(February 24, 2019 at 6:41 am)bennyboy Wrote: Mentioning someone means they wanted that figure to be known. It doesn't mean it was a real figure.
It's possible that early Christians were Jews who sat around and said, "How can we personify our religion in a way that makes it accessible to Romans?"
The early Christians were Jews, as was Jesus. Your thesis that Jews were interested in converting non-Jews to Judaism is, I believe, supported by no one. Judaism has not been a proselytizing religion.
