Originally Posted by evangelicalhumanist

But isn't that how it has always been done -- one religion is replaced (no, not replaced, but I'll talk about that later) by another after some new "revelation of Truth." Christ was a Torah-observant Jew, with a few moderately radical, Pharisaic views -- but it took Saul of Tarsus to have a revelation of something quite different for Christianity to really get going. It took a misunderstanding of the "truth" of how the Trinity works (does the Son "proceed" from the Father, or not) to create the Orthodox Church. It took a new understanding of the "truth" about what the Church was established by Christ to actually do that lead to Protestantism, or a revelation to Mohammad to create Islam, or Joseph Smith and his "revelation" through golden plates, reformed Egyptian and seer stones to give us Mormonism.