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You need an encounter with the resurrected Saviour Jesus Christ.
Cults are everywhere. Some can even be found inside 'religious institutions'.
Originally posted by SimonPeter
You aren't concerned about others well being , you are just trying to take away Christians joy so they can live in the same misery that you do .
you are just trying to take away Christians joy so they can live in the same misery that you do
Originally posted by SimonPeter
reply to post by autowrench
Has the word changed through all of the transitions to the King James bible . Are you saying that the core message a lie or has it varied in translation slightly with out losing the message . Are you saying there is no God creator with out an explanation for life on earth . I supposed you did the in depth research on the development of the bible from it's inception . Or have you read a pre-prepared article written by an Agnostic .
You aren't concerned about others well being , you are just trying to take away Christians joy so they can live in the same misery that you do . You don't know how man got here on earth but your an expert on that there is no God or Jesus . Why does it offend you so much ?
Originally posted by Starchild23
reply to post by SimonPeter
you are just trying to take away Christians joy so they can live in the same misery that you do
I don't see any mention of truth in this statement.
Therefore, I'm reading this as "We're taking the blue pill so we can sleep and be happy with our fruitless lives...leave us alone."
Originally posted by SimonPeter
reply to post by autowrench
Keep smoking it man !
Originally posted by autowrench
reply to post by SimonPeter
Created the Sun? God WAS the Sun for thousands of years, look up Ra if you doubt me. There are a lot of Bibles, friend, you must me one of those who thinks they are all just alike? Well, you have to read, and compare. That preacher you listen to doesn't always tell the truth, you know. He/She just says what they think is true.
Let me see, different versions of the Bible....
1. The Septuagint: 250 C.E. Written in Greek
2. Vulgate: 400 C.E. First version of the Bible which is canonized at the Council of Carthage in 400 C.E. Written in Latin
3. Martin Luther's German Bible: 1534 C.E.
4. King James Version: 1611 C.E. The most widely used version. It contains a large number of errors, and it is widely understood that none of the original writers had an understanding of the Hebrew Language.
reply to post by autowrench
Yes, sadly, they do in fact live in very small boxes of "faith". I climbed out of that box a very long time ago. I could never take the blue pill, I have to know. Things bother me, you know, and call to be researched out. As far as I am concerned, it is time, no, past time, for Christians to question, and examine their "faith" for what it really is. They need to discover that that voice in their heads they think is "Jesus" is their Higher Selves, their Holy Guardian Spirit. A Guide who will never lie to you. I met mine a few years ago, and since that time, I never become angry, am a lot less depressed, happier, and nothing bothers me anymore.
reply to post by Starchild23
Would you mind telling us how Psalm 46 is "THE KEY", as you put it? I looked it up, and I'm a little confused as to how it's the key to anything except making us feel like sheep.
Originally posted by SimonPeter
reply to post by Starchild23
What are your life beliefs or do you need a time of day to accurately answer that question ? Upon what do you make your important decisions or where does it come from , south America ?
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IN SHORT... Most Christians identify the messiah with Jesus, define him as Gd incarnate, and believe he died for the sins of humanity as a blood sacrifice. This requires that one accept the concept of vicarious atonement. However, as was illustrated and explained in the essay "One person cannot die for the sins of another," this idea is the opposite from what is written in Deuteronomy 24:16, 'Every man shall be put to death for his own sin' -- also expressed in Exodus 32:30-35 and Ezekiel 18. The mainstream Christian idea of the messiah also assumes that Gd wants and will accept a human sacrifice. After all, it was either Jesus-the-human or Jesus-the-divine who died on the cross. Jews, and presumably, Christians as well, believe that Gd cannot die, and so all that Christians are left with, in the death of Jesus on the cross, is a human sacrifice. However, in Deuteronomy 12:30-31, Gd calls human sacrifice an abomination, and something He hates: 'for every abomination to the Etrnl, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.' All human beings are sons or daughters, and any sacrifice to Gd of any human being would be something that Gd would hate. Therefore, the Christian conception of the messiah consists of ideas that are unbiblical.
Evangelical Christians have a high opinion not just of the Jewish state but of Jews as people. That Jewish voters are overwhelmingly liberal doesn’t seem to bother evangelicals, despite their own conservative politics. Yet Jews don’t return the favor: in one Pew survey, 42 percent of Jewish respondents expressed hostility to evangelicals and fundamentalists. As two scholars from Baruch College have shown, a much smaller fraction—about 16 percent—of the American public has similarly antagonistic feelings toward Christian fundamentalists.
Originally posted by Lucius Driftwood
reply to post by Lucius Driftwood
And by the way, we're all sheep.
Different flocks, different pens, different shepherds, but all sheep.