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barryrob

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I thought the answer was pretty obvious - there was nothing called Christianity existing at the time of Jesus. Christianity only emerged well into the second century.

But a more interesting issue is that the word 'religion' was not associated with Judaism because of their ethnic base - they were a 'group'; a cultural block - generally one had to be born into Judaism. It was only when Christianity emerged, not as an ethnic group, but as something else that the word 'religion' was adopted to describe what Christianity was as opposed to Judaism. Christianity and Judaism were different in that they were different religions.

Jesus had no desire to start something called a 'religion'. Nor was he interested in starting another sect like the Essenes or the Pharisees.

Not quite right on 2 counts:-

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Acts 11:26
it was first in Antioch that the disciples were by divine providence called chistians.
"Christians" belonged to Christianity as Jews belonged to Judaism.


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"Religion" just means a 'way of worship' of which there are 1,000s of forms including one being Christianity.
Jesus belonged to the Jewish Religion which he used to teach and expand on to found the Christian "Way*" of worship of the god of the Jews, a religion set upon his teachings:-
*Acts 9:2
...any whom he found who belonged to The Way, both men and women.
 
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The Bible makes a very strong and meaningful case for the gospel of Jesus Christ as a consummation of God's act of Creation hijacked by Christianity as a founding of a new movement. In Christ, there is room for personal faith but not religion.

The Above IS Wrong!

Christianity is an extension of Jewish teachings as found in the Bible (O.T.) as they had a covenant with God which was prophesied to be replaces by the NEW covenant that the Messiah would bring in and institute by The Will Of God:-


Jeremiah 31:31-32
"Look! There are days coming," is the utterance of Jehovah, "and I will conclude with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant; 32 not one like the covenant that I concluded with their forefathers in the day of my taking hold of their hand to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt, ‘which covenant of mine they themselves broke,. . .
 
Jeremiah 31:33
"For this is the covenant that I shall conclude with the house of Israel after those days," is the utterance of Jehovah. "I will put my law within them, and in their heart I shall write it. And I will become their God, and they themselves will become my people."
 
Luke 22:20
"This cup means the new covenant by virtue of my blood, which is to be poured out in YOUR behalf.
 
1 Corinthians 11:25
He did likewise respecting the cup also, after he had the evening meal, saying: "This cup means the new covenant . . .
 
2 Corinthians 3:5-6
but our being adequately qualified issues from God, 6 who has indeed adequately qualified us to be ministers of a new covenant, not of a written code, but of spirit; for the written code condemns to death, but the spirit makes alive.
 
Hebrews 8:8-9
"‘Look! There are days coming,’ says Jehovah, ‘and I will conclude with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah a new covenant; 9 not according to the covenant that I made with their forefathers in [the] day of my taking hold of their hand to bring them forth out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant, so that I stopped caring for them,’ says Jehovah."
 
Hebrews 8:13
In his saying "a new [covenant]" he has made the former one obsolete. Now that which is made obsolete and growing old is near to vanishing away.
 
Hebrews 9:15-24
So that is why he is a mediator of a new covenant, in order that, because a death has occurred for [their] release by ransom from the transgressions under the former covenant, the ones who have been called might receive the promise of the everlasting inheritance. 16 For where there is a covenant, the death of the [human] covenanter needs to be furnished. 17 For a covenant is valid over dead [victims], since it is not in force at any time while the [human] covenanter is living. 18 Consequently neither was the former [covenant] inaugurated without blood. 19 For when every commandment according to the Law had been spoken by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of the young bulls and of the goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop and sprinkled the book itself and all the people, 20 saying: "This is the blood of the covenant that God has laid as a charge upon YOU." 21 And he sprinkled the tent and all the vessels of the public service likewise with the blood. 22 Yes, nearly all things are cleansed with blood according to the Law, and unless blood is poured out no forgiveness takes place. 23 Therefore it was necessary that the typical representations of the things in the heavens should be cleansed by these means, but the heavenly things themselves with sacrifices that are better than such sacrifices. 24 For Christ entered, not into a holy place made with hands, which is a copy of the reality, but into heaven itself, now to appear before the person of God for us.
 
Hebrews 12:24
Jesus the mediator of a new covenant, . . .
 
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