Exodus from Fundamentalism

Early Christians were labeled atheists by the dominant pagan world because of their disbelief in pagan gods.

It is one thing to believe in Jesus and quite another to follow Jesus.


If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me. If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake and for the sake of the Good News, you will save it. And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul?
My Kingdom is not an earthly kingdom.



The message of Christ is not Christianity. The message of Christ is Christ.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
Gandhi

If Jesus came back and saw what was being done in his name, he wouldn't be able to stop throwing up.
Woody Allen

Thundering like a biblical prophet against social and economic injustice, racism and political deceit ("Jesus did not establish a bureaucratic institution, weekly social gatherings, or houses of religious entertainment"), Hendricks, professor of biblical interpretation at New York Theological Seminary, proclaims Jesus as a political revolutionary who overturned the unjust social policies of his day. Rather unoriginally, Hendricks suggests that Jesus employed seven political strategies (e.g., "treat people's needs as holy"; "give a voice to the voiceless"; "expose the workings of oppression") in his challenge to the status quo

The Tenets of Gnosticism

As we have seen, Gnostic Christians maintained that in the beginning there was only One. This One God was totally spirit, totally perfect, incapable of description, beyond attributes and qualities. This God is not only unknown to humans; he is unknowable. The Gnostic texts do not explain why he is unknowable, except to suggest that he is so "other" that explanations—which require making something unknown known by comparing it to something else—simply cannot work.

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