Looking between the lines of Church history and the New Testament. The narrative that Christianity is based on includes assumptions that are easy to miss, assumptions that are also fundamental premises. Like the idea that this religion is well connected with the man we all know as Jesus. This p…
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James the brother of Jesus, and the elders at Jerusalem, and thousands of Jews there who have believed and are zealous for the law... How are they regarded by the author of Acts? How are their envoys received at Antioch? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/christianitythebackstory/message
Jerusalem and Antioch, culturally and ideologically divergent. The defining principle of Christianity, and a response to it by James, the brother of Jesus. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/christianitythebackstory/message
"They added nothing to my message." The exclusive gospel of Paul. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/shakingchristianity/message
Tracing the belief system of Christianity back in time, how do we get from Antioch to Jerusalem ? It’s about what people were thinking. There’s a group of people in Jerusalem who need to have believed pretty much the same things that people were believing in Antioch. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/shakingchristianity/message
This is notice of a public challenge to the Christian Church, bringing into question its past conduct in regards to the handling of certain books. To the Church of old: The story you passed on to us about a first century Jewish movement… was it faithfully told? REFUTE THIS THESIS. The premise of the thesis is that two distinct movements can be identified within New Testament documents, because the evidence is there to differentiate between them. By the time most of the New Testament documents were written, one of these movements was working in opposition to the other. They added narrative to the story to condemn the other. They made it clear that this was not one movement, with a good relationship between Jews and Gentiles. One of these movements was the one the disciples of Jesus had been involved in. The other one was not. The other one was Christianity. Christianity is the wrong one, if the premise is correct. This thesis is presented as a podcast. It's open to contribution and requires argument for the other side. Its conclusion is that there is something fundamentally wrong with Christianity. Can you demonstrate that there’s something wrong with the thesis? Are the core doctrines of Christianity built on the teaching of the man we call Jesus? If you're a learned Christian, speak up for listeners who are waiting to hear the Christian response. Take the challenge. Choose any assertion made in the podcast, or respond to the whole premise, and send it in as a voice message. https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/a-challenge-to-the-church/id1471102028?i=1000479828708 If it's instructive and concise, it will remain as part of the podcast, to provide a more balanced view of things. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/shakingchristianity/message
The story that Christian belief is centred on, does it reach back to Jesus? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/shakingchristianity/message
The story begins. What did Peter and John and the other disciples of Jesus go on to do? ... Where did they go? Introducing Paul, and his doctrine. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/shakingchristianity/message
What did they believe? Image: 'What is Truth?', a painting by Nikolai Nikolaievich, 1890 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elliott-smith6/message
The missing information about the disciples of Jesus. Image: 'What is Truth?', a painting by Nikolai Nikolaievich, 1890 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elliott-smith6/message
How far back do we go with this concept of Christ? Can we really take it back to the people who followed Jesus around Galilee and Judea? Did they believe it? Were they Christians? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elliott-smith6/message
An interview with Rabbi Philip Kaplan at the Great Synagogue, Sydney. In Mark 8:29 Jesus says to his disciples; "What about you? Who do you say I am?" And Peter answers, "You are the Messiah." Who is better placed to know what Peter might have meant by this; a Reverend, or a Rabbi? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elliott-smith6/message
An interview with the Reverend of Saint Andrew's Presbyterian church, Newcastle Australia. (The Church in the picture) Tim responds to two questions: # What is Christianity? # What is the central message of Christianity? We also address what exactly it is that makes a person eligible for heaven. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elliott-smith6/message
The mother of all Christian assumptions --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elliott-smith6/message
A combination of material from two rival movements --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elliott-smith6/message
Looking between the lines of Church history and the New Testament. An unorthodox tour through early Church times for anyone interested in what might have been going on behind the scenes. Behind the scenes of the official story that was produced by the Church, with its rise to power. The Church has demanded a narrow minded view of Christian origins. Another way to look at that story is to take away the assumption that God was with the religious elite, and against anyone who disagreed with them. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/elliott-smith6/message
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