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I agree with using the plural - Christianities - there seems to have been a lot of messianic cults at that time. When I said "Christianities", I meant these sects were still based on this Jesus as the trigger point. Do we know other apocalyptic cults/sects at that times? Independent of Je...

Logically, he couldn't have "triggered the beginning of Christianity" if he was dead, via execution by crucifixion, or even after an alleged 'Ascension'.

Yes, right. I should have said OTHERS started Christianities after his execution.

Cordially, Bernard

That is why I doubt that the story of Jack and the Beanstalk is a myth. If you take all the extraordinary elements in the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, you have nothing left. However if you do the same thing on Jesus' story from gMark, and even take out some more, what is left is enough (with th...

I think the question about Aretas IV being a client king or not (and if yes, in which degree) is not relevant to the case I made. From a client king or not, any attack on a Roman province or a client kingdom would most often called for retaliation by the Romans.
Cordially, Bernard

Did Justin Martyr use Pauline epistles? It appears he did, once, but indirectly, by quoting an expression from a part of gLuke already interpolated with a passage of '1 Corinthians' Last Supper. Justin Martyr's 1 Apology LXVI "For the apostles, in the memoirs composed by them, which are called ...