Same source etc, but different religions ?

[Wyrd of Gawd]

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That's true. And neither was his brother James , who ran the Jerusalem church after he died. The Judeao-Christians gradually died out and Christianity became a blend of Greek ideas (the Trinity) with stuff borrowed from all over. Stuff from the Essenes. Virgin birth etc. Paul had to make Jesus Divine so they added the Resurrection. They failed to sell it to the Jews.

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Let me get this straight Jesus, who declared himself to be the awaited messiah, and on whom the christian church is founded was not a christian. And James, the leader of the christian church in Jerusalem, was also not a christian.

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Paul created the Jesus character as a way to subvert The Way cult. Paul laid out the basis for the Christian doctrine, which was the resurrection of Jesus. Years later his disciples who the back story which explained why Jesus was worthy of being worshiped.

An alternate theory is that a Roman wrote the story to mess with the Jews.

But based on the Bible narrative a strong case can be made that Paul made the whole thing up.

I'm glad I finally came across a true bible scholar who could straighten me out on the meaning of Paul's writings. Have you been in direct communication with Paul? Why do you think he did that?

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