Jewish Dopers: How do you view Jesus?

Jews view him as a very naughty boy.

Or was that Brian?

Jews don’t think much of Mohammed either, for that matter.

The standards for “the real messiah” are so high that I don’t think god himself would be able to pass the test. Which gives rise to the question, “Could god create a people so skeptical that they wouldn’t even believe in him?” The answer seems to be, YES. Something I imagine vexes god greatly.

Holy crap, the yeti got Voyager! I, for one, welcome our new yeti overlords.

It’s not THAT bad-take a look.

Messiah-Shmessiah. A real jew would demand to speak to the supervisor.

Whatever else Christianity may have done, it spread aspects of Judaism–notably monotheism and the Old Testament–far wider than they likely would have spread otherwise. The Ten Commandments, the story of the Exodus, the names and tales of the Old Testament prophets, are known to every literate person in the Western world. Do Jews have much of a feeling about this, whether good bad or indifferent?

Again, indifferent. We’re not an Evangelical religion, so its spread is not important to me. Many of those ideas had been altered or misunderstood, or used against us, so it’s hard to feel great about Christianity being our spokesperson.

Even using the term “Old Testament” is problematic. It’s not old to us.

“Not thinking about him” too much if at all explains a lot of things, like Christmas.

Do Jews consider Jesus a Jew?

I mean, he was a Jew…

Oddly I just finished a skeptical book on cryptozoology, with a chapter on yeti and another on the Loch Ness Mons

He would have been an apostate Jew if he ever claimed to be divine. It’s not clear to me if he ever did since it’s not clear what Jesus actually said and what was said on his behalf. But he was clearly Jewish.

Shit. Not again. I swear, this is the last time we’re sending out a search party, Voyager.

FFS, stick to reading IKEA and Sears catalogues.

Nah, he just lost signal. It’s hard to get a good wi-fi signal outside the solar system.

Look, he went into his father’s business, he thought his mother was a virgin, and his mother thought he was the messiah. Of course he was Jewish!

He was a good Jew.
had great intentions.
Great hair.

Archie Bunker explains what happened here