The Relationship Between Judaism and Christianity

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Right, the question as to whether Jesus is the Messiah isn't really of any interest to me. And yes, I knew that Jews that take on the belief that Jesus is the Messiah become apostates: what I was really getting at was whether this was applied retroactively--In other words, are the Apostles--and Jesus--apostates or is that an anachronism?

Let me try and delineate what I'm talking about a bit more:

The history of the development of Christianity--told from the Christian perspective--is that Jesus' teachings were just one school of many different opinions in Judaism and didn't constitute a hard break from Judaism and his followers were initially Jews. It wasn't until some time later that Paul began a ministry among the Gentiles and followers became, more and more, Gentiles. So the question is whether those initial followers of Jesus would have been considered apostates or not--bearing in mind that they were still observing the Torah and Kashrut.

Ah, that is a much clearer question!

I would say around the time of when Jesus was supposed to have lived, there were a few different sects of Judaism. So some might have thought of them as apostates while others may not have.

Dare I say some of the sects may have even considered other sects as apostates!