Christianity emphasizes that faith/belief in God/Jesus will bring salvation/redemption. The Christian faith (in my personal experience) very much emphasized starting from a place of faith and acceptance/belief first and foremost. The starting point is accepting or announcing you belief in Jesus and Jesus’ miraculous salvation/redemption of humanity and then working from there.
The logic of xtianity follows in similar ways - for example, the claim that the trinity is not three, but one singular entity, a statement which is difficult to make without running into heretical claims like modalism.
For example the working definition of the Trinity (via Catholicism):
“it is the Father who generates, the Son who is begotten, and the Holy Spirit who proceeds”);[9] and in their relations with one another, they are stated to be one in all else, co-equal, co-eternal and consubstantial, and each is God, whole and entire.
this asks people to believe that three is one, whole and entire, but also one is three, without division, by divine mystery.
In other words, xtianity generally asks people to accept the conclusion on faith with the promise of salvation or redemption. (It also uses tautologies or ime, sometimes falls into the fallacy of “Begging the question” - like since Original Sin didn’t exist prior to Christianity, then should we not assume that Christianity created such a concept in order to convince people of the necessity of salvation from Original sin?)
xtianity is an orthodoxy, which is about correct belief or faith.
By contrast, Judaism does not start with a singular conclusion to the religion that must be accepted on faith. Judaism is an orthopraxy, which is about correct behavior/ethical conduct first and foremost.
Judaism does not start from faith on something, it starts on questioning what we are asked to do, why we are here, what is coming, what is meant, if God exists (or doesn’t) and so on.
We’re told to do something, and then we are expected to examine and question why, & for what purpose, and to use questioning to find personal/communal meaning.
Or to put it another way yet again,
xtianity begins with “Because Jesus died for humanity’s sins, we should do this and believe in him…”
and Judaism is more like “Why do we do this and what does it mean (why does it mean that? Why do we not do something else? Why…?)”
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