I suppose its easy to underestimate the intelligence and dedication of first century Jewish people...
It is also easy to use hindsight to see a plan or conspiracy that wasn't there. I don't think anyone really cared if Genesis was literally true before the last century.
The early Christians, most were probably not Jews but converted Pagans, needed to have the link to the ancient Jewish religion to give their new religion street cred. They imported the OT into their faith and then ignored the Mosaic Law since they had been fulfilled by God. Christianity fundamentally changed the relationship of people to God
I'm sorry.. you seemed to have missed the openly expressed intent in the NT for Jesus to smite the nations with a sword. Its not my imagination. Its really there. You can read it if you wanted to. Its always been there. Rev 19:15
Do you think it is just some strange coincidence that every nation that started drinking that curse in a cup of wine that Jesus deliberately sent through the nations went completely insane and turned against itself?
The voice of the Lord makes the wilderness writhe in travail; the Lord makes the wilderness writhe.
Jesus is interested in smiting only one nation, Rome, the occupier of the land God promised to the Jews. That was the messiah the Jews were waiting for. Someone to free them from Rome, Jesus was not what they expected.
As for the "curse in a cup of wine", I'm not familiar with that phrase, would you please explain?
Rome was a conglomeration of many assimilated nations that took turns oppressing Israel. And yes, Jesus was not what they expected.
The sword is clearly identified as a curse under the appearance of a cup of wine in Jeremiah 25:15, the only reading material available to Jesus. It is no coincidence that the so called great commission parallels the rest of this prophecy almost verbatim.
Take from my hand this cup of fiery wine and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.
When they have drunk it they will vomit and go mad;
such is the sword that I am sending among them."
I will force your oppressors to eat their own flesh and make them drunk on their own blood as if with new wine. Then all flesh shall know that I, the Lord, am your savior and your redeemer, the mighty one of Jacob.
"Take this cup of wine and drink it. This is a cup of my blood,
the blood of the covenant."
"Just art thou in these thy judgments, thou Holy One who art and wast; for they shed the blood of thy people and of thy prophets and thou hast given them blood to drink."
Voila! There it is. You can't say you heard it before, you can't say its my imagination, you can't say its my opinion, you can't say its not there.
Be opened. See what has been put right in front of your eyes. A curse under the appearance of a cup of wine.