Basically from my point of view we're both the same (christian here). The difference is to put it into simplest terms; Jews don't accept Jesus as the Messiah or Christ while Christians do. Along with that the Jews also don't accept his teaching or covenant. Again from my POV that is it in a...
Free Will actually was there at the beginning of creation (that is if you believe in the book of Genesis). When God created the Angels and Mankind they knew the rules that he laid out and they had the choice to either follow them or disobey. And we all know where that went from there ie here we...