Rusty, “L’chaim” (take a drink! thanks for the support)
You have a lot of “Why’s.” In response to yours or another post I lay the challenge to study the basis of Judaism before inferring what Jews should do/believe. (Another link: http://www.noahide.org/)
The stories about JC’s persecution from the sanhedrin, etc are in your books, not Jews’, so I can’t help you.
There is a lot of misinformed information from modern Jews, a lot of it emotionally vice factually-based. (your father in law’s inputs)
“I’ve never heard any of them say that their problem with Jesus as Messiah was because he was just “no big deal” in regard to the miracles. Usually they just denied that the New Testament had any historical validity and that whatever it said about Jesus doing miracles was just made-up. Then, in addition to that came the persecutions from “Christians”. “
Cool what we learn on these forums, ey? Yup, we reject for altogether different and fascinating reasons :) But not just “no big deal” rather (listen to the class I posted) a big deal that was foretold and rejected entirely 1300 years before he came along.
Phew....long day.
re: “Rusty, “L’chaim” (take a drink! thanks for the support)”
Thank you and I say, “L’chaim” to you as well, Phinneous.