Your second point is clearly true. The first seems false; Christianity makes much more sense from a Greco-Roman perspective if Jesus was supposed to be a celestial being, not an eternal unchanging principle that was executed for treason. And the sibling comment leaves out the part about first-century Israelites wanting a way to replace the ‘corrupt,’ Roman-controlled, Temple cult of sacrifice with something like a sacrifice that Rome could never control.
Josephus saw the destruction of that Temple coming. For others to believe it would happen if they ‘restored the purity of the religion’ only requires the existence of some sensible zealots.
Your second point is clearly true. The first seems false; Christianity makes much more sense from a Greco-Roman perspective if Jesus was supposed to be a celestial being, not an eternal unchanging principle that was executed for treason. And the sibling comment leaves out the part about first-century Israelites wanting a way to replace the ‘corrupt,’ Roman-controlled, Temple cult of sacrifice with something like a sacrifice that Rome could never control.
Josephus saw the destruction of that Temple coming. For others to believe it would happen if they ‘restored the purity of the religion’ only requires the existence of some sensible zealots.