This is going all the way to the beginning, but I think there's a very simple answer to your question Jon.
Jon wrote:
There's been a lot of people since then who have been highly-regarded; why didn't they get a super-mega religion named after them?
I know you dont want to hear this, but it's because Jesus was God and Christians are His followers. The rest were just frauds.
You see what makes Jesus different, is that unlike all the rest claiming to be able to do the things He did, Jesus COULD ACTUALLY do them. He could actually heal, could actually cast out demons, could actually raise the dead.
For this post, I'd just like to say that I want to focus on the historical aspects behind this matter, and not the supernatural ones”so no posts saying 'Jesus really was God, that's why'. We must assume that there is a reasonable, realistic, real-world and non-supernatural-invoking answer to this question.
What exactly do you mean by "historical aspects"? Reasons why "the cult" of Christianity is rampant and others "like it" arn't?
Raph
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