Storytime!
- What if a thousand things we think are ------ aren't?
- What if the
1st 4 centuries of Jesus-followers
lived in the belief
that Jesus, as our Good Shepherd, came to redeem, ransom,
and restore every one of
Their
sheep -
the entire Family of
Man -
back into
fold?
- What if those centuries are marked by
Jesus-believers
actually
"not believing in death"?
- What if Augustine's version of
"original sin"
and
"predestination"
had never been heard of until this trying-to-be-good, relatively brilliant
man, dreamed these up in his Latin-trained, Manichean and
Neo-Platonist mind?
- What if he added
"everlasting torment in hell"
into his theology
in the early 400's?
- What would
"Christianity"
look like today if the
Jesus-anity
of the
first 380 years had been the basis of Western conversation instead
of Augustine's versions of these ideas?
Would any of that interest you?