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"Those who knew Christ or saw what He did and were convinced were no longer Jews, because they were deemed unclean by the ruling class, and were 'excommunicated' or the jewish version of that There isn't one..
The rest, including it appears most of his brothers and sisters and those that knew him in his village as a carpenter, remained Jewish.
Those who remain were those who were not convinced[/] ot had alot to loose by converting to Christianity or They did not know Christ, and choose to worship the religion of their fathers rather than what was being done and taught in the first century church. [i]One wonders what they had vested that was more important than life everlasting, a personal relationship with God and getting all your sins paid for. Jesus can't have been that good of a salesman if they put their existing lives above all that. Also know that the many of the Jews in that Area were killed by the Romans in or around 70 AD when they looted and destroyed the temple. Meaning few if any who saw what Christ did, and denyed Him lived beyond that point.
Then again - in those days life expectancy wasn't much higher than 30 years anyway.
Its also worth bearing in mind that many of the period references to the followers of Christ still referred to them as Jews 100 years or more later.
"Those who knew Christ or saw what He did and were convinced were no longer Jews, because they were deemed unclean by the ruling class, and were 'excommunicated' or the jewish version of that There isn't one..
The rest, including it appears most of his brothers and sisters and those that knew him in his village as a carpenter, remained Jewish.
Those who remain were those who were not convinced[/] ot had alot to loose by converting to Christianity or They did not know Christ, and choose to worship the religion of their fathers rather than what was being done and taught in the first century church. [i]One wonders what they had vested that was more important than life everlasting, a personal relationship with God and getting all your sins paid for. Jesus can't have been that good of a salesman if they put their existing lives above all that. Also know that the many of the Jews in that Area were killed by the Romans in or around 70 AD when they looted and destroyed the temple. Meaning few if any who saw what Christ did, and denyed Him lived beyond that point.
Then again - in those days life expectancy wasn't much higher than 30 years anyway.
Its also worth bearing in mind that many of the period references to the followers of Christ still referred to them as Jews 100 years or more later.
