Is Christianity a Jewish sect?
It certainly started as a Jewish sect. We can see that from the Book of Acts. It appears that Jesus left the leadership of his sect to his brother, St. James, who lived and died an Orthodox Jew. It seems that it only began to move away from Judaism after the conversion of Paul who started preaching Christianity primarily to the Gentiles and was the first one who did not require gentiles to convert to Judaism in order to become Christians. Paul’s successes caused St. Peter to change direction and join him in ministering to the gentiles. Within a few years, the Paul-Peter Christianity became the biggest sect of Christianity and they did not even appear to be Jews, while those who had followed the St. James line remained closer to Jews than they did to Paul and Peter. We have some evidence of their prayers which were in Hebrew and they differ little from the known Judaism of that period or even of today’s Jewish prayers. Within 100 years, the St. James Christians had become a small minori
