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The New Covenant began with the Advent of the Holy Spirit.
It was the Father's Plan.
The Son implemented the Plan.
The Holy Spirit applies the Plan to covenant Israel, and this occurred on the day of the Feast of Harvest in Jerusalem, a Jewish holyday.
No, I'm saying there was a time when all those events took place, birth, life, ministry, arrest, trial, condemnation, death, burial, and resurrection took place and all these things were on the people's lips. The two disciples on the road to Emmaus were discussing those events when Jesus came up beside them. While Jesus was on the planet forty days after His resurrection, He shared more with His disciples about Himself and I'm sure when they were alone talked among themselves about what Jesus said. The "rumor" of the empty tomb was talked about by all those in Jerusalem and also such witnessing as the born-again experience among three thousand Jews was also disseminated among the people, especially while these Jewish Christians travelled Roman roads or took ships back to their holes and synagogues in Gentile lands. The testimony of this "Jesus" went viral throughout all Israel even to Caeser's palace. As the Holy Spirit continued to birth Jewish Christians every day for the next four decades Jews and Jesus were the talk of the town. Every town.
The first letter was written by James the Lord's half-brother, and it was addressed to the twelve tribes scattered, which was appropriate since it was a Hebrew covenant with a Hebrew Messiah and Hebrew disciples and Hebrew new births. Interesting thing was that Peter was the supposed leader of the Jewish Church in Jerusalem, but James is the one who was the real leader.
It wasn't meaningless to those three thousand that experienced the Holy Spirit of Promise promised to Israel or the people that witnessed those things taking place among the Jews and later among Jews in Gentile lands. The eleven disciples weren't the only ones able to explain what was taking place among the Jews on Pentecost of thereafter. Months later when a "great company of priests were obedient to the faith" and who had access to the Hebrew Scripture through the anointing were able to understand what God was doing in Israel among the Jews and among the Jews in Gentile lands. Not every body wrote about these things.
1 FORASMUCH as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us,
2 Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;
Lk 1:1–2.
Jesus was on the lips of almost every adult Jew and most children of understanding (12- and 13-year-olds.) Younger children also knew. I'm sure believing Jewish fathers spoke to the stomach of their wives' carrying babies in their enlarged womb about how Israel's Promised Deliverer, Redeemer, Messiah, and King had come, and everything will be well for their futures being yet unborn.
There is no theory. You seem to put forth the idea that biblical Christianity was not in existence unto some apostle wrote a letter talking about it. Jesus' fame went all over the then-known world in time as Jews that became born-again in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost and days thereafter returned home to their synagogues and shared their experiences with their Jewish brethren. And what was the conclusion of the testimony, the central theme? God has kept His Promise. The Prophet like unto Moses had come. And the story now being that He went away to prepare a place for the children of Israel so that where He is, they may also be.
Everyone was expecting a quick return. In the meantime, Jesus was talked about daily in their homes, on the street, in the marketplace, in their Temple, in their synagogues, in the palaces, in their jails. Everywhere. Those that had the Holy Spirit and knew their bible were able to explain the prophecies and how Jesus fulfilled what they knew and shared with Jews that weren't born-again thus leaving seed in their hearts or watering seed already planted because it was after all, the Jewish Feast of Harvest and I'm sure for the next year and the next for the next four decades God was growing such a harvest among His people that thousands and thousands of Jews were becoming born again, baptized into the body, filled with the Holy Spirit, spoken to by God, and enjoying the blessings of their father Abraham.
All this before the first letter by James or Saul of John was written.
