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Subject: Some are. Author: Wade A. Tisthammer [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 10/22/03 9:12pm In reply to: QUITTNER 's message, "Are "christians" really members of Jesus' group?" on 08/14/03 12:31pm >Christianity as it was in Jesus' time has ben changed >considerably since Jesus was crucified by the Romans. Depends on how you define present-day “Christianity.” I would also be curious as to what exactly you think original Christianity was like. >There are now very many denominations/versions of >Christianity, and obviously they can't all be right. >Maybe none of them are. I don’t know about that. But if I had to guess, I would have to say Messianic Jews are the closest to original Christianity. Why? Well, not only was Jesus himself Jewish, but so were essentially all of his original followers and nearly all the New Testament authors. In fact, one of the pressing questions in earliest Christianity was, “Can a Gentile believe in Jesus?” (See Acts 15.) It is interesting to note that when it came to violent anti-Semitism, there was no such thing as professing Christians doing it for hundreds of years, longer than the U.S. has been around (it was so virtually nonexistent that there are no recorded cases of it happening during that time, though there are recorded instances of Jews persecuting Christians). Of course, if we fast-forward to the eleventh century, we see something very different with the Crusades and Inquisition (which, as you might have guessed, bore little resemblance to early Christianity). [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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Subject Author Date Some are QUITTNER 03/ 2/04 2:53pm That's what I said. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/12/04 1:16pm Re parts of the gospel of John. -- QUITTNER, 03/19/04 2:26pm Examining the gospel of John -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/20/04 1:23pm Re: Examining the gospel of John -- QUITTNER, 03/22/04 12:45pm Gospels. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/23/04 8:23pm Re: Gospels -- QUITTNER, 03/26/04 2:33pm More on Gospels -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/29/04 12:40pm Thomas, Gospel of, and God's children. -- QUITTNER, 03/29/04 2:19pm I have my doubts about Thomas -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/30/04 9:47am