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Pat Boon, the North American singer and evangelist, said there are two kinds of Judaism, one Orthodox and the other Christian.
Yet such a decidedly Christian Zionist outlook is to say the least, wildly simplistic and profoundly ahistorical. As the astute Jewish writer, Joshua J. Adler, points out, "The differences between Christianity and Judaism are much more than merely believing in whether the messiah already appeared or is still expected, as some like to say."
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A good start, indeed, is to take a look at history. Christian tradition was never at one with Judaeic tradition. Christianity adopted Judaeic scripture, but also attributed a different interpretation to it and added new scripture to what eventually became the body of Christian tradition. If we read the gospels, we will se that Jesus was at odds with both the farisei and the high priests of the temple, and that the controversy around Jesus was not limited to the messianic question. It was also ethical, and moreover it was about what be the relationship between God and man in general.