The original version of Christianity is ‘still’ the original version of Christianity, despite organized religion’s efforts to “re-create” it through creeds and confessions and catechisms and doctrine, often for its own benefit. The earliest followers of Jesus’, those who were actually there, those who were eyewitness of the events, those who documented those events, those who were responsible for the eventual evangelization of the entire world, they made it crystal clear what the foundation of their faith was. They made it crystal clear what their hope was based on. And it wasn’t theology, and it wasn’t a book.
If I didn’t know better I’d suggest you have the makings of a creed right there!?
Seems to me that no matter what direction you take things you end up with creeds.
