It appears that the Q Gospel teachings of our Lord Jesus Christ hold the key to an understanding that HE is fundamentally non-Christian. The scholars, the authors of Q did not view our Lord Jesus Christ as the Christ, the anointed one, the promised Messiah, or as the redeemer who had atoned for their sins by HIS crucifixion, or as the Son of God who rose from the dead.
Instead, the authors esteemed HIM as simply a roving wise person who preached a life of being without possessions, wandering around, and being fully accepted by fellow human beings as being a good guy, who had little supernatural baggage, but had much respect for cultural diversity.
The scholars have roughly ascertained and identified that 235 verses in Luke and Matthew is of Q material source that dont include the Gospel narratives of HIS passion and resurrection, which seem to have come from other sources, written or oral.
The scholars contend that the authors of Q knew nothing about the way that our Lord Jesus Christ died, or about the stories of an empty tomb, and if they knew, they didnt simply care. Hence there was no atonement doctrine in Q theology. And because belief in HIS resurrection is the core belief of a believer in Christianity, even though very liberal Christians of today profess faith in the Easter event, if only as a metaphor for renewal, it appears that the people who wrote Q must have been adherents of Jesus in Palestine, who were not "Christians", but admired HIM. They were referred to as being Jewish Christians, a confusing term at that.
The preferred designation nowadays for the group of which they were a part is referred to as the Jesus movement. It appears that it had take some decades, for the Q partisans to believe in HIM, before the movement was subsumed into a cult of Christ, who are the forefathers of our life as they were largely Gentile, centred on the cross and the resurrection, which was a cult in those early days and became known as Christianity.
