How far back do we go with this concept of Christ?  Can we really take it back to the people who followed Jesus around Galilee and Judea?

Did they believe it?  Were they Christians?

An interview with Rabbi Philip Kaplan at the Great Synagogue, Sydney.

In Mark 8:29  Jesus says to his disciples;  "What about you?  Who do you say I am?" 

And Peter answers, "You are the Messiah."

Who is better placed to know what Peter might have meant by this; a Reverend, or a Rabbi?

An interview with the Reverend of Saint Andrew's Presbyterian church, Newcastle Australia. 

(The Church in the picture)

Tim responds to two questions:

#   What is Christianity? 

#   What is the central message of Christianity?

We also address what exactly it is that makes a person eligible for heaven.

The mother of all Christian assumptions

A combination of material from two rival movements

Looking between the lines of Church history and the New Testament.

An unorthodox tour through early Church times for anyone interested in what might have been going on behind the scenes. Behind the scenes of the official story that was produced by the Church, with its rise to power.

The Church has demanded a narrow minded view of Christian origins.

Another way to look at that story is to take away the assumption that God was with the religious elite, and against anyone who disagreed with them.

 A combination of material from two rival movements 

Introduction Part 2  

There's a story that we're supposed to believe about how Christianity came together. The one where the religious elite were right, and everybody else was wrong.  

The Church has demanded a narrow minded view of Christian origins.

Here's another way to look at that story.

This is part one of the introduction to Shaking Christianity.