Who Created Christianity And Why?

Answer 1

Answer:

Christianity started at Pentecost by the power of the Holy Spirit on the apostles and disciples of Jesus Christ after His death. They spread His gospel throughout the known world approximately 2000 years ago.

Christianity, as far as this world is concerned, was manifested at the time Christ died on the cross. It was prophesied in the book of Isaiah.

Isaiah 55:11 So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

Jesus Christ is what Isaiah is prophesying.

John 1:In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God.

John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

John 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.

The Word entity of the Holy Trinity was manifested to the world in the likeness of men.

Philippians 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

Philippians 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

Philippians 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

Philippians 2:9 Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

Philippians 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

Philippians 2:11 And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

"made in the likeness of men" is referring to his earthly existence. Man consist of three separate entities: soul, flesh, and spirit. Christ, being found in fashion of man also had three entities: soul, flesh, and spirit. But the difference is, His soul was not the same as ours. His soul was the "Word" entity of the Holy Trinity. So we find that Christ was truly a man; but not merely a man. Though He appeared as a man, His being was still Divine.

So, as Isaiah prophesied, the Word was sent forth. At the time Christ died on the cross His soul, flesh, and spirit separated. The terms relating to death in the Greek have a prefix "apo"; meaning to "separate". When this happened He cried out:

Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

As his soul "The Word" was separating from His flesh and spirit, His human nature was crying out to God. At this point, the "Word" was coming into the world while His human flesh died and His human spirit returned to God. (see Ecclesiastes)

Now that the "Word" is in the world today, it is accomplishing what it was sent to do. The purpose is for the "Word" to take up residency in the souls of believers today. This is what being "born again" is all about. When the "Word" takes up residency in a human soul a transformation takes place. This is not just mere Christian rhetoric. This is a REALITY. The person becomes a new creation. As his soul becomes one with the Truth of the Word, old things pass away and all things become new.

To fulfill Isaiah's prophecy, the Word will prosper by entering more and more souls every day. It will not return void. It will return to God with the souls it resides in.

Being a Christian is much more than reciting the sinner's prayer.

Matthew 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Matthew 7:22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?

Matthew 7:23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

Not everyone waving a Christian flag is a Christian. But to those that truly believe from their innermost being, will see eternity in heaven.

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Another Answer:

According to Matthew 16:18, Jesus said to Peter, "You, Peter, are the rock upon which I will build my church." However, scholars widely question the authenticity of this alleged quotation; and many scholars (even some who don't question its authenticity) question the meaning of this statement, since the Greek term, "ekklesia," which was used there for "church," signified, in that time, any sort of an assembly, even a political one; and a Jewish assembly (or - as it was then called - "sunagoge") was also a type of "ekklesia." Did Jesus start a Jewish sect? Christianity isn't that. So, this statement, even if it was authentic, doesn't answer the question: Who started Christianity - and when, and where, and why?

The only other Scriptural candidate for Jesus's having authorized Christianity is Matthew 28:18-20, in which the resurrected Jesus is quoted as ordering his followers, "Go throughout the world to make all peoples my disciples by baptizing them in the name of [the Trinity] the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost." However, this statement contradicts Matthew5:17-20, which quotes Jesus as saying "Do not think I have come to do away with the Law of Moses, ... for it will be eternally binding," and the first three of the Ten Commandments permanently ban any such thing as the Trinity, and clearly demand worshipping only the Father, never to include any second object. Even more emphatically, the Third of the Ten Commandments says "Do not take the name of God in vain," and so this alleged baptismal order was clearly in violation. Furthermore, the early Christian church didn't consider this alleged statement from Christ to be binding, and as late as the 16th Century this order was widely understood as having been directed only at Jesus's disciples in his own time, not at future generations, and the obligation was thought to have been fulfilled by them. In any case, the statement doesn't assert that a person who fails to comply with it will be viewed less favorably by God, or denied salvation. Moreover, only relatively recently did the statement come to be called "The Great Commission," and considered as the start of Christianity. This change of belief occurred at the time critical scholarship on The Bible first emerged, The Enlightenment. It's not how Christianity had seen itself during the religion's first 1,600 years.

And if Jesus didn't create Christianity, if a different person created it, then would Jesus have approved of what that individual was doing? Might Christianity even have been created by an enemy of Jesus? Not only might this have happened; it did happen.

The following press release summarizes the event that started Christianity: who did it, and when, and where, and why, and how: Did St. Paul Confess to Starting Christianity violating Jesus's Intent? New Book Says He Did.

How did Christianity start by worshiping a Jew while it negated and claimed to replace Judaism? Paul said in Galatians 2:16 "God approves only people who possess Christ-faith, never people who obey God's commandments." That doctrine is Christianity (salvation via Christ-faith) replacing Judaism (salvation via obeying God's laws). And yet Matthew 5:17-18 quotes Jesus himself as having said, "Do not think that I have come to do away with the Law of Moses. ... As long as heaven and earth shall last, not the least point nor the smallest detail of the Law will be done away with." Jesus was teaching Judaism, but Paul - who never even met Jesus - said in Galatians 2:16-21 that the death and resurrection of Jesus meant that obeying God's commandments was no longer the way to please God.

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Answer 2

According to Matthew 16:18, Jesus said to Peter, "You, Peter, are the rock upon which I will build my church." However, scholars widely question the authenticity of this alleged quotation; and many scholars (even some who don't question its authenticity) question the meaning of this statement, since the Greek term, "ekklesia," which was used there for "church," signified, in that time, any sort of an assembly, even a political one; and a Jewish assembly (or - as it was then called - "sunagoge") was also a type of "ekklesia." Did Jesus start a Jewish sect? Christianity isn't that. So, this statement, even if it was authentic, doesn't answer the question: Who started Christianity - and when, and where, and why?

The only other Scriptural candidate for Jesus's having authorized Christianity is Matthew 28:18-20, in which the resurrected Jesus is quoted as ordering his followers, "Go throughout the world to make all peoples my disciples by baptizing them in the name of [the Trinity] the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost." However, this statement contradicts Matthew 5:17-20, which quotes Jesus as saying "Do not think I have come to do away with the Law of Moses, ... for it will be eternally binding," and the first three of the Ten Commandments permanently ban any such thing as the Trinity, and clearly demand worshipping onlythe Father, never to include any second object. Even more emphatically, the Third of the Ten Commandments says "Do not take the name of God in vain," and so this alleged baptismal order was clearly in violation. Furthermore, the early Christian church didn't consider this alleged statement from Christ to be binding, and as late as the 16th Century this order was widely understood as having been directed only at Jesus's disciples in his own time, not at future generations, and the obligation was thought to have been fulfilled by them. In any case, the statement doesn't assert that a person who fails to comply with it will be viewed less favorably by God, or denied salvation. Moreover, only relatively recently did the statement come to be called "The Great Commission," and considered as the start of Christianity. This change of belief occurred at the time critical scholarship on the Bible first emerged, The Enlightenment. It's not how Christianity had seen itself during the religion's first 1,600 years.

And if Jesus didn't create Christianity, if a different person created it, then would Jesus have approved of what that individual was doing? Might Christianity even have been created by an enemy of Jesus? Not only might this have happened; it did happen.

The following press release summarizes the event that started Christianity: who did it, and when, and where, and why, and how:

Did St. Paul Confess

To Starting Christianity

Violating Jesus's Intent?

New Book Says He Did

How did Christianity start by worshiping a Jew while it negated and claimed to replace Judaism? Paul said in Galatians 2:16 "God approves only people who possess Christ-faith, never people who obey God's commandments." That doctrine is Christianity (salvation via Christ-faith) replacing Judaism (salvation via obeying God's laws). And yet Matthew 5:17-18 quotes Jesus himself as having said, "Do not think that I have come to do away with the Law of Moses. ... As long as heaven and earth shall last, not the least point nor the smallest detail of the Law will be done away with." Jesus was teaching Judaism, but Paul - who never even met Jesus - said in Galatians 2:16-21 that the death and resurrection of Jesus meant that obeying God's commandments was no longer the way to please God.

The legal-forensic biblical researcher, Eric Zuesse, has applied modern courtroom analytical methods to investigate the evidence concerning the start of Christianity, and he claims to have solved this historical riddle, and to have identified the exact occasion at which Christianity (the doctrine of salvation via Christ-faith) actually started. Never before have these modern analytical methods been applied to this evidence; and Zuesse's findings, reported in his new book, THE EVENT that Created Christianity, are that Paul knew he was violating Jesus's will when alleging, in Galatians 2:16, Romans 3:28, and elsewhere, that God now demanded faith in Christ, and not obedience to God's laws.

Zuesse finds that in the year 49 or 50, Paul culminated a 14-year conflict he had had with Jesus's brother James, by perpetrating a coup d'etat against him and overthrowing him as the leader of the Jewish sect that Jesus had established 20 years earlier. Zuesse finds that, according to Paul's own reluctantly made admission in Galatians, Jesus had appointed James, not Peter, as Jesus's successor to lead Jesus's followers, and the central conflict between Paul and James concerned Judaism's signature commandment, Genesis 17:14, at which God was alleged to have said to Abraham "No uncircumcised man will be one of my people." In the broader passage there, Genesis 17:9-19, God had offered to Abraham the Jewish covenant or agreement to sign, and said that it would be everlasting or eternal, and that the way it was to be signed was by circumcision. Every one of God's men must be circumcised, and would have any male child circumcised on his 8th day. Abraham complied, and thus Judaism - obedience to God's commandments or laws - started, according to the account in Jewish Scripture (which Jesus's followers accepted).

Paul, however, was bringing Gentile men into Jesus's sect for 17 years without requiring them to be circumcised. According to Paul's account in Galatians, he first met James in the third year of his ministry, and his practice of accepting into the sect uncircumcised men was accepted both by James, and by Peter, Peter being at that time time the chief person evangelizing to Gentiles. However, by the time of the 17th year of Paul's ministry, Paul had brought in such a large number of uncircumcised men, so that James called Paul back to Jerusalem to defend his practice. According to Galatians 2:10, the decision reached there was for Paul to continue what he was doing, so long as Paul continued raising funds to support the poor in Jerusalem - Jesus's disciples and their followers.

Zuesse places these events in the broader context of the war that then was raging between Rome and the Jews, which was described in Josephus's works. Jews were at that time a conquered people, who had lost their independent Israel, and who were being ruled by kings appointed by Rome: the Herodian family were being imposed as their rulers. Jesus claimed to be the authentic king of the Jews, and this claim was sedition against Rome. It also threatened Roman Law, because Jesus was teaching that the Law came from God, not from Rome's Emperor or Caesar. This is why Rome had Jesus crucified, as a warning to any other Jew who might be so bold as to challenge Rome's authority to make the laws and to appoint the kings. According to Josephus, Rome also appointed the chief priest, in Jerusalem, Caiaphas; and Zuesse says that this is the actual reason why Caiaphas seized Jesus and handed him over to Rome's appointed Governor, Pontius Pilate, for trial on the charge of sedition against Rome. Zuesse says that this historical background is essential to understand in order to understand why Jesus's remaining followers, in Jerusalem, were politically vulnerable, and were very poor.

However, immediately after the council in Jerusalem, in the 17th year of Paul's ministry, James sent Peter to Paul to tell Paul the bad news that James had changed his mind and would require, after all, that Paul's men be circumcised. Paul refused to comply.

Zuesse notes that during the First Century, when there was no such thing as anesthesia, and also when neither antibiotics nor antiseptics existed, any operation, even a circumcision, was both a frightful terror and a threat of death (from infections). To impose this upon a male baby on its 8th day, as Jews routinely did in accord with Genesis 17:11, was very different from demanding that full-grown Gentile men subject themselves to this terror and possible death. That's the reason why James had, for 17 years, not demanded that Gentile members be circumcised. But now, according to both Acts and Galatians, there were so many uncircumcised men who were calling themselves followers of Jesus, so that, in Acts 21:21, and elsewhere, Jews were rioting against Paul demanding him to have his men circumcised. According to Acts 15:1, the council in Jerusalem had been called by James precisely to consider this highly contentious circumcision-issue.

Zuesse says that Galatians 2:12 indicates that James changed his mind soon after the council and sent Peter to tell Paul to have his men circumcised, after all; and sent a follow-up team to arrive that evening to check up on whether Peter did his job. Peter was reluctant to do it. He was selected for this mission because he had been Paul's teacher 14 years earlier, and did as Paul did now: accepted uncircumcised men into the sect. James chose Peter to deliver to Paul the bad news because Paul knew that, if even Peter now accepted the necessity of imposing Genesis 17:14, Paul would have no continuing support at all from Jerusalem unless Paul imposed circumcision upon his men.

Galatians 2:11-21, presents Paul publicly having stood against his own teacher, Peter, and against the other representatives sent by James, and having announced (Galatians 2:16) that God no longer required obedience to God's laws, and that from now on, mere Christ-faith is all that God requires in order to send a person to heaven instead of to hell after death. The event recounted in Galatians 2:11-21 occurred in the year 49 or 50.

Zuesse finds that when Paul called James's bluff on this occasion, James was actually trapped: James's small and vulnerable group in Jerusalem needed the contributions and the other support to continue coming from Paul's far larger number of far-better-off followers throughout the Roman Empire. Thus, James mutely folded his cards; and, from that moment onward, Paul tacitly took over effective control of what originally had been the Jewish sect which Jesus had started and which James had inherited.

This event in the year 49 or 50 was the first-ever occasion on which Christianity (the doctrine that Paul announced in Galatians 2:11-21) was announced; Paul's coup d'etat against James constituted the break with Judaism, the start of Christianity. Paul did it in order to save his career from collapse, to avoid having almost all of the men he had converted to Judaism leave him. After that occasion, Paul wrote the letters by which he is known, and he wrote these letters in such a way that he intentionally glossed over the question as to whether they still were Jews.

Zuesse finds that the authors of each of the four canonical Gospel accounts of "Jesus" (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) was actually a follower of Paul, and not at all a follower of Jesus/James. They wrote the actions and the words of "Jesus" to support Paul's agenda, including the Trinity, and the minimization of James. In turn, the later followers of Paul, during subsequent generations, assembled the New Testament, and wrote James out of the "historical" picture altogether. Peter was retroactively identified, by Paul's followers, to have been the leader whom Jesus had appointed; and the reason for this is that Peter had been Paul's teacher, and that the emerging Roman Catholic Church needed someone to serve as the "historical" link back to Jesus, since Paul himself had never met Jesus.

Thus, Paul and his followers, the enemies of Jesus - whom they never even met - effectively became Christ's ventriloquist, according to Zuesse.

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So, the answer to the question "Who created Christianity?" is that Paul did, and that the writers of the Gospel accounts of "Jesus" were Paul's followers and placed Paul's agenda, not Jesus's, into the mouth and actions of "Jesus."

Answer 3

JesusJesus Christ is defined as "the founder of Christianity". Regardless of whether or not Jesus was a deity, there is historical proof that He founded Christianity.

Jesus of Nazareth. When Jesus was 30 yrs old, He was baptized in the Jordan River and was anointed by God's Holy Spirit . This signalled the beginning of His ministry and is thought to have been in approximately 29 A.D. By His preaching, Jesus and His disciples cured the sick, performed miracles (to show that they had God's blessings) and raised the dead, to show that the nation of Israel was no longer the chosen people because they had rejected and later the romans put God's Son to death (33 A.D). Christ's apostles and disciples later carried the 'Good News ' to all parts of the Earth to show that now, everyone can gain everlasting life by being a Christian.

The scribes, the apostles, and the angelsThe angels don't accept worship, neither did the Apostles, neither did the scribes, as they were all messengers, not being the author of any of the messages themselves. They were but willing vessels of clay that became intricate vases thanks to the Master Potter's Hand.

Christianity was started by Christ Himself, as John the Baptist prepared for the arrival of Christ in the wilderness, and all of His disciples, and later most of them became Apostles, they carried on Christ's way of living and of teaching, as well as His name, heralding themselves as Christians, since Antioch.

Christianity was neither started by Paul, nor Apollos, nor Peter, nor Mark, nor Luke, or any regular man, as Christ was the first to never sin, He was the One prophesied multiple times in the Old Testament, and He was the One who layed His life down for the sins of mankind, and He was the One who took His life up from the literal gates of hell to promise eternal life to all who trusted their souls to His saving power.

PaulPaul and his Gentile followers. Some people feel that even though you might think that Jesus was the founder, the energy and organization skills that St. Paul had actually got Christianity off to its start.

Acts 11:26 And when he had found him, he brought him unto Antioch. And it came to pass, that a whole year they assembled themselves with the church, and taught much people. And the disciples were called Christians first in Antioch.

The followers of Jesus were Nazarenes..

The Nazarenes (Hebrew: Netzarim,) were a group of early followers of Jesus of Nazareth who, like the Ebionites, were noteworthy for refusing to follow Christianity in its complete break with Judaism. [2] The sect may have been started by James the Just, the brother of Jesus.

Christianity began as a cult based on Judaism in ancient Rome.

Christianity, as it exists today, is the result of Emperor Constantine who wanted to find a way to unite Europe. Technically, "Catholic" means "universal". Constantine was using religion as a binding force to unite the many different religious beliefs of the European people. Those who believed in a "Mother earth" God were told that Mary was that mother. Those who believed that the evergreen tree contained a special status because it never lost it's greenery were told that the Christmas Tree was important. Jews were brought in when Constantine claimed that the origin of Christianity was a Jewish Rabbi.

After creating his universal church, Constantine's armies went across the land, forcing everyone to worship the Christian diety.

Remember that history is written by the victor, and Constantine won the battle to Unite Europe. He was the one who rewrote history and the one who made many of the claims about Jesus.

Catholic viewChristianity does not exist today as a result of Constantine. The Christian Church was started by Jesus as he said to Peter, "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I shall build my Church and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it." It is documented, recorded history that Peter was the first Head of the Church with a chronological order that has followed of successors to Pope Benedict of today. Constantine presided over the Council at Niceae in 325AD. By then, the Church was well established with early church fathers using the word "Catholic" as early at 46AD to describe the Church which Jesus founded. The Council at Niceae was held due to the fact that by then, the Church had grown so much and was spreading so far, the Bishops and Cardinals felt it necessary to get together and put into writing the traditions and writings that would become the bible and traditions that are still used today by over 1 billion Catholics worldwide.

Jesus Christ

Saul, who became Paul of Tarsus.

The myth that Christ founded it is false, He was trying to reform Judaism.

AnswerChristians themselves would see Christ as the founder of Christianity. They would argue that Christ's deliberate usurpation as interpretor of the Old Law (His sermon on the mount, "You have heard it said, but I say unto you..."), His divine claims and His founding of a New Testament to be deliberate acts of inaugurating a new religion, not reforming an existing one. Had Christ not been God, His audacity at attempting the above would not only have been blasphemous and impotent, but it would amount to no more than making a Jewish heresy.

Answer 4

The New Testament tells of those who were disciples of Jesus who witnessed his resurrection. It also tells of the growth of the church after Pentecost when those who believed Jesus had been resurrected by God received the Holy Spirit. If Christianity was created in the sense that it came into being as a religion, then those who witnessed the resurrection created it. Most if not all of the original twelve disciples of Jesus were martyred. Many will die for something they believe to be true, but no one will die willingly for something they know not to be true. This answer speaks to the origination and initial growth of Christianity, and maybe to the reason it is still around. The further development of Christianity as a religion and what it is today would require a complex historical answer.

Answer 5

It was created in Nazareth.

Answer 6

st. paul