Compare And Contrast Christianity And Judaism

Religion has always been an ongoing disagreement in the world, between having wars because of discrimination, anti individuals ideologies, or entire communities prejudiced against others because they do not agree with their traditions. Everyone has different reasons as to why they follow one religion oppose to the other, there are many contributing factors that individuals take into consideration. In this paper I will compare and contrast, Christianity and Judaism's basic ideologies in order to exhibit ways that monotheism religions are dominant in modern day society depending on their beliefs. Christianity is the largest religion with about 2.8 billion religious believers, in addition, Christianity has hundreds of denominations, such as
The five books included in the Torah are, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy, and numbers all serve for different purposes and all include different information.The Torah is equivalent to the Old Testament of the Bible. Judaism is solely dependent on structure from the Torah and take everything that is written as a teaching or an instruction. Judaism use to believe that the Torah was to be translated as law, meaning everything written in it had to be followed. The Torah’s primary work is to focus on “righteous living” for Jewish people, moreover there are texts that can vary depending on what sect you are in. Instead of discussing the life of Jesus, as well as Christianity, Judaism discusses the beginning of creation and eventually end the book with the Prophet Moses, taking this into consideration, it would be easy to infer that Moses is a type of “higher Godly figure” rather than just a prophet or follower. There was no concrete evidence of who the official author of the Torah was, however eventually until the 17th century it was confirmed and believed that Moses was the evidential author of the Torah. Somewhat time after there were beliefs of different authors that contributed, or groups of authors and helpers that were believed to have oral spread the message of the Torah, they were known as J – Yahwist, E- Elohist, D – Deuteronomistic, P – Priestly. J was Presented as a more personal God who speaks directly to humanity and morality is not presented as absolute. E is so named for its use of its preferred name for God: Elohim. D is so named because they are only credited with having contributed ‘Deuteronomy’ and little else. P is the hardest to categorize by genre and so was just generally attributed to ‘Priests’. Moses was known as a prophet, but is an essential person in Judaism and even Islam. Generally, Moses will sometime, and in this case