Did Christianity grow out of Judaism?

Answer 1

No,  
The reason  Mithas  has such an impact because they changed his name to Jesus Christ!
The Roman Empire declared it the official religion of the empire in 360 AD, ( although Constantine had converted to it already in 321 AD ). The Romans were saved by the christian myth which made it so compelling that the largest empire of the epoch, outside Asia, changed the Kingdom of Yahweh to a religion of Idols!

Christianity was the first religion to combine polytheism with monotheism. Paul was all thing to all people. He was reponsible for the blending which was complete!

Jewish monotheism had remained isolated from religions until then, unaffected by Egyptian and Roman attempts to treat their Elohim as just another one in a huge number of gods of Roman.

What Christianity did was completely enslaved Ephraim; it put a polytheistic emity, that of a god who is sacrificed and reborn, ( and which was present in almost all of the Greek, Indian, and neighbouring area's polytheistic mythologies ), into the messiah's teaching of Yahweh's Kindgom.

Christianity did not try to pretend that the Jewish Elohim was just one of many, instead it introduced a whole new dimension into the kingdom of Yahweh, one that humans and their gods will replace Yahweh's kingdom,  Mystery Gnostic Christianity;the women who rides the beast. And so enslaved Israel as in Egypt.

I think that the christian myth may have had the impact that it did because it almost literally enslaved the world, except the Elect. It triggered new mental attitudes to existence, ( not just unmoral and/or political, but a new consciousness of the Self and depth of things, a new awareness of layers of things in relationship to EGO, which led to the empowerment of Paul, the Anti-messiah.

Constantine  gave Christians preferential treatment.
1. He exempted the clergy from  military and municipal service.
2. He removed church properties from the tax rolls.
3. He abolished all religious customs and practices offensive to Christianity.
4. He promoted the freeing of slaves.
5. He set aside the first day of the week as a legal holy day of rest. Northern pagan cultures know the day as Sunday.  
6. Constantine contributed to church construction.
7. In 325 he offered 20 pieces of gold and a white robe to anyone professing Christianity. It is said 12,000 responded in Rome in just one year.
8. He abolished death by crucifixion. He stopped gladiatorial combats after he made Constantinople the imperial capital.
9. He outlawed Jewish stoning of Jews professing Christ as Savior and Messiah.
10. He promoted the Scriptures after they were clean up my the church leaders.
The reason for fast growth (Paul the Roman)
1. Constantine's endorsement. Many became nominal Christians. Bureaucrats currying favor often adopted their Emperor's religion to gain approval.
2. The Disintegration of society. The church offered something far more solid than what the people had. As society crumbled the church offered more support and assistance for needy families.
3. Church organization. Better organization provided better shepherding, supervision and discipline,they had the Apostle Paul.
4. The church's inclusiveness. No racial, social or economic status existed in the church. Everyone found acceptance because they were created in God's image.
5. The church's intransigence and flexibility. These two terms are almost contradictory, but both remained true. The church refused to budge when faced with persecution and heresy but on items of opinion or areas where salvation was not threatened the church adapted.
6. Christianity's superior religious and philosophical base. Christianity offered salvation, not just peace and contentment.
7. Its Jewish origin. Romans recognized Jews as moral people. In addition, Jews were people of the book. The Bible provided an ancient background as Gentiles became familiar with it.
8. Miracles.
9. Moral qualities. In spite of earlier suspicions Romans soon recognized Christians as supremely moral people, qualities missing in most pagan religions.
10. Baal Zeus under the name Jesus' uniqueness. No heathen religion could claim anything like him.

"It was in Tarsus that the Mysteries of Mithras had originated, so it would have been unthinkable that Paul would have been unaware of the remarkable similarities we have already explored between Christian doctrines and the teachings of Mithraism. Tarsus was the capital of Cilicia, where, according to Plutarch [46-125CE], the Mithraic Mysteries were being practiced as early as 67BCE"
Scholars are now realizing that the mystery religion that Paul was exposed to in his hometown Tarsus, in the province of Celicia, was NOT Roman Mithraism, but Persian Mithraism. Paul knew all about this religion and used parts of it for his own use.
Celicia was at the outskirts of the former Persian Empire, right at the border of the Greco?Roman and the Persia world. In fact, Encyclopedia Britannica provides support for this thesis, for it explains how Mithraism was marginalized in its native land, Persia, because of its central ceremony, the sacrifice of the bull. Since Zoraster denounced bull sacrifice, it became an abhorrence for every Zoroastrian. According to Britannica, by the time Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire around 330 B.C.E., the worship of Mithra could no longer be found in Persia. Effectively, Mithraism was forced to migrate due to pressure from Zorastrianism. Local aristocrats in the western part of the former Persian Empire (the region around Tarsus) retained their devotion to Mithra. The kings and nobles of the border region between the Greco?Roman and the Iranian world still worshipped him.”
This explains why the center for Mithra worship moved from Persia to Paul’s birthplace, Tarsus, which was a thriving intellectual hub and a melting-pot of religions in the first century B.C.E.
1) Hundreds of years before Jesus, according to the Mithraic religion, three Wise Men of Persia came to visit the baby savior?god Mithra, bring him gifts of gold, myrrh and frankincense.
2) According to Mithraism, before Mithra died on a cross, he celebrated a “Last Supper” with his twelve disciples, who represented the twelve signs of the zodiac.
3) After the death of Mithra, his body was laid to rest in a rock tomb.
4) Mithra had a celibate priesthood.
5) Mithra ascended into heaven during the spring (Passover) equinox (the time when the sun crosses the equator making night and day of equal length).
Daniel
31 And arms shall stand on his part (Saul the Sandredrin), and they shall defile the sanctuary of strength(Paul take gentiltes into the sanctury), and shall take away the continual sacrifice(the messiah cut off): and they shall place there the abomination unto desolation (Zeus). 32 And such as deal wickedly against the covenant shall deceitfully dissemble(replace the kingdom with religion: but the people that know their Elohim shall prevail and succeed. 33 And they that are learned among the people shall teach many: and they shall fall by the sword, and by fire, and by captivity, and by spoil for many days(two witnesses dead for 2000years/2days). 34 And when they shall have fallen, they shall be relieved with a small help: and many shall be joined to them deceitfully. 35 And some of the learned(12Apostles) shall fall, that they may be tried, and may be chosen, and made white, even to the appointed time: because yet there shall be another time. 36 And the king shall do according to his will, and he shall be lifted up, and shall magnify himself against every god: and he shall speak great things against the El of Elohim, and shall prosper, till the wrath be accomplished (end of the gentiles). For the determination is made. 37 And he shall make no account of the Elohim of his fathers: and he shall follow the lust of women, and he shall not regard any gods: for he shall rise up against all things. 38 But he shall worship the god Maozim, in his place: and a god whom his fathers knew not, he shall worship with gold, and silver, and precious stones, and things of great price. The god Maozim... That is, the god of forces or strong holds. 39 And he shall do this to fortify Maozim with a strange god, whom he hath acknowledged, and he shall increase glory, and shall give them power over many, and shall divide the land gratis. And he shall increase glory, etc... He shall bestow honours, riches and lands, upon them that shall worship his god.