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Stay tuned to what you post. Do you have any science that supports creationism?
PLEASE -- stay with the topic. Don't let the goading get to you.
Recent readings have me looking at the multiple versions of the faith which existed in the late First and on into the Fourth Centuries. What we know today of the origins is primarily a result of the melding of what is called "orthodox" Christianity with the structure of power found in the Roman Empire. One of those groups deleted from history was known as the Nazorians or Nasoreans, who believed that Jesus lived and died in the early First Century BCE, approximately 50 to 70 years before the time attributed to the Jesus we know. Another sect were those who believed they still had to observe all the laws found in the Torah, including male circumcision, to be seen as true followers of the Messiah - this dispute is mentioned in Galatians 2.
Physical - legal and military - power seems to be as crucial to the formation of the faith that came into being by the Fifth Century, as any of the preachings and teachings by those designated Apostle.