[Bommer]

So your saying that Jesus only purpose was to found a whole new religion instead of fulfilling Gods promise to the Jews of a Messiah? It wasn't Jesus that changed. He was born a Jew and died a Jew. It was his people that reject him, not what was promised to them. God fulfilled his end of the bargain!

[shhrubbery!]

It wasn't Jesus that changed. He was born a Jew and died a Jew. It was his people that reject him, not what was promised to them.

But who rejected whom, first?

Of course most early Christians, including most of the apostles, were Jews. Early Christians were viewed by their contemporaries as just another Jewish sect -- of which there were many.

We know that many of the Jewish sects hated each other. (E.g., the Zealots assassinated other Jews who didn't agree with them.)

But as far as I know, there was no particular hatred between Christians and Jews for about 300 years.

Then in the late fourth century a nasty split developed between Jews and Christians after John Chrysostomos, a bishop from Antioch, decried the "Judaizers" (apparently those who celebrated both Christian and Jewish holidays).

Everything I wrote above is based on the television program, "Kindom of David," which was shown on "public" television a couple of nights ago.

And no, I don't take as gospel anything I hear on public TV. So anyone who knows better, please correct the above.