HOW TO STOP CHRISTIANITY FROM SLIP SLIDING AWAY, PART 1
VERN BENDER
BUT FIRST, HOW DID WE GET HERE, AND HOW IT WENT DOWN:
Phase 1:
To the Romans, Jesus was a troublemaker who had got his just desserts. However, to the Christians, he was a martyr, and it was soon apparent that the execution had made Judaea even more unstable. Pontius Pilate – the Roman governor of Judaea and the man who ordered the crucifixion – was called home in disgrace.
From Christianity’s birth to becoming the Roman Imperial religion in 313. As the first Roman emperor to claim conversion to Christianity, Constantine played an influential role in the Edict of Milan’s proclamation in 313. Over time, the Christian church and faith grew more organized. In 313 AD, the Edict of Milan was issued, which accepted Christianity: 10 years later, it had become the official religion of the Roman Empire.
Platonic logic set the stage for Christian theology. Theology is faith-seeking understanding.
Phase 2:
The Roman Empire would last another 1,000 years as the Byzantine Empire in the east. The end of the Eastern Roman Empire ran from late antiquity until the Fall of Constantinople, when the Ottomans breached the walls in 1453 AD. Constantine XI stayed to defend the city, and on 29 May, Constantinople fell. Constantine Xl died the same day.
Several events from the 4th to 6th centuries mark the transitional period for Christianity.
Christianity takes a hit: The Ottoman Empire was founded in Anatolia, the location of modern-day Turkey. The Ottoman dynasty expanded its reign early on through extensive raiding. In the early days of the Ottoman Empire, the main goal of its leaders was expansion. It is believed that the Ottoman Empire was able to increase because other countries were weak and unorganized, and also because the Ottomans had advanced military organization and tactics for the time. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the 1453 conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed the Conqueror. Under Suleiman the Magnificent’s reign, the Ottoman Empire marked the peak of its power and prosperity and the highest development of its government, social, and economic systems.
In contrast to the Byzantines, the Ottoman Turks had extended their control over virtually all of the Balkans and most of Anatolia, having conquered several Byzantine cities west of Constantinople in the latter half of the 14th century. Constantinople itself became an Ottoman vassal during this period. The Ottoman Empire stood at the crossroads of three continents – power in early modern times and well into the twentieth century. At the apex of Ottoman power spread well into central Europe, the Caucasus, North and East Africa, and most of the Mediterranean.
The Hundred Years War is somewhat arbitrarily dated to end in 1453 because that is the last battle between the English and the French. They remained at war for another 20 years without fighting. England’s ally Burgundy restarted the fighting in 1474; England just declined to assist them because of a French bribe.
From 1450 on, Eastern Orthodox Christianity spread into Russia and Slavic territories, while Catholicism spread into Western Europe. Its central location on the Mediterranean Sea allowed trade to flourish, especially in the capital of Constantinople.
The Renaissance 1453. Thestart of the Renaissance Era was at the end of the Middle Ages. It reached its height in the 15th century. It then spread to the rest of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Christianity takes another hit. The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith. An eighteenth-century intellectual activity whose three central concepts were the reason, the scientific method, and progress. Enlightenment thinkers believed they could help create better societies and better people. René Descartes‘ rationalist philosophy laid the foundation for enlightenment thinking. His attempt to construct the sciences on a secure metaphysical foundation was not as successful as his method of doubt applied in philosophic areas leading to a dualistic doctrine of mind and matter. His skepticism was refined by John Locke‘s Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690) and David Hume‘s writings in the 1740s. His dualism was challenged by Spinoza‘s uncompromising assertion of the unity of matter in his Tractatus (1670) and Ethics (1677). Several novel ideas about religion developed with the Enlightenment, including deism and talk of atheism. Thomas Jefferson called for a “wall of separation between church and state” at the federal level. Enlightenment scholars sought to curtail organized religion’s political power and prevent another age of intolerant religious war. Voltaire held that without belief in a God who punishes evil, society’s moral order was undermined. The supernatural is superstition-based. Empirically verified reasoning provides the answers.
The Enlightenment has been frequently linked to the French Revolution of 1789. One view of the political changes that occurred during the Enlightenment is that the “consent of the governed” philosophy as delineated by Locke in Two Treatises of Government (1689) represented a paradigm shift from the old governance paradigm under feudalism known as the “divine right of kings.” The “Radical Enlightenment”[80][81] promoted the concept of separating church and state,[82] an idea that is often credited to English philosopher John Locke.
The enlightenment-era religious commentary was a response to the preceding century of religious conflict in Europe, especially the Thirty Years’ War.[66] Theologians of the Enlightenment wanted to reform their faith to its generally non-confrontational roots and to limit the capacity for religious controversy to spill over into politics and warfare while still maintaining a true faith in God.
Christopher Columbus, in1492, discovers North America. Christianity expands into the western hemisphere.
The 3rd phase: The last two hundred years. We are striving for unity.
Catholic ecumenical councils include 21 councils over some 1900 years.
Among the noteworthy ones were those that changed the way the church worshipped. The altar, for example, was turned around to face the people. Mass was changed to be in the vernacular, no longer in Latin. And women no longer had to cover their hair in church.
The Second Vatican Council, also called Vatican II, (1962–65), the 21st ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, announced by Pope John XXIII on January 25, 1959, as a means of spiritual renewal for the church and as an occasion for Christians separated from Rome to join in a search for Christian unity. Fifty years ago, Pope John XXIII shocked the world when he created the Second Vatican Council. Known as Vatican II, the council called thousands of bishops and other religious leaders to the Vatican, where they forged a new set of operating principles for the Roman Catholic Church.
Now in 2000, the modern age is here, and Christianity is at a turning point. American and European Christian theological influence is slip-sliding away. In the United States, Christians will decline from more than three-quarters of the population in 2010 to two-thirds in 2050. Four out of every 10 Christians in the world will live in sub-Saharan Africa.
Liberation theology is a synthesis of Christian theology and socio-economic analyses that emphasizes “social concern for the poor and political liberation for oppressed peoples.
A radical Orthodoxy is a form of philosophical theology.
CHRISTIANITY’S CURRENT OPPORTUNITY IS TO GET BACK TO WHERE IT ONCE BELONGED:
THE LITANY OF EVENTS:
Everything is moving online, commerce, real estate, travel, reading, learning, entertainment, etc.
Christian theology needs to be updated to include scientific proof of God’s existence. Then, have it in the core theology. Post it online in a clear, concise way.
It needs to convey the reasons to believe. Explain the learning process, etc.
Utilize the existing churches for ceremonies, the request social interactions, and the liturgical functions that are best served in a church setting.
The objective of this website is to self-assess your chances of getting on to the next level.
This website will verify God’s existence via science. This website then will post the necessary theology that backs up the claim and explains the processes involved. (COMING SOON, PIECE BY PIECE.)
The rest is up to the churches and you.
THE EVENT ORIGINATOR IS ON HIS WAY BACK.
THE DESIGNER/CREATOR’S PROCESS :
HE WROTE THE CODE; THEN HE PRODUCED THE BLUEPRINT. HE USED AN EVOLVEMENT PROCESS TO OBTAIN THE REQUISITE RESULT. IT is ALL JUST A BINARY SOFTWARE PROGRAM.
(ALL THINGS ARE TRIUNE, WITH BINARY INTERACTIVES).
IT is ALL ABOUT THE CODE THAT YOU START WITH.
1ST: Write the code for the upcoming big bang that will create a new universe.
2nd: Write the code for the design and evolve for all intended results as the event unfolds.
3rd: Set the event in motion. All things are triune, with binary interactives.
4th: Monitor, fine-tune, adjust, and select out, on-going.
5th: Use design and evolve as the process. Write a separate code and blueprint for the known thought entities’ consciousness. Install consciousness when it is time for it.
6th: It is not the people; it is the event.
7th: Harvesting a new crop of known thought entities is the intended result.
DARWINISM HAS BEEN REPLACING GOD FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS. THAT DAY IS
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