Who started the Christian religion?

Question

and dont say Jesus, if you do you are not very brite.

Answer 1

The followers of JESUS! Many Jews.

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Answer 2

Occam's Razor is the principle that the simplest explanation that fits all known facts is most likely to be true. Christianity claims that its teachings were started by one man, namely, Jesus, and that much of the New Testament was written by Paul. Even heretical writings such as those of the Gnostics try to trace their claims back to Jesus. From all evidence, Christianity came into existance about the time that Christians claim that Jesus and Paul lived.

The simplest, and most rational explanation for these facts would be to believe that Jesus was responsible for many important teachings and that Paul did in fact write the original copies of the letters. A group of conspirators trying to invent a Jesus or a Paul at the time when other sources first mention Christianity makes no sense whatsoever - it's very out of character for founders of religions to remain anonymous, if you have ever looked at new religions that have sprung up.

Answer 3

You are right, Jesus was not the founder of Christianity. Most of the New Testament doesn't even concern the historical Jesus while the main influence is the Apostle Paul (Saul) and a Greek convert called John.

Paul never met Jesus in the flesh, he only claimed some strange vision and proceeded to paganize the teachings of Jesus (who preached an enlightened form of Judaism), until he created Pauline Christianity. Because there are no known writings from Jesus, the actual Apostles, or anyone that actually knew him in the flesh (other then perhaps James), most of what he taught is lost forever.

Jesus is regarded by Christians as the founder of their religion because events of his life lay the foundation story of Christianity. And while a man named Jesus may be the foundation of Christianity, Paul is regarded as the great interpreter of Jesus' mission, who explained, in a way that Jesus himself never did, how Jesus' life and death fitted into a cosmic scheme of salvation, stretching from the creation of Adam to the end of time.

The doctrines of Christianity come mostly from the teaching or influence of Paul, a Pharisee, who rejected his Pharisaic Judaism and converted to what he called Christianity.

Answer 4

More or less Paul of Tharsos. The first Christians were a rather sad bunch of decent, fasting, celibate, praying people waiting for the end of the world, and would soon have died out.
The real boost came with emperor Constantinus, who made Christianity the state religion of the Roman empire.

Answer 5

Paul and Barnabas possibly were responsible for the christian religion approximately as practised today, but it did all get very mixed up with previous religions, and myths. Aphrodite=Virgin Mary and such like. Equally there is an element of pagan practices, such as disinterring the bones and storing them in a sacred(?) place. There are quite a few variants of Christianity.

Constantine gave the religion permanence, but it might have achieved this without his help. It particularly appealed to slaves and there were an awful lot of slaves... (perhaps 80 per cent of Byzantium were slaves).

Answer 6

Actually, when Jesus told Peter he would build his church on him as a 'Rock', or cornerstone, he was referring to the work he set forth in his teachings about his father Jehovah /God.
He discussed the Kingdom message all the time, and if you want to call it Christianity, God started it when he handed down the ten commandments to Moses.
All provable if you read your bible! Christianity refers to Christ like people, and there are very few who qualify for that today.
Those who profess it, yes, those who live it, NO>

Answer 7

Paul broke from the Jewish faith and established Christianity. He modified some parts of Judaism to Christianity.

Paul then picked up what Jesus had been saying and began to take it to a non-Jewish audience.

"Jesus insisted that the kingdom of God had already begun," Crossan said. "People were called to participate in it. Paul is saying the same thing. Jesus was preaching among Jews. Paul was out there among the pagans in the Roman empire."

Answer 8

The disciples of Christ did not! the Followers of Jesus did not! They never were looking for Religion but salvation! So somebody outside the church started calling it Christian faith! and then a roman catholic referred it as religion!

Answer 9

The Emperor of Rome, Constantine. When he converted to christianity around the 3rd century was the first time there was any official or organized christian religion. Before that there were believers scattered around who would occasionally meet, but there was no hierarchical structure, no priests or pastors, no "authority," no buildings. It certainly wasn't Peter, who was long dead by the time any organized christian religion came around...nor any of the other supposed apostles, nor any of the writers of the gospels (who never met jesus)...

Answer 10

I'm not entirely sure where you're going here.... are you saying that Jesus didn't start it because he was a Jew and therefore not a Christian? It's an interesting point...

Oh and, before you accuse someone of being stupid, try spelling "bright" correctly. It looks better that way.