What is Christianity?

As long as Jesus lay in the tomb, he was just another tragic religious figure who suffered a martyr’s death. 
In fact, Paul tells us that the resurrection is the greatest display of God’s power ever to be demonstrated, nor can it ever be surpassed.

Except of course for the fact that resurrection was not at all uncommon in the Bible stories. Happened again and again to quite a few folk. There was nothing really unusual or unique about Jesus resurrection.

But Paul’s statement that Jesus’ resurrection was the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep, the expression first fruits has little meaning for today’s urban dwellers. In Bible times, it had a rich meaning because it referred to the first produce of the harvest, which was offered in sacrifice to God to express gratitude for granting a new harvest. 
Thus, the first fruits, which were brought to the Temple, were seen not as mere hope of a new harvest, but as its actual beginning. Jesus’ resurrection, then, is the first fruits in the sense that it has made the resurrection of believers not a mere possibility, but a certainty.

Again you confuse resurrection with resuscitation. Sure there are stories that people were brought back to life but not in a new physicality and without their death being put off permanently. The resurrection of Jesus was seen as a foretaste of the resurrection of the cosmos at the end of time.The whole NT is made up of people trying to understand just what it was that God had to say and what He was doing by resurrecting Jesus.Sure you don't have to believe in the resurrection but if you are right the whole NT isn't worth any more than the writings about Mahattma Gandhi. It also means that Jesus was highly delusional and I would see no reason to follow someone like that.

Yes, Paul used that as part of his marketing spiel yet never offered any support or evidence. It, like so many of Paul's marketing slogans simply does not stand up to examination.

But who took your sin debt? Jesus Christ! Who paid it? Jesus Christ! How much of it did he pay? All of it before you were ever born! Reconciliation has to do with sin debt.

No, I do not confuse the two. If so, it seems an enormous waste of time and energy. How is Jesus resurrection any different than any of the other resurrections in the Bible stories? That is almost true, but I would have used the writings of the Buddha instead. And no, it does not mean Jesus was delusional although it's very likely some of those recording the tales were.It means that considering Jesus death as the sacrifice is in error. If though you consider Jesus life the sacrifice all fits together and does not make God look stupid.Edited by jar, : fix quote

Yawn.Thank God no one took my sin debt.

I do not know if you grasp the full scope of what predestination means? God did not predetermine to cause some individuals to belief unto eternal life, he predetermined to conform everyone who believes to his son.

Yes, that is certainly one of the brands of Christianity that is marketed, the FUD branch and Kiss Hanks Ass branch.It is that God not the only branch of Christianity.It is a branch that markets an evil, despicable God that should be opposed by any moral creature.

But reconciliation simply means a change in status, and it is a major issue recognizing reconciliation. Reconciliation from God’s advantage point is an accomplished fact, and God is reconciled where the totality of the sin debt of all men is concerned.

But you are right, there are pastors who understand God’s grace who are reluctant to preach grace, because grace will lead to a license to sin. Many of these same pastors in an effort to reduce sinning, they revert to preaching law, thinking that’s going to solve the problem. 
They want to scare the sin out of people, put their salvation on the line, dangle that up in front of them and scare them with a conditional salvation and that will straighten them up. So they stop preaching grace, as if not preaching grace is going stop people from sinning.

But you are so right about the marketing. Paul was never about starting a new religion. There’s no Christianity in Paul’s letters. There are no Christians in Paul’s letters. You can’t find the word. You can’t find the concept.But check out this persons marketing on this discussion I am in. People ARE Mixing the Gospels Together! | GON Forum
This person wants their question answered. This person is going to get mad at me, because I know if I answerer that question, that person is going to power dump a bunch of out of context versus on me. The power dump is their marketing, what are you thoughts?

My point about marketing is, watch this 'hayseed theology', this person wants answers to questions. This person want to theology schools to learn how to answer those questions. So far this person wants me to answer two questions, but why go down their marketing rabbit hole?

So this person did not get their questions answered, see what they said? Their is the marketing you are talking about?