User blog comment:Dawnfeather/Baptism!/@comment-1285688-20091221020254

Jews were the foundation of Christianity. The difference is that the Jews were God's chosen people and Abraham was their ancestor who was really close with God. They had the ten commandments and you had to be righteous to get to heaven. They were waiting for their 'messiah' who would save them. This is were Jesus comes in. The Jews thought their messiah would be a king or rich, influencal person of some sort who would save tem from the Romans who were currently persecuting them. But Jesus was that messiah, but he was born to Mary, a young, average(except in respects to faith), poor girl. Jesus was born in an animal's stable and instead of a bed, we sleep in the animal's food tray. Christians are those who believed what Jesus said, and followed him, because he is the Son of God, as well as actually being God (Have you ever heard of the Trinity? It is VERRY hard to understand and a pure nightmare to explain.) He led a sinless life. Then to save the world from our sins, he let the Jews persucute him for for apprantly breaking the law, because they thought he was just some trouble maker. They killed him in the most gruesome way (crucifixion) - by haveing his hands and feet nailed to a wooden cross and a rope around his neck which would kill him if he didn't support himself by pushing up on his nailed ands and feet. Whipped, taunted, having a crown of thorns put on his head. His final act was to ask God to forgive those who had killed him because they did not understand. When he was dead, they put him in a tomb. Three days after this, two women came to prepare his body, when they found he wasn't there. He had come back to life and was talking to his followers at that very moment. He stayed on earth for 40 days becfore aseding to heaven. So the difference between Jews and Christians is that Jews are still waiting for their messiah and try to make themselves holy and righteous to go to heaven, while Christians know that the messiah has come and will come again (Jesus promised that before he went up to heaven) and can have a relantionship with God because Jesus takes away our sin if we ask him to, everytime we ask him to, which has torn down the barrier between us and God. Sorry about the long post, but (as you can probably tell - the whole point of this post was to tell you i got baptised!) i am quite passionate about this topic and I explained in yet relatively little detail because there was a lot to say to explain what i am taling about. And yet here i am, still chattering on! Yet I don't understand what you mean by Muhammed. Can you explain in more detail. Just one more thing (although it is quite probable i have said this in earlier posts). The main point of Christianity is love. The two greatest comandments were to 'love God with all your heart', and 'love your neighbour as you weould love yourself'. So basically love god and everyone. =D