> Second, the Genesis story is Jewish, and predates Christianity by at least five if not ten centuries. The Genesis story is much older than that and rooted in

> Second, the Genesis story is Jewish, and predates Christianity by at least five if not ten centuries. The Genesis story is much older than that and rooted in Babylonian creation myths. We don't know that much about the early Christians. But we do know that there was a lot of competing branches of Christianity and cross-pollination between Jewish traditions, Hellenistic traditions, and pagan traditions. The branch that Constantine favored was the one that won out and suppressed all other branches. It's not beyond the pale to speculate about early Christians mixing "standard" Christianity and rites from fertility cults and using psychedelics. Although there is zero evidence.