who created christianity

[DeistPaladin]

So what your saying is that the accepted view of what consitutes christianity was created by constantine and his thugs at th council of nicea.
Faith by commitee. No wonder it makes shag all sense.

Ding ding ding ding "We have a winner"

How else do you think they came up with such a hair-brained concept like the Trinity?

The only way to really understand the Trinity is it was a compromise made in committee.

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There were not really a wide variety of different groups. There were a few small unsuccessful groups who would fade out quickly.

Well that's certainly the spin that Christian apologists use when confronted with an undeniable reality of different Christian groups. It can't be denied because the early struggles of Christianity are found in the Bible itself. The fact that Nicaea was such a contentious meeting is proof that these different forms of Christianity were divisive and had their own followings that persisted at least three centuries after Jesus supposedly came along. Ultimately, it required a Roman Emperor to force a resolution (along with centuries of persecution of heterodox Christians that followed).

Christianity evolved but was created by the person of Jesus. Nobody "made him up." They took what he said and more clearly explained it.

Assuming Jesus really existed, he evidently didn't make much clear, judging by how many different factions there were. Even the Gospels that were accepted into canon contain many contradictions on his teachings. There's no evidence to suggest the Christian fantasy of one unified theology in the early church is anything but.