Here is a reality of Jesus (one of many) that just doesn't seem to jive with Christianity.
Why is it that the people that are used as examples in many of the parables Jesus told about the kingdom, not the ones who we would say lived moral lives and the ones he seemed to always be turning this around on were the so-called "moral" ones?
I am convinced that the gospel of Jesus Christ has been subverted and in it's place today we have the ideology of the religion of Christianity.
The quote that follows is from The Subversion Of Christianity by Jacques Ellul....one of his books I have yet to read.
Mike, if you are reading this post, I know you are reading this book......care to share?
"Christianity claims not to be a religion that is superior to others, but to be an antireligion that refutes all the religions that link us with a divine universe. No doubt Christianity constantly becomes a religion…The Christian religion itself is constantly called into question by the absolute that is revealed in Jesus Christ."
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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I concur wholeheartedly. Christianity today has very little to do with Christ. It is a religion like any other. The ties to Jesus were severed long ago when the institution became the focal point instead of Christ.
Mark, I'm sitting here just thinking about all that is happening in Christianity today and I get the sense that it is something wonderful. I also get the sense that it's also going to be difficult at the same time.
The Shack has touched such a nerve around the world and yet I get the sense that the greatest opposition to it originates from the religious system here in America.
As of yesterday someone has hacked The Shack Website. Windblown Media, The Shackbook.com, and The Shack Forum are all down. People in high places want to put an end to the influence it is having on people and the ways in which they think about Father Son and Spirit.
The book is being translated into 35-40 different languages as we speak. The book as far as I can see is just a part of the taking back of the message of Jesus that has been hijacked and locked up into the Religion of Christianity.
This is about people being set free...not conformed.
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