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Originally posted by truthseeka
Babloyi, LMMFAO!!!
Christianity is the 1st religion??? I guess you never heard of Ancient Egyptians, Sumerians, Akkadians, Babylonians, etc., who ALL predate the Israelites generally credited for starting the whole OT thing.
What about the people of the Stone Age? I'm sure that as long as modern man has been on the planet (100,000 years according to the Out Of Africa model), people have been wondering what else bigger than them is out there and have been worshipping something.
But I guess your right...Christianity is the 1st religion. Hell, it even predates Judaism...
Originally posted by truthseeka
Question...
If Christ, God, and the Holy Ghost are 3 versions of the same being, why would Christ/God want to rule the earth? Surely the Almighty has better things to do than to rule over a small planet in the vast universe...
Originally posted by babloyi
I don't think Jesus "started" a new religion. Christianity is supposed to be a continuation of Abraham's/Moses religion. If one believes in Christianity, then one would also believe that it is the 1st religion, as God told Adam how to behave, what to do, and how to worship Him.
Originally posted by Justanotherperson
How does someone just misplace an entire civilization and replace it with a myth?
Originally posted by LadyV
Ok.....I've been thinking again. I know, but no matter what else I am doing, I am also thinking.
Originally posted by LadyV
Jesus was Jewish, his followers were Jewish, the NT therefore, was written by Jews.
Originally posted by LadyV
Yet, the Jewish do not think Jesus was the Messiah, but a prophet....
Originally posted by LadyV
and the Christian faith (another whole thread....I mean "starting" a religion to me seems phony to begin with, but that's been hashed out here before) follows the NT. Maybe it's just my odd way of thinking...but this seems really all backwards to me somehow......
Originally posted by Justanotherperson
Thanks for pointing out that the Phoenicians predate the bible by a several centuries.
Originally posted by Leveller
When you look at the Bible, you've got to realise that it is made up of two totally separate books for two totally different religions.
Originally posted by saint4God
There has always been only one religion. It just got off course and needed bumping back in line according to Messainic Judiasm. How Messianic Jews go changed to Christian is news to me.
Originally posted by Leveller
. Time and time again, the Old Testament condemns those who are not Jewish. Time and time again, it specifies that Judaism is the only way to go.
Originally posted by dbrandt
From a christians view they talk of the same thing.
The OT talks of a promise God has made. In the NT He fulfills that promise.
The OT is the NT concealed, the NT is the OT revealed.
Originally posted by dbrandt
In the book of Acts it contains the verse that says the believers of Jesus were first called christians in Antioch.
and ask; how can anyone believing those words to be true defy?
I, even I am the Lord, and beside me there is no other saviour
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminsh ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I have commanded you