SONOFMAN2000 Rabbi Wolpe ask some question concerning verses he taken out of context, he quotes Jesus words concernng abbout His first coming that He came not to bbrinbg peace bbut a sword and whoever doesn't hate his family cannot be His disciple, he doesn't understand Jesus was referring to the fact that the many Jews who would accept Him would be disown by their family, the classical example is today, if a Jew accepts Jesus as their Messiah, their parents and family will disown Him, A Jew would not be rejected by family if he becomes an Atheist or even practise voo doo! What about the fact that the whole nation Jews who supposely knew Him best rejected Jesus? The answer to that is, the same whole nation of Israel who reject G-d during the reign of King Ahab and Queen Jezabel to worship baal save for Elijah and 7,000 faithful who didn't bend the knee to baal. The same whole nation who after witnessing G-d's miracle in Egypt made a golden calf.

jdvlong We must believe with the faith of a child. Jesus died for our sins. God knows that we are imperfect, unable to live without sinning. Salvation is through our belief that Jesus is our Savior. That doesn't mean we can go out and sin and because we believe it doesn't count. We will be tempted and He knows sometimes we will give in. If we have pain maybe it's to show us how much we need Him. It's easy to believe without adversity. God also wants us to turn to Him in times of need. That is when we must have the most faith. We are not to love the things of this world, but look forward to the days when Jesus returns and all earthly things fall away. Each of us is given our own set of challenges. We will survive if our faith is strong. In the meantime, we should be witnesses for Jesus, showing others the way to salvation through faith. Faith is not questioned. People get hung up too much on labels - Jew, Christian, Muslim. It's not about rituals and laws. It's about faith. Simple faith.

nosson Because of size I must part my comments in two.

The article by Rabbi wolpe is very very good. I would like here to make a few points.

That priest really should have answered you that the three of the trinity are not perfect, then it would be similar to the ten sephirot of God according to Kabbalah which represent God in accordance to our limitations but do not represent God himself.

LisaFulco Why is it always a Rabbi who makes this comparison. I would like to see a Priest explain the difference. This essay is clearly bias.

astro5 <-good article.
Todays modern Christian is free of ceremony and actions and time in devotion. I see that Christianity bares no true conviction in ritual. If people were made to follow both Judaism, and Christianity to a tee there would be a large drop out rate.
I admired my jewish friends for their devotion and ritual, as with my Amish friends. Christians are the jellyfish of all religions...it is unfortunate.
I myself am an observer, I am not religious-it is not for me at all. I love science too much, there is too much to learn about evolution, and space for religion to hold me back.