• oce 🐆@jlai.lu
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    11 months ago

    Yes there’s no reliable manual, but generally people who were actually educated in the text mean following what has been written about Jesus: loving everyone independently of identity, forgiving people who offend you, helping the poor and the weak, refusing violence, doing funny rituals with fermented grape juice etc.

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      11 months ago

      I should have mentioned I was a Christian for 40 years and did quite a fair bit of bible study so I’m coming at this as a former “insider”.

      Certainly the things you list are among the main tenets that I suppose many Christians follow. Those were the main things I prioritized.

      But in those decades I was exposed to a number of different schools of thought and I observed that the messages believers prioritized were not universal.