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He frames early Christianity as wrestling first with whether Jesus is man or God, and then with how Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and God relate to one another.
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Early Christianity
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Early Christianity is presented as a religion of humility and poverty that negates wealth by promising heaven rather than worldly favor.
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He argues that early Christianity spread because it was revolutionary, egalitarian, anti-authority, and promised oppressed people a future world of equality and redemption.
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"...in history, so not this time in history, but in the early Christianity, there was a huge debate as to the nature of Jesus,..."
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"It was both man and God. And then the next debate is, what is the relationship between Jesus, the Holy Spirit, and God? Because..."
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"...of all, is in the beginning of Christianity, in the Bible, early Christianity was a religion of two things, humility and poverty. Okay, so..."
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"And the young man says, I'm a very pious man. I already do this. I want to do more. And then Jesus says to..."
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"believing in God the entire point of making sacrifices to your gods is to have more wealth in life right how do you know..."
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"Why is it so popular? So popular, in fact, that today, about 2 billion people... believe in it, okay? It's the most popular, most..."
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"and its basic characteristics in the beginning were it was revolutionary, it was egalitarian, and it was anti -authority. And so these individuals who..."
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"...come into conflict with the church is they want to restore early Christianity. They want to restore the heart and soul of Christianity as..."
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"...church, which was the smallest of all these different denominations of early Christianity, why would they triumph in the end? Okay, first of all,..."
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