It's one of those antisemitic things that a lot of people just accept as A Truth About Christianity, perhaps not even considering what it would mean about Judaism.

@BathysphereHat can you elaborate here? Jesus vs yahweh isn't exactly apples and apples but there's a marked difference between god alone forgives and the son of man has power to forgive. Likewise with ritual sacrifice, social mobility, love thine enemy etc. In law & teaching, there is a presence of what could loosely be termed 'grace' in new testament teachings, a principle of compassion that i find not exactly missing from the old law, but an unstated principle hidden behind jurisprudence.

@anilmc @BathysphereHat So I basically never post here, but it's like this: the separation of God into the Father and Son is a Christian conceit, as is the idea that the Father is a distant, unforgiving and uncaring god - the Jewish view of God is typically the "still small voice," & Jewish perspectives on the Torah emphasize God's forgiveness & love for humanity. Christians don't incorporate that bc they have Jesus so they need God to need to undergo character development in the NT.

@anilmc The entire Christian spiritual universe is at least somewhat built upon concepts of original sin and damnation that do not strictly exist in Jewish views of the Torah - from the Jewish POV a sacrifice like Jesus is wholly unnecessary.