Are You Serious?: a small refresher / from Jesus to A.D. 100

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?