I wonder: when Jesus of Nazareth was preaching, do you think he realised he was creating an entirely new religion, or did he consider himself and his followers a different sect of Judaism? Did he know that eventually there would be billions of people who would name their relgion after him and use his words as justification for war? I'm going to work under the assumption that he was not divinly inspired, because any historical records of him that consider him to be the son of God are highly biased.
So do you think that he would have thought of himself as someone who was redefining the older jewish religion or inventing a totally new one?
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