Jews and Christians worship the same God

It appears reading the scripture alone will not resolve this. Anywhere we go, we get stuck in a "he's [not] talking about the same thing"... I will remain victim to this shortly, but will change it up in a conclusion. "I never said that there is no prophesy and concept of Jewish Messiah in the tanakh" - That is true, you didn't say that explicitly, but after you challenged my reference on the Messiah in the Old Testament.... I began looking for them (as I admit, my knowledge of the Old Testament isn't complete) But I did not find them... I couldn't find anything in the Old Testament about a coming Messiah. There are prophesied future kings, there are future prophets that will come, but "Messiah" (mashiach) is used to refer to contemporary kings, contemporary prophets.. not of foretold ones. Apparently, the word "Messiah" was attributed to the future prophet and future king only in the New Testament... which is kind of my point. So, in that way, we can only call Jesus "the Messiah" after the fact. OK, I will concede from John 12:15, that the New Testament is EXPLICITLY calling Jesus "The King" as is described in Zechariah 9:9... this in no way means that Jesus and YHWH are the same... as I said, he is preaching to Jews, and the Jews can have made references to him. Until now, I have not conceded that he was "the King", but now I have... I don't think that directly follows that Jesus/God the Father = YHWH ... you'd have to connect that somehow for me ("the King" in Zechariah being YHWH, or a servant there of) "Dead Sea Scrolls are the Greek version" - I haven't read the Dead Sea Scrolls (as I don't know Greek or Hebrew or any of that)... but I do believe that included in the Dead Sea Scrolls were Greek translations of the OT I do understand that the Old Testament does refer to future coming where Peace where prevail (given that it is under the rule of YHWH). My main contention on morality was that I could not harmonize them. I can't harmonize a God who is so focused on the Bloodlines and descendants, to a God who doesn't care about that at all. Historically, in the Old Testament, his covenants became MORE restrictive, not more open.... from Noah to Jacob to Moses... I think it is contrary to practice then, to believe that after basically favoring a smaller and smaller group of people over time that he we turn around and choose to bless anyone that thinks he's an alright guy. Coming from a personal standpoint - you have said you are a Gentile. Is it to us to believe that a God that once commanded Harem on our fellow Gentiles would ever come to be our Savior? Does this make sense to you? For those Gentiles who do worship Jesus and the Trinity... can they really just forget that? Why? Because he came down and died on a cross? That is his penance? He taught forgiveness because he wished his own in our eyes? That is a lovely story, but I don't think that's the one he's telling. That wasn't an apology to Gentiles... was it? I don't think that's the story that Christians believe it is saying either. At least, no one has ever explained it to me in that way... I don't know that I can continue on in this debate until I resolve myself of that question. I'll actually go so far right now to say... if you can answer that question in the affirmative, I will concede the entire debate... Was Jesus an apology for all the terrible things that God did to us and commanded Jews to do to one another and to Gentiles? If it was.... then OK, I'll accept that as making sense. If it wasn't... then I can in no way find, from a personal standpoint, how a person could say that Jesus is the continuation of the Old Testament.... that he was the next chapter... if he wasn't an apology, he was a different path that does not relate to YHWH. I realize this might be a bit different from the debates you are used to... but I do honestly want answers to these questions... I want my message and understanding to be complete. I thank you for your time and effort and hope we can do something like this again sometime.... we all have plenty to learn.