oldfella1962
Senior Member
I just thought of something the other day: Christianity couldn't exist until Jesus was actually dead, since his resurrection then ascension back into heaven shortly after is very much the point of the whole religion. So without Jesus around anymore, there is no way to ensure that Christians are "doing it right" other than to take whatever knowledge he may have given his believers for them to spread around in his absence. But his believers weren't psychic, so how did they know the guy they were following was "the real deal" since he hadn't been crucified and then risen from the dead yet?
In other words there may have been other Jewish spiritual leaders around in those days who had a growing group of followers who liked their new/different ideas, but since they weren't crucified & resurrected they were forgotten about once it was discovered they were nothing special - they were just mortal men.
Just saying it's kind of weird that Jesus did the most important thing ever for mankind (came to earth, taught a bunch of moral lessons, performed miracles then died for all our sins) but didn't stick around for a few hundred years to make sure his believers weren't getting off track or twisting his message. That would ensure that nothing would be "lost in translation" because he could teach & preach to every single nation in every language and make sure everything was being taught right & done right.
As it is now there's no way to prove that a hundred or two hundred years after he lived people didn't just start a religion based around the myth of who we call "Jesus" but was long gone except for his words people wrote down and codified long after his death. Just thinking out loud I guess! Any thoughts?
In other words there may have been other Jewish spiritual leaders around in those days who had a growing group of followers who liked their new/different ideas, but since they weren't crucified & resurrected they were forgotten about once it was discovered they were nothing special - they were just mortal men.
Just saying it's kind of weird that Jesus did the most important thing ever for mankind (came to earth, taught a bunch of moral lessons, performed miracles then died for all our sins) but didn't stick around for a few hundred years to make sure his believers weren't getting off track or twisting his message. That would ensure that nothing would be "lost in translation" because he could teach & preach to every single nation in every language and make sure everything was being taught right & done right.
As it is now there's no way to prove that a hundred or two hundred years after he lived people didn't just start a religion based around the myth of who we call "Jesus" but was long gone except for his words people wrote down and codified long after his death. Just thinking out loud I guess! Any thoughts?