Reflections & Celebrations Rev Marcy Ann

By 325 A.D. stories about Jesus were different from house to house.  So Constantine the emperor of Rome had a big conference and invited all of the  different leaders of all of the different ideas about Jesus to come to Nicea and they met together and agreed on a "gospel" or story that would become The Roman Catholic Church.   What is believed and is preached today is not the gospel of Jesus Christ, but a conglomeration of many ideas believed by lots of different people.  We will look at some of them and we will also see if we can define The Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Do you want to come into the measure of the fullness of God?   Where sickness and death have no power over you?  Where - even if there was a Hell - you would never go there?

It is time for us to put aside childish things and grow up as citizens of this planet.  We have a responsibility to take our place in the cosmos and be an example of living in heaven on earth, as Jesus taughty his disciples to pray:  Our Father which art in heaven:   Hallowed be Thy Name.  Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done, on earth, as it is in many other places in your grand cosmos.

We shall begin to examine some of the  critical doctrines that are nearly universally accepted by a person who says they are a Christian.  

One of these is the Doctrine of Original Sin.     

 

The place of woman in creation is discussed.

Let's take a deeper look at chaos.