What were Jesus and early Christians like?

[TimOneill]

Hey asshat, just for the record, you need to get out more. Seriously, your social skills suck. I wasn't trying to "impress" or debate you. You're not somebody with authority in this field so please stop acting like reading some books on the topic gives you special insight. I know you want to be more than an amateur historian with a small online presence, but let's face it, you're a long way from that when you can't even conduct a polite conversion with a stranger over text.

I seem to have upset you in some way. How about you start with the substantive issues relevant to the historical questions being discussed here and work from there.

Oh okay. This explains a lot:

Yes, I seem to have upset another ex-fundamentalist. I find those of us capable of nuanced thinking tend to do that. Poor Neil used to be a devout member of the World Wide Church of God - a rather crazy British Israelite evangelical literalist church. The poor man had never quite recovered.

I guess I was right to add this dipshit to my ignore list.

Really? We've barely got started. How about you present your reasons that the vast majority of scholars, including non-Christian and Jewish ones, are wrong when they accept that a historical Jesus existed and we can work from there.

Or have you now gone from screaming obscenities to running away making squealing noises? Hello?

Oh. It seems he's gone.