Given what history and archaelongy tell us about the early first century, I suspect the only folk who wouild be more shocked by Christianity than Jesus followers would be Jesus himself.
Why you think this? Just because you read someone’s opinion and it made sense? You really don’t think the Hand of God was acting in which books are included and which books were discarded?
Why? Because I can read. Wwe have LOTS of accounbts of the era from sources bot under the Roman Church .. Josephus, the Talmud, Tacitus ....
Among claims of the Rioman Church that would shock Jesus:
1. reoplacement of the Sabbath would worship ion the day of the SunGod.
2. Establishment of a Roman priesthood
3. Deification of Jesus himself.
4. The virgin birth story.
5. The claim to be of the house of David.
6. Denial of the validity of the Law. Where in the CB does Jesus eat pork?
BTW, the new testament was NOT based on mansucripts written in Latin. The major language under Constantine was Greek. Jesus likley spoke Greek and Aramaic. He would have found the idea of a holy text written in a language most people could not speak as opposed to the vernacular of his day or the accepted language of the Deity (Hebrew) bizarre. Of course, a Roman State document wold be writtne in the official language of the effin Roman State.
My own take on Jesus is very different. I think the story is a composite of events and people who led the first non violent resistance to imperialism. Jesus, Ben Zakai, Hillel ... seem to me to have lots in common with MLK or Gandhi!
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