Jew or Christian
From a Jewish viewpoint, I don’t think that Conrad Black is correct when he says that a person can be a Jew and a Christian at the same time. A Christian believes that Jesus was physically as well as spiritually the son of God. This is impossible for a Jew to do. For a Jew, Jesus or Christ could be an extremely spiritual person, or a prophet, or the son of God, the way all of us are the children of God, or currently be a ghost or an angel, but not literally the son of God. Jesus therefore would have been Jewish if he did not believe he was the son of God, but Christian if he believed he was the son of God. Specific differences between the two religions in culture, moral values and rituals are insignificant. They say that when the Messiah comes, we will either be all Jews or all Christians depending on whether his opening remarks are “It’s good to see you” or “It’s good to see you again.”. Until that final time, we should tolerate each other’s guesses.
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