The majority...
The majority, either dictated by personal desires or fear of Imperial Rome - which had cleverly put on the mask of Christianity, preserving intact most of its pagan beliefs - drove the last nail into the coffin of the divine message, preached by the uncrucified prophet; Jesus (a.s.), by blindly and without reasoning accepting the creed which we know as Christianity today.
By analysing the so-called Torah and the Gospel now in the hands of their followers, we discover a disfigured and legendary picture, without the least resemblance to the spirit of both the divine scriptures revealed to Moses (a.s.), and Jesus (a.s.). Following are some evidences proving the point, that these books are in fact mere fabrications: Several Gospels are now in circulation among the Christians, each one different from the other to a great extent, and even obviously self-contradicting.
When Allah had revealed only a single Book to Jesus (a.s.), not many; from where did the so many Gospels come from, and how do the learned priests explain the phenomena of these conflicting versions? The only answer, that not even the highest ranking Christian authorities can refute is, these divine scriptures were subjected to so frequent revisions that eventually they lost the greater part of their originality and true contents, and led to so many conflicting versions of the Gospel.
True the source of all divine messages is Allah the Almighty and they all stress on the concept of monotheism and consider Him to be above all human attributes; whereas a glance at the present Torah of the Jews reveals that it is far removed from the very principles of monotheism. Actually it so disfigures this fundamental principle of the divine message, that the Prophet Ezra (a.s.) is presented as the son of God, in close resemblance to the forged Gospel's view of the Messiah.
An interesting point indeed, leaving so many questions unanswered; as to whether the Jews tried to outdo the Christians or was it vice versa? Moreover the Gospel itself betrays its pagan Roman influences when it says that Jesus (a.s.) was an incarnation of God and had a dual nature, both human and divine.
It is quite obvious to a sound rational mind that these are all deviated thoughts and heathen beliefs, which proves without doubt that the hypocrites coined absurd ideas in contrast to the basic principles of the religion brought by Moses (a.s.) and Jesus (a.s.).