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Originally Posted by Kyuusai
Well, strictly historically speaking, Christians were a bunch of Jews that believed they had found the Messiah and afterward began inviting non-Jews to join them.  Then a bunch of non-Jews hijacked it and played mix-and-match with their religious beliefs. |
Well, I wouldn't call it a "hi-jack", per se, but rather that some people saw Jesus as the true Messiah and others didn't since good percentage of those following Judaism thought that the Messiah would be a command and lead them to victory of the battlefield, and when they saw that the proclaimed Son of God was a pacifist, they were skeptical and didn't believe that He was the Son of the Great Creator, and there were those that did follow Jesus' teachings even though some of his teachings differed from what the Torah said. After the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ, tension grew between the two groups because they had differed practices and moral beliefs, and the Christians didn't want to follow Jewish laws since some of the traditions (ie. circumcision) didn't apply to them, but since the lived in the area, they were forced to follow Jewish traditions and laws, hence why the mixing and matching of laws and rules in the beginning.
Due to said-conflict, Paul leaves Antioch and goes on a journey to Jerusalem and meets with the elders about the issue circumcision of Gentile Christians and whether or not Christians should follow Mosaic Law. An agreement was eventually reached, but it didn't stop the conflict in the area. It was one of the first major steps separating Christianity from Judaism, which is a little more complicated than some guys thinking that Jesus was the Messiah and others that didn't.