Pharisees only became a thing last century BC
Posted on: April 4, 2021 at 20:56:40 CT
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then in the AD period as well. I never said Paul was not educated. But Paul came so late to the game he missed the guest of honor. Christianity, in fact, is much more a religion of Paul than of Jesus. During the time of Jesus, his group, his cult as it were was known as "the Way" and it entirely Jewish. Jesus was a devout Yahwist. Paul sought to expand it past his Judaic foundation. He found it difficult to recruit folks when both maintaining a kosher diet AND getting circumcized was the price of admission. He fought both Peter and James over this. The form that this faith to be known as Christianity was very much his doing.