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title: 'Warfield on the Humble Beginnings of Christianity'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2025-02-07
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2025-warfield-on-the-humble-beginnings-of-christianity
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# Warfield on the Humble Beginnings of Christianity

“A dozen ignorant peasants proclaiming a crucified Jew as the founder of a new faith; bearing as the symbol of their worship an instrument which was the sign of ignominy, slavery and crime; preaching what must have seemed an absurd doctrine of humility, patient suffering and love to enemies — graces undreamed of before; demanding what must have seemed an absurd worship for one who had died like a malefactor and a slave, and making what must have seemed an absurd promise of everlasting life through one who had himself died, and that between two thieves.” — [**B**.**B. Warfield**](/authors/b-b-warfield), *The Divine Origin of the Bible* (1882), pp. 12-13