The Beginning of Christianity

Christianity didn't win because the christians got swords and killed people or had rebellions. Christianity would not have won in this way. There was no path to victory through violence. So even from a pragmatic point of view, even if we only reduce it to that jesus command here, they don't do that. It checks out that that wasn't going to work on a pragmatic level. But how much more so on duplicating the values of the kingdom levelJesus defeated death by losing, or at least in world categories it looks like losing. He lost his trial. He lost some sort of game of cunning to avoid being arrested or to get caught. And then he