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Yes, a contemporary Jewish person can convert to contemporary Christianity. My point is that the so-called "parting of the ways" was much more messy than is generally thought. Daniel Boyarin describes it more as a religious apartheid than the generally accepted simple splitting.
You said, "Not only was Jesus Jewish but his followers were Jewish too. They never considered themselves non-Jewish."
In a racial sense naturally they still thought themselves as Jews, but in a spiritual sense I think there was a change, which Paul speaks of as there being no Jew or gentile in Christ....all being one.
And I realize the messiness of changing from one religion to another...the tendency to cling to things of the old...but I believe all the disciples and Apostles did make that change as well as taught it to others they witnessed to.
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