Religion involves ‘belief’. There was nothing ‘religious’ about the faith of Jesus’ original 1st century followers regarding Him. Christianity did not begin with people who ‘believed’ something; Christianity began with people who saw something, and ‘then’ believed in the person they saw back from the dead. Christianity began with overt evidence: they saw Him die, they later looked into an empty tomb, and then later on they had breakfast with Him on the beach.
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He only concealed His identity to a couple of disciples who first saw Him. Probably so they would be blessed even more by believing the OT. Prophecies from Genesis to Malachi that He taught them as they walked.
All of the others not only recognized His face, but also were shown literal wounds of railroad sized spike holes in His hands and spear wound in the side as big as a fist.
