This website is about human rights and civil rights of modern scripture-affirming Christians in the USA and throughout the world.
The impetus is and always should be the pre-Constantine believers. That “Church” that stayed on the right path to The Way.
Never shielding our eyes from Constantine making “Christendom” far more like a totalitarian political force than keeping to the Gospel and Apostolic record, we must always look to truth over fad.
Through observation of what Christian life is – as laid out in the New Testament and implemented consistently through the years since the Resurrection – it can be differentiated from what wanderers behind pulpit or press say Christian life is “now for themselves and others and what they actually do with their Christian identity.
The Church that has never stopped proclaiming and living the Gospel as delivered by Christ Jesus and the witnesses in scripture is as alive and well as it has been since before and after the Resurrection. This site exists as an observation of Christians and the myriad of Christian expressions in light of the words and actions laid out for Christians in the New Testament.
The New Testament is not a difficult witness to understand. In fact, anti-Christians and other detractors are all to quick to tell Christians how they should act according to and because of the precepts in and of the New Testament writings.
“The Church,” was not founded in the city of Rome no matter what powerful a place in the world the Pope has. Although Rome may be the place where it may have been popularized for western minds and powerful political forces . . ., The Church was founded in Judea in the city of Jerusalem. Anyone denying that may as well assert that Jesus was a New Yorker born in the Bronx in 1977.
Though to be sure there will be some “scholar” trying to peddle Rome, or Laguna Beach for that matter, as the birth place of Christ, madness or pure dishonesty can only be ascribed to the position.
CorrectChristian.com is and will continue to be designed for dedicated Christians only and for the rights of believers in Jesus as Jesus and the writers of the New Testament described it.
Failing your walk as a Christian is not the insurmountable error. Trying to demand that Truth changes for fad, politics, or selfishness most certainly walks that path.
There won’t be any pronouncements on this site of “who is a Christian” because that defining assertion has already been set in stone. The stone that was rolled away testifies to that.
Cultural Christianity
There actually is a Christian culture. And it is supposed to be different from the world and its ways.
It has become a slur only because it was well-earned. The evil that evil men do always trumps the good that good men do. A “Cultural Christian” as it goes, is one that is indistinguishable from a non Christian in action and speech, beliefs and attitude. The ubiquity of that experience is not debatable.
Yes, and though, it is all too easy to observe throughout history and up until this very day, “Christians” that behave no differently than non and anti-Christians, still, there have always been Christians that hold to the culture the Apostles developed.
Many people that claim to be a Christian do live a life that cannot be proven as such with Gospel measure. And while the “No True Scotsman” Theory could be attempted by the snappy comeback of the common parroting antagonist, it cannot fit the actuality of what a Christian is defined to be in the New Testament.
When defined by Jesus and the other voices in the New Testament, sooner or later a Christian has to be distinguishable from a non-Christian. Such was the case of the Church and its adherents long before it became a pop fad and the only legal religion in fourth century Rome. Read and re-read the letter of Jude to a congregation of believers and see that there are those that are true to the faith and those that are not. And Jude’s view from IN The Church.
The Church has been suffering from a mix of power-politics, greed, apathy, lascivious licentiousness and avarice because it is made up of human beings.
Even before Pentecost, Cultural Christianity or “followers of The Way,” was a different and well-defined life in Christ for a believer in the Risen Lord. A Believer in Christ in the Roman world was as different from a non believer as a an open-minded and kind person is from Richard Dawkins.
That the phrase is turned around and used as an insult is simply a shame. But as pointed out earlier, one that was and is well earned.
(Note: The NT claims that believers in Jesus were first called “Christians” in Antioch (Syria). The terms Christianity and Christendom, following later.
There can be little honest doubt that there is an immutable description and definition of what and who a Christian is in the New Testament.
This was lived out, documented and produced by and in the Christian community that developed well before the Roman Emperor Constantine “legalized” Christianity and made it the Official Religion of the Roman Empire.
The trouble for The Church started at Constantine. And most of that trouble started IN the Church and was motivated by political power in application. Not much different than in today’s world.
The “Mission” here:
There is nothing particularly overarching about this website in terms of being an absolute authority. It’s not. It is based on observation. Most “Christian” positions presented here are based on basic apostolic Christianity. The desire to fight every opinion or try to convince the entrenched secularist, atheist, universalist and all the other also-rans (with all due respect) is not going to be entertained here.
They are free to live their lives, internet or elsewhere, as they see fit. That includes Bible-believing Christians.
With the respectful acknowledgement that the many people who reject Christian life and the Christian worldview have their human rights to do so. But Christians have the same human rights to live and believe as they so choose as well.
This site supports, affirms and encourages Christians to learn that their worldview is based on sound reason and logic and sensibility. Actuality is the guiding principle.
Non and anti-Christians, spinoff and quasi-believers can shout or “scholarly debate” ridicule, impart skepticism and scorn of the Christian life. They can hate Christian worldviews all day lone and their opinions boils down to “So what?” Christians have faced anti-Christians before the word “Christian” was even ascribed to the believers.
The goal here is to provide a vehicle for believers to know that they have a sensible and valuable worldview as delivered by the writers of the canonized New Testament. In fact, the most important point of view in human history.
The Christian people, or organizations, that are recommended on this website and encouraged to be used, look to have a faithful view of Christian reality. So here there is only one “mission” in mind. To provide Christians with solid foundational teachers and teachings to support their rights as a Christian.
This is about encouraging Christians to live their faith with the bold assertion that they have the human rights to do so.
“Test all things and hold firmly to the truth.”
Anyone taking offense of what is offered on this website is free to leave it and live their life as they so choose. It is a matter of choice. The same choice as it was in the first century Church.
This site is not about a platform of contention toward those that choose rejection and opposition towards Jesus, Christian life and the Gospel. There are plenty of sites on the internet to assuage and feed hate and opposition to Christians and Christian life. Go there if that is what drives your heart. mind and soul. Or in the case of an atheist, just your heart and mind. (Why recognize what you so firmly deny?)
With the stance that Christians and Christian life was not altered into something altogether different by Constantine’s Church and State proclamation and the evil that men do, as a matter of fact . . . it is recognized that Christ Jesus, the Gospel and those that follow Jesus as He described, have at all times been present on the earth since Jesus created the place.
This site is for Christians who consider the historicity of Christian doctrine to be set and not alterable by whim, fad, politics, new prophets or changing times.
Even though Christian life and worship was pressured to bend to the dictates of a secular and pagan world and worldview and did in some cases, many, many, Christians throughout the ages have managed to maintain the walk Jesus described and defined.
This has nothing to do with the western concept of Church and State. Which is a condition of social politics, societal pressures and pop fads. This site will not take much time to contend with issues that have nothing to do with living the Gospel.
Love is as non-negotiable as the resurrection of our Lord.
While living in the secular world should not necessarily be avoided, whether a Christian once choosing not to affirm it, then wants to be changed back by the world and its ways is a personal choice. But it is one made of free will with all of the attached consequences and accountability.
As a matter of getting along with non and anti Christian peoples, a Christian needn’t give up what it means to be a Christian. In fact, looking at the pre-Constantine Church (Christians before Constantine made Christianity the state religion and the wide path that set in motion), Christians lived their lives with and alongside many, many, people and people groups that did not embrace the beliefs of Christians. And yet the Christians fared well.
“Let me say first that I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith in him is being talked about all over the world.”
Romans 1:8 – Paul to the Christians throughout the Roman Empire long before Emperor Constantine or the internet.