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And as a result ignore His gospel of the Kingdom and His teachings that as God is within us, we are not to focus on our flesh but upon the spirit within us which has no interest in the things of the flesh. Jesus tried to lead us away from the world of man and back to God and the Kingdom/governance of God over the governance of man. Christianity took us back to the world and governance of man.than actually worshiping the Lord Christ with His Good Father and the Holy Spirit
For a great many, Christianity is no longer the religion of Jesus but has become a religion about Jesus. This happened quite early as is supported by the creeds --- Nicean Creed, Athanasian Creed, Apostles Creed -----. All list what a believer must believe and say next to nothing about the ethical code which Jesus taught and lived his life by. I think this has to do with the transition of the Early Church away from its original Jewish identity into a Gentile (Greek philosophical) identity in the second century.
The problem is viewing Christ as an anarchist Jewish revolutionary, that's why they think organized Christianity is not about Christ.More Judaizing nonsense. Can this get out of the TRADITIONAL THEOLOGY subforum forever, please? Tradition as recorded in the scriptures tells us that the Gentiles are not to be burdened with the customs and laws of the Jews, as decided by the fathers of the Apostolic council in Jerusalem recorded in the Acts of the Apostles. That has been good ever since then for every type of people, and only in the modern era has this desire to emulate the Jews come back among those who have no roots of their own, who don't know how to read the scriptures, and hence who can only see the Jewish culture in them and as a result set the Church up against itself. This is utter foolishness.
Those Christians closest to the Jews of Jesus' time -- Neo-Aramaic and Syriac-speaking Christians -- most definitely affirm the Nicene creed. That you perhaps don't or don't see the point of doing so is to your shame, not to theirs.
Christianity has all the connections to Judaism that the Church in her wisdom has seen fit to baptize, and while different groups of Christians made that decision at different points (e.g., there is more of an outwardly 'Hebraic' character among the Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia and Eritrea than in the Church in Egypt or Albania or wherever), they did still all make that definitive break. To look at that as some kind of wound for Christianity is the height of blasphemy, as though Judaism is meant to remain a salvific mode of life even after Christ our God -- Whom the Jews mostly rejected, and today still reject -- came and established the Way, which was unpalatable to the Jews because their religion is fundamentally about other things. And long may it be so. Judaizing is anti-Christ poison, and is to be put down wherever it arises.
Of course God may have had a plan, other than forwarding scriptures after the fall of Judah, in a church of renegade gentiles, to ensure their survival. Better to have a field of tares running the religion where a few actual grains can come in and infest than the other way around.The other way around the church never would have survived in the world of man.
Is not the teachings of and by Jesus the traditional Christianity? Or is it the teachings of those who rejoined the world of man that are the ones claiming the traditional title?Since when is allowed to preach against Traditional Christianity in this forum?
There is not outright rebellion or division as compared to political issues, especially in the S of A, but there is two trains of thought or there wouldn't be two gospels. If Jesus is the Saviour and focal point shouldn't the spotlight be on Him and what He says? Or have the gentiles made it an exclusive club of their own?The article contains a whole lot of finger pointing and very little substance to back it up. In my experience this sort of thing does happen, but it is far more rare than the author implies.