"Whoever does not love me does not keep my words... If anyone says, 'I know him,' but does not keep his commandments, he is a liar." Obedience to the commands of Jesus is not only possible and expected but required. Christians have thoroughly shielded themselves from this fact.

Pagans, an explanation and an offer: 1. Christendom was a worthwhile dispensation of European man. The art, literature, architecture, social cohesion, technology, military prowess, law, psychological depth, etc. of Christendom attest to the power of the one God and His Christ.

Medieval codices from western Europe contain an assortment of Biblical works accompanied by apocryphal stories, accounts of the Trojan War, tales from Ovid and Virgil, romances of Grail knights and of Alexander the Great, and astrological, medical, and philosophical tracts.

Theodoric the Great, King of the Goths and of Italy, the son of a Germanic warlord, and an Arian Christian educated in Roman culture in Constantinople, founded Western Christendom and is therefore the true successor of the Emperor Constantine, the prince of Christ's kingdom.

Obverse: Bust of Caesar Vespasian, destroyer of Jerusalem, acclaimed wonderworker and Son of God. Reverse: The goddess Roma seated on seven hills with the Tiber river at her feet. Preterists: "Probably nothing."

Don't believe Christians when they say they are just taking into account the "whole witness of scripture." They are constantly prioritizing some texts, marginalizing others, and re-shaping everything in accordance with some favored theological system.

Don't settle for imitations. The essence of Christendom is nothing less than the folkish blending of three mythological systems: the Graeco-Roman, the Christian-apocryphal, and the Celto-Germanic.

Peter strikes the prison wall and produces water to baptize his jailers.

One of the many things ancient Gnosticism and modern Christianity have in common is a disregard for Jesus as an apocalyptic Jewish prophet of the second temple period.

Andrew Isker 🌳🪓 Stephen Wolfe People taking reformed theology seriously precludes cultural Christianity by definition.

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Christian Nationalism was initially a project for finding a muscular political theology in the New Testament but it quickly transitioned into resentment against Jews and women because the New Testament is, for the most part, utterly and inviolably anti-life.

Folkish Christianity was Apocryphal Christianity.

The gospel is simply the message that God is going to put His guys in charge of the empire.

What if the reason that all the elements of the early Christian εὐαγγέλιον were drawn from imperial Roman ideology was not in order to transform those meanings into spiritual realities but in order to herald an alternative divinely-established kingdom coming upon the earth?

On the one hand, Jesus approved of capital punishment for some misdeeds (Matthew 24:51, Mark 7:10). On the other hand, Jesus overturned the lawful stoning of an adulterous woman.

The idea of the Middle Ages as grotesque and barbaric is a Protestant construction.