Nobody has ever proved this statement wrong.
>>18411433It stems from their New Testament constantly contradicting itself (in large part thanks to Pauline Christianity)
>>18411433>>18411478Worship is antithetical to authentic christianity because for the body of Christ, the one true living God, to worship anything is sacrilege.Christianity is about representing God with love and righteousness as a member of the body of Christ, the one true living God.I hope that one day you see the light, and learn to love your God, recognizing the light of God in Christ as the one true living God which can save the earth from the hell.
>>18411500How do achieve this level of schizophrenia
>>18411517It’s called Christogenea
>>18411523oh hey there christovagina spammer, I see you are still shilling your cia/idf honeypot. Ever notice how you're the only one that ever mentions it? >>18411517reject dispensationalism, embrace trinitarian christianity
>>18411500This is heresy and you would have been burned at the stake in the Middle Ages for this.
>>18411433>178 CEChristianity really started as a bunch of quasi-Dionysian Hellenized Judaism mystery cults before being centralised by Rome, and I can't be convinced otherwise.
>>18411478It'd be interesting to see what Christianity would've looked like without any influence from Paul. If Paul's report is to be believed, even the Christians outside his influence weren't a perfectly unified group, since Peter, on his own, seems to have believed in a fairly gentile-friendly, non-torah-observant Christianity like Paul, separate from what Paul calls those of the circumcision. Otherwise Paul wouldn't be able to say:"For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas [One of Paul's own close comrades] also was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?"And it's unclear whether those of the circumcision included any of the twelve disciples. They're referred to as certain people from James, but the James mentioned shortly beforehand is described as granting Paul fellowship alongside Peter, and John. So I wonder if James' people weren't actually perfectly reflective of his own beliefs, but were instead Jews who hadn't fully settled in as committed Christians, and so Peter and James (and even Paul's friend Barnabas, evidently) were afraid of scaring them off by being too open about their living like gentiles and treating gentiles as equals.
>>18411478What form of Christianity should I pivot to if I want catholic aesthetics but completely reject everything to do with paul and mark his whole fucking saga as non-canon?
>>18411583lol, no. you weirdos and your bizarre devil worship are the historical aberration.
>>18411667To add onto this, taking for granted that Peter "livest after the manner of Gentiles" as Paul says, I wonder if the Christianity that has dominated the world isn't truly Pauline Christianity or "Paulianity," but Petrine Christianity, which Paul was eventually absorbed into after his death with the help of some editing, the writing of Acts, and the forgery of the pastoral epistles.
>>18411681So, in other words, Christianity without Paul wouldn't look too wildly different doctrinally than the Christianity we know, unless, without Paul counterbalancing influence and gentile conversion efforts, Peter's Christianity would've been too easily eaten by Judaism within a couple generations.
>>18411681>>18411689All paul contributed was popularizing the idea that the spiritless can eat and drink God flesh and blood to gain a soul in service to the heavenly kingdom. You wouldn't want to deny the dark demons of hell the opportunity to redeem themselves, right?
>>18411692I might be a racist and a sexist in practice, but the Christianity that feels most internally consistent and aesthetically satisfying to me is the proto-commie hippie Jesus variety, sorry.
>>18411701that is retarded and possibly the dumbest way to judge anything
>>18411433it's other christians invading my lands, not muslims or atheists.
The modal thesis of the New Testament is that you are a sinner who can escape Hell because Jesus paid your tab. In the meantime, out of submission and gratitude, you are instructed to praise Jesus and God, live a humble, peaceful life, share your material possessions and wealth.This is the Big Doctrine.If you're not doing this above all other concerns, you're not really practicing Christianity according to the book, which is the only legitimate reference.Not complicated.
