Posted: Jul 21, 2013 6:50 pm
angelo wrote:The facts are still that christianity started with whoever Paul was.
That would be quite a minority view. Must scholars, including the skeptic Bart Ehrman, have no doubt that the itinerant teacher known as Jesus lived and died in Palenstine, and whom around a dedicated group of disciples formed. St. Paul was certainly hugely influential in the spread of Christianity Northwards and Westwards, but the Coptic Church tracks a different descent, from the Alexandrian Jews.