Mission Statement

Mission Statement
The purpose of this website is to bring to you, the reader, free-of-cost, the “quoted statements” about “primitive Christianity”--What were then the attitudes, beliefs, goals and conduct of Christians before being corrupted by the world it was to be no part of. Note the following “quoted statement” of Jesus the day before his death:
If you [primitive Christians] were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you. —John 15:19.
Therefore, not being “fond” of Jesus’ disciples, secular history cannot always be counted on as the only credible source in obtaining information pertaining to primitive Christians.  There were many divisions among “early” Christians, however, not so among “primitive” Christians.  Note the “quoted statement” of the Apostle Paul, himself a primitive Christian, in exhortation to the first-century congregation:
Now I exhort you [primitive Christians], brothers [and sisters], through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you should all speak in agreement, and there should not be divisions among you, but that you may be fitly united in the same mind and in the same line of thought. –1 Corinthians 1:10.
The only reliable source to confirm the beliefs of primitive Christians is the writings misnomered the “New Testament”.  These writings have been more closely scrutinized throughout the centuries than any other historical document.  These can be trusted to deliver the message for which they were intended.  There is evidence that the earliest of Christians believed them to be part of the inspired cannon of Scripture.  An example of this can be found where the Apostle Peter supported the writings of the Apostle Paul as belonging to “the rest of the Scriptures”:
Speaking about these things as he [Paul] does also in all his letters.  In them, however, are some things hard to understand, which the untaught and unsteady are twisting, as they do also the rest of the Scriptures, to their own destruction. –2 Peter 3:16.
With the above “quoted statements” from Scriptures in mind, can you at this point begin to understand at least part of the mission, attitude and circumstances of the primitive Christian congregation?  1) They were persecuted for not being part of the world they were taken from, 2) They were to speak and think in agreement and 3) Those who were not primitive Christians would be inclined to twist the meaning of any Scripture they could not understand in accordance to their own convenience.  Does that sound anything like the Christianity people have grown to accept in today’s world?
Thus far, we have not touched on any particular belief of the primitive Christians.  Before we do such, however, we must first clear our minds of everything anyone has ever taught us about traditional Christianity.  Therefore, let us not assume that it is the “salvation” message being preached on TV, which has become a multi-billion dollar industry today.  Let us not assume that Jesus is God. Let us not assume that we possess an immortal soul that survives our physical death and it is this part of us that will receive everlasting life in heaven as a reward or everlasting life in a place called hell.   We must start from scratch; the basics, the primary or primitive.
We must come to realize that what was added to Christianity served to corrupt its primitive message.  Like a toxic element introduced into pure water would render it unfit for human consumption, so too have the non-Christian doctrines added to Jesus’ message made it a spiritual health-hazard for people.
Think of all the harm corrupted Christianity has caused to humankind throughout the centuries!  The Inquisitions and the Crusades are two infamous examples.  What about the Holocaust and the recent genocide in Rwanda? Are not the perverted forms of Christianity to be held somewhat accountable?  If someone wanted to advertise the value of pure drinking water, he or she would view exposing the toxicity of contaminated water as a necessary part of the delivered message.  So, too, the reader will note that this website will dedicate as much time to stating what primitive Christian was/is not as to what is was/is.
In the Scriptures Jesus referred to corrupting elements to his teachings as “leaven”:
Then they grasped that [Jesus] said to watch out, not for the leaven of the loaves, but for the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees [religious leaders of his time]. –Matthew 16:12.
It was prophesized that his teachings would be contaminated and that this contamination would be extensive:
The kingdom of the heavens [message] is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three large measures of flour, until the whole mass was fermented. –Matthew 13:33.
If water has been contaminated, what do you do?  Boil it?  Filter it?  A wise person would do both.  Boiling would kill harmful bacteria and filtering would remove the toxic elements.   The Mission Statement for Quoted Statements and Primitive Christianity is to remove all the added features of Christianity in order to render it to you, the reader, in its pure unadulterated or “primitive” state.
[To Be Continued … ]