(August 24, 2022 at 1:31 pm)Vicki Q Wrote: Xianity was a split from Judaism, which happened because those closest to Jesus had an immensely powerful set of experiences that convinced them that the Jewish Messiah had inaugurated the Kingdom of God.. That is far and away the best explanation of the beliefs of the Early Xians.
I think this is where we miss each other. While I don't think that's the best explanation for christianity, we could just go along with the idea that it was. It's no explanation whatsoever for the growth of the christian movement, the many billions of you over centuries who have had no such experience and never knew the man. Nor is it any explanation for the NT as we have it.
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