Where would Christianity be if the Romans had refused to kill Jesus?

• If the Romans had refused to kill Jesus, I think the Sanhedrin might have paid off an assassin, like they paid off Judas. They themselves had no authority to assign a death sentence, so it would have to be so underhanded thing. And even if that failed, I think God (as Father) would have thought something up to kill Jesus off. Jesus couldn't just get off the hook and have a normal life...at least, not if it was foretold that Jesus would be offered up for the sins of humanity. God does what He says.
  --chip
  (I thought that God had given the Hebrews detailed instructions about putting people to death. If the priesthood could not have issued the death sentence to Jesus, what were those people going to do to Mary, tickle her with those stones? -- Doyce Dees)
  
  
• They'd have found some other half assed story to make up about where they came from. (OK that's the bitter answer).
  I don't think we'd be in the situation we're currently in. If you buy the christian explaination of Christ, he'd still be alive among us today, showing us all the new dance moves and claiming to be Andrew Eldrich.
  --Goth in the Box
  
  
• I think if the Romans didnt kill Jesus the Jewish priests would have found someone else to do the job, or sooner or latter someone would have got sick of Him and killed Him. There is no chance that someone wouldn't have killed Him because He was an enemy to too many people. Christianity would only be different in some ways such as the way we are devoted to His death,( i.e. instead of a cross it would be the object He was killed with). But I am a Roman Catholic so I believe that Jesus being crucified was the way God the Father planed it. So, either way Jesus still would have sacrificed Himself and given us salvation through the grace of God. Amen
  God Bless You,
  --BroFrancis
  
  
• Well, considering the fact that Jesus would probably want to slap the average modern Christian silly for being such an idiot, Christianity most likely wouldn't have happened at all. Jesus would have seen people worshipping him and said, "Hey! I wanted you all to be better Jews, not start your own stupid religion! Now leave me alone and get to Temple!" Of course, at that point, his followers would have simply excommunicated him, or possibly even killed him themselves, since he was so inconsiderate to keep on living when they clearly needed a dead savior to make Christianity work. I mean, it tends to undermine your message when the guy who supposedly died for our sins walks in the door and orders a pastrami sandwich. So, no dead Christ, no Christianity.
  --Chris
  
  
• If the Romans had not killed Jesus, he would have been forced to commit suicide in order to become a martyr. Christians would be worshipping nooses, and wearing them around their necks. Christ would be GOTHER THAN FUCK!
  --James Dury
  
  
• I personally think that Christianity would be a blip on the cultish timeline of history, had the Romans not killed Jesus. After all, every good religion needs a martyr or two (or three hundred, in the case of the Catholics...) And if Jesus hadn't been killed, he couldn't have risen from the dead, thus proving his Son-Of-Godliness to his adoring believers. Making a claim to being the offspring of a deity is hard to prove without some sort of hard facts to support it. If he hadn't been killed, he would have remained some local freak with a God complex and questionable taste in friends.
  --Fearthainn
  
  
• if they had never killed the great JC, well then, christianity simply wouldn't exist. it wouldn't have lasted this long. they only continue to follow him because he was made a martyr, supposedly for their sins. more importantly, however, i wouldn't be able to go as him this halloween.
  --AV016
  
  
• If Jesus wasn't killed on the cross, Christianity would have a difficult time adapting a better symbol than it. Imagine if he, say, died by choking on a chicken bone? Churches would have big avian skeletons as their icon. People would walk around with little chicken skeletons on strings around their neck. Good grief, Elton John would have a little KFC earring. And what if he died on a hangmans rope? Or drowned? (Having slipped upside down after walking on water..) Or inhaled flyspray? Or got stung by a killer bee? The whole look and feel of Christianity would be rocked. Have a good day today.
  --Craig
  
  

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