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Hi John, and thank you for your well thought out comment. It's a view that is widely held by learned people.

Christianity did begin with Jesus, and it had actually spread quite far before Saul of Tarsus' conversion. (Later known as Paul).

The church itself began at the Jewish festival of Pentecost that followed Jesus' crucifixion. This is detailed in Acts 1-8 written by Luke, a physician and capable researcher and historian. See Luke 3:1, 2 for an example. Paul persecuted the church for some time before his conversion.

The 12 Apostles were the spearheads of Christianity,
one of requirements for apostleship was being an eyewitness of Jesus' ministry, crucifixion and resurrection. Peter and John appear to have taken the lead early on.

Paul wrote many letters to the early churches, which expand on quite a few Christian doctrines, already in place, such as salvation apart from works of law, and salvation for the Gentiles. These letters agree with other New Testament writings by Peter, James, Jude and John.

One thing they ALL warned about (including Jesus) were false prophets corrupting the church.

This can be read in Acts 20, 2 Peter 2, the letters of John and Jude.

After the death of the apostles, there was nothing to
counter false teachings and the church was gradually corrupted. One only has to read the two letters of Peter (supposedly the first Pope) and compare them to speeches by modern Popes. Or to 1st Clement (one of the oldest non-Biblical documents), a letter written by the supposed 3rd or 4th Pope.

There are many counterfeit writings from the 2nd, 3rd and 4th centuries, but they're easily identified. They don't agree with Biblical writings at all.

By the time of the Council of Nicea, Christendom barely resembled the Christianity of the Apostles. This can best be seen by reading the New Testament and becoming familiar with it.

Many will say Christianity was supposed to "evolve".
On that note, find a Bible and read Galatians 1: 8, 9.
Also, Jesus taught he was the "Way, truth and life".
The only way to Almighty God is through him, his only begotten Son.

Jesus also taught that many false prophets would arise, misleading many.


Worship of the one true God, Yahweh, existed and was unfolding long before Christianity. I wrote something for Facebook awhile back that I can send
you as a PM if you're interested. Or I can post it here if folks want to read it.

It's about the length of a short story.