>>17871722
The true Christianity is the one started by Peter and further developed by Paul, both based on visions of a celestial Jesus and mystical interpretation of scripture, before whoever wrote the first edition of Mark had the clever idea to make a meta-parable historicizing the celestial Jesus, which many people decided to take very literally and which was eventually coopted to rewrite Jesus into a more orthodox apocalyptic Jew by whoever wrote Matthew.
Meanwhile, the Gnostics were continuing along the path of visions and mystical interpretation, supported by philosophy, further developing the original Christianity, until everything was either destroyed or coopted and interpolated by people who wanted to use Christianity as a tool of control, and all the Christians who weren't aligned with that aim were deemed heretics and persecuted into near non-existence.
>inb4 "proof?"
It was revealed in a dream plus a lot of reading that is difficult to condense plus it taking a schizo to know a schizo to recognize what was going on with the new testament writers plus I'm actually only about 50-60% sure something like this is what happened but I do think something like it is a much more viable (and very interesting!) option than the current consensus considers it to be.
