Where did the Jesus myth come from?

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And no, you're little upside-down theory doesn't work. Supposing that Christianity first started out as for everyone, then some little group popped within Christianity after Jesus died and said "Hey, Jews only!" then it's strange that Acts portrays Peter as being in such of group. And it still doesn't explain why Peter and the group seemingly forgot what Jesus taught in the gospels. And it's not possible to read the verses of Acts as they are there to dissuade preaching to gentiles. They show preaching to gentiles in a positive light!

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Acts shows preaching to the Gentiles in a positive light.
Matthew, Mark, Luke and John show preaching to the Gentiles in a positive light.

HOORAY!

We are in agreement.

I'm glad we had this chat.

Nope, your apologetic nightmare isn't over yet. Assuming your upside down theory is correct, if there was some group trying to fabricate an anti-gentile message into the gospel, then Peter would have had a vision informing him not to preach to gentiles. But the vision was informing him that it was ok to preach to gentiles thus it was in a positive light.

No, Acts shows that preaching the Good News to all nations is exactly in accord with Jesus' invocations. Thats why I was so glad to read that you realised... they show preaching to gentiles in a positive light!.

So Robert Price's conspiracy theory about a controversy - that nobody really thought or wanted to preach to all nations/Gentiles until long after Jesus died - is defunct.

An alternate conspiracy theory would need to add fake verses which suggest the opposite of a universal Gospel preached to all nations.