New Testament Christians in Cork

“Behold... Behold...”

 Since Augustine in the fifth century there has been misdirected fascination with the concept of Original Sin, a concept influenced by Augustine’s time as a follower of Manichaeism and afterward neo-Platonism (i.e., Greek philosophies and not Bible teachings). This misdirection finds its full voice in John Calvin in the sixteenth century and in the doctrine of Hereditary Total Depravity. Today, the overwhelming majority of people who consider themselves Christia...

If you have seen The Da Vinci Code movie, or spent any time on the internet you will be aware that modern popular culture promotes as fact the idea that a group of clerics in the fourth century decided what was acceptable and right for Christians to read. This same group of mainstream churchmen, at this meeting organised by the Roman emperor Constantine in 325AD, threw out all that was unacceptable, or dangerous for faith and morals, or what they did not like. And so the conspiracy goes...

So often for Christians there is a sense of fighting against the current. Increasingly where we live Christians are marginalised and seen as the quirky periphery, those who don’t quite fit in. Immorality is now considered lifestyle, character is seen as formalism, and principle has become intolerance. And to bring up Christ and the gospel is quaint, old-fashioned and easily dismissed.

 And maybe that is why Christians are having such little impact today. We believe what the world is say...