Comment on There's Jews for Jesus, are there Christians against Christ?
sndrtj@feddit.nl 1 year agoWhat would the Romans have hoped to gain by letting someone proselytize that notoriously incompatible-with-the-pantheon religion to the layfolk?
Comment on There's Jews for Jesus, are there Christians against Christ?
sndrtj@feddit.nl 1 year agoWhat would the Romans have hoped to gain by letting someone proselytize that notoriously incompatible-with-the-pantheon religion to the layfolk?
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Nothing, they hoped Paul would (and if you compare his teachings with the gospels, he was successful) subvert the movement from the anti-organized religion countercultural message of Jesus into something that would either die out or become a tool for them to weaponize.