This blog represents a search for the meaning of being "Christian" in a modern world where science and archeology have brought into question the religion that has been passed down to us from our ancestors. It started as a search for the beliefs of those first disciples of Jesus - those people who knew him personally and listened to his teachings - in order to understand what his true message was and how we can incorporate it into our own lives.
Modern Christianity stems from the teachings of the Apostle Paul, who was not one of Jesus' disciples and never actually met him as a living human being. This so-called "Pauline" Christianity emphasizes faith as the force driving modern Christians towards eternal salvation. But those first disciples of Jesus had a different take on things - emphasizing salvation through "works" and adherence to traditional Jewish law. What happened to their religious beliefs and why don't we follow them today?
There is a myth about what happened to those first disciples during those tumultuous years before the Romans destroyed Jerusalem in 70 AD. It is said that an oracle warned these earliest Christians of the impending destruction and they were able to escape east across the Jordan river to the area around Pella.
This blog aims to bring their beliefs back into mainstream consciousness - "resurrecting" the voices of Jesus' original disciples who escaped to Pella when Jerusalem fell and the Roman world corrupted Christianity.
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