There are many churches that claim to represent Christ. However, I came to discover that many churches custom disigned or recreate the person of Jesus to justifiy their own reasoning. When I left my church many years ago, I was not rejecting our true Jesus from the Holy Bible I rejected the counterfeit jesus that this organization created. I refused to believe that my precious Lord Jesus was about punnishment, I refused to believe that there was many ways to be saved, I refused to pray to dead people and so on. Today I am born again and Spirit filled.  Praise God I am free from guilt and condemnation. I am free in My Lord Jesus Christ who shed His blood to set us free.

Concerning the allegory to modern day mission, I fully agree, that we must ask which Christ a person rejected, since the person might have connected it with man’s error, abuse, hypocricy etc.

But as being interested in Scandinavian history - it is often my ancestors we look at - I i have a bit different view of the story itself. From my knowledge I don’t doubt, that it could have happened - it is coherent with the period.

As you state it was a right of noblemen and clergy - actually it was expected as hospitality, which is a deed according to the Bible. Both according to OT laws, the law of Christ and local contemporary laws murder was forbidden and - except for the law of Christ which has repentance and forgiveness - the punishment was death penalty. So Lalli reacts against the codex of hospitallity and commits a villians-deed - as such lost his honour, which was important in those days - the only way he could regained his honour, was by meeting in court and accept his punishment. Instead he chicken out and cowardly fled - as such any of the Bishop’s family could have killed him righteously according to local courts judgement - vigilantism without going to court was also a villains-deed and dishonorous. “Fortunately” for Lalli, Bishop Henry’s family was in Britain, and did not bother to hunt him down in icy Finland, which gave him a time to reconciliate with Christ. But he chose neither to accept the judgement of local court, nor consciously surrendering his life to Jesus Christ.

Probably the real problem was, that he hadn’t consciously converted from his heathen Ase-belief, but probably had had the choice of being beheaded or getting baptized - in those days when a king converted, mission was efficiently - but doubtfully - done in this manner - often the king’s conversion was of political reasons rather than a personal belief. When not acknowledging the new faith, he probably considered the Bishop an anglo-saxon pirate - which was not the understanding of the local court. Had it been an Ase-Kutha (gode/priest/godsman of the Ase-belief), he would probably have accepted it. Thus the story is rather a story of the clash of cultures and religious beliefs, than a story about rejecting Christ after believing.

Who is the real Christ?  How can any Christian even ask such a question?  This statement brings a chilling fact that people do not take the time to read the Bible in order to know their God.  God has given the world information on not only who He is, but also tells us who the enemy is and the things we need to watch for in order not to be miss lead to worshiping the wrong god.
The basic core is the war for worship between God or Lucifer.  Not only did God give us His Seal, the only document written by God Himself with his own finger, but also exposed the seal of Lucifer and who the anti-christ is.  God not only laid out His plan for salvation but also laid out Lucifer’s deception to twist the truth to deceive those seeking the true God.  These truths are not hidden or complicated that can only be explained by men of learning.  Rather the Bible was written so even a child can understand.  In fact Jesus made a comment about that in His teachings.
Daniel and Revelation clearly tells us who the anti-christ is and the result of excepting lucifers seal of worship.  These books are no longer closed to understanding because we live in the day of understanding. 
The key is read God’s word with a open heart and all things will be shown you.  ALL THINGS!

I have rejected “the Christ”  that religion has handed to me. If there is a God out there, then He/She/It has no name. Has no gender
People gave Him/Her/It names as they go along, ( Yahweh, Allah etc.)
Christians seem to be pretty high off on the thought of unbelievers & sinners painfully roasting for all eternity with no possibility of parole.
No thanks. I’m not about to have an abusive relationship with an entity that may not even exist.
  Fundamental Christianity is deeply immersed in narcissism. I can’t be around Fundies for a long time I always feel like they are not really present, just waiting for me to shut up so they can shove their dogma into my throat.

@Ken: God’s Seal? According to Seventh Day Adventism, the Seal is celebrating Sabbath. But I don’t clearly understand what you mean by God’s Seal written with his own finger… Do you mean the two tablets with The Ten Commandments? the Bible? Or more figurative accepting Christ and being baptized (God’s law ritten in the heart)? Else I do understand what you say, and basically agree, though I’m not sure Daniel and Revelations are fully revealed - but as time comes we will understand fully - and the present interpretations give a basic guideline to the events of the last days.

see you do not respect the word Holy…there are many other words that you may have for Henry…but Holy is a word reserved for reverence, love, respect, honor, glory, magesty, not for ill usage by men.

@Daniel.  hihi..  lol ..  a SDA thing?  think not, it started at Creation and most Christians think its a Jewish thing, so interesting comment.  its all about worship.  lucifer thinks it should be him. Danial & Revelation tells all who wish to know what to watch for and who the harlet, antichrist and false prophet is.  God left a key in Danial on were to look in history for the events leading to the Second Coming.  most all of the End Time prophesies have been fufilled and we only wait for the last couple of things to come soon.  we stand on the very edge of the statues toe nails and I for one look forward to all this suffering to end.  do i beleave in Gods Law? yes…  do i beleave in Moses Law? no…  the Law of Moses was fufilled, Christ died and took our sins. yet salvation is only for those with the Seal of God.  shouldn’t all christians know what this is?  sounds important to me. 
love our chats and may God have mercy on us all.

@Ken: If I understand you right, Christians have the Seal of God, when they have surrendered their life to Jesus, worship God i spirit and truth and sincerely call upon the name of the Lord (JHVH).

We can only agree about that. Some people think salvation is free and reduce it to water on the head, hand on the head and soil on the head (rituals of baptism, [con]firmation and funeral without content). But salvation cost nothing because we can’t make our selves worthy, but at the same time everything - our entire lives. Therefore salvation is not a set of gifts we can pick and choose from, but an ultimatum on take it or leave it basis. It contains redemption from death penalty, adoption by God Almighty and duties to live our lives as a heavenly Princes(ses).

We all come short at fulfilling our part of the covenant, but thanks to mercy it doesn’t matter, as long as we try of a sincere heart, and allow the Holy Spirit to work in our lives - according to Paul, God looks at the good will to do the right things - the enslaved will set free by Gods preventing mercy - he sees wether we try, and wether we arise whenever we fall, but he does not hold our failures against us.