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[–]Cornfed[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

No, at the time referred to they were a separate sect consisting of mostly ethnic Jews who were intent on expanding into the non-Jewish world, which was most of Paul's life goal.

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thats what i said

[–]Cornfed[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

You said there was no such thing as Christianity. Clearly there was - it just happened to consist mostly of ethnic Jews.

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christianity didn't exist till a few hundred years later when the romans codified it

like I said it was just a jewish sect then, of which there were many

[–]Cornfed[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Their religion clearly differed from Judaism, hence Paul's previous persecution of them. Most Jews didn't think of them as just other Jews in terms of their religion. There is no reason to require some kind of arbitrary codification to acknowledge the existence of a separate religion.

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the story with paul is yeah he persecuted them but then changed his ways and converted to judaism.

They controlled the temple, jesus Brother James was the high priest. That meant the top jew. They didn't use the term christian to call themself that, they were jews.