The purpose of this website is to
bring to you, the reader, free-of-cost, the “quoted
statements” about first-century “primitive
Christianity”-- What were then the
attitudes, beliefs, goals and conduct of
Christians before being corrupted by the
world it was to be no part of.
Note the following “quoted
statement” of Jesus the day before his death:
If you [primitive Christians]
were part of the world, the world would be fond
of what is its own. Now because you are no part
of the world, but I have chosen you out of the
world, on this account the world hates you.
—John 15:19.
Therefore, not being “fond” of Jesus’ disciples,
secular history cannot always be counted on as
the only credible source in obtaining
information pertaining to primitive Christians.
There were many divisions among “early”
Christians, however, not so among “primitive”
Christians.
Note the “quoted statement” of
the Apostle Paul, himself a primitive Christian,
in exhortation to the first-century
congregation:
Now I exhort you [primitive
Christians], brothers [and sisters], through the
name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you should
all speak in agreement, and there should not be
divisions among you, but that you may be fitly
united in the same mind and in the same line of
thought. –1 Corinthians 1:10.
Therefore, the only reliable source to
confirm the beliefs of primitive Christians is
the writings misnomered the “New Testament”.
These writings have been more closely
scrutinized throughout the centuries than any
other historical document. These can be trusted
to deliver the message for which they were
intended.
There is evidence that the
earliest of Christians believed them to be part
of the inspired cannon of Scripture. An example
of this can be found where the Apostle Peter
supported the writings of the Apostle Paul as
belonging to “the rest of the Scriptures”:
Speaking about these things as
he [Paul] does also in all his letters. In them,
however, are some things hard to understand,
which the untaught and unsteady are twisting, as
they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to
their own destruction. –2 Peter 3:16.
With the above “quoted statements” from the
Scriptures in mind, can you at this point begin
to understand at least part of the mission,
attitude and circumstances of the primitive
Christian congregation? They were as follows:
1) They were persecuted for not
being part of the world they were taken from,
2) They were to speak and think
in agreement, and
3) Those who were not
primitive Christians would be inclined to twist
the meaning of any Scripture they could not
understand in accordance to their own
convenience.
Does Scriptural Christianity,
which is primitive Christianity, sound
anything like the Christianity people have grown
to accept in today’s world?
In the Scriptures Jesus referred
to the corrupting elements that would be added
to his teachings as “leaven”:
Then they grasped that [Jesus]
said to watch out, not for the leaven of the
loaves, but for the teaching of the Pharisees
and Sadducees [religious leaders of his time].
–Matthew 16:12.
It was prophesized that his teachings would be
contaminated and that this contamination would
be extensive.
If water has been contaminated,
what do you do? Boil it? Filter it? A wise
person would do both. Because boiling would kill
harmful bacteria and filtering would remove the
toxic elements.
The Mission Statement for Quoted Statements
is that of Primitive Christianity, to
remove all the added features of Christianity in
order to render it to you, the reader, in its
pure unadulterated or “primitive” state,
Christianity without leaven.
This
website does not promote religious bias which
blinds individuals and prejudices them into
looking any further into who God is and/or what
his will is for humans on earth. Therefore,
references will be made concerning quoted
statements of individuals and not
religious organizations.
Both Moses
and Jesus were responsible for gathering people
together for theological instruction; Moses
indicated a Prophet like himself would be raised
up that would replace him and give the complete
unadultered truth {see Deu 18:18} and Jesus
professed to being that one.
Mission
Statement to be continued ....
Primitive Christianity vs Traditional
Christianity
