Who founded Christianity?
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One obvious answer is Christ.\nHowever, the real answer is Peter.  Christ did not worship Christ, and he was a Jew until He died.\nPeter, therefore, was the first Christian, its founder, and its first leader.
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Any religion based on Christs teachings is considered Christianity.
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For all - let's get our facts straight. Christianity evoloved out of Jewism. Jesus was a Jew and the Isrealites were Jews. Christianity evolved from this. We are NOT all decendants of Adam and Eve - the Isrealites were. Were the other white people come from  is a mystery. There were some angles outside the garden and  what other people there were - we don't have an idea. I don't beleive in evolution but are also having a hard time believing creation. So who were outside the garden..maybe the animals and who created them...no idea
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I believe that there's no such thing as Christianity, it's something invented by Paul and the Roman after, if Jesus know about this he would probably disagree, he was just a Jewish reformer..
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I don't believe that Jesus was the founder of Christianity.  he was a devout Jew.  His disciples spread his teaching after he was crucified and a long time after his death, Christianity was formed as an institution.The books of the new testament don't really say that Jesus was like..."hey, i have a new religion for you." what he was saying was...according to my religious, Judaism, all of ya'll are messing up!, by the way, i am the Messiah...the one the Jews are waiting for...and here i am to challenge you to stick to Judaism and little more closely and maybe we should try some new things too..."  The gospels are incomplete...in fact there are other gospels that were left out like the gospel of Mary Magdalena and Thomas...each one kicked it with Jesus but they had a bit of a different view than the others...the others who were the ones who founded the religion....\ni respect Christianity and its teachings though i am not a follower.  A good look at historical jesus can be interesting.
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Christianity is a Dualist religion.  This means that it is based on the concept of competition between good and evil,  The duality based religion started long before Judaism or Christianity in the ancient middle east
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Wow, there's a question that requires a book to answer! :)\n\nI would recommend a webpage like this one:\n\nhttp://www.beliefnet.com/index/index_10000.html\n\nI can answer questions about all the Christianity-related ones (Chrstian, which includes also Catholic, Baptist, Pentecostal). Feel free to send me an e-mail if you want the long version!
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There were many religions before Christianity. Judaism is one, just the Old Testament. Other religions have multiple Gods and Goddesses. Some have none. Christianity is not the only and not the first and maybe not even the right religion.
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christianity is not the oldest religion.\n\nit has been suggested that the wiccan religion is the oldest, and in truth, christian religion has borrowed alot from it. some people also claim that hinduism is the oldest religion because it has the earliest recorded roots which lie in dravidianism. \n\nto answer the first part of your question, people will hold on to what ever belief system that they understand best. not all countries and cultures have been introduced to christianity, so they have developed their own belief system that does not revolve around jesus christ, or christian rituals.\n_____________________\nmainworry, what precise evidence do you have to suggest that christianity is not a religion?
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the catholic church was around 1500 years before martin luthr was even born.  so protestants, who is kidding who????? which doctrine is really man-made??? the catholic church's essence is that of the original christianity, before someone came along and saod " i don't like x or y, so i think i'll make my own church".
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They were Jewish. \n\nAlso Christians are not a sect of Judaism and we actually have very little in common.
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A pagan one. :-P Pagan religions were the majority until Christianity came along.
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The First (<<<--- key word) Ecumenical Council of the Universal church was convened in 325 CE (ad) by Roman Emperor Constantine. \n\nThe bible was invented at that council because the council adopted the Nicene Creed and anything that disagreed with that creed was rejected, including Arianism.\n\nThe claim that Constantine had no influence on the invention of the Christian bible is ridiculous. He authorized and supervised the council that invented the Jesus is God myth.
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religion was invented by people themselves
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The root of christianity is what Paul taught. It is scary how today's christians will quote Paul and Paul's rules to the church more than Jesus'. Jesus came to fulfill the "Law" not to change it. No where does Jesus call himself a "God" He refers to Himself as the "Son of Man" and reveers the "Father" God.Paul deifies Christ and defines the trinity.\nYou would think If such a thing as the trinity existed, Jesus would have told His diciples the truth of it. Paul walked the earth the same time as Jesus,He was present at the stoning of Stephen, He pursecuted early christians in the name of the Sanhedrian  His conversion would have been as prevalent had Jesus changed his heart while Jesus had been alive, but with Jesus having been crucified Paul conviently makes up laws for christians subverting the faith and deceiving the world
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Follow this link to see who really created the world, theses christians don't know sh*t there is many creations stories but the FSM is the only true one.\n\nhttp://www.venganza.org/\n\nThe truth shall set you free...
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ACTUALLY, YES they do.  They both originated from JUDAISM.  Christianity was founded by Christ who was a Jew.  His teachings he hoped would expound upon God's love and to clarify how he wanted us to live our lives.  Islam was founded by Mohammed (hope I spelled it right)  Mohammed created Islam in hopes of uniting the warring tribes into a single Arabic state through religion.  Mohammed after hearing many travelers from both of the aforemention religions claims to have been visited by the angel Gabriel and instructed to form Islam.  He did not "write" the koran as many people believe because he was illiterate.  however, after his dream/visit from the angel Gabriel, he dictated the religion to someone...\nThis is just a vague synopsis so look up more information on the history of the religions (not the practices).  I dont remember much because I took world history like two years ago but i did learn that they came from the same place...so what is all the fighting about?  extremists.  there are some people who interpret the koran one way and some who interpret another.  same with christianity.  some interpret one way and hundreds interpret it in other ways.