This is why Jews are Jews and not Christians, among many other reasons, but I don't think I ever really learned the historical reasoning for the rejection at the time of his death. Whether you believe Jesus is the son of God, he was a real person.
I just don't understand how and why exactly they didn't believe he was the son of God, and how they managed to survive for so long not believing it.
Clearly they didn't, and don't, agree.
Yes. Moses and the covenant. The Jews were selected by god for a reason (this is their belief, not mine). Now Jesus says, if you follow me, there is no covenant. All men are equally the children of God.
If you are a well off Jew, why would you give up your honored position to become one of everyone else? Clearly some did, but many did not.
Across the world when looking at religious conversion, the groups most likely to convert are the poor, those without social standing, those without power.
Poor Christians in Egypt and the Middle East were universally the most likely to convert. For centuries in Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, Christians actually formed a wealthy minority. The poor Christians who couldn't pay the jizya (Islamic tax on non-Muslims) could just convert and no longer pay the tax.
Conversion and religion is NOT solely a spiritual decision.
Truth isn’t a matter of agreement.
The thing that Christ’s coming fulfilled, and which the entire Old Testament says would only last until Christ’s coming? The thing they reject, you mean?
So you don’t roast forever in hell, having abandoned God? Because your allegiance is to faith and not flesh? Because you are more about the things that are objective than the things that are subjective?
And we see what happened to them when they made the objectively wrong decision.
Now you're just arguing in bad faith. You asked for the "historical reasoning" and I, and other posters, have given you several historical explanations and examples. If you want to have a conversation about Christian and Jewish theology, prophetic fulfillment, theodicy, polemics, etc., there have been millions of words written on those topics over the last 2000 years. Read some books.
I'll give you that one--fear of punishment is part of the decision to convert, or not to convert, for some people.
I don’t care.
Where gentiles reject from ignorance, what we call the jews today rejected from knowledge. Their behavior is singularly bad and uniquely subversive.
How singularly bad are Jews compared to Muslims or Mormons? Polytheist Hindus?