"The War for God" - A Christian Timeline

Authors Note
I decided to think what would happen if Jesus Christ didn't get nailed to the cross and his followers exacted revenge on those who tried to stop the word of The Lord. I'm a Roman Catholic so I know my biblical information. Some might see this as a Christian wank, others may see it as pretty awesome.

Judaea was struck by a storm like no other in the historical year of 32 A.D, the attempted execution of Jesus of Nazerth by the Roman court and the Jewish high priests. This of course failed when Jesus' obdient followers, the 11 apostles were scared and frightened watching their leader be sentenced. Peter, the lead apostle was asked three times if he was a follower of Jesus. On the third, instead of denying his leader, he and the apostles killed 23 Roman legionaires, before starting a riot and decapitating Pontus Pilate in the name of The Lord. The rioters followed Jesus and Peter to the Temple of Jerusalem, before shouting the crowd his famous remark: "This is the day we defy the Romans, the high priests and the traitors. We have god by our side. Let us make the kingdom of god our reality!!!". He said this before the rioters brutally ripped the high priests to pieces. The city of Jerusalem was under Christian control by now. The Zealots from around Judaea started attacking the Romans everywhere on the news of the gaining of Jerusalem by the followers of Jesus. Jesus Christ, although thinking that what he was doing was wrong, it was the true reason Jesus came down from Heaven. By 34 A.D the Judaean province of Rome belonged to Israel once more.
 
Jesus the warrior would be no martyr for a new religion to spring up from. His little sect would fade away after his inevitable defeat and execution by the Empire.
 
Jesus the warrior would be no martyr for a new religion to spring up from. His little sect would fade away after his inevitable defeat and execution by the Empire.
That's correct. But truely what destroyed the Empire in the first place. Think about it. If there is no Christianity, Rome has a better chance at survival.
 
At this point the evangelization of Anatolia,Syria and Armenia is starting, we might see a Christian Anatolian and Palestianian states or rather we can have Jesus pull a mohammed and have his successor conquer Anatolia, Syria and Armenia in an empire that has Greek as the Official language.
 
That's correct. But truely what destroyed the Empire in the first place. Think about it. If there is no Christianity, Rome has a better chance at survival.
"sigh" From what people have stated that's nothing more than an myth.
 
Why not? Muhammed founded a religion and was not a Hippie either.

Muhammad didn't lead a small band of peasants trying to fight off the Roman empire...

This PoD basically preempts the Jewish rebellions and if you don't have the succession crisis in Rome it is unlikely Judea could win its independence, even temporarily.
 
True otherwise the arab tribes where not really known for their fighting skills/Empire building either.

Fighting skills, I think they were at least not disrespected.

And how the hay are Peter and the other Apostles just killing twice their number in Roman legionaries and then starting a riot and . . .


This just doesn't follow. It's not even about whether or not a Warrior Christianity could get going, it's this setting it off instead of smashing Christianity into the dust before it extends anywhere.
 
But truely what destroyed the Empire in the first place.

Invasion by German barbarians. Economic failure. Failure of the Imperial succession system and fifty years of revolving door governments where ascension to power meant murdering your predecessor. Plague. The constant military struggle with the Parthians and Persians.

A religion which holds that God ordered man to render unto Caesar and whose first theologian ordered that all people shall work for their pay would seem like the last thing one would suspect of causing an Empire to fall. Not to mention that, at 300 AD, only around 10% of Romans were Christians.

Anyway...it would seem odd for "My Kingdom is not of this earth," "he who lives by the sword dies by the sword," to lead to anything like this scenario.
 
And it is highly unlikely that the followers of Jesus would be called Christians in the future. More likely, they will be called the Cult of Yeshua after being put down by the Romans. Brutally.
 
The Fall of Rome had little to do with the rise of Christianity, various polytheistic and monotheistic elements of indigenous religions were absorbed into the Roman Empire, and preceding that the Roman Republic.

Christianity certainly thrived within it's decline, but Rome's Fall was more to do with the stagnation and collapse of its massive economic might, corruption, and the successive civil warfare that occurred in parallel with the vast migration of peoples from central Asia and the Steppes. :)
 
this remind me: Agora movie, the fall of Rome, where christians in alexandria start attacking pagans and then jews, killing one great woman: Hipatia
 
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