The extremes to which the church and its leaders have gone in order to protect and justify various decisions regarding points of faith is fascinating, but tends to obscure the truth. Revisionist history, coercion, greed, lust, and propaganda were the order of the day when the major items of doctrine were being decided. In fact, many of those truths that we hold so dear in our Christian faith were decided, if not invented, through or because of political and financial aims, and not by theological insight. Many doctrines went well beyond what the early church held as truth.
Come with us as we look behind the curtain of church history and view information through a political and scientific lens. We will carefully examine historical documents to reveal the intention of the leaders. We will consider the history and virtue of the major Christian doctrines, as well as where those beliefs have brought us in our churches and religious life today. In the end, we must ask, "Where is God amidst all of these rules, politics, sex, and doctrines?"
First, we will discover how our faith was manipulated and changed by politics, sex, and power. Then we will discover where we left God and how we may once again find the source of life and happiness.
Items discussed include:
Theology
Framework Of Christianity
The Bible
The canon of the Bible
Inerrant scripture
The Trinity
Virgin Birth
Polygamy
Celibacy
Transubstantiation
Rapture, Apocalypse and the end of days
Sabbath verses Sunday
Tithes and offerings
Prayer and faith
Magical thinking
Original sin
Mary: immaculate conception
Baptism
Predestination and foreknowledge
The mark of Cain, Job and the petty God
The schizophrenic God of the Old and New Testaments
The development of Satan
The Axial Age
The pinnacle of the Axial Age
Religion Addiction
Conclusion of religion
The Beginning of spirituality
(Tags : The Heresy of a Curious Mind: Exposing Religion to Reveal God (Unabridged) Joseph B. Lumpkin Audiobook, Joseph B. Lumpkin Audio CD )
