that’s a good thing. In legitimizing a religion, what counts is experience and time and having been around for a long time. Luke-Acts makes the argument that even though Christianity seems to be new, it actually is the realization of promises that go back all the way to Abraham, all the way to Moses. It’s been around a long time. It’s the completion of Jewish hope, and that legitimizes the early church. The argument of the two volumes together is that we didn’t become a separate entity by our own choice,