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There is no material evidence that Jesus existed, only the testimony of the Gospels, which were written during the first century A.D. (Bainton 72). It is important to remember that nothing definite is known about the authorship of these documents, either, or for that matter the earliest forms taken by what later became the Roman Catholic Church.

Bainton writes in the beginning of his history of Christianity that the reasons for its early success was because "it was an age when men were awakening to the need of moral and social reformation" and that Christianity persisted and expanded because "it met that need more effectively than any other movement of the age" (6). He goes on to say that the religion's ecclesiastical organization was what reunited the West after the fall of the Roman Empire.

Jesus was a product of a Jewish culture, which included a prophetic tradition in the Torah. The prophet Isaiah predicted the coming of a saviour. This belief was shared by Jesus' cousin J

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