What were Jesus and early Christians like?

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Well, we can assume they were christians, we don't actually know that. I admit it's very highly likely though, yeah. We don't even know if the stories were circulating or if they just entirely made them up themselves. Again, it seems likely they were circulating but we have no evidence of that, as far as I know.

So sure, we can make a few decent assumptions, but I think that's far from enough to "get into their heads". God knows what kind of messed up people they could be, or what bizarre reasons they could have for writing stuff. Maybe they ate a bunch of mushrooms and hallucinated. Who knows.