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The values of contemporary Western society are based almost entirely on the illusory perception of seperation- of a Universe comprising an aggregation of seperate parts, be they atoms, people, stars or galaxies. This perception of seperateness and the attendant loss of insight into the Oneness pervading all reality has resulted in most members of contemporary human society believing that power is external (i.e. lies outside themselves and not within) and as such must be obtained, by fair means or foul, from something or someone else. As a result of this perception most human endeavor throughout 'recorded' history (i.e. the past 5000 years) has been focussed almost entirely upon exploitation- be it of fellow humans and/or the environment at large- in the pursuit of personal wealth and self aggrandisement. Such a system has by necessity fuelled the ongoing suppression of the weak by the strong and ensured that the weak remain dependent on the powerful to fulfil their daily needs through this illusion of seperateness and the attendant fear that goes with that perception. The so-called 'competition of life' associated with the 'Them against Us' syndrome and the current 'Free Market' world economy is a direct result of this thinking. The deep-seated feelings of resentment engendered by this process, and the tensions associated with those feelings, have resulted in dishonesty, violence and warfare bevcoming endemic and accepted form of human behavior throughout the world.
Originally posted by saint4God
think long and hard about all those Christians who say "Christ said..." Is anyone following this train of thought and the brick wall it's heading towards?
Originally posted by Zaimless
Ok so here is how this goes. This conspiracy theory is a totally spiritual one. Satan has hid him self in the Christian Churches.
Within the bible it says there with be a Anti-Christ religion and that they will call themselves by his name. Does the word CHRISTian have anyones name in it that they might know?
When thinking this through and reading the old testament about God I discovered that the God in the Christian religion did the following and it is in every Christians bible, if they read it.
1. That God is a flame and fire
2. That God encouraged incest
3. That God encourages cannabalism
4. That God had peoples hand, feet and heads cut off
5. That God had tens of thousands killed cause they could not spead a word properly when talking.
6. That Sampson went around killing people and tearing them apart and it was all good with God (and this is after the ' thou shall not's ')
7. That God is a war monger
8. That he himself has said he is vengeful, fearful, cruel, and more...
9. That this list could go on and on.....
10. In the old testament God killed over 10 million people
So you see after forty some years of studing the Christian Bible for some time I have come to the conclusion that the Christian God is Satan in disguise. So many Christians dont even know the history of their own beliefs. That the KJV Bible is only, what 400 some years old. That protestants changed the bible and yet they preach to not change the bible. In fact most of them don't even know the word 'bible' mean 'book' and so much more. Lots to study here.
But I only know this, that the God the Christians believe in is an Evil God. Unless they believe in the Trinity and that my friends is a whole other conversation.
Originally posted by dbates
Originally posted by Nygdan
And on the other hand, it would look like the best way for the anti-christ to get christians to turn away from god is to present himself as such, ie, when to all outward appearances we're witnessing the second coming of Jesus, its actually the anti-Christ in disguise, and there'd really be no way to tell the difference.
I followed this train of thought out to it's end and came up with the following solution.
Satan, knowing that Christ would come and usurp the anti-Christ has convinced people such as the originator of this thread that the Bible is corrupt and that the real actual Christ will appear first. Thus being fooled into thinking that the anti-Christ is the actual Christ, we will attempt to fight the real Christ when he returns thinking that he is the anti-Christ.
How do we avoid such quandaries? We must lean heavily on the ancient texts such as the Old Testament to prove the worthiness of the newer text, such as the New Testament. The Bible is in fact a sort of a hologram in that the message of the Bible and the desired knowledge is spread out over the Entire Bible. Show me the chapter that reveals the coming Messiah, or the verse that tells us of the Second Coming. These ideas are spread out over the entire Bible so that by removing portions, even entire books, we don't lose the message. We just lose some of the resolution. The image stays the same.
The author of the Bible knew that it would come under attack, so like a general sending an important message to his troops, the message is delivered through different messangers, and at different times making it nearly impossible to stamp out the main ideas of the Bible. Is it possible that some books are missing? Yes, but that doesn't mean that what we have left isn't an accurate picture of what we are supposed to see.
Originally posted by magnito_student
Christianity is the AntiChrist Religion?
Actually "The Way"(Classic teachings of Christ) was highjacked by the enemy. Its the reason you have so many so called christians preaching another gospel. They know what it says but do not know what it means.
2000+ years ago or during christs presence in flesh, there was no such thing as "the bible" and if you look closely at the word and its sound, it sounds alot like babel, better known as babylon.
Originally posted by Nakash
OMG, another troll thread. This truly sucks, I always thought ATS was a place free of this crap. I think I'll start a thread on how Jews eat ear shaped cookies on Purim shouting curses to Arabs (which they do actually, unlike these pathetic charges on Christianity) and see the reaction. Same thing here. Truly pathetic. I guess some more invisible people on my ignore list
Originally posted by Zaimless
Ok so here is how this goes. This conspiracy theory is a totally spiritual one. Satan has hid him self in the Christian Churches.
Within the bible it says there with be a Anti-Christ religion and that they will call themselves by his name. Does the word CHRISTian have anyones name in it that they might know?
When thinking this through and reading the old testament about God I discovered that the God in the Christian religion did the following and it is in every Christians bible, if they read it.
1. That God is a flame and fire
Originally posted by Zaimless
2. That God encouraged incest
Originally posted by Zaimless
3. That God encourages cannabalism
Originally posted by Zaimless
4. That God had peoples hand, feet and heads cut off
Originally posted by Zaimless
5. That God had tens of thousands killed cause they could not spead a word properly when talking.
Originally posted by Zaimless
6. That Sampson went around killing people and tearing them apart and it was all good with God (and this is after the ' thou shall not's ')
Originally posted by Zaimless
7. That God is a war monger
Originally posted by Zaimless
8. That he himself has said he is vengeful, fearful, cruel, and more...
Originally posted by Zaimless
9. That this list could go on and on.....
10. In the old testament God killed over 10 million people
Originally posted by Zaimless
So you see after forty some years of studing the Christian Bible for some time I have come to the conclusion that the Christian God is Satan in disguise. So many Christians dont even know the history of their own beliefs. That the KJV Bible is only, what 400 some years old. That protestants changed the bible and yet they preach to not change the bible. In fact most of them don't even know the word 'bible' mean 'book' and so much more. Lots to study here.
But I only know this, that the God the Christians believe in is an Evil God. Unless they believe in the Trinity and that my friends is a whole other conversation.
Originally posted by abovereproach
Zaimless, I'm wondering, have you read any of the Gnostic writings? Some Gnostic groups had views very similar to your own--i.e. that this world, being material and corrupt (actually evil, in their view) was created by an "evil" Creator--whereas the version of religion they espoused was put in place by a "good" Creator--Gnostics are noted for their philosophical dualism! I know I haven't explained this very well, hopefully someone with a better knowledge of Gnostic beliefs can explain it much better. And Amethyst--"Jesuit influence"??!! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!
Originally posted by magnito_student
Christ said, you will know them by their fruits. If you notice, many christians preach the gospel of obedience through fear and guilt and promote rather than attract as christ did.
Originally posted by magnito_student
People didnt hang out with christ because they were scared of going to hell...