A VIEW OF THE HISTORY OF THE
                     SPLIT BETWEEN MUCH OF CHRISTIANITY
                            AND ITS HEBRAIC ROOTS


         In short, because Christianity distanced itself from it's
Jewish roots and became successful in bringing the non-Jew to Messiah 
who was steeped in paganism. Rather than changing and worshipping 
according to the Jewishness of the faith, they thought it better to 
Christianize pagan practices.

        The history briefly went this way.

         Yeshua/Jesus, the disciples and the 3,000 saved in the book 
of Acts 2 were Jewish. Faith in Yeshua/Jesus as Messiah was a JEWISH 
faith.  In the first century, many Jews believed that Gentiles would 
embrace the Jewish belief system when Messiah came. This was long 
taught in Judaism. As we see in Acts 15, when the non-Jew began to 
accept Messiah the issue became HOW to incorporate a non-Jewish 
believer in a Jewish Messiah into a Torah observant faith whose 
customs go back thousands of years. Most of Judaism believed that the 
non-Jew would have to "convert" to Judaism and follow the Torah in 
order to become a member of the family of God.

        The book of Acts regards how God through His Holy Spirit and 
the events that happened in the days of the early church blew this 
belief out of the water. 

        We have the story in Acts 10 where Cornelious (a non-Jew) was 
instructed by God to go to Peter's house. Being a Torah observant 
Jew, Peter held to the belief that letting a non-Jew into his house 
would make him ritually unclean. So, as Cornelious was obedient to 
God and went to visit Peter, God gave Peter a dream about "clean and 
unclean animals" which Peter later understood to mean that what God 
had called clean (the non-Jew) Peter was not to call unclean. This 
story has NOTHING to do with the dietary laws. 

        During the early days of the church, the Jew and the non-Jew 
worshipped together in the synagogue. The Book of Acts regards that 
there were MANY disputes in the synagogue because some Jews accepted 
Yeshua/Jesus as Messiah and others did not.  If was inevitable that 
a split would happen and it did.
  
       This began to come to a climax when their was a Jewish revolt 
against Rome in 66 A.D. (C.E.) which lasted unto 70 A.D. (C.E ... 
Common Era) when the Romans put down the Jewish revolt.  Those who 
instigated the Jewish revolt rejected that Yeshua/Jesus was Messiah 
and attempted to overthrow Rome with Messianic expectations. This 
created a problem with the Jews who DID believe that Yeshua/Jesus was 
Messiah. They refused to fight against Rome because they believed 
that Yeshua/Jesus was Messiah. This created division among the Jews 
who believed in Messiah and those who didn't.

        In around 92 A.D. (C.E), there was a line added to the daily 
synagogue prayers which said, "May God curse the heritics" referring to 
the Jews who were attending synagogue and believed that Yeshua/Jesus 
was Messiah as compared to the Jews who did not believe that 
Yeshua / Jesus was Messiah.  This created further division.

        Meanwhile, there was another Jewish revolt against Rome in 
135 A.D. In this revolt, Rabbi Akiva proclaimed Bar Kochba as the 
Jewish Messiah. Rome won this war, the Jews who didn't believe that 
Yeshua/Jesus was Messiah didn't particate in the war against Rome 
either because this war was based upon the Messianic expectations of 
the Jews that a political Messiah would arise and defeat Rome.

        Following this war, the Jews were sold into slavery by Rome 
and began to be scattered into all the regions of the Roman Empire. 
Rome made laws against observing the Torah. 

        Meanwhile, there were more and more non-Jews accepting 
Yeshua/Jesus as Messiah who had no Torah knowledge. Because of their 
existing pagan religions and belief systems there arose great debate 
on various Biblical doctrinal issues.  Because many of the Jews were 
sold into slavery and Rome made laws against observing the Torah, the 
non-Jewish believers in Yeshua/Jesus as Messiah and the "church 
fathers" began to adopt Anti-Semetic doctrine against the Jews and 
against the Torah.  Thus the departing from the roots of Christianity 
and embracing anti-Torah and anti-Semetic theology got a head of 
steam going that still exists today within Christianity.  

           During these early years, Rome persecuted the Christians 
and threw them to the lions. Yet, the more that Rome persecuted the 
Christians the more that Christianity grew  and flourished. With the 
coming of Constantine (around 300 A.D.) after he supposingly saw a 
vision of a "cross to go and conquer", Rome decided that if you can't 
beat them you might as well join them. So, church and state began 
to merge and this formed the beginning of the merger of church and 
state that became known as Roman Catholicism.  
        
          By this time, some of the doctrinal debates in Christianity 
needed to be dealt with. So, the emporer of Rome called various 
councils to decide these issues. These came known as your Catholic 
councils where various Christian doctrine became "binding" even in 
many cases by death to the heritics. 

          This is a preview of your history that led to departing of 
Hebraic roots of Christianity.  It reached it's lowest point in the 
Middle ages and through the Protestant Reformation, God began to 
restore truth's back into the church that were lost. He is still 
doing this today with our modern Hebraic Roots Movement.