Incorrect that it's any form of Christianity that you Negative-Christians believe in
https://infogalactic.com/info/Positive_Christianity
In 1937, Hans Kerrl, the Nazi Minister for Church Affairs, explained "Positive Christianity" as not "dependent upon the Apostle's Creed", nor in "faith in Christ as the son of God", upon which Christianity relied, but rather, as being represented by the Nazi Party: "The Fuehrer is the herald of a new revelation", he said. To accord with Nazi antisemitism, Positive Christianity advocates also sought to deny the Semitic origins of Christ and the Bible. In such elements Positive Christianity separated itself from Christianity and is considered apostasy by Catholics and Protestants.
Adherents of Positive Christianity argued that traditional Christianity emphasised the passive rather than the active aspects of Christ's life, stressing his miraculous birth, his suffering, his sacrifice on the cross and other-worldly redemption. They wanted to replace this doctrine with a "positive" emphasis on Christ as an active preacher, organizer and fighter who opposed the institutionalized Judaism of his day. At various points in the Nazi regime, attempts were made to replace conventional Christianity with its "positive" alternative.
Positive Christianity differed from orthodox Christianity in that Positive Christianity:
1.Rejected the Jewish-written parts of the Bible (including the entire Old Testament)
2.Claimed "Aryanhood" and non-Jewishness for Christ
3.Promoted the political objective of national unity, to overcome confessional differences, to eliminate Catholicism, and to unite Protestantism into a single unitary Positive Christian church
Edit: I would happily promote this version of Christianity though.
Sorry for such a late reply, and I want to start by saying that I agree with you on so many well made points. I consider myself more aligned w/ Orthodox teachings, simply bc those are the in real life groups, I am able to commune w/ on a bi weekly basis for more than a decade. That does not mean I disagree w/ you at all. Thank you for such a well thought out reply
So you would happily promote this? Do you believe it, or is it simply positive/ constructive in your opinion?
I've already taken the steps to start practicing it. We need to unify under an ideology and there is no better alternative than this imo.
Why the need to reject the old testament? Does that mean you only accept the new testament in part, or with an everpresent "understanding"?
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