KDude
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Christianity is one of the Roman empire's greatest legacy.
Not sure what you mean. Christianity is a Jewish legacy. Jesus and all of his disciples were Jews, preaching and (mostly) dying in Israel. There was one instance in the book of John, where Jesus is in the temple teaching, and someone whispered to him that certain outsiders wanted to hear him. The men were Greeks (the emphasis on that is that the idea of Greeks wanting to listen to a Jewish rabbi was unusual). Jesus had a strange response: "Now is the time for the Son of Man to be glorified." [John 12.20-23] It doesn't go into any explanation why he said that, but the usual interpretation is that he was kind of hoping for that moment. That it was confirmation that his message was appealing to outsiders. That it was a more global/universal vision.
So anyways, it was a Jewish legacy, but had the makings of something that transcended one culture. It was never set out to be Jewish specifically, and especially never to be a Roman thing. Rome didn't come into picture until well after he was gone.
edit: Eh, I had a lot more to add here, but it was really getting to be "tl;dr".