[malakhi]

A question of fact should be raised. Were the Christians were barred from Synagogue less observant of the Law than the ordinary Jew? I thought that was the test of a Jew?

Well, Paul said that the Law was superfluous, and in fact that it could be detrimental to one's salvation to follow it, so many were probably not as observant as the non-Christian Jews.

There is also the small matter of believing that a man was God incarnate, which most Jews throughout history would find to be contrary to the Law.

[RobbyS]

Not all Christians had the same view of the Law as Paul. As for the divinity of Jesus, the doctrine of the incarnation was hardly something of which Jewish leaders would be aware. They would be alarmed by the contention that (1) Jesus was the messiah , (2) they had screwed up by having him put to death, and (3) he was still alive and was about to come again and bring their rule to an end.

[Elsie]

There is also the small matter of believing that a man was God incarnate, which most Jews throughout history would find to be contrary to the Law.

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True..... but enough of them believed it to REALLY get something started!!!

(But.. what was IN the 'Law' that precluded this?)