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You really think that All Arab chrstians are the descendants of the original Jewish chrstians? Without exception? Of course, you're also implying that Jews who still practice Judaism are illegitimate, but that's probably what you believe

Hopefully, I clarified it but I did read a report that outside of Arabs, Greeks and Italians have the most shared DNA with Hebrews/Jewish people. So it is clear to me that Jews and Hellenistic peoples intermarried as they became Christians.

Here is an interesting article that shows a Greek talk show host from Canada has Jewish DNA. That has to have come from Hellenized Jews and former Pagan Greeks intermarrying after the arrival of Christianity eliminated the religous barrier.

Most Jews spoke Greek and were culturally Hellenized (Like Paul/Saul) and what separated them from actual Greeks was religion. If both became Christian then no barriers existed between the two.

http://www.cbc.ca/strombo/alt-news/spencer-wells-on-georges-deep-ancestry.html

Spencer Wells: We also looked at the particular set of genetic markers you have in addition to defining you to being a member of this Haplogroup, we compared you to the entire data base, and roughly half the matches you had were Ashkenazi Jews. George: Really? Spencer Wells: So it's not definitive, but there's a chance that your dad's side of the family might have been Jewish. George: That's amazing!

And that's the problem. Jews who abandon the Torah and who marry non-Jews are no longer true kosher Jews. And by your definition, the "original Jewish chrstians" would have been as Greek or Syriac as they were "Jewish."

Most Jews spoke Greek and were culturally Hellenized (Like Paul/Saul) and what separated them from actual Greeks was religion. If both became Christian then no barriers existed between the two.

I realize my previous post didn't apply to your assertion, since you obviously meant not that chrstian villagers in Israel were mixed with Greeks but that Greeks shared Jewish DNA. My apologies for the confusion.

Regardless of how "Jewish" Greeks and other ethnic groups may be, there is a Halakhic definition for Jewishness that they don't meet. And even considering that you don't consider this definition valid, I have already pointed out the fate of the original chrstian Jews makes it highly unlikely that today's Arab chrstians are in any sense whatsoever Jewish. This argument seems to me to be an attempt to delegitimize the Jewishness of Orthodox Jews and put the original Jewish chrstians (whom you insist survive in the person of Arab chrstians) in their place.

Again, please read some history on the original Jewish chrstians. Even right wing Catholic Malachi Martin admitted that they were lost to history and did not exist in any communal form whatsoever.