FCSLC:
I am not familiar with the author or the book, but a brief survey on Amazon reveals just one more book in a fertile landscape that most Christians are completely unaware of, and something that causes a great disturbance for most fundamentalists. It was not until after my exit did I realize there was such a countercurrent within Christianity to recapture its heart.
I am in full agreement with the openness and transparency of this forum, something unfortunately missing throughout TLW culture.
Also, our ability to pick up speed at this stage has everything to do with jettisoning unnecessary baggage.
L.B.
Great points made and ones that illustrate only some of the many contradictions found throughout the scriptures.
Most Christians do not realize the original Jerusalem ‘church’, which consisted of those who knew and walked with Jesus, was essentially wiped out in 70 AD, leaving only the outlying churches who were under the theology of Paul. These were founded by someone who persecuted Christians for almost two decades, never knew first hand what Jesus actually taught, and who heralded originally from Tarsus, the hotbed of pagan ideologies of the day. It is no surprise, that three centuries later, Rome would adopt a religion that barely reflected what Jesus actually taught.
It is not difficult to bottomline what is important; without LOVE, we are simply a clanging cymbal.
I am not familiar with the author or the book, but a brief survey on Amazon reveals just one more book in a fertile landscape that most Christians are completely unaware of, and something that causes a great disturbance for most fundamentalists. It was not until after my exit did I realize there was such a countercurrent within Christianity to recapture its heart.
I am in full agreement with the openness and transparency of this forum, something unfortunately missing throughout TLW culture.
Also, our ability to pick up speed at this stage has everything to do with jettisoning unnecessary baggage.
L.B.
Great points made and ones that illustrate only some of the many contradictions found throughout the scriptures.
Most Christians do not realize the original Jerusalem ‘church’, which consisted of those who knew and walked with Jesus, was essentially wiped out in 70 AD, leaving only the outlying churches who were under the theology of Paul. These were founded by someone who persecuted Christians for almost two decades, never knew first hand what Jesus actually taught, and who heralded originally from Tarsus, the hotbed of pagan ideologies of the day. It is no surprise, that three centuries later, Rome would adopt a religion that barely reflected what Jesus actually taught.
It is not difficult to bottomline what is important; without LOVE, we are simply a clanging cymbal.