It's the blood sacrifice of God in human form. This is not hard to understand why it would be so meaningful or powerful.
What, dying just as countless others did? And exactly what makes it necessary in the first place? In fact, why should I even accept that Adam and Eve's sins passed on to me, or would have passed on to me had it not been for Christ's crucifixion? Why is it right that I should inherit someone else's sins instead of only accounting for my own? What kind of just god would work like that?
Look, I get what Original Sin is for, it's a device to explain why we're this fucked up, but as a rationalization of our nature it really isn't very coherent.
Remaining within an Abrahamic context, Muslims or even the Pelagian Christians in late antiquity don't believe in any of this.
There's quotes in the Old Testament prophesying the coming of a new covenant and some others at least alluding to it. I'm not going to spoon feed you, but I'm sure you'll bicker over what those refer to. But irregardless, they are there.
Yeah you're definitely going to spoonfeed me, just as I did with you. Evidence.
Jesus definitely preached to non-Jews. This isn't disputed by anyone and he certainly adjusted to the fact the Jewish leaders rejected to him. Jesus was preforming an exercise to test that Canaanite's woman's faith. He was impressed by her faith and ended up healing her. You're missing the full context and it actually supports the complete opposite of your conclusions.
Jewish leaders rejected Jesus because he called on their hypocrisy, not for preaching to gentiles which he never really did. As a matter of fact, there were countless converts to Judaism and gentiles sympathizing with it, God-fearers as they were called who followed the Seven Laws of Noah. 10% of the early Roman Empire was Jewish, many were converts, you can't chalk this up as an opposition to proselytism among gentiles.
Yeah, you can call Jesus ignoring the Canaanite woman a test of faith if you want, but why is she called a dog eating crumbs? From these words one should get what (who, actually) his priorities were: THE LOST SHEEP OF ISRAEL. Meaning Jewish people, not necessarily its leaders.
Jesus literally talks about making a new covenant during the Last Supper. The actions of the Jewish religious leaders precipitated this. This is, again, not hard to understand. Again read the Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen.
The existence of a new covenant (which, again, has no foundation in the Old Testament, unless you bring some relevant verses) doesn't undo the existence of the old one with the Hebrews, dual covenant theology is a thing. I brought you the evidence, too, Romans 1 (composed in a period in which gentiles were already being proselytized) affirms that the covenant with Israel stands.
And I'm also demonstrating you why the covenant with you is essentially of lesser quality than the one with Israel; because you're dogs eating crumbs.
Jesus's intent is crystal clear that he is the the path to salvation. "I am the door. If anyone enters by me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture." This is fundamental to the religion and not up for debate.
Putting too many things "not up for debate" here, this isn't how... debate, works. Who's 'anyone'?
In Acts, rules regarding gentiles were literally hashed out by Jesus's own brother, Peter and Paul. James the Just was the leader of the Jewish-Christian camp and he sided with Peter and Paul on gentiles. Calling this an afterthought is stupid, considering the fact Jesus personally gave authority to Peter and the other apostles. The holy spirit worked through them in performing miracles, etc. This is not something that was just randomly decided hundreds of years later.
Not centuries, decades, judging by the composition of Acts (late 1st century, maybe three to four decades after Christ's death) but my point stands. You guys were shoehorned inside as an afterthought, basically.
I initially wanted to take you seriously, but yet again, it appears you are driven by irrational juice hatred. Can't wait until this retarded meme ideology burns itself out for good, it's been repeatedly ramming itself into a brick wall for years in total obscurity. Hoping November will help move that process along. You literally can't have a conversation on imageboard-adjacent internet without someone spazzing out about the JUICEEEEEE.
No problem with Jews, my problem with Christianity isn't with Jesus being a Jewish savior or Christianity having a Jewish origin, it's its inconsistency with its own source material, the fact that I have in reality no place in it that doesn't involve myself personally demeaning myself, other than personal disagreement with basic doctrines like monotheism, original sin, covenant on an undebatably ethnic basis and so on.
I can even respect the religion, I do, there is substance to it and not everything revolves around the Jewish aspect of it, there's centuries, millennia of Christian philosophy worth reading about that can't be ignored just because "HAHAHAHAHA JEW CARPENTER", people who really tried to figure out what we're doing here, but I really disagree with it on so many levels and I find it to be based on lies and emotional manipulation. Not because it's Jewish, I can respect Islam that's actually a million times more Jewish, but because it's inconsistent.
I don't have a problem with Christianity's origins, I don't reject it because it's foreign because if it is I'd have to ignore the Indian shit I'm studying that's in fact even more distant geographically and possibly culturally, but I can tell you that my problem with Christianity isn't some blind racialism. I just find it doctrinally wrong, provably so I would say. Where the truth comes from, or you know just a vision of the world I find agreeable anyway since it's hard to 100% prove or disprove any of this, it's why you need faith to believe, isn't my issue.