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Religions > Bible |
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"Michael" |
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08 Feb 2004 10:17:37 AM |
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Re-Examining My Religion |
I've been brought up a Christian since I was a little kid but lately I've
begun to have doubts about the Christian religion. I wrote up an article
about my experience and the result of the research and reading I've done.
If you think this might be interesting to you please check it iout:
http://tinyurl.com/258t8
Please let me know what you think. No flames please, just discussion.
Thanks
Michael
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| User: "Libertarius" |
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| Title: Re: Re-Examining My Religion -- CONGRATULATIONS! |
08 Feb 2004 11:16:35 AM |
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Michael wrote:
I've been brought up a Christian since I was a little kid but lately I've
begun to have doubts about the Christian religion. I wrote up an article
about my experience and the result of the research and reading I've done.
If you think this might be interesting to you please check it iout:
http://tinyurl.com/258t8
Please let me know what you think. No flames please, just discussion.
Thanks
Michael
===>You tell a most interesting story of awakening.
CONGRATULATIONS!
There is just one slight mistake I noted:
"Messiah" does NOT mean that the person is "God".
So, when you say that Jesus could not have been the
"Messiah" because he believed the story of Noah, etc.,
that is a conclusion based on inappropriate premises.
A "Messiah" was simply any anointed priest or king,
and more specifically a LIBERATOR king, as the one
identified in Isaiah 45 by name, one who was not even a
Jew!
It is only Christianity that has equated the Jewish concept
of "Messiah" with the Pauline concept of a "Christos", which,
as you noted, had little if anything to do with the man from
Galilee, and more to do with the ancient Pagan idea of
an incarnate, sacrificed and resurrected savior god of the
mystery religions.
Your story of awakening reminds me a lot of my own.
The more one STUDIES the literature compiled in the Bible,
especially in its cultural and historical contexts, and the more
one is willing to learn about other religions, the more one
realizes the falsehood of priestly teachings, i.e. that
FAITH IS A SACERDOTALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE.
Libertarius
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| User: "Pastor Dave" |
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| Title: Re: Re-Examining My Religion |
15 Feb 2004 07:15:53 AM |
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On Sun, 8 Feb 2004 17:17:37 +0100, "Michael"
<please_do_not_reply@hotmail.com> spake thusly:
I've been brought up a Christian since I was a little kid but lately I've
begun to have doubts about the Christian religion. I wrote up an article
about my experience and the result of the research and reading I've done.
If you think this might be interesting to you please check it iout:
http://tinyurl.com/258t8
Please let me know what you think. No flames please, just discussion.
For one example, the ossuary would not have been the
first evidence of Jesus' existence. I suggest you read
a book called, "The Case for Christ", by Lee Strobel.
I think you'll find it informative.
--
Pastor Dave Raymond
"As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor
to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day;
thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was right
before thee." - Jeremiah 17:16
"If something in science suddenly becomes
so sacrosanct that you can't question it,
then it ceases to be science," he said.
"And I really think that's what's become
of Darwinism." - Roger DeHart
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| User: "John Ings" |
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| Title: Re: Re-Examining My Religion |
15 Feb 2004 08:01:24 AM |
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On Sun, 15 Feb 2004 08:15:53 -0500, Pastor Dave
<nospam-draymond@minister.com> wrote:
For one example, the ossuary would not have been the
first evidence of Jesus' existence. I suggest you read
a book called, "The Case for Christ", by Lee Strobel.
I think you'll find it informative.
I suggest you don't bother. Strobel pretends to ask a carefully
selected group of conservative Christian scholars what he hopes you'll
think are penetrating questions. But he then meekly accepts their
facile answers without ever asking really hard questions.
But you might be interested in--
"Farewell to God : My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith"
by Charles Templeton.
Templeton was a popular radio and TV evangelist for many years
before he started seriously researching his faith. Then he left it.
## There is no better cure for Christyianity
## than a thorough perusal of the Bible.
Mark Twain
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