It's really too bad that so many people think that the only reason a non-Jew could support Israel is the "rapture." But for some reason no one is willing even theoretically consider the possibility that Judaism is actually the true religion.
The Revelation at Sinai is the one and only self-verifying claim of Divine Revelation in human history. `Am Yisra'el claims that between two and a half and three million people actually directly heard the unmediated Voice of G-d. No go-betweens. No mediators. And notice that there is not another such claim in all human history. Not one. For those who can't think logically, that means that such an event could not have been faked or made up later and then retrojected into earlier history. The Revelation at Sinai could not possibly have not happened. But no, let's just holler about the "rapture."
Has no one but myself notice that the "Bible only" chrstians, being forced to reject all chrstian history as "baptized heathenism," have only the ancient Israelites to look back to as religious forebears? Don't you think that having no "co-religionists" to invoke other than practitioners of a different religion would affect one's worldview slightly? Hmmm?
There is no way to know to prove the truth of chrstianity. There are a zillion different versions who have all cut down and disproved each other ten million times over. But never mind that. Chrstianity "the American religion" (just ask Tom Paine!) or "the religion of The West," so it really doesn't matter whether it's true or not. It was the religion of our ancestors and everyone should subscribe to the religion of his ancestors . . . right? And the Bible Only people insist that they feel funny when they read the Bible (the "burning in the bosom," I believe the mormons call it), so that's all that matters.
We have fruitcakes on this site who claim to have discovered "Biblical truth" that has eluded the entire chrstian world for almost 2000 years. But never mind. The religion we just discovered, being "true chrstianity," is still the "one true religion," despite being in such a state of anarchy that (theoretically) it may never be "restored" completely.
Chrstians accept the "old testament" because J*sus endorsed it. Were it not for that they would have no interest in it whatsoever. The Jews were there when G-d spoke. They're the only people in history who believe in the Bible on the authority of G-d rather than vice-versa. Before Moses died he, with supernatural help, hand-wrote a Torah Scroll for each tribe. The ancient Israelites didn't have the luxury of waiting a thousand years to seek permission from someone who wasn't even born yet. They were there. They knew. The Revelation of Sinai is sufficient to authorize and prove the Torah directly and immediately without any permission from a religion that didn't exist for another thousand years.
Of course all this is for nothing. Chrstianity is "the American Religion." After the Protestant Reformation restored the long lost "one true religion" (despite still quarreling over the details) G-d "obviously" used such flaming holy serafim as Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Ethan Allen to create the first true chrstian "theocracy" in history.
And still no one will listen.
ZC - Christianity is a sect of 2nd temple Judaism dating from 30 AD when Jesus preached.
what we call Judaism today actually is Rabbinical Judaism, derived from the Pharisee sect of 2nd temple Judaism and dating to 70 AD.
So Christianity is actually 40 years OLDER than what we term Judaism today.
Cross-check my statements below with historical books and you can draw your own conclusions:
1. Judaism after the destruction of the 1st temple and before the death of Christ had multiple sects and beliefs:
1.1. Sadducees - the traditional who only kept the Torah and may have read but didn’t consider them God breathed
1.2. The Pharisees who arose later post exile and had the Oral Torah and Prophets in addition. The Oral Torah was written down encapsulated in the Talmud - completed around the 9th century AD
1.3. The essenes
1.4. The Jesus movement Jews
etc.
When the temple was destroyed, only the Jesus movement Jewish sect survived as that was the only one that predicted the temple would be destroyed.
The Pharisees reconfigured themselves in 70 AD as Rabbinical Judaism, what we now call simply “Judaism”