The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. We never would have had the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Reformation, or Modernity as we know it. Read by Walter Dixon New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus became God in the minds of his followers and how this belief became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church. The Christian church would never have become the dominant religious, cultural, social, political, and economic force of the West. The Christian religion would not have been made the official religion of the state. Ehrman.Published on March 25, 2014, by HarperOne, the book contends that the historical Jesus did not claim to be divine, nor was he worshipped as such during his life rather, his status as God the Son in the Trinity in Christian doctrine developed in the years following.
The empire would not have become predominantly Christian. How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee is a book by American New Testament scholar Bart D.
If Constantine had not converted, masses of former pagans would not have accepted the faith in his wake. If Christianity were not a large and viable religion by the beginning of the fourth century, the emperor Constantine would almost certainly not have converted to it. If the religion had not become predominantly Gentile it would not have seen such a steady and remarkable growth, almost entirely with Gentile converts, over the next three hundred years, when it came to encompass something like five per cent of the Empire. Gentiles would not have converted to follow Jesus any more than they converted to any other form of Judaism. If Jesus had never been pronounced a divine being, his followers would have remained a sect within Judaism, a small group of Jews who thought that Jesus had delivered the correct interpretation of the Jewish law.
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