What were Jesus and early Christians like?

[dyresand]

Imagine what fundamentalists were like back then...

Or maybe there wasn't any other kind.

Sometimes I wonder if Christianity started as an esoteric, gnostic Jewish religion, but gradually more and more people took the stories literally instead of symbolically. The people that misunderstood the gospels to be literal became the proto-orthodox, and they declared the original esoteric understanding of Christianity to be a heresy.

This idea goes well with the mythicist claim that Jesus was entirely fiction. Unfortunately, there seems to be a good argument for a historical Jesus.

So I don't know.

Pretty sure the original authors didn't want people to take the bible literally in the first place. So i guess you can blame ignorance on the fact that people follow it literally like the flood myth. I am also pretty sure they didn't want people taking that part literally either because you know common sense.