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What Christianity promises, I do not understand. What its god could possibly want, I have never been able to imagine, not even when I was a Christian.
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― Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve
― Apostle: Travels Among the Tombs of the Twelve
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ONE OF THE MOST interesting features of the early Christian debates over orthodoxy and heresy is the fact that views that were originally [...] deemed orthodox came to be declared heretical. Nowhere is this more clear than in the case of the first heretical view of Christ—the view that denies his divinity. [...] the very first Christians held to exaltation Christologies which maintained that the man Jesus (who was nothing more than a man) had been exalted to the status and authority of God. The
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― How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
― How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
