Jesus Christ!

Re: Jesus Christ!

Absolutely correct. The crucifiction is essential but even more is the coming alive again. If Jesus did not rise again in a physical sense, then Christianity has no basis as religion.

This argument would hold exept that enough documents exist from the people who knew the disciples and Jesus personally where they also wrote in the same vein. The doctrine was not “formulated” centuries after Jesus but immediately afterwards using even the Old Testament.

The Gospel of Barnabas were clearly written centuries after Jesus as many other documents.