[Past Your Eyes]

"The Catholic Church started Christianity."----Hmmm. I always thought it was the Jews who did that.

[mike182d]

"The Catholic Church started Christianity."----Hmmm. I always thought it was the Jews who did that.

The first Christians were not all Jews and many were Gentiles (the whole of St. Paul's ministry was regarding the Gentiles and being less "Jewish" regarding the Law). Hence the debates between Peter and Paul over whether a person had to become Jewish before becoming a Christian or if Christianity was its own seperate entity.

It was not the Jews that decided on this issue, nor was it addressed by Jesus Christ while He was on earth, but rather it was an issue ultimately decided upon by the Catholic Church, led by St. Peter, not a Jewish sect.