Also, just to put this question to bed, the Romans crucified Jesus because he was a threat to their authority. Later traditions saying that the Jews killed Jesus, very unfortunate, also very untrue. We're not going to discuss Jesus' divinity because 1. this isn't a theology class and 2. flame wars on the internet make me so uncomfortable that I have to turn to camera 2. Hi there, camera 2. I'm here to remind you that 3. fighting over such things, like fighting over whether the proverbial cake is a lie, rarely accomplishes anything. Plus 4. what matters to us is the historical fact that people at the time believed that Jesus was the Messiah, the Anointed One, the Son of God. And they believed that he would return someday to redeem the world, which leads us to two questions about Christianity.