The kind of salvation which the earliest preaching offered is summed up in the words of the little Apocalypse in Mark xiii: “He that endureth to the end the same shall be saved.” Few Jewish minds could escape from this view of the end, but to a Greek it was strange and meaningless. “Christ” ceased to be a Jewish title and became a proper name, and the Lord Jesus or the Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour, appeared to the pagan seeking for deliverance and healing and for hope in darkness as the central divine figure in a new mystery religion. It was the beginning of a long process of adaptation and absorption which has caused Christianity to be called sometimes in a good sense, sometimes in a bad one, a syncretistic religion. There is no such thing as syncretism in science, because its basis is not desire but knowledge and critically examined evidence.