Theological Opinions , PART II

[Gwaimir Windgem]

Originally Posted by Falagar

It is a bit curious then, that Christianity never gained much support among the people it was initially started and that so many remained jews. In such a large area with so bad communications it would be easy for these authors to claim anything, there weren't anyone to check their sources - certainly not the common people who made up the majority of Jesus' followers, who could neither read nor write and would perhaps not even be sure of what they had seen (also the people with the shortest life expectancy).

Actually, upper-class Romans were a significant portion of the followers.

Instead, they turned outwards and the few jewish Christians, shunned by both factions, died away (drawing on my memory of a book I started called "The Early Christianity" here).

Wait: you're citing as a source a book you are writing?