[ SECRET POST #4029 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4029 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

gonna pull you back on your Christian history for just a minute here. The early Christians were ALL Jews. In the early stages of the religion it was a Jewish religion that still celebrated the Jewish holy days like Passover and all, just with a belief that the celebrations, like Passover, had been fulfilled (Jesus was the last sacrificial lamb at Passover, the empty chair was for the Holy Spirit, etc. Messianic Jews still do this now). When they started converting non-Jews it was a huge division in the movement between whether they should and how many of the Jewish traditions non-Jew conversions should follow. Peter with his vision on the rooftop of the unclean animals and God telling him to get the stick out of his ass and Paul's letter about meat for idols and all for instance. NOW most people who convert to Christianity aren't Jews but at its beginning it was all Jews and remained strongly Jewish until the Roman Empire took it over and started moving it away from that base because - yeah, they couldn't have the Jews getting their icky influence on things.

Not arguing the rest - just concerned about how often the Jewish base beginning of Christianity is ignored or glossed over often for vilification, 'purity' or control purposes.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that the division between Jewish Christian and Gentile Christians was an extremely important one in the early Church, but the division itself goes back to the very early days of the Church - I mean, Paul's whole thing was proselytizing to the Gentiles, and the fact that they're debating whether or not Gentile Christians need to follow Jewish custom as early as 50 or 51 shows that happening very early on. And it continues to spread widely among non-Jews, with that becoming the dominant branch of the religion long before it becomes the state religion of Rome. It really happens pretty early on.

So, while not denying that there were Jewish Christians, and while strongly agreeing that Christianity comes out of Judaism in a bunch of other ways, I think my statement is more correct.