
#114: Death Wish: Did Jesus Have To Die? (HOTW: Diana Butler Bass)
Heretic Happy Hour
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Did Early Christian Followers Form a Cult Like Group?
The early christians a formed. not unlike many, many other groups in the ancient world. You could look at the early christians and say, ell gosh, they looked a lot like that group. And so i don't know that they would have been any more sort of cult like than the devotees to isis,. or whoever there's. There were different jesus communities, or tradition communities. So if it was cult like, it would have been different colts within the faith. But ia with you on that. A, as for a cultish a, i would say that overall, probably not. I think there may have been some religious movement for sure
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