No argument there. However I find the Jewish point of view much more credible and logical than Christian. After all, Christianity is an amalgam of Judaism and Hellenism/Platonism (with a tinge of Zoroastrian spice) and that's a pretty immiscible combination.
“After all, Christianity is an amalgam of Judaism and Hellenism/Platonism (with a tinge of Zoroastrian spice) and that’s a pretty immiscible combination.”
I’d have to disagree with that statement. Christianity isn’t an amalgam of anything. Paul used arguments designed to appeal to Gentiles, who wouldn’t have understood arguments based on Jewish Scriptures, but the ideas he taught didn’t come from the Greeks, he merely put the ideas in language they could relate to.
As for the Zoroastrian angle, this is a pretty recent ploy by secularists to try to invalidate Christianity, but there’s really no evidence to support it. Zorastrianism itself is a religion that borrowed concepts freely from other religions, so any superficial similarities to Christianity could have been transferred in the opposite direction. However, even granting that the similarities existed prior to Christianity, doesn’t prove a common origin, anymore than some superficial similarities between Judaism and some Egyptian or Babylonian religous ideas means Judaism is an amalgam of those religions.