Refining Hell in the Middle Ages (Journey Into Hell #11)
Early medieval philosophers and theologians continued to refine the concepts involved with Hell.
Early medieval philosophers and theologians continued to refine the concepts involved with Hell.
For this Easter holiday, we check out one those sorts of beliefs. Today, let me show you a wackadoodle claim about the end of Jesus’ life — and why it’s not really wackadoodle at all in the grand scheme of things.
Way back when, when Yr. Loyal&Etc. was just a wee teenybopper Christian lass, I believed heart and soul in a concept that even today ensorcels Christians. That concept is Original Christianity. Let me walk you through the idea today, and show you how it completely fails even a cursory examination.
We’ve been talking lately about the early history of Christianity and how different it is from the history offered up by most Christian apologists and leaders. This definitely is not a history I learned growing up Catholic or as a fundamentalist lass! If anything, it’s even more fascinating to me than Read more
I was shocked to see it worded like that, like it was some kind of done deal that everybody, “even the rather skeptical ones,” knows. But the fact that she’d put the phrase in quotes like that meant, ostensibly, that she’d gotten it from somewhere. So I went digging. And I found out a lot of stuff that Christians like her probably wouldn’t ever want their kids to learn.