The controversy that my book was stirring up seemed to imply that my premise was way outside the bounds of anything that could even remotely be considered true Christianity. I decided to do some digging around in church history. The deeper I dug, the more I felt like Professor Langdon as he uncovered a religious conspiracy of epic proportions in The Da Vinci Code. My seminary history books were of no help; they only covered “institutional church” church history. I soon discovered that there exists a whole other church history that never made it into the official books. Going back to the time of the very first Christians, there are tales of countless divine nobodies who lived as Jesus in community with others, outside the walls of organized church. Because their Christianity was practiced outside the structures of “official” Christendom, they were never legitimized as true believers and therefore left out of the history books. The beliefs of these Christians didn’t always line up with the politically correct theology adopted by religious councils of the institutional church, and so these free believers were often condemned as heretics and burned at the stake. - Jim Palmer, Being Jesus in Nashville: Finding the Courage to Live Your Life (whoever and wherever you are) Available on Amazon -> tinyurl/muwh4cd
Posted on: Mon, 12 May 2014 20:58:36 +0000
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