WI Christianity remains a Jewish sect?

In 49 AD the remaining Apostles were gathered in Jerusalem and convened a Council in order to resolve a disagreement that has been raised in Antioch under the presidency of St. James.
Soon participants were divided in 2 factions, one lead by Peter supporting that Mosaic Law should be upheld and that preaching should be restricted to Jews only and the second one was lead by Paul who supported that Mosaic Law shouldnt be obligatory to newly baptised people and also preaching could be extended to Gentiles also.
In the end Paul's faction won and Christianity was spread to Gentile nations too...

WI Peter's faction won? Christianity would have remained a jewish sect and wouldnt have flourished?
 
In 49 AD the remaining Apostles were gathered in Jerusalem and convened a Council in order to resolve a disagreement that has been raised in Antioch under the presidency of St. James.
Soon participants were divided in 2 factions, one lead by Peter supporting that Mosaic Law should be upheld and that preaching should be restricted to Jews only and the second one was lead by Paul who supported that Mosaic Law shouldnt be obligatory to newly baptised people and also preaching could be extended to Gentiles also.
In the end Paul's faction won and Christianity was spread to Gentile nations too...

WI Peter's faction won? Christianity would have remained a jewish sect and wouldnt have flourished?

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Judaism was a missionary religion into the first century CE. It was the spread of Christianity into the Gentile world that caused Judaism to turn back in on itself and end its missionary outreach.

The personality of Paul would not have allowed his vision to die (unless he is taken totally out of the picture). So, you'd have two very different versions of Christianity.

There is some scholarly conjecture that Christianity should've been a Jewish sect which held Jesus to truly be a descendant of David and, hence, the rightful king of Judah. The thought is that this group was persecuted by both Jews and Christians and died out early in the second century CE.
 
Had christianity evolved to a jewish sect competing with official judaism wouldnt have ended in a Roman intervention (more or less as per OTL)?
Romans had enough of a headache with all these religious clashes in the area...
 
There is some scholarly conjecture that Christianity should've been a Jewish sect which held Jesus to truly be a descendant of David and, hence, the rightful king of Judah. The thought is that this group was persecuted by both Jews and Christians and died out early in the second century CE.

It's been a long time since I've opened a Bible, but doesn't one of the Gospels trace Jesus' lineage to David?
 
It's been a long time since I've opened a Bible, but doesn't one of the Gospels trace Jesus' lineage to David?

Yes, it does. See Matthew, Chapter 1.

Technically Christianity was never a Jewish sect, in the sense of being a variant of Judaism; rather it was a new religion founded on Judaism, but going beyond it.

The conflict between the two factions may never have actually existed; the Bible, for one, makes no mention of it and it may have been an invention of later historians. Even if true, I cannot see someone like Paul, who viewed himself as divinely inspired and duty bound to spread the gospel, meekly abiding by such a decision; he is going to preach to the Gentiles come hell or high water, and his followers will eventually triumph due to sheer numbers.
 
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