WI : Jesus preaching in Arabia.

Depend on if Jesus message was intended as only a reform of the jewish faith, or if he wanted to give it a more universal tone to include the gentile. The extra years of not being dead would have allow him to explicate his teaching.
 
Assuming he doesn't just die there, he probably establishes a fairly dominant religious cult. Beyond that, if Arabia is Christian, and have greater unity, then they might, similar to OTL Islam, invade Egypt and Palsetine once Rome is weak enough to let them. Without Constantine the Romans won't establish Constantinople, and will likely remained centered on Italy, which could lead to an initial Arab invasion that takes control of the OTL Eastern Roman Empire, rather than (or perhaps in addition to) expanding across north africa. After that, Christianity (assuming that it is comperable to it's OTL coiunterpart) might become palatable to the Romans, the Persians, or both. All interesting possibilities here. Of course, without the redemption through death element, Christianity may just fizzle, but where's the fun in that:p
 

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Christianity would surely fill the power vacuum left by Rome, though I would argue to less of an extent Islam did. Furthermore, if Islam isn't butterflied away, then I would say either Islam never reaches anywhere outside of Arabia, or Christianity is completely supplanted by the Islamic Faith, depending on how far it has spread. Eventually it would make it's way into Europe and become the dominant world religion.
 
Christianity would surely fill the power vacuum left by Rome, though I would argue to less of an extent Islam did. Furthermore, if Islam isn't butterflied away, then I would say either Islam never reaches anywhere outside of Arabia, or Christianity is completely supplanted by the Islamic Faith, depending on how far it has spread. Eventually it would make it's way into Europe and become the dominant world religion.
No way would there still be an Islam.
 
It depends on what happens to the disciples and whether the New Testament gets written. If they stick around and act similarly after his eventual death I can see Christianity performing similarly to OTL, perhaps with a more streamlined theology and more influence in the East. However, the idea of Jesus in Arabia sounds ASB-ish to me; why would he go to the middle of nowhere instead of Egypt or some other better developed area with more Jews?
 
Some guy with a beard fleeing the Romans flees into Arabia preaching stuff about gods? What else is new?

As in I doubt he would have much impact given his influence during life was limited to his local community
 
It depends on what happens to the disciples and whether the New Testament gets written. If they stick around and act similarly after his eventual death I can see Christianity performing similarly to OTL, perhaps with a more streamlined theology and more influence in the East. However, the idea of Jesus in Arabia sounds ASB-ish to me; why would he go to the middle of nowhere instead of Egypt or some other better developed area with more Jews?


To avoid the Romans I assume would be the best answer, another would be that his disciples stay in the empire to spread his teachings while he travels east or south to Arabia to teach there.
 
It depends on what happens to the disciples and whether the New Testament gets written. If they stick around and act similarly after his eventual death I can see Christianity performing similarly to OTL, perhaps with a more streamlined theology and more influence in the East. However, the idea of Jesus in Arabia sounds ASB-ish to me; why would he go to the middle of nowhere instead of Egypt or some other better developed area with more Jews?

Arabia is hardly "the middle of nowhere", you had Jewish communauties in all the coast of Red Sea, and in the West/East tradeway.

In fact, this is less random than Egypt as, except the communauty of Alexandria and the echo of Exodus of Jewish people, you didn't have a great interest on fleeing there.
 
Assuming he doesn't just die there, he probably establishes a fairly dominant religious cult. Beyond that, if Arabia is Christian, and have greater unity, then they might, similar to OTL Islam, invade Egypt and Palsetine once Rome is weak enough to let them. Without Constantine the Romans won't establish Constantinople, and will likely remained centered on Italy, which could lead to an initial Arab invasion that takes control of the OTL Eastern Roman Empire, rather than (or perhaps in addition to) expanding across north africa. After that, Christianity (assuming that it is comperable to it's OTL coiunterpart) might become palatable to the Romans, the Persians, or both. All interesting possibilities here. Of course, without the redemption through death element, Christianity may just fizzle, but where's the fun in that:p

Because only Constantine would think of such a thing?

It might not be called Constantinople, but Byzantium as a good place to transform into an Eastern capital is a pretty reasonable decision and has nothing to do with Christianity - and butterflies aren't going to change the strategic value of the place.

So I don't think the eastern half of the Empire is necessarily that much different than OTL, in this regard, although how it reacts to Christianity is going to be interesting.
 
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