| DOUG, I think this subject is too frail to make a, hard and fast, judgement on. Jesus was a Jew, and intended His teaching to change the ways, and views, of the Jews. IMO, what it truly Christianity became a solidified movement upon His crucifixion, and resurrection. IOW, Christianity was started by His followers that had lived, ate, slept, and walked with Him, and had witnessed the many miracles that He performed. At first, they were not supposed to take the "good news" to the Gentiles, but when they were rejected by so many of the Jews that feared punishment from the Pharisees, and Sanhedrin, they took the message to the Gentiles, and the word spread farther, and faster, which increased the ranks of the Christian Faith. |
