Judaism and Christianity - similarities and differences

JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY
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Judaism and Christianity
A Christian can be defined as a person who has a professing belief in Jesus Christ and follows the religion that has teachings on the life of Jesus. Judaism on the other hand was a religion that was developed by the ancient Hebrews who believed in a transcendent God who is one and the God revealed himself to Moses, Hebrew prophets and Abraham. They also live a life that is in accordance to rabbinic traditions and scriptures (Day, 2000). The differences and similarities are as follows:
Differences
The practice of the Christian is that they pray, worship as well offer sacraments in the church. They read the holy bible for spiritual guidance and they take the Holy Communion as blood and body of Jesus Christ where they use bread and wine. On the other hand, the Jews of the Orthodox recite prayers three times in day and there is a fourth prayer on holidays and Shabbat. In the morning there is Shacarit, afternoon they recite the Mincha and finally the Arvit in the night. During the holidays and Shabbat service there is Musaf prayers. Geographical location, the Christians are all over the world in all the six continents of the world (Day, 2000). They are there in North, South and Central America as well as Australia and New Zealand as well. The Judaism is located in predominantly in Europe, Israel and North America. The religion varies over time due to the persecution that led to massive migration. The founder of the Christianity is believed to be Jesus Christ while the Judaism was founded by Abraham and Moses. The composition of the clergy is the Christian faith is composed of monks, nuns, priests, Deacons and bishops and in the modern times there are the church elders. In Judaism, traditionally there was no clergy. The functionaries who thereby assist in the running of church are the Cantors, Rabbis, Mohels and Scribes. Otherwise, any person who is a believer of the faith can lead the prayers or perform the services as well. The Christians are doing believe in the Trinity. There is God who is the father, Son who is the Jesus and the spirit who is filled in the Christian so as to assist them. All three persons are in Godhead. On the other hand, Judaism believe in only one living God and the faith is enhanced by the traditional teachings and rabbis and profits assist too. The Holy Bible has the scriptures which are available into two parts that is, the new and the old and they follow the scriptures for the religious teachings. The Judaism has the Jewish Bible known as Tanakh and there is Torah. Some of the Christians use statutes for instance the orthodox and Catholics. Most of the Protestants denominations however do not. In Judaism, they do not use the statutes as they perceive that as idolatry (Virkler, 2007).
Similarities
The two religious have the same basic belief of the existence of one supreme God. T...