Has anyone here looked into the total Historical Origins of your Religion ?

[piece-itpete]

It's a great mystery. Even Jesus often spoke in riddles only explained to his closest, and Satan would surely like to confuse us. Most of what we think is probably wrong. After all we are corrupt. I wouldn't put too much stock in books, although I really liked 'The Perversion of Christianity'. The key is remembering the scales are balanced, our sins have been atoned by a blood sacrifice. No translation error or misunderstanding will change that. If the good Lord forgives the big stuff he'll certainly forgive the little stuff.

I think the big question is why, why were we created... there is no answer revealed as of yet.

We'll know soon enough So, 'When you reach, that golden city, friends and loved ones you will see. When the saints, come out to meet you.... Shake my mothers' hand for me.'

Cheers!

Pete

[JJIII]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

We'll know soon enough So, 'When you reach, that golden city, friends and loved ones you will see. When the saints, come out to meet you.... Shake my mothers' hand for me.'

Cheers!

Pete

That reminded me of this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9IfHDi-2EA

[Charles]

Originally Posted by JJIII

That reminded me of this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9IfHDi-2EA

Old Johnny makes the rapture sound less like the second coming of Jesus than the resurrection of Buford Pusser.

Chas

[Twodogs]

I think there are things we just won't ever understand. If someone wants to have faith in a higher power that's fine with me, and if they don't, well that's fine too. I do believe in a higher power but wouldn't claim to have a clue what or who it is? I think man has always needed to think there is something more than what we get here. Combine that with with their ignorance of things like the sun and stars early on, and it's easy to see how Gods came about.

[Big_Bill]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

It's a great mystery. Even Jesus often spoke in riddles only explained to his closest, and Satan would surely like to confuse us. Most of what we think is probably wrong. After all we are corrupt. I wouldn't put too much stock in books, although I really liked 'The Perversion of Christianity'. The key is remembering the scales are balanced, our sins have been atoned by a blood sacrifice. No translation error or misunderstanding will change that. If the good Lord forgives the big stuff he'll certainly forgive the little stuff.

I think the big question is why, why were we created... there is no answer revealed as of yet.

We'll know soon enough So, 'When you reach, that golden city, friends and loved ones you will see. When the saints, come out to meet you.... Shake my mothers' hand for me.'

Cheers!

Pete

That is just the type of answer that I received from a Bishop in the Catholic Church, beautiful but worthless

I do remember reading in the Bible that God became bored with his first creation, the angels, due to their incessant bowing and praising, but after all that was what he created them for ! So he created US, and gave us freedom of choice, to decide if we would bough and praise him all the time, or what.
Now I do not know how that worked out because Eve took a bite out of the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and until then I don't remember reading about either of them doing much bowing or praising before that fruit thing. So after the fruit incident pure chaos erupted, and Adam and Eve were cast from the Garden of Edan ! After that time they seem to have spent all their time begating with one another, and that brings up another question, with who ! If Adam and Eve had Cane, Able and Seth ? You know !

Well I am sure that the creation of Man afforded God with quiet a interesting show to keep him amused or annoyed !

So we were an experiment of God, to basically see if Man would worship him excessively as the angels have, or what difference Freewill would have on this creation thing ?

Bill

[budgetaudio6]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

It's a great mystery. Even Jesus often spoke in riddles only explained to his closest, and Satan would surely like to confuse us. Most of what we think is probably wrong. After all we are corrupt. I wouldn't put too much stock in books, although I really liked 'The Perversion of Christianity'. The key is remembering the scales are balanced, our sins have been atoned by a blood sacrifice. No translation error or misunderstanding will change that. If the good Lord forgives the big stuff he'll certainly forgive the little stuff.

I think the big question is why, why were we created... there is no answer revealed as of yet.

We'll know soon enough So, 'When you reach, that golden city, friends and loved ones you will see. When the saints, come out to meet you.... Shake my mothers' hand for me.'

Cheers!

We were created to Praise the Lord. By our own free will. Because of the atoning sacrifice he made for us.

We could find no way. But Jesus did. And with our accepting of it we are given a cloak of righteousness. The very righteousness of GOD.

Im not pefect at all. i have many short comings. But jesus paved teh way.


Now lets remember the prayer between the pharisee and the publican...read the bible or even google it if ya wanna cheat. the outcome is the same! And together HALLELUJAH!
EDIT ---I QUOTED YOU BUT WROTE IN THE WRONG SECTION
Pete

yay!:d NOW BACK TO READ THIS THREAD WHERE I LEFT OFF. sorry for yelling.

Christianity is mistaken co much for a religion. What it shoud be is a relationship between the believer and the L relationship with your prayers. like you and i talk...ord.