Christianity did not exist before Jesus. Judaism is the abrahamic religion that existed before Christianity sprang up. Gilead is very much not a Jewish state.
Okay so it wasn’t CALLED “Christianity”, no. But many of the subsets of the main umbrella religion, focused on the God of the Bible, that we now REFER to as “Christianity” did exist. Like Catholicism, which the vast majority of people do now consider a version of Christianity. And in THIS day and age there are many people who use the word “Christian” to describe themselves, but do not actually believe in the New Testament.
Yes, my wording was a little bit poor - but come on, I think we all know what I meant. Just because it doesn’t use the same name, that doesn’t mean it’s not the same religion.
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u/lordmwahaha 5d ago
Christianity existed long before Jesus. Like many offshoots, they choose to ignore the very recently added section of the Bible where Jesus appears.
It’s really only certain subsets of modern Christianity that care about Jesus. A LOT see it as blasphemous.