GOD has certainly revealed hIS LOVE for the world through hIS only begotten son JESUS CHRIST !!! [[Summary Page 33]]

No matter how much Christians might protest to the contrary, there is a world of difference between faith in scientific theories (produced using the scientific method, and subject to near-continual testing and scrutiny) and faith in the entirely unsupported myths recorded 3000 years ago.

"Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has. The opposite is also true." Martin Luther

Christianity sanctions slavery. The African slave trade was almost entirely conducted by Christians. They transported their victims to the New World in slave ships with names such as "Mercy" and "Jesus," where they were bought by Christians, both Catholic and Protestant. Organized Christianity was not silent on this horror: it actively encouraged it and engaged in it. From the friars who enslaved Native Americans in the Southwest and Mexico to the Protestant preachers who defended slavery from the pulpit in Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, the record of Christianity as regards slavery is quite shameful.

The Christians who supported and engaged in slavery were amply supported by the Bible, in which slavery is accepted as a given, as simply a part of the social landscape. There are numerous biblical passages that implicitly or explicitly endorse slavery, such as Exodus 21:20,21: "And if a man smite his servant, or his maid with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished. Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money." Other passages that support slavery include Ephesians 6:5, Colossians 3:22, Titus 2:9,10, Exodus 21:2-6, Leviticus 25:44-46, 1 Peter 2:18, and 1 Timothy 6:1. Christian slave owners in colonial America were well acquainted with these passages.

Christianity is misogynistic. Misogyny is fundamental to the basic writings of Christianity. In passage after passage, women are encouraged—no, commanded—to accept an inferior role, and to be ashamed of themselves for the simple fact that they are women. Misogynistic biblical passages are so common that it's difficult to know which to cite. From the New Testament we find "Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church. . . ." (Ephesians 5:22,23) and "These [redeemed] are they which were not defiled with women; . . ." (Revelation 14:4); and from the Old Testament we find "How then can man be justified with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?" (Job 25:4) Other relevant New Testament passages include Colossians 3:18; 1 Peter 3:7; 1 Corinthians 11:3, 11:9, and 14:34; and 1 Timothy 2:11,12 and 5:5,6. Other Old Testament passages include Numbers 5:20,22 and Leviticus 12:2-5 and 15:17-33

This misogynistic bias in Christianity's basic texts has long been translated into misogyny in practice. Throughout almost the entire time that Christianity had Europe and America in its lock grip, women were treated as chattel—they had essentially no political rights, and their right to own property was severely restricted. Perhaps the clearest illustration of the status of women in the ages when Christianity was at its most powerful is the prevalence of wife beating. This degrading, disgusting practice was very common throughout Christendom well up into the 19th century, and under English Common Law husbands who beat their wives were specifically exempted from prosecution. (While wife beating is still common in Christian lands, at least in some countries abusers are at least sometimes prosecuted.)

Given this bloody, hateful history, it's not surprising that women have always held very subservient positions in Christian churches. In fact, there appear to have been no female clergy in any Christian church prior to the 20th century (with the exception of those who posed as men, such as Pope Joan), and even today a great many Christian sects (most notably the Catholic Church) continue to resist ordaining female clergy. While a few liberal Protestant churches have ordained women in recent years. But it's difficult to see this as a great step forward for women; it's easier to see it as analogous to the Ku Klux Klan's appointing a few token blacks as Klaxons.

Christianity borrowed its central myths and ceremonies from other ancient religions. The ancient world was rife with tales of virgin births, miracle-working saviors, tripartite gods, gods taking human form, gods arising from the dead, heavens and hells, and days of judgment. In addition to the myths, many of the ceremonies of ancient religions also match those of that syncretic latecomer, Christianity. To cite but one example (there are many others), consider Mithraism, a Persian religion predating Christianity by centuries. Mithra, the savior of the Mithraic religion and a god who took human form, was born of a virgin; he belonged to the holy trinity and was a link between heaven and Earth; and he ascended into heaven after his death. His followers believed in heaven and hell, looked forward to a day of judgment, and referred to Mithra as "the Light of the World." They also practiced baptism (for purification purposes) and ritual cannibalism—the eating of bread and the drinking of wine to symbolize the eating and drinking of the god's body and blood. Given all this, Mithra's birthday should come as no surprise: December 25th; this event was, of course, celebrated by Mithra's followers at midnight.

Mithraism is but the most striking example of the appearance of these myths and ceremonies prior to the advent of Christianity. They appear—in more scattered form—in many other pre-Christian religions.

The Bible preaches hate. For every one verse about God's mercy, love, compassion, etc., there are two verses about His vengeance, hatred, wrath, etc."

Beware attributing satan's work to God.

The points i raise will never convince Christians who have locked themselves inside a box of blind faith like this. But for other Christians out there who actually have an open mind, a good summary of these reasons for rejecting Christianity will help show why I am not a deluded liar, but an honest and reasonable man coming to an honest and reasonable decision.

It is the light of heaven only, that will remove all clouds and darkness that hide the face of God from us.

"But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not,
lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them." (2nd Cor. 4:3-4)

Your writing suggests you are highly intelligent, so it amazes me that every assertion of yours that I bothered to read is false. Whether you choose to accept it, every single word of the Bible is God's Word. The Bible is true, from cover to cover. And even the cover is true, because it says the Bible is Holy. You will never, ever disprove one fact in the Bible.

If you sincerely seek answers, not arguments, you can find them. If you humble yourself before God and ask Him to reveal Himself to you, He will. If you scoff at this, He will scoff at you. The choice is truly yours: Continue in anger or receive love.

Jesus Christ is God. Dumbass.

A Bible scholar, excellent! Hey would you help me here please? Can you point out to me where Jesus actually comes out and say "I am God"? All I can seem to find on my own is "I am the Word Made Flesh" and "I am the Son of Man" and "No one gets to the Father except through me".

Enlighten me I beg you.

Thanks friend!

FOR WHATEVER REASON........God and Jesus don't really give a fuck about anyone's suffering.....or, defeating evil.

Free Will.......means, no help to defeat fascism.

This is not a great religion when "there is no help" for so many ripped off by the power control group, WHO ARE ALL PROTECTED BY PIGS AND PROSECUTORS AND PUNK JUDGES.

Dont talk God and Jesus, unless you can prove something.

The christian religion promotes turning the other cheek.....and calling the pigs to handle disputes: THIS WEAKENS MEN SO THEY WILL NOT FIGHT TOGETHER AGAINST THE POLICE STATE WHO PROTECTS THE RICHEST TREASONOUS SCUM DESTROYING THIS COUNTRY.

If you support the law and order pigs........your slitting your own throat, along with your family.

Most don't know.........what MUELLER AND HOLDER got away with covering up: numerous murders.

CHENEY, ERIC PRINCE, GEN HAYDEN are not in jail after The Christina Moore Murder of an Enron witness that opened up analysis of Dick Cheney's secretive energy task force?

Three layers of prosecutors..............did not take the evidence to Cheney's office?

:book17:

Keep telling people about our LORD!

:cross55:

“The people are God. One could also say “a part of God”. A personified God with long beard or sitting on a cloud does not exist.”
(Jesus Christ; 97 05 13)

:colorbump:

:cross55:

:colorbump2:

:bumpz:

So it has been over 2000 years and the topic

is still Jesus Christ. He was announced, He lived, He was

murdered but He rose again and ascended into Heaven. In

all of this God reveals how much He loves the world.


:hj9:

John 3:16
"For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life."

[link to www.blueletterbible.org]

God loves YOU !!!

PLEASE SEE SUMMARY PAGE 33