Catholicism Vs Judaism Essay

Recently I have been doing research on the religion, Judaism. In researching, I began to wonder how Catholicism evolved from Judaism. I found out that Christians first branched off from Jews, then branched off even farther. Those who didn’t branch off the second time were then called Catholics. Eventually I wanted to know more things that related, or didn’t relate, the two religions. As many may know, both Judaism and Catholicism are monotheistic religions, believing in only one God. However, both religions do not believe in God the same way. As Catholics we believe in the holy trinity, which is God the father, son, and holy spirit. We also believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God and came to spread his word. According to some reasearch, “Jews vary about what they think about Jesus as a man,”(angelfire.com February 2016). They didn’t believe that one's sins could be …show more content…
In both the Jewish and Catholic religion, there is a heaven and hell. The Catholic Church teaches that if you live a good holy life, you will go to heaven and if you live your life completely opposite then you will go to hell. Along with these, though, is ”...an afterlife state hwich is between heaven and hell the Catholic Church calls ‘purgatory’,”(victorzammit.com February 2016). In purgatory one gets completely forgiven and purified so they can enter the gates to heaven, just as they were before they were born. Judaism has a similar approach on the afterlife. Although Jews focus their faith more on life at the moment than after they die, they believe that once you die it’s not the end of their existence. Many Jews believe that, “...the souls of the righteous dead go to a place similar to the Christian heaven…”(jewfaw.org February 2016), called the Olam Ha-Ba. Those who live unfaithfully, however, are “...simply destroyed at death, ceasing ot exist,”(jewfaq.org February 2016). THere is no such thing as a purgatory in the Jewish