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• The answers to all these questions is No.
• But, “history is always written by the winning side”. The history of Christianity is largely the history of the dominant western empires that make up Europe. Everything else is either forgotten or air-brushed out of history, as though it was unimportant and did not exist.
• This lop-sided view of history, that Christianity only spread west and in no other direction, may be because the writings of the New Testament largely contain the experiences of Paul the Apostle and his missionary journeys in the Book of Acts, plus the epistles to the early congregations, written by him and brought with him on his journeys.