Sublime

Christianity was not a new and unique revelation but actually a Jewish adaptation of the ancient Pagan Mystery religion.

It seemed to us extraordinary that a whole library of early Christian documents could be discovered, containing what purport to be the teachings of Christ and his disciples, and yet so few modern followers of Jesus should even know of their existence.

Christianity began as one of several subsets of Judaism in the first century CE. It quickly moved away from its parent in beliefs and practices, in part because many non-Jews also became Christians.

Is it possible to proceed, by way of historical study, to a portrait of Jesus which is sufficient of itself to evoke, or at least legitimate, that worship which Christianity has traditionally offered to him? If not, is this because we merely lack sufficient biographical information, or because we know a priori that anything in the gospel accounts