Who Really Founded Christianity, Jesus or Paul?

Jesus preached a kingdom on earth, but Paul built a religion that ignored him and took over the world.

Sep 03, 2025

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A split-screen shows Jesus on the left, dressed in simple robes, teaching a small group under a tree with stone tablets faintly in the background, while on the right Paul stands in a Roman city square, passionately gesturing with a letter in hand as crowds of Gentiles and soldiers listen, with church domes rising behind him.

Most people think Christianity started with Jesus. Sounds cute, but not quite so. Jesus preached, healed, ticked off some priests, and got nailed to a cross. Then came Paul — a guy who never met Jesus in life — and suddenly Christianity exploded into the giant religion we know today. If you ask me, the real founder of Christianity wasn’t the guy walking…

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