Romans refuse to execute Jesus

[Napoleonrules]

Well as a believer Id say he is still alive . But..

So I will go the other way, if he is allowed to live AH Christianity grows faster and much bigger with more centralized source (ala the Prophet).But the Romans would have to have done something they couldn't just leave him around. So probably exile is the most likely option.

Instead of growing to the West, Christianity grows East into Persia and India.

Could you explain why you think a Christianity with Jesus alive would be able to convert Zoroastrians, Mazdaists, Hindus, and Buddhists?

 

[jlk7e]

The Book of Matthew does that a lot where it crams things as "here's the prophecy of the messiah, and here's how Jesus' life fills that out" -- drawing the bulls-eye around an already fired arrow. It does that with the child born in Bethlehem, even though no Roman census matches up to that date and even if a census were taken, the Romans would never have people go back to their cities of birth because that's not how a census works.

Don't blame poor Matthew for that nonsense. That stuff is only in Luke. Matthew just has Mary and Joseph living in Bethlehem when Jesus is born, then moving to Nazareth afterwards.