>>21349529>how do you explain the fact that jews believed in jesus before paul?Nobody knows who came up with the midrashic moshiach idea first, but that isn't really that relevant. Someone did, and a small cult of jewish nerds formed around "finding the moshiach in the scriptures". The mainline jewish leadership thought that this might become dangerous to their authority, and persecuted them. It started out as an intra-jewish dispute essentially, but Saul - a very jewish kind of genius - excised this perceived cancer from his own people by feeding it to his enemies.
That's also why there are a lot of contradictory passages in the NT. It is written over different decades by different authors with different agendas. Once you break each book of the NT down by author, it starts to make more sense.
>He was sent only for a small portion of jews and was mainly rejected by themI don't discount that there could have been a jewish reformist teacher whose life was merged in part with that of the jesus character, but in that case the historical person is largely irrelevant in the scope of the NT. It is not like Mohammad or Alexander, whose non-religious/supernatural achievements are obvious.
It's kind of like saying that superman is based off of the author's neighbor, but since the neighbor is just a regular guy, how much is he really superman? At some point, the connection becomes so marginal as to be irrelevant.
I don't remember the exact details of Isa in your scriptures, but my general position is that both you and the christians are being manipulated by jews. The very existence of Rayhana bint Zayd and Safiya bint Huyayy is extremely suspect, for example. As is islam's decision to identify as biblical Ismael, while the jews identify christianity/Europe as Esau (and Edom), and then playing us against each other according to the prophecies (I use the term without believing in them, obviously), which just so cohencidentally all require a jewish victory.