Very schematically, this is what happened to the notion of Messiah, during and after the 2^nd half of the 1^st century CE:

• The few (Jewish) followers of Jesus of Nazareth (Yeshua of Nasaret) proclaimed that Jesus was the Messiah => then their Christian heirs overdid it, and, by the end of the 4th century they ended up with "god-the-son", the "second person of the trinity" => now fewer and fewer Christians believe that Jesus was God, or son of God, or, literally the awaited Messiah.

• The overwhelming majority of the Jews refused to recognize Jesus of Nazareth (Yeshua of Nasaret) as the Messiah  => then after the destruction of the temple, for centuries and nearly two millennia they held on to the expectation of the Messiah (Moschiach) as a future event => now fewer and fewer Jews believe in the literal coming of the Messiah as some future event relative to a real individual human being.

Can you see them converge again precisely where they parted their ways: on the Messiah?

MdS

Mario, I don't think you understand Judaism well enough to realize the flaws in your hypothesis....  What Christians attach to MbD and what Jews expect are very different.

And actually, the 'difference' starts with Genesis......

BS"D

I believe that there will be NO peace between Judaism and Christianity based upon a notion of a messiah.  I believe there will be peace between ALL nations (peoples/tribes/political and religious entities) when all peoples CHOOSE to respect each other and the rest of Creation (the knowable universe.)  This concept of respect and peace is a universal among all peoples except for those whose reason for existence is domination, conquest and hatred of all things different.  Those peoples who choose the path of death and destruction have no share in the world to come that is the common future for all peoples who choose respect.

Christianity has this massive over-riding notion of "love" at its core.  But that is meaningless and a mockery without respect.   With respect it is something that is a powerful force for good IMHO.  Without respect it results in hate-crimes and genocide.

Judaism is merely one of the last of the ancient "religions."  As such it shares much in common with the religions of many peoples prior to the forceful entry of Christianity and Islam - both through the agency of violence - on the "conquered" portions of the Earth.  There is no peace there and no sense in looking for it.  Christianity and Islam must practice respect for other peoples and their differences in beliefs and lifestyles to even be in the same ballpark with the rest of the world IMHO.

Wohali - I don't need to check his profile to know he's a Christian.  We Jews aren't overly hyped up about who's a 'true' follower of YHVH or not.

He's our GOD:  we hope He's smart enough to figure out who His true followers are without our help! 

It's just one more of those things than makes me shrug and go 'goyische kopf' ('a Gentile state of mind', one could say):  we Jews just don't think of things that way.

  Not to suggest there's something 'wrong' with it for being different.  Do we hate strawberry ice cream for being different from peach ice cream?  I DON'T THINK SO!!!