From Sea Raven, who left this comment in John Shuck's blog:
In my work it has become clear to me that Jesus would not be a Christian today. So far as biblical scholars can tell, Jesus did not believe what the church later came to insist that everyone has to believe to avoid going to hell.
As I say often in my commentaries, Christianity is not about belief in a resuscitated corpse, nor is christianity about what happens after we die. Christianity, as Jesus preached it, is about US personally incarnating distributive justice-compassion in this life. That means, joining the program to create the kingdom -- in John Dominic Crossan's words, creating a "share world" as opposed to a "greed world," or, as I put it "Covenant" not "Empire."
Crossan's definition of god is of a kenotic being -- one whose presence is justice and life, and whose absence is injustice and death.
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Modern Christianity, particularly evangelical Christianity is more about Paul than Christ. It's more about the Bible than the believed source of the Bible. It's more about self than about others though in the guise of being about others.
i like the quote.
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