Judaism v. Christianity

the biggest difference between judaism and christianity is not the the who is jesus obviously it's a difference but that's not the biggest difference the biggest difference i think is with regard to attaining salvation if that if that means the afterlife heaven whatever term you wish to use for for christians although catholics and protestants don't fully agree on this matter because catholics do not believe faith alone can save you whereas protestantism does luther said that catholics believe that the sacraments are also uh necessary so there's faith and works in catholicism and there's faith alone since luther who founded protestantism for judaism it is works you which i'll use the term that really blows my christian friend's mind you earn salvation period end of issue how you act determines whether you go to heaven or yes jews do believe excuse me jews don't judaism does jews in judaism differ a lot the the one of the 13 principles of the jewish faith as compiled by maimonides the greatest jewish thinker who ever lived according to nearly all jews one of them one of the 13 principles is that god rewards the good and punishes the bad and the exact same fate is for good jews and good non-jews and bad jews and bad non-jews judaism holds that god judges people by their behavior not by their theology their beliefs their faith so when i had this discussion with a with four christians just this past week long dinner one of them was a pastor and i when i mentioned that we have to strive to be good and that god rewards the good and punishes the bad so he said well what is the definition of good so i asked the pastor what do you mean by what is good you know what good is everybody knows what good is did you if somebody said someone's a good lawyer or a good pitcher or a good violinist would you ask what does good mean no you would know exactly what it means same with a human being now is it good enough i think that's what he meant to attain salvation to use a christian term or go to heaven get rewarded in the afterlife that's for god to determine i don't claim that i know what is good enough that's god's determination that's true so then for the christian the question would arise well then you're you don't have any assurance that you'll go to heaven to which i would say that's true i don't have an assurance i think if god judges justly i think i have lived a life that has merited reward but ultimately that is for god to judge that's true so there's a jewish christian difference i always speak of judeo-christian values because our values are so similar but our theologies are different which doesn't bother me in the least by the way that's fine i have a lot to learn from christians and i hope they have a lot to learn from me you