[Illbay]

So you're saying that Jews today believe that Jesus is the Messiah?

That is certainly news to me.

[TopQuark]

NO, sorry if I was not clear.

Until a few decades ago --- that is, for almost 1700 years -- the Catholic church held the Jews as a people responsible for the death of Christ. It was not uncommon --- and many pogroms started this way -- for a Christian upon recognizing a stranger to be a Jew to say to him, "You killed Christ." In Central and Eastern Europe, for centuries, Jewish mothers would not let children out during Easter: those reterning from Church where the death of Christ is reenacted during that holiday would often beat any Jew on the way --- because that Jew killed Christ.

This is where "the same 3% that rejected Christ" comes from. So I merely restated what the current Pope finally stated as well: those people are dead.

If one wants to concentrate on the presently living people, then those not believing that Christ was a messiah are now a majority in the Western world, so why continue to concentrate on 3% (Jews, who do not indeed accept that Jesus was the messiah).

Sorry my post was confusing.

[sauropod]

I'm saying they should. "

See: New Testament.

[sheik yerbouty]

Well, one wrter once said that if The Messiah were to come today, the Jews would say that this was his first coming, and Christians would say that this must be the second coming. The Messiah would then reply to both, and say... "I can't remember."