hi Loaded,
I'll answer your questions from what I imagine a Bible beleiver's viewpoint to be.
if Jesus had died in prison would we be saved?
Yes, because the crucifixion event itself doesnt really mean anything, it was the sacrifice that mattered, he could have died in any fashion, as long as he died for our wicked evil disgusting sins that we commit freely every minute of the day!
This makes a lot of sense to me. I mean would Christianity be the largest religion on the planet if Jesus wasn't crucified?
Yes it would be, thanks to Constantine, who couldnt really care less how Jesus died, it would still be the largest faith. But only for the next few years, Islam will rapidly pass it by in terms of number of followers quite soon.
Where would Jesus be without the disciples?
Well still festering in his grave of course lol. Oh this isnt a xian answer. Well since Jesus is God then the disciples have no bearing on where he is today, he is still seated at the right hand of the gracious loving father. A father who demanded that we murder his son, how loving can you get ?
Actually the disciples are an interesting lot, they witnessed numerous miracles and were still stupid enough not to believe. Which sort of undermines the authorship of the books/letter associated with them. The new testament is a complex collection of books, how could people who were portrayed as relatively dense have composed such a thing?
Brian.