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Dear Christians I have question.
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 26795689:MV8yMDY5ODgxXzM0ODM0OTQ2X0NEMkRCMzgw] [b][u]Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)[/u][/b] - [b][i]It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.[/i][/b] - [b][i]The christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun.[/i][/b] - [b][i]Each of those churches show certain books, which they call revelation, or the word of God. The Jews say, that their word of God was given by God to Moses, face to face; the Christians say, that their word of God came by divine inspiration: and the Turks say, that their word of God (the Koran) was brought by an angel from Heaven. Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all.[/i][/b] - [b][i]All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.[/i][/b] - [b][i]It is a contradiction in terms and ideas to call anything a revelation that comes to us at second hand, either verbally or in writing. Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication. After this, it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it cannot be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner, for it was not a revelation made to me, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him.[/i][/b] - [b][i]I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church[/i][/b] - [b][i]It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God [/i][/b] http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Paine :book: [/quote]
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How do you guys really make the sense of what the Holy Bible tell us?
That God sacrificed himself, to himself, to remove the curse he put on us?
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