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I know this was probably to provoke a reaction but Jesus as I understand him was a revolutionary who pushed people to stop following the established religion an
by nopassrecover 17y ago
I know this was probably to provoke a reaction but Jesus as I understand him was a revolutionary who pushed people to stop following the established religion and financing its greed and instead to start living a good life. In this sense he was like Martin Luther in that he envisioned decentralised religion as the ideal - moral living for the masses not blind expensive ritual controlled by the few.
But I could be completely wrong.
- oldgregg 17y agoI totally agree with you on all counts. Except for the moral living part. It's establishment religious types that promote moralism-- Jesus' whole point is that your good works don't do jack squat.
- joeyo 17y agoSola fide is a controversial stance, at best. Consider James 2:26, "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also."
- defen 17y ago> Sola fide is a controversial stance, at best Talk about an understatement! The Protestant Reformation is one of those things that has had such a tremendous impact on the world that I think it might be impossible to imagine the world without it (I only spent a few minutes just now trying, though)
- nopassrecover 17y agoYeah my view on morals is more egoist than most but I assume that a system of morality is the best-case output of religion.