Is christianity a roman fabrication constructed to appease the insurgent jews after the roman-judean war?
2006-06-21 17:32:27 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jesus was initially a personification of the logos (the cosmic christ). Later the Romans made him a historical god-man. Mainstream Christianity is based on mythology. Original christianity is also based on mythology, but unlike the ignorant and naive, they knew it.
2006-06-21 17:48:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes and no. Christianity already existed, but early Christians knew that Christ was not a human being who had recently lived, but rather, was an ideal. It was more like communal Buddhism than anything we know as Christianity today.
What the Romans did was to turn Jesus into a historical figure. The reason for this was so that the church could have legitimacy. After all, if Jesus was a real person who had been sent by god, and he had ordained a church and granted his authority to it through a line of succession, who could oppose the church?
...and if the church sanctioned Rome itself, who then could oppose the empire?
2006-06-22 00:40:08 · answer #2 · answered by lenny 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. True Christianity is composed of disciples of the LORD Jesus Christ. However the Roman Catholic Church is a false "Christianity" rooted in the ancient Babylonian Mother-child cult. For more information, please visit www.tbc.org (refer to Dave Hunt's expository book, "A Woman Rides the Beast." This book is also available from Chick Publications (www.chick.com). To read an illustrated tract called "Are Roman Catholics Christians?" click on the following link:
http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0071/0071_01.asp
2006-06-22 00:40:46 · answer #3 · answered by Shalom Yerushalayim 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How many Roman Caesars believed in the Christian god? Who, allegedly, officially ordered the crucifixion of Christ? Think about it, Einstein.
Bit of advice--> "It is better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to open ones mouth and relieve all doubt."
2006-06-22 00:40:14 · answer #4 · answered by tigerzntalons 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO. The word "Christianity" is Greek for "disciple of Christ" and "Christ" is the Greek word for "the Anointed One and His Anointing".
Why would the Romans use a Greek word to describe a growing Jewish spiritual movement?
2006-06-22 00:41:00 · answer #5 · answered by blkrose65 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Rome had no need to fabricate anything since they had level Jerusalem. (See Josephus for details).
The Christian movement has been documented especially the attempts for stop the movement, a movement that deny that the emperor was god.
2006-06-22 00:38:47 · answer #6 · answered by J. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity comes from the teachings of the word of God and Jesus Christ.
2006-06-30 14:49:50 · answer #7 · answered by Carol M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.allaboutcreation.org/adam-and-eve.htm
http://www.carm.org/doctrine/100truths.htm
2006-06-22 00:40:07 · answer #8 · answered by rapturefuture 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope! Nice try.
2006-06-22 00:35:30 · answer #9 · answered by Pashur 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I say you are 60% correct.
2006-06-22 00:48:57 · answer #10 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋