PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY
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Primitive Christianity in a Nutshell:
According to Historical Scripturalism
“Primitive” means: “Not derived from something else; primary or basic. Of or relating to an earliest or original stage or state; primeval. Being little evolved from an early ancestral type.”
The corruption of Christianity came not so much from what was taken away from it but what was added to it.
Early Christianities [plural] and primitive Christianity [singular] are not the same. When teachings that could not harmonize with ancient Jewish theology were mixed in with the message Christ preached, Christianity no longer remained primitive. It did not remain in its original stage or state.
The following quoted statement is from the Apostle Paul addressing some of the early Christians who had abandoned or who were in the process of abandoning primitive Christianity:
"I marvel that you are being so quickly removed from the One [Jehovah God] who called you with Christ’s undeserved kindness over to another sort of good news. But it is not another; only there are certain ones who are causing you trouble and wanting to pervert the good news about the Christ. However, even if we or an angel out of heaven were to declare to you as good news something beyond what we declared to you as good news, let him be accursed. As we have said above, I also now say again, Whoever it is that is declaring to you as good news something beyond what you accepted, let him be accursed."-- Galatians 1:6-9.
Therefore, the corruption of Christianity came not so much from what was taken away from it but what was added to it.
The original first-century Christians believed in a simple message of salvation through their spiritual leader, Jesus Christ.
Their beliefs did not involve the complex notion of a Trinitarian God nor the pagan concept of an immortal soul.
Primitive Christian theology simply involved the understanding that Jesus had been appointed by the Hebrew God [thus the title Christ] to be their leader [similar to the leader Moses], their prophet [similar to the prophet Elijah], their judge [similar to the judge Samuel], their political king [similar to King David], their priestly king [similar to the king-priest Melchizedek] and, since he was a perfect man, a unique son of God [similar to the perfect man Adam].
Jesus was everything to these early Christians, however, he was definitely not their God. Instead his role was that of a mediator, like that of a high priest.
As followers of this man, whom the God of the Hebrews raised from the dead, these early disciples confessed the hope that someday they, too, would also become secondary leaders, prophets, judges, kings, priests and sons of God, just as their master had become, as a reward for their faithfulness through the resurrection of the dead, not through the possession of an immortal soul.
These early followers of Jesus understood that their salvation was for the purpose of their participation in judging the rest of mankind during the millennial reign of their master. This is why the gospel of salvation is closely related to the gospel of the kingdom and is, in fact, one in the same.
By adding the doctrines of the Trinity and the Immortality of the Human Soul to Christianity, it made the basic foundation of Christian theology void and incomprehensible.
This, my friend, is primitive Christianity in a nutshell and is supported by both secular history and unbiased Scriptural evidence.
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