Judaism vs Islam vs Christianity | David Wolpe and Lex Fridman

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David Wolpe is a Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles.

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[Khalid]

@1:28 Islam doesn't believe that human beings are a image of God, rather it discourages that way of thinking.

[kay]

Idk about this, Judaism and Islam are more similar because they are strictly monotheistic + both dictate a code of how the believers live. while Christianity is not monotheistic nor does it dictate how they should live.

[DORC]

Hope you get an actual Muslim to talk about Islam Lex. Omar Sulaimon, Muhammad Hijab, etc. !

[jacobburlaga]

The Trinity is the fundamental difference

[makhalid]

Hope to see someone like Omar Suleiman, or maybe Reza Aslan on the podcast

[tombarry]

You will never look into the eyes of another human being that is not loved by God.

[htownali]

You should get a muslim to speak on islam.

[wingoreviewsboxingandmma]

He lost me because of what he said in the beginning about Christianity not having law. Jesus said "I did not come to abolish the law but instead I came to fulfill the law"
But i do understand because the way Christianity is taught now is as this man describes it.

[toottoot]

Great segment, but I wish he went more in depth with the origin, development, and current beliefs of each group

[StevanSRB]

Mumbling to the wall vs mumbling to the floor vs mumbling to the ceiling.

[abcd]

1:29 "every human being is the image of god" that statement is utterly incorrect and against the Islamic teaching.

[ialmethen]

this is a great podcast, now for me as a muslim we do feel closer by religious laws to the jews (halal, kosher) basicly the same with a few diffrences and arabs and hebrews are cousins if we looked at their family tree, also as a muslim we believe that all these 3 major religions came from the same source which is god so there is many similarities by stories and practices .

[Jack-gpnx]

Lex you should have on Bishop Robert Barron, he’s a great speaker and extremely knowledgeable

[CSmoothh]

0:46 Moses was raised in Egypt and Egypt had laws. They were called the "42 laws of Maat"

[nigelnaicker]

Why won't Joe or Lex get Dr Bart Ehrman on their podcast.

[redmed]

Moses may not have had a caesar but did have a pharaoh.

[svenboelling]

I see it differently with the laws, the difference between Christianity and Judaism/Islam is not because of where and when they came into being, but because of the idea of God.
The idea of divine wisdom, the way of ruling, the idea of strength is different and therefore automatically results in a completely different value system, different laws.
A psychopath once brought me to the problem when he said that Christianity was even less interesting to him than Judaism because there were even fewer rules there.
The difference can also be seen in the Old and New Testaments.
If you imagine that the nature of God can only be fathomed out from your own worldview, then it should be clear that people who have been raised to be slaves for centuries see a completely different God than those who live as free people.
The interpretations of what is happening in the world are then automatically different too.
As an example you could take something like the story of the Flood, with one idea it must be the case that those who did not survive were punished, it must be the case that God wanted these people dead. Only Noah was warned because he had kept some rules and was therefore worth more.
But with the character of the New Testament such a thing would be interpreted differently.
It would then be that God warned all people, but only Noah was able to heed the warning.
Or to sum up the difference a little more, the old testament is a substitute pharaoh, a despot without any empathy.
Just the kind of idea of ​​domination burned into the soul after centuries of slavery.
Christianity is liberation from the chains within, or perhaps better said it is like a bird that has been caged too long and does not want to go back to freedom.
The way out automatically scourges and crucifies your soul, your ego and without that it doesn't work.
There lies the problem, the pain can be terrible if you want to free yourself or if you are forced into freedom or truth by external circumstances.
Back to the rules.
If one accepts that the sins in the world are an effect of which one is the cause with one's ego, then it doesn't need many rules and laws.
What a sick ego leads to can also be seen when dealing with the 10 commandments, "Thou shalt not..."
And behind it is usually a comma and a cheap excuse, but rarely a good reason to stick to it.
"Thou shalt not lie, unless otherwise you will not win the next election, or otherwise cannot start a war" and all this shit behaivior.
Thousands of excuses, but no good reason to stick to them.
All the sins in the world, everything that others do, is carried into the world by one's own behavior and nobody who lies every day needs to complain that we live in a world of lies.
Anyway, the problem that I see with religions is that the majority of us bring an idea of ​​domination into the world that enslaves, abuses and, in the worst case, we legitimize mass murder ourselves.
I had seen the sad climax in this case when I read that after the Holocaust some ultra-Orthodox Jews came to the conclusion that it must have been a punishment from God for too many Jews getting involved with non-Jews and them too much had lost faith.
Sorry, but that only works if your idea of ​​God fits that of a slave who wants to serve a pharaoh who pronounces the death penalty for the slightest violation of the rules.
And back to the scourging and crucifixion, a soul who breaks free from these chains suffers and can only be resurrected if first destroyed completely.
I think that happened back then in Rome.
Whereby Rome was exactly this kind of rule that had to be overcome.
Slaves everywhere, murder, violence and no empathy, but lots of rules.
So the question is, who actually felt comfortable there back then?
Who or what delivered Jesus to the cross and destroyed his soul, his ego?
I think part of it was the realization that most people preferred that kind of domination.
Just like 2000 years later, not much has changed there.
There is still enslavement, leaders without empathy, the notion of strength is still something that should be defined as weakness.
Or should I be wrong when I say that we often believe something to be a strength, but then, on closer examination, find out that it is actually a weakness?
However, the difference between Judaism, Islam and Christianity is not the rules, it is the basis from which the need for rules arises.
And the belief that following the rules makes you a more valuable person.
Which becomes a problem when one makes oneself a slave who wants to please a master, without rules there is no way of assessing one's worth.
Anyway, I've lost the thread and can't get any further, life is complicated and the saying comes to mind, in the beginning there was the word.
You can only really work with knowledge when you have it literally in your head, everything else is like feeling your way blindly.
So we have to talk more, formulate and all that, more words, less guns.

[yurimarkov]

Isalm doesn't say that we are made in the image of God, exalted He is. God is beyond our comprehension and understanding 🙏

[filsdejeannoir]

0:00 "Judaism vs Islam vs Christianity" - No such thing in truth. There are NO contradictions between the three. They are fully complimentary to each other. 1:18 Al Sharia; God's IMMUTABLE Divine Law, is 'the law' of all three religions.

[dhirst]

Would love to see a Christian Apologist on the Podcast