Non sure what to call this

* NOTE: i do not intend to hurt christian jewish and other religious feelings, i too am a catholic, and just posted this due to curiosity



WI: Jesus didnt survive his torture before being crucified???
would christianity be founded???
 
Don't worry, it actually happens to be one of the events most discussed in Alternate History (or History). Really, that's okay.

Now it's going to be a bit meta : the main point being not historical reality, but how it is depicted in Gospels?
Does his dead still leads to resurrection? If it's depicted as such, you'd have doctrinal differences, but I'm not too sure it would have an incidence on the development of Christianism past the Ist century.

Now if he dies, and there's no one to claim he resurrected, you probably doomed followers of the Nazarean to be at best only but one of many obscure Jewish sects if it survives at all : consequences would be really huge, properly world-shattering.
 

jahenders

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Well, that depends on one's view.

From the perspective of most Christians, He was the Son of God an was slated to die on the cross, so that's what's GOING to happen. That is, He (with angelic support) could endure any torture to make it to the cross to fulfill that plan.

Alternately, He (and His Dad) could agree that the torture would work just as well for the overall plan, so He could die there.

The key point is that He be resurrected, regardless of mode of death.

However, if he died in the torture perhaps a different symbol for Christ would be more common (Fish, Whip, Chi Ro, etc). There was a whole thread on alternate symbols a few weeks ago:
https://www.alternatehistory.com/di...44481&highlight=christ+alternate+symbol+cross


* NOTE: i do not intend to hurt christian jewish and other religious feelings, i too am a catholic, and just posted this due to curiosity

WI: Jesus didnt survive his torture before being crucified???
would christianity be founded???
 
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