Who Was Jesus Really? - Part 8: The Very First "Christian" Communities

This part of the series explores what the earliest "Christianity" looked like, or rather Christianities plural: the diverse blooming of responses to Jesus's reputation, before the Catholic Church squeezed his teachings into an orthodoxy.

About this series:
Jesus Christ wasn't who almost anyone thinks he was. And his message is more important than almost anyone realizes.

What Christ embodied and taught transcends our neat categories, whether religious, scientific, or strictly historical.

This series puts Jesus in the largest possible perspective, revealing what he said about reality and our place in it.

Encompassing the historical, psychological, and the spiritual, this series frees our view of Jesus from both the dogma of the church and the skepticism of atheists.

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THIS IS PART 8
I recommend you watch the series in order.

Here's Part 1:
   • Who Was Jesus Really? - Part 1: When ...  

Here's a link to Part 7:
   • Who Was Jesus Really? - Part 7: What ...  

Find the entire essay on my blog at
https://tinyurl.com/Who-Was-Jesus-Really

I look forward to seeing your comments and questions.

OTHER LINKS:

The Science Spell: Why Science Can Coexist With Spirituality:
Find it here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1736910701

My second collection of essays, "Of Geometry & Jesus" goes broader in scope than "The Science Spell." Here I roam coyote-like across the imaginary borders between science, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, myth, religion, the supernatural, and our own direct experience of the world. Check it out here:
https://tinyurl.com/GeometryJesus

I offer poetry for people don't read poetry and spiritual advice for me, and maybe you on my website here:
https://www.sparkwrites.com

Here's my author page on Amazon:
https://tinyurl.com/ChrisSparkAuthorPage

Find Spiritual Aphorisms from my book, Wholeness in Pieces: Spiritual Aphorisms for Greater Life, available here:
https://tinyurl.com/WholenessInPieces

Read my blog, here:
https://www.sparkwrites.com/blog

Music: "Panjab" - by Serge Quadrado
https://www.pond5.com/artist/serge_qu...
https://freesound.org/people/SergeQua...

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Footnotes:

Bart Ehrman, 2016, “Who Counts as a Christian,” Available at https:// ehrmanblog. org/who-counts-as-a-christian/ (Accessed August 7, 2022)

. Galatians 3:28

. Thomas Cahill 2000, Desire of the Everlasting Hills: The World Before and After Jesus (Random House Audio) [Audiobook] Ch. 4, 25:36


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