RedLetter Christians

[MatthewG]

Just recently heard about Redletter Christians.

Have you ever heard of them before? Apparently it's a section of a group of people that only read the words of Jesus, and do not go any further than that.


Thoughts? Experiences with anyone like this?

Please feel free to share.

 

[Jesus Wept]

Just recently heard about Redletter Christians.

Have you ever heard of them before? Apparently it's a section of a group of people that only read the words of Jesus, and do not go any further than that.


Thoughts? Experiences with anyone like this?

Please feel free to share.

I've heard of them. If that's all the scripture they feel comfortable putting their confidence in, fine with me. If all believers took a similar approach, not to read only the words of Christ, but to obey them, the world would be a far better place. Let's hope obedience is also part of their program.

 

[Lambano]

“Red Letter Christianity” is a reaction against (post-dispensational?) “Paulianity”. I was introduced to both concepts years ago on another forum.

Some of the criticisms of Paul is that he did not know Jesus during His lifetime, appears to have very little knowledge of what Jesus actually taught and considered it irrelevant, and the only aspects of Jesus’s life that are relevant to Paul is His death and resurrection and what it means in the “big picture” story of humanity, sin, and Israel. “Faith” in Jesus has been redefined as intellectual belief and trust in Christ’s atoning death (usually in the form of the Penal Substitution model), and has been decoupled from trust in Jesus Himself.

The purpose of Red Letter theology is to make Jesus’s earthly life relevant again, and to turn Christ back into a real person to be loved and obeyed rather than a mere symbol that is little more than a sacrificial lamb.

Fair criticism?