Hebrews as well. What ius interesting is that many of the books do not fit the Nicean councils guidlines to make canon. Paul was far from catholic use, Hebrews has no clear apostolic authorship, Revelation was used be heretical groups and Jude was a relativly new invention...(BTW, the four criteria were universality, orthodoxy, long history and apostolic roots)
Did Jesus or Paul found Christianity? neither! ultimately marry magdalane must be credited, for without her resurection of the spirits of christ's deciples, it would have died aborning. what is called christianity today, is though, as much or more the perversions of saul of tarsus as anything to do with the will or teachings of the christ. though i do understand and simpathise that most 'christians' do not seem to know or understand this. =^^= .../\...
I would have to say neither, it was God. If you believe that the Bible is the word of God then what is in the Bible is what God wants to be there. The Bible shows that it was God that put things in motion and directed the establishment of Christianity.
of course all things in the bible are put there by God. It is the inspired work of God. So, to me, God is the one who started Christianity..
I'm sure that if Jesus would have had His way, Judaism ultimately would have changed. Jesus, unlike Christians today, observed the Passover and the other feasts. Jesus did plant the seeds to the new ideas and interpretation which ultimately lead to his death. Jesus said to spread the message that He taught, but Paul gave the idea that one should not be like Jesus in the sense that Jesus followed the law. He also set up the church in the Timothies. Without these acts, I would assume Christians would try to intermingle with the Jews and feel more persecution until someone else other than Paul would say something like "We need to get out of here because the Congregation doesn't like us too much." It is for this reason that I believe Paul created Christianity and not Jesus. I would assume that Jesus would be the one to say "Intermingle with them because they need more help than anyone because they are persecuting people because of my message."