The Relationship Between Judaism and Christianity

[nili]

But I just realized that I may be getting us off track, and I'm sorry. This is a Jewish space and I wanna respect that.

I'm impressed, Jude, that you weren't offended when I brought up the question as to whether or not Jesus actually existed.  It may be true (as Nili pointed out) that this is a fringe theory, but it's something that has been discussed on this forum with some interest.  I just want to quickly add that we've also discussed whether certain historic Jewish events as recorded in the Bible actually happened.

Just to make clear my own provisional view ...

• The works of Paul, Luke, and Josephus are sufficient support for positing an historical Jesus.
  
• That inference in no way means that Christian scripture is historically accurate and without layers of redaction and embellishment.