On Jan. 1st, 1923, the first modern megachurch opened its doors, complete with skits, and toe-tapping tunes. But what have been the effects of this century-long confusion between church and theatre?
It was actually Augustine who was the first notable mega-church leader to convert Christianity into a naturalistic religion by whittling away the supernatural. He had no interest in the basic Christian teachings of divine beings having sex with human women resulting in a cursed race of half breeds. He convinced his followers to do away with such “fables” and adapt a more natural interpretation instead. The “Sons of God” of Genesis 6 would become merely a lineage of the human,Seth, instead of a Divine race of non-humans as the earliest followers of Christ would have known them to be.
It was actually Augustine who was the first notable mega-church leader to convert Christianity into a naturalistic religion by whittling away the supernatural. He had no interest in the basic Christian teachings of divine beings having sex with human women resulting in a cursed race of half breeds. He convinced his followers to do away with such “fables” and adapt a more natural interpretation instead. The “Sons of God” of Genesis 6 would become merely a lineage of the human,Seth, instead of a Divine race of non-humans as the earliest followers of Christ would have known them to be.