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Published: 2015-04-03 02:34:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 4967; Favourites: 169; Downloads: 0
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My attempt at acronym theology.Related content
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Ummm.... what the heck...
So do you think it's safe to assume in 2000 years that humanity will be without sin?
No, because that's stupid. Calm down.
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What exactly is sin?Β No one has given me a satisfactory answer to that.
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Something that harms your relationship with people, yourself, and God.Β
Is this at all satisfactory?
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If I harm my relationships with other people then I take responsibility for that, but I don't do that, never intentionally at least.Β So how is that a sin?Β There is also no way for Jesus to know my character 2000 years before I was even born, again how dare he presume to know the kind of person I would be.
As for God, how can I harm my relationship with something that doesn't exist?
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So you've never lied to a person, never hurt a person, only treated everyone with love and respect? Sorry, but I've never met perfection, and I'm not about to believe that you are perfect. No offense.
And if we are going to argue the existence of God, bring it. Because I'm confident in every way that there is indeed a God. To begin with, how can there be anything without some supernatural cause bringing it about (atoms must have come from somewhere)?
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If anyone had the right to judge, who would that be?
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The one person who has lived my life.
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If you studied Christianity, you would see that He knows your entire life and your person even before you were born. So, He knows you better then you know yourself. And with being sinful, that was the fault of our first parents, Adam and Eve, who fell from God's grace. Their first sin left a mark on all of us except for Mary, Jesus's mother, who was conceived without sin. It's not arrogance that Jesus says that we are sinful, but He speaks with truth. We are sinful in the eyes of an All-Good God and Jesus was the God-man, one person and two equal working natures (Human and Divine), so He is God as well and has the right to call us sinful.Β
And we did not steal anything. This is an event that truly happened and there is proof that Jesus does exist. Perhaps not with an actual body, but there is a written account (The Bible) that people have been studying for a long time and found proof within the text to suggest that this was a real even that happened. Also, He is alive not dead, He has been alive since His Resurrection and even before that. He has been with the Father since the beginning of time and like I said, has known you and loved you even then.
Sadly, people like to think of the Bible as just a fairy tale book that has no accurate account of history. And we are not a cult, we are the Body of Christ. 
God Bless~ <3
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First of all, you're assuming that this 'He' (I'm guessing you mean Jesus/God) is a supernatural being with omniscience. The trouble is when you actually stop to imagine what such a being would be like, you start to realise that it would interest or concern for beings as primative as we currently are. It would also have no resembelance to the 'God' depicted in the Bible (or any other religious text for that matter).
The Bible is in no way an accurate depiction of history. It was written by be men, men in positions power, it's been translated, sections have been omited completely. It has been re-written countless times, like a game of Chinese whispers variations would slip in, before the printing press was invented it was written out by hand and often the scribes if they had extra space on the page would add in notes on how difficult that section was to transcribe. It was only when Gutenberg invented the printing press that exact duplicates of the Bible could be produced. Even then with a exact duplicate there is not only divison of religion, there is division within religion, from fundlementalist, to moderate, to extremist. You could be sitting in Church and the person next to you would not believe in the exact same god as you. We all have different experiences that shape our lives and beliefs, none of us is exactly the same.
Early Roman Christians would adopt (I'm calling this stealing) the festivals, holidays and gods of the Pagan cultures in order to convert them to Christianity. This is call Cultural Assimulation and generally happens naturally when two or more cultures interact, however those early Christian used it on purpose to convert populations, this was done in Britain and throughout Europe. Christmas is infact the Celtic Pagan Winter Solistice, early Christians didn't celebrate their birthdays so why would they celebrate the birth of Jesus? Christmas has more to do with early human being scared that in winter the Sun would leave them, but it's half-way through winter, the darkest night, so they light fires and feast to encourge the Sun to to return in the Spring. Easter is simply a festival to celebrate the return of the Sun and the end of winter. Wait a moment, the Sun has returned? Isn't this also the time of Jesus' resurection? You don't think that maybe Jesus is just an anthromorphic personification of the Sun!!!
However, all that said. It is when the representives of God can commit these kinds of acts www.google.co.uk/search?q=sex+β¦ with impunity. That's when I have to question whether the religion is for this supernatural beings benifit, or for the benefit of people with power and those who abuse it. (Interesting to note that Google anticipated that Catholic priests would be involve before I had even finsihed typing the word 'abuse').
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All of the Christian holidays were originally pagan. They purposely put the holidays on those days to try to get people to change what they were celebrating. They kept a lot of the original pagan meanings though.Β
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Precisely! Just wish people would realise and admit that.
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You are always full of original and creative ideas! Happy Easter.
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Typical victimhood = greatness mentality.
Howcome nobody ever praises the people who killed him. They're the ones who did all the work!
That sends a great message. Hey, if the messiah ever come back, now we know you absolve the world's sins by killing the dude!
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In a sense, we all killed him since we were all responsible for his death.
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Not me. I wouldn't show up for another 990 odd years
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No. God is. He was an asshole and made him die for no reason. (lol not that there is any proof of either's existance anyway)
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We praise Jesus for willingly laying down His life. It doesnt really matter which specific people crucified Him, because the world as a whole has rejected Him and all of the world's sins put Him on the cross.
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I... never thought of that.
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Can he do that again for all our crushing, national, financial dept?
Please?
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Amen Brother. Β And Happy Easter
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But if a man were to do that these days he would be arrested and name called as mentally-disturbed..Β
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Great thought! Interestingly, Jesus was arrested and many people thought he was crazy and demon possessed.Β
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Well if any person today were to try what He did, they would get arrested if not slammed for being "mentally crazy".Β
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Interesting view for an acronyme, especially on this subject. Clever use of words in the situation.
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This is a really clever and wonderful piece. Have a very happy Easter!
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