as God’s representation in flesh. However, the Judaism views Jesus as just a human being and not the son of God except in the general sense where all human beings are God’s children. Therefore, they only believe that it is only God who can save souls and not Jesus Christ. Jewish also believe that Jesus never rose from the dead the way the Catholics do.
According to Judaism, human beings have the free will to decide to act or behave in a good manner where this free moral will has the strength to overpower evil spirits. However, with catholism, a person is born in sin therefore they are bad since their birth and sin cannot leave them unless they accept to be saved through the blood of Jesus Christ that was shed for the sake of human being.
Works Cited
Louis, Roberta. Teaching about God and Spirituality: A Resource for Jewish Settings. Springfield, NJ. Behrman House, Inc, 1990
Schwartz, Joshua. Interaction between Judaism and Christianity in history, religion, art and literature. Boston, MA: BrillAcademy Publisher, 2009.
Steinberg, Milton .Basic Judaism.New York, NY: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1997.
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