ShyHijabi
Junior Member
Or at most, they would celebrate chanucah and christmas, maybe have a big dinner on Passover.
If they celebrated Christmas then they were not Jews in the religious sense...since Christmas is a Christian holiday.
Brother Moshin,
The verse you found had more to do with a spiritual rebirth on earth...I believe the term Christians use is "born again" or "saved." Nicodemus (the person conversing with Jesus pbuh)was confused because he didn't understand how someone could be born of the flesh again, he was such a literalist he didn't understand that this was to be in a spiritual sense.
Jews do not believe in a resurrection...in other words there is a strict speration of body and spirit. Ressurection means that our physical bodies will be reassembled and our souls placed back in them. Jews believe once the body is dead it will never be alive...the soul however is eternal. Hope this clarifies this point...it is a distinct difference between Jews and Christians.
Jews do not believe in the New Testament, they do not believe Jesus (pbuh) was anyone particularly special...a teacher perhaps but nothing more. They believe to add to the Torah is a huge sin and therefore would never call it the "new testament"....they call it the Christian bible.
~Sarah