[New Age Messiah]

Orthodox...

See, what happened is, people were begging for a messiah, people were lining up to be the messiah. The messiah's sole function was to deliver the Jews out from Roman rule. The kingdom of God was just an independent Israeli state.

Heaven didn't exist, neither did hell.

Jesus was a leading rebel, strong, in the line of David.

He got crucified, the rebellion was crushed and so were the spirits of the Jews.. Then they said he was the messiah.

If Jesus would have been a great teacher, Paul would have taught what Jesus taught. If Jesus was born of a virgin, Paul would have said it.

Paul was writing what was, in his mind, the authoritative word of what Jesus meant to the world. He said everything he knew to say.

There were conflicting gospels, i.e. interpretations...

The book "The Birth of Christianity" by Joel Charmichael describes very well what was going on.

Paul was learning the spiritual indwelling stuff form pagans long before he ever heard of Jesus.

On and on... I proved the religion false. And I proved all other religions false.

So now we get to start New for the New Age. Makes sense.