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The Great Plan Part 1

They start with the assumption that God didn’t know what He was doing when He created man and man was a perfect, sinless creature who “fell from grace” and was cursed. They assume that God expected Man to be perfect and live forever, but he blew it — he went and sinned! He screwed the whole thing up for all the rest of us!

It seems (from most Christians’ point of view) that God did not expect man to disobey and eat from the forbidden tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil and that man did know the difference between what was right and wrong. This couldn’t be further from the truth! Continue reading

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Earliest Jewish Believers: Ebionites Part 1

The very first believers in Jesus were not Christians. Christianity was not in existence yet — Christianity was a creation of St Paul. There were many names for these believers, but as Epiphanius writes: “Ebionite was at first… a common name for all Christians” (Epiphanius Adv. Haer., xxix. 1). Continue reading

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