Are You Serious?

Storytime!

·   What if a thousand things we think are ------ aren’t?

·   What if the 1st 4 centuries of Jesus-followers lived in the belief 

    that Jesus, as our Good Shepherd, came to redeem, ransom, 

    and restore every one of Their sheep – the entire Family of 

    Man – back into Their fold?

·   What if those centuries are marked by Jesus-believers actually 

    “not believing in death”?

·   What if Augustine’s version of “original sin” and “predestination” 

    had never been heard of until this trying-to-be-good, relatively brilliant 

    man, dreamed these up in his Latin-trained, Manichean and 

    Neo-Platonist mind?

·   What if he added “everlasting torment in hell” into his theology 

    in the early 400’s?

·   What would “Christianity” look like today if the Jesus-anity of the 

    first 380 years had been the basis of Western conversation instead 

    of Augustine’s versions of these ideas?

Would any of that interest you?