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Religious Jews do not like Christians. One pastor said they were pounding on his church doors, wanting to know if there were any Jews in there they were trying to convert. It’s not uncommon for them to protest churches. I stand behind them because one day they will bow down to Jesus.

Religious Jews do not like Christians. One pastor said they were pounding on his church doors, wanting to know if there were any Jews in there they were trying to convert. It’s not uncommon for them to protest churches. I stand behind them because one day they will bow down to Jesus.

You bring up an excellent point: Jews don't proselytize, at least not like evangelicals or mormons. They don't now and they didn't 1,000 or 2,000+ years ago. Jesus and his 12 Disciples also didn't proselytize. They ministered to those in Judaea and Jews/Romans/Samaritans/etc searched out Jesus and his disciples. A tenet that Jesus espoused, the road is hard but the reward is greater....... those who wish to learn had to come to Jesus.

The Jews have been beaten down and genocided for millennia, why wouldn't they be apprehensive and territorial to Paulinist christians proselytizing and (probably in their view) further eroding their culture, heritage, and religion? The only time anyone was "authorized" to proselytize on behalf of Jesus' teachings was after he died and the Jesus Community was becoming fractured, the disciples got sick and tired of Paul and told him to go do whatever he wanted but leave them alone.

So I don't begrudge any Jew getting mad that Paulinist christians would be trying to erase someone's judaism (who is an ethnic or religious jew).

Jesus was a Zionist Jew. He believed the end of things was near during his time and his whole mission was Israel-centric and Jew-centric, he believed that Jerusalem and Israel would be the capital of heaven on earth.

It's why all Christianities and their clergy and followers, quote Paul 387,000 times over quoting Jesus. Paul's dialectical esoteric nonsense is easier to digest than Jesus' very specific Israel-centric and Jewish-centric message and mission.

Religious Jews do not like Christians. One pastor said they were pounding on his church doors, wanting to know if there were any Jews in there they were trying to convert. It’s not uncommon for them to protest churches. I stand behind them because one day they will bow down to Jesus.

That's some interesting inductive reasoning.