You May Just Be a Noahide

a reply to: NOTurTypical

You are about to read one of the most fascinating and remarkable prophecies in the Bible. What makes it even more remarkable is what it implies. For when we realize how precisely this prophecy has been fulfilled after 2,500 years, we must realize all the Bible prophecies concerning Israel and the world including the coming 'Apocalypse,' the Battle of Armageddon, Messiah's Return, and the many promises and warnings concerning both Heaven and Hell will be fulfilled just as accurately and literally as the amazing prophecy presented here ...

That's the intro to the page you linked to.

Many, many Christians say they would not believe the Bible at all except for the Jews, and their continued existence. 1948 is for them the physical manifestation of the invisible and spiritual.

I'm pretty sure that when Bankers, politicians, and terrorists make a thing with their own hands and people cry out, "God is in it", that it is in fact idolatry.

My religion doesn't particularly forbid idolatry, so that's not really a problem for me. But I'll be damned if I bow down to that idol!

a reply to: pthena

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a reply to: NOTurTypical

As much as it would be desired that I deliver some Coup de grâce here to settle the issue once and for all, I'm sorry, but I don't have it.

I have a simple religion which does not include resurrection or re-incarnation as a trans migration of the soul. No final Judgment and no Karma either.

No karma in the sense that what I see is people willfully ignorant and willfully blind to the realities of human suffering and the destruction of life and civilization upon the altar of Biblical ideal. What will be the fate of people who offer their wealth to support, emotional and spiritual energy to "morally justify" and convince others of the righteousness of a grand scheme which in the end is merely another theocratic earthly empire? Most likely, they will die peacefully in their beds with a smile on their face convinced of their own righteousness and obliviously ignorant of the lives they willingly contributed in the destruction of. That does not strike me as justice or karma in any way. But hey, it is what it is.

When I was a young boy
My father took me into the city
To see a marching band
He said, "Son, when you grow up
Would you be the savior of the broken
The beaten and the damned?"

He said, "Will you defeat them
Your demons, and all the non-believers
The plans that they have made?"
"Because one day I'll leave you
A phantom to lead you in the summer
To join the black parade."

Sometimes I get the feeling she's watching over me
And other times I feel like I should go
And through it all, the rise and fall, the bodies in the streets
And when you're gone, we want you all to know

We'll carry on
We'll carry on
And though you're dead and gone believe me
Your memory will carry on
We'll carry on

And in my heart I can't contain it
The anthem won't explain it

A world that sends you reeling from decimated dreams
Your misery and hate will kill us all
So paint it black and take it back
Let's shout it loud and clear
Defiant to the end we hear the call

To carry on
We'll carry on
And though you're dead and gone believe me
Your memory will carry on
We'll carry on

And though you're broken and defeated
Your weary widow marches

On and on we carry through the fears
Oh, oh, oh
Disappointed faces of your peers
Oh, oh, oh
Take a look at me cause I could not care at all

Do or die, you'll never make me
Because the world will never take my heart
Go and try, you'll never break me
We want it all, we wanna play this part
I won't explain or say I'm sorry
I'm unashamed, I'm gonna show my scars
Give a cheer for all the broken
Listen here, because it's who we are
I'm just a man, I'm not a hero
Just a boy, who had to sing this song
I'm just a man, I'm not a hero
I don't care

We'll carry on
We'll carry on
And though you're dead and gone believe me
Your memory will carry on
We'll carry on

My-chemical-romance - welcome-to-the-black-parade

a reply to: pthena

Well, at least you can see why Christians see the hand of God and the fulfillment of prophecy and why we support Israel. You can disagree that the OT is God'said Word, but nobody can deny it doesn't say what it says.