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Yawn...Sunday morning, just woke up to serve my GOD, Samsung of America.
This doesn't really explain to me why faith is a good thing. This just tells me that you need faith to please god. I'm asking why.
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I know cats see that 1hr mark and
Biblically AND Historically why Christmas and Easter are NOT to be celebrated by Believers.
Step by step a,b,c, breakdown of scripture and historical facts that are easily researched and confirmed by anyone.
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If jesus was beheaded would an axe be the symbol of christianity ?
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Probably
He wasn't the first or the last to be crucified. He wasn't even the only one getting crucified that day.
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Oh, so you good then. Maybe it will enlighten someone else
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I posted a vid on that earlier. The primary source texts of the Egyptian tales of Horus and others, actually reflect different accounts than the one of Jesus tho.
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That's because exoteric Christianity is a Frankensteined body of work.
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THE EVIDENCE OF EARLY JEWISH WRITINGS
I. The Rabbinical Writings
When the city of Jerusalem fell in AD 70, together with the temple, the dominion of the priestly families and the supreme court of the Sanhedrin fell with them. The only party in Judaism which was capable of undertaking the necessary work of reconstruction was that of the Pharisees, and this they did, not on a political but on a spiritual basis.
Led by Yohanan the son of Zakkai, they made their headquarters at Jabneh or Jamnia, in the southwest of Palestine. Here they reconstituted the Sanhedrin as a supreme court
for the organization of the whole range of religious law, with Yohanan as its first president in its new form.
A great body of case law, 'the tradition of the elders' mentioned in the New Testament, had been handed down orally from generation to generation, increasing with the years. The first step towards codifying all this material was now taken. The second step was taken by the great Rabbi Akiba, who was the first to arrange it according to subject matter. After his heroic death in AD 135, on the defeat of BarKokhba's rebellion against Rome, his work was revised and continued by his pupil Rabbi Meir.
The work of codification was brought to completion about AD 200 by Rabbi Judah, president of the Sanhedrin from 170 to 217. The whole code of religious jurisprudence thus compiled is known as the Mishnah.
This completed Mishnah itself became an object of study, and a body of commentary grew up around it in the rabbinical schools both of Palestine and of Babylonia. These commentaries or Gemaras formed a sort of supplement to the Mishnah, and Mishnah and Gemara together are usually known as the Talmud.
The 'Jerusalem Talmud', consisting of the Mishnah together with the accumulated Gemara of the Palestinian schools, was completed about AD 300; the much larger Babylonian Talmud continued to grow for two centuries more, before it was reduced to writing about the year 500.
As the Mishnah is a law code, and the Talmuds commentaries on this code, there is little occasion in these writings for references to Christianity, and what references there are hostile.
But, such as they are, these references do at least show that there was not the slightest doubt of the historical character of Jesus.
According to the earlier Rabbis whose opinions are recorded in these writings,
Jesus of Nazareth was a transgressor in Israel, who practiced magic, scorned the words of the wise, led the people astray, and said he had lot come to destroy the law but to add to it. He was hanged on Passover Eve for heresy and misleading the people. His disciples, of whom five are named, healed he sick in his name.
It is clear that this is just such a portrayal of our Lord we might expect from those elements in the Pharisaic party which were opposed to Him. Some of the names by which He is called bear witness directly or indirectly to the Gospel record.
The appellation Ha-Taluy ('The Hanged One') obviously refers to the manner of His death; another name given to Him, Ben-Pantera ('Son of Pantera'), probably refers, not (as has sometimes been alleged) to a Roman soldier named Pantheras, but to the Christian belief in our Lord's virgin birth,
Pantera being corruption of the Greek parthenos ('virgin').' This does not mean, of course, that all those who called Him by this name believed in His virgin birth.
The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable by FF Bruce
http://www.ncbible.info/MoodRes/Transmission/NTDocuments-Reliable-Bruce.pdf
I. The Rabbinical Writings
When the city of Jerusalem fell in AD 70, together with the temple, the dominion of the priestly families and the supreme court of the Sanhedrin fell with them. The only party in Judaism which was capable of undertaking the necessary work of reconstruction was that of the Pharisees, and this they did, not on a political but on a spiritual basis.
Led by Yohanan the son of Zakkai, they made their headquarters at Jabneh or Jamnia, in the southwest of Palestine. Here they reconstituted the Sanhedrin as a supreme court
for the organization of the whole range of religious law, with Yohanan as its first president in its new form.
A great body of case law, 'the tradition of the elders' mentioned in the New Testament, had been handed down orally from generation to generation, increasing with the years. The first step towards codifying all this material was now taken. The second step was taken by the great Rabbi Akiba, who was the first to arrange it according to subject matter. After his heroic death in AD 135, on the defeat of BarKokhba's rebellion against Rome, his work was revised and continued by his pupil Rabbi Meir.
The work of codification was brought to completion about AD 200 by Rabbi Judah, president of the Sanhedrin from 170 to 217. The whole code of religious jurisprudence thus compiled is known as the Mishnah.
This completed Mishnah itself became an object of study, and a body of commentary grew up around it in the rabbinical schools both of Palestine and of Babylonia. These commentaries or Gemaras formed a sort of supplement to the Mishnah, and Mishnah and Gemara together are usually known as the Talmud.
The 'Jerusalem Talmud', consisting of the Mishnah together with the accumulated Gemara of the Palestinian schools, was completed about AD 300; the much larger Babylonian Talmud continued to grow for two centuries more, before it was reduced to writing about the year 500.
As the Mishnah is a law code, and the Talmuds commentaries on this code, there is little occasion in these writings for references to Christianity, and what references there are hostile.
But, such as they are, these references do at least show that there was not the slightest doubt of the historical character of Jesus.
According to the earlier Rabbis whose opinions are recorded in these writings,
Jesus of Nazareth was a transgressor in Israel, who practiced magic, scorned the words of the wise, led the people astray, and said he had lot come to destroy the law but to add to it. He was hanged on Passover Eve for heresy and misleading the people. His disciples, of whom five are named, healed he sick in his name.
It is clear that this is just such a portrayal of our Lord we might expect from those elements in the Pharisaic party which were opposed to Him. Some of the names by which He is called bear witness directly or indirectly to the Gospel record.
The appellation Ha-Taluy ('The Hanged One') obviously refers to the manner of His death; another name given to Him, Ben-Pantera ('Son of Pantera'), probably refers, not (as has sometimes been alleged) to a Roman soldier named Pantheras, but to the Christian belief in our Lord's virgin birth,
Pantera being corruption of the Greek parthenos ('virgin').' This does not mean, of course, that all those who called Him by this name believed in His virgin birth.
The New Testament Documents: Are They Reliable by FF Bruce
http://www.ncbible.info/MoodRes/Transmission/NTDocuments-Reliable-Bruce.pdf
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So what do you all expect to do in Heaven? On your knees 24/7 worshiping?
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Why has gone given up on those in hell? What's the time limit here?
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If God IS in hell then he's satan.
You can't rule over 2 kingdoms nor do I think your arch nemesis would allow you in his house like nothing.
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If you are all universe why do you even have a rival though? Sounds like a choreographed fight to me
When I was a Christian, the idea of worshipping god for eternity frightened me.
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Faith is the act of diving into the spiritual to conquer the things of the physical.
It takes faith, that is confidence in God, to see the works that God can do in the physical
and spiritual.
James 2:26 says,
The body without the Spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead.
If your prayers aren't producing works then your faith might be dead.
Reading the Word of God will help build your faith and intimacy with God.
For my brothers in Christ.
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It takes faith, that is confidence in God, to see the works that God can do in the physical
and spiritual.
James 2:26 says,
The body without the Spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead.
If your prayers aren't producing works then your faith might be dead.
Reading the Word of God will help build your faith and intimacy with God.
For my brothers in Christ.
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Which is why I said people don't really want to go to Heaven, they just fear going to Hell
Since faith is trusting in god and believing without proof, having faith in another god should be acceptable, yes? How can you know if you are following the one true god if you rely on blind faith?
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God will surprise you by your own statement.
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God is more a bucket hat type fella
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I was born and raised without religion. My girlfriend of a few years have been trying to introduce me to Christianity. I truly do give an honest effort but I just can't believe in it. It sucks because she's very passionate about it and I want to support her but I just can't follow through with it. How can I witness his existence? Why doesn't he give us clear evidence that he in fact does exist? The more I hear about the stories the more I question. How come we don't hear stories like those in the bible in our present day? He seems a lot more evident and apparent in the bible than he does today in our life. How can I witness a miracle?
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I feel it.OP may be the greatest troll of all time.
I just can't get down with OP using god as a response to everything. God isn't the reason people are successful. I hate it when athletes say, "Thank god" or other things like that. God wasn't lifting those heavy *** weights or taking those big *** hits with you.
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