Shai and everyone else,
Just a quick reminder here that JTF welcomes all good pro-Israel, Zionist people. Some of our earliest, and long term members are Christians like Lewinsky Stinks, Bullcat and CJD. There's a reason Chaim and Shlomo say that you don't have to be Jewish to join JTF on our videos.
To respond to the original post, the early Christians were Jews, but Christianity and Judaism separated a long time ago. So while there are similarities, these are now two different religions that have evolved differently over time. Naturally there will be different opinions on what some passages of the Bible/Tanach refer to. We need to just agree to disagree. And I personally don't care how non Jews on message boards interpret certain Bible passages. As long as they leave Jews alone, I'm fine.
Unfortunately, threads like this almost invariably lead to bickering, and end up getting locked. And no one here likes it when that happens, so consider this.
Most American Jews, who may as individuals be very bright, nice and accomplished, hard working, educated professionals, are as a group, dumb when it comes to issues concerning Jewish survival as a group. The vast majority voted for Obama twice. Many of them would consider JTF a right wing hate site. So I think there's a way for Jews to say, "I believe (fill in the blank)," rather than referring to someone else's religion as spiritual murder or convoluted.
