Originally posted by nextguyinline
Curiosity, your agruing the existence of god to prove that the 'religion' of
Christianity was the first religion. There were many 'religions' before the
'religion' of Christianity. No one said God didn't exist before 2006 years ago.
I appreciate your vigor and faith, and what your trying to say but come on now.
It's all rather confusing to me anyway. Jesus was the son of God?, but he was God?All wrapped in the Holy Spirit? I've heard all the arguments and
it still leaves me confused so please don't respond to this paragraph.
I always thought Christianity meant you believed Jesus Christ was the savior.
Since Jesus was born 2006 years ago, how does that equate Christianity being
the first religion?
:by the way, Jesus would have answered the question again.
You know whether Jesus would have answered? Are you also one of His disciples then? I hope so.
Christianity means you believe Jesus is God manifested in the flesh, that as the Son of God, He died and was resurrected, and now, as the Man Jesus,
sits at the Father's right hand. In line with Scripture, it also means that one believes that He both was with God and was God in the beginning,
(John 1:1) and that He was manifested to save the world from its sins, that "whosoever will may" come to a saving knowledge of His sacrifice.
It means to believe He was preordained to exist among us, that He was God in the flesh, that is Emmanuel, meaning God with us. But before His
manifestation and being God, He existed before all time, and therefore is not time-framed, as if the religions that were established among unbelieving
civilizations could exist before He existed.
Therefore, all so-called "prior" religions were not predating Christianity, but merely the name. Christians were called Christians first at
Antioch within a short time after His resurrection, so if anyone claims that the
name Christian was pre-dated by idolatrous religions, they
could legitimately be called correct.
In fact, it seems almost certain that His disciples began to be called Christians in order to differentiate them from the Jews, religious or
otherwise, and the other "religions" such as the idol worshipping Astarte cult and so on.
Hence, Christianity is a relatively new term, but its precepts were established and put into action by God from the very beginning,
That certain symbols
appear the same in Christian usage as in a "religion's" being used to say that 'religions' predated Christianity,
as if that makes Christianity a copy-cat religion, is kindergarten reasoning. Ie, the "halo" argument.
It is instead proof that all religions other than Judaism and Christianity mimic the things of God, ie, the "halo" around the sun and moon that can
be seen at times, using the things of earth to denote their so called 'godhood' of things created by God.
And that is hardly surprising since satan is the originator of all copy-cat religions and is the first mimicker/hater of God, yet forever lacking the
power and majesty of the Creator. Since he is frustrated, is it any wonder that his followers, whether they know themselves to be or not, are equally
full of rage and resentment toward God and His people?