Quoting random sentences from the Bible has no bearing on the likely facts of early Christian history. The question isn't whether there's an ad hoc Christian answer for everything in the Bible, making that religion cheaply unfalsifiable. Of course that's so.

In this article, I aimed to dig a little deeper than presupposing the Bible's infallibility, to raise the existential problem for Christianity, given what I take to be its core message. I'm not concerned here with the details of its theology which have been interpreted in thousands of ways. I'm talking about Christianity's distinguishing features, including the likely countercultural message of a historical Jesus, and whether the religion ends up remotely coherent.

What happens when a radical counterculture becomes a mainstream culture? How can the Christian retain any sense of personal integrity after that transition?