text: Jesus was God. He was born among the chosen people, so He respectfully followed their laws- but as God He didn't and doesn't need religion, we do. Catholicism is the religion that comes out of Christ's fulfilling of the Old Law.  And please don't tell me that Jesus wouldn't know what a church was. Again, He is God and Man now and when he walked the earth.  St. Paul did not start a new religion or church. He just spread what Christ started.