posted on Jun, 14 2006 @ 12:38 AM
My name is Blake and I live in the chunk of land, America refers to as Minnesota. I began my research a good 5 years ago, but didn't get on the right
track until about a year ago. I grew up believing in Jesus Christ, but didn't go to church per say. I watched many scholars on the television
including my favorite in the beginning Dr. Arnold Murray. He brought me to the interest of researching The Bible and doing the translations
myself. Although he would not agree with what my beliefs are now. I invested in a Companion Bible and a Strong’s Concordance. I also
invested in Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew-English Lexicon, and a Thayer Greek-English Lexicon, and I also purchased a Greens Interlinear
Bible 4 Volume Edition which I highly recommend for deep research into The Bible; also any works by E. W. Bullinger.
After doing this for a few years, I began to wonder if The Bible is the true word of God and everyone else who believes a different religion is going
to fail and perish in everlasting flames, but then what kind of loving God are we serving. “I do not mean to offend anyone with my research, or
beliefs and I do not wish to press them on anyone. If you do not agree with me I am fine with that, Just ignore me or speak your peace and be done, I
will not chastise you for your believes and I expect the same respect.” Let’s get back to the topic at hand. I believe this is unfair because
99% of people believe of the faith that they do because they grew up with that as a religion, or had a religion pressed on them so hard that they
decided to rebel. Most people who were born into a Christian family or just came into Christianity because it helped them when they were in a tough
spot; if they had been born into Hindu family somewhere is Asia or wherever, they would have grabbed hold of the Hindu faith and proclaimed
that the word of God under most circumstances. I personally do not proclaim myself Christian anymore. Not to mention if you research the
origins of religions, you will find that the Christian religion is a copy of the Egyptian religion, the only reason this hasn’t been found out
earlier is only in the last 50 years or so have we been able to properly translate Egyptian Hieroglyphics. If you don’t believe me check me out, I
highly recommend the book That Old-Time Religion: the Story of Religious Foundations by Jordan Maxwell for a good start.
So what Religion am I if I am not Christian? I have read many different religions sacred books, and still am reading many different religious texts. I
have read The Holy Qur’an, Bhagavad-Gita although I have not finished that one yet. I have also read many Gnostic texts, and many
other miscellaneous documents. After all of this, I began to realize that most of the religious texts have the same general ideas. God coming down to
help man, in many of the religions dieing for our sins, a great deal of the general rules are about the same as well, be kind to one another, unless
they are of a different religion, even though they are all so close, how does one choose the right one. “Now once again I am not here to make
anyone question their belief in God. I believe in God. I prefer to use a different word because the word God is associated with religion. I prefer the
word source, or creator, or an energy force. Spirituality and Religion are two different things. I can believe in a creator, and believe in being nice
to people and doing things that I think will make it happy. I do not wish to say Him or Her for I do not believe it has a sex.”