# Did Christianity exist before Christ?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-christianity-exist-before-christ/233194>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 8, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-christianity-exist-before-christ/233194 "2004-03-08T22:20:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![SwingWing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SwingWing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwingWing)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-christianity-exist-before-christ/233194/1 "2004-03-08T22:20:45Z")

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Did Christianity exist before Christ?

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**Author:** ![Atticus\_Finch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ec9cab/32.png) [@Atticus\_Finch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atticus_Finch)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-christianity-exist-before-christ/233194/2 "2004-03-08T22:25:16Z")

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Don’t really understand your question. Christianity couldn’t, by definition, exist before Christ. Are you asking a more general question about messianic / millenarian groups within Judaism?

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**Author:** ![moriah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b2d939/32.png) [@moriah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moriah)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-christianity-exist-before-christ/233194/3 "2004-03-08T23:02:30Z")

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It’s a factual question, albeit a completely idiotic one.

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**Author:** ![John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ccd318/32.png) [@John\_Kentzel-Griffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Kentzel-Griffin)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2004, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-christianity-exist-before-christ/233194/4 "2004-03-08T23:10:47Z")

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> [@SwingWing](#):
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> Did Christianity exist before Christ?

No, it did not.

This is closed.

**DrMatrix** - GQ Moderator