Poor poor Christianity?

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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

Since we are distinguishing between the NT church and fallen, degraded Christianity in this thread you have failed to provide evidence that Paul started Christianity. You make that leap when it is very much an unproven assertion.

Paul's ministry builds the church. Shortly after the church arrives on the scene we also see Christianity. Correlation is not causation. I recently saw an ice cream truck, not more than one week later it was 90 degrees. Did the ice cream truck cause the summer? Correlation is not causation.

The hope of Jesus's return in his lifetime to set up the kingdom of God on earth was very much alive in Paul and coexisted with his Hellenistic tendencies. As the hope for Jesus's soon return diminished over the generations Paul's Hellenistic teachings were the ones that were more often applied to build the church. With the resurgence of apocalypticism among the Protestant churches of course Paul apocalyptic teaching came more to the forefront.