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Boulder climber
ne'er–do–well
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Do not cast your pearls before swine
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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Christianity is Christianity. It's the text of the New Testament and nothing else.
The New Testament is pretty difficult or perhaps impossible to understand due to wild contradictions (probably added by marketing people in the First Council of Nicaea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea
And in subsequent similar meetings.
I recently did a read of the whole thing. (audobook) Mostly because I was sick of hearing people "interpret" it.
Conclusion: If you don't fully devote your life to God as Jesus advocates, you are not with it.
If Christianity came out more recently it would be dubbed a dangerous cult.
Watered down versions of Christianity are not Christianity. From my reading Jesus advocated an "all-in" attitude.
Now the man may have been really onto something because he had this remarkable ability to heal people and set their lives right. Oh, to know what he was really doing would be of great value. Alas, oral accounts passed on and handed down, translated and retranslated, processed through Nicaean councils, etc. It's not there anymore. I bet it was good.
Christianity and Jesus, probably really great stuff. Twisted by people of bad intention, yep.
I have real respect for good Christians who make this their solution to life. And if they are putting it in my face, even more respect. Because that is how Jesus did it.
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Zay
climber
Monterey, Ca
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Hey there, say, anyone...
I've been noticing a lot of coincidences in my life as of late.
This thread is one of them... I'm going to church this morning for the first time in 12 years.
Too many, too powerful... I think something is going on. Maybe I'm just crazy (I am; manic depressive) maybe im in an episode that I just can't tell... got out of the hospital a few weeks ago for it anyway.
Something tells me that every religion is wrong and right at the same time.
Several, devout individuals from multiple walks of faith have told me,
"Believe in what ever you want, just believe it well."
I'm going to church, but I've been told to expect more questions than answers.
What the hell is going on???
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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"Mankind will not be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."
Y'know, I've always wondered about Paul putting a contract out on that couple that didn't turn over all their money to him in Acts.
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i-b-goB
Social climber
Nutty
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If all the eternal grandeur about us is God's handiwork? Christianity states Jesus, God's only begotten Son came to make atonement for all sins (is there sin?).
Giving God's amazing grace to those who believe in Him! This is the only way that does this, with no way out on our own, Jesus is the way! : )
 Adieu
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