I try my best but very frequently fall short. Jesus was the one that measured up so I don't have to.
Jesus died on the cross for your sins so that "we" can now have a way to get into heaven. First you must ask our Lord Jesus Christ to forgive you of all your sins and then you need to repent and turn away from all these sins. It does NOT mean that once you are saved you can go around doing what you've always been doing. You need to walk after the spirit and not after the flesh. (Romans 4:25, 5:12, 6:1-2.. Philippians 3:21 and elsewhere)
So you feel you don't need to follow your faith then?
Their "Jesus's" are all dead. They did not walk on water and there is only one that rose from the dead.
Really? Shows how much you know. Your Jesus is dead just like theirs, in fact, almost exactly like yours.. then resurrected. So you are completely incorrect and you can do some study into these Gods and see how
late Christianity is to the party... and how
UNORIGINAL it really is.
Egyptian God Horus, 3100BC
God of the Sun, "The Light"
Born Dec 25th
Born of a Virgin,
Isis Meri (Not misspelled), "The Great Virgin"
Birth was accompanied by a star in the East
Adorned by 3 kings
Traveling prodigal child teacher at the age of 12
At the age of 30, baptized by ministry
Had 12 Disciples
Performed miracles including healing the sick and
WALKING ON WATER
Horus was known as "Lamb of God", "The Truth", "The Light", "God's Anointed Son", "The Good Shepard", "The Lamb of God", "The Way", "The Truth and the Light", "The Savior", "The Messiah", "The Lion", "The Lamb"
After being betrayed by Typhon, Horus was
Crucified
Dead and buried in a tomb for 3 days
Resurrected
Had principal festival on what was to later become "Easter"
His Resurrection celebrated every year
Sacred day was Sunday, "The Lords Day"
His religion had a Eucharist or "Lord's Supper"
HE was called "the KRST," or "Anointed One," long before the Christians duplicated the story
In the catacombs at Rome are pictures of Him as a baby being held by his virgin mother.
Greek God Attis, 1200BC
- Born of a Virgin
- Born on Dec 25th
- Crucified
- Placed in a tomb and buried for 3 days
- Resurrected
Indian God Krishna, 900BC
- Born of a Virgin
- Star in the East signaling his coming
- Had 12 disciples
- Killed at the time of the Vernal Equinox, about March 21st (Easter)
- Performed miracles with his disciples
- Turned Water into Wine
- Was dead for 3 days
- Upon death was resurrected
- He was powerless to perform miracles in his hometown.
- His followers were born-again through baptism in water.
- He rode triumphantly into a city on a donkey. Tradition records that the inhabitants waved palm leaves.
- He died "as a sacrifice for the sins of the world."
- He was hung on a tree, stake, or cross.
- The cave where he was laid was visited by three of his female followers.
- He later ascended to heaven.
- Was referred to as "God made flesh", "Savior of the world", "Son of God."
- He will return in the last days.
- He will judge the human race at that time.
- Humans are separated from God by original sin. The godman's sacrificial death reunites the believer with God and atones for the original sin.
Greek God Dionysus, 500BC
- Born of a virgin
- Born Dec 25th
- Traveling teacher who performed miracles
- Turned water into wine
- Referred to as "The King of Kings", "God's only begotten son", "Alpha and Omega"
- Upon death he was resurrected
Persian God Mithra, 2000BC
- Born of a Virgin
- Born on Dec 25th
- Had 12 disciples
- Performed miracles
- Upon death was buried for 3 days
- Resurrected
- Referred to as "The Truth", "The Light", "Shepherd God", "Lord of Lords", "The Redeemer", "Firstborn", "Sin Bearer", "Liberator", "Universal Word"
- The second day of worship was called "Sunday"
- Father was a carpenter
- He was persecuted by a tyrant who ordered the slaughter of thousands of infants.
- He was baptized in A river.
- Healed lepers, the deaf and the blind
- He was transfigured in front of his disciples.
- He was crucified between two thieves.
- He is the second person of the Trinity, and proclaimed himself the "Resurrection" and the "way to the Father."
- He was considered the "Beginning, the Middle and the End," ("Alpha and Omega"), as well as being omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent. - His disciples bestowed upon him the title "Jezeus," meaning "pure essence."
- He is to return to do battle with the "Prince of Evil," who will desolate the earth
The list goes on and on:
- Chrishna
- Budha Sakia
- Salivahana
- Zulis or Zhule
- Osiris
- Oruis
- Odin
- Crite
- Zoroaster
- Baal and Taut
- Indra
- Bali
- Jao
- Wittoba
- Thammuz
- Atys
- Xamolxis
- Zoar
- Adad
- Deva Tat and Sammonocadam
- Alcides
- Mikado
- Beddru
- Hesus or Eros and Bremrillah
- Thor, Son of Odin of the Gauls
- Cadmus
- Hil and Feta of the Mandaites
- Gentaut and Quexalcote of Mexico
- Ischy
- Divine Teacher of Plato
- Holy One of Xaca
- Fohi and Tien
- Adonis
- Ixion and Quirinus of Rome
- Prometheus of Caucasus
....All of which share more in common with Christianity than they differ, all predating Christianity.
That is why the other religions originated in year so and so B.C. And why is this 2015? 2015 from what? It must be pretty significant that we measure time when Jesus was born.
A straw-man argument. Religion has significance in history but significance doesn't imply truth. In fact, we already know why we measure "time" in A.D.
Now I'm going to show you how ridiculous this argument is. The practice was first suggested and implemented in the 6th century A.D. and was adopted by the pope of the time.
Russia and Turkey didn't start using "A.D." until the 20th century.
The
Chinese still don't use "A.D." and the year for them is 4713.
Most Islamic countries use the
Hijrah calendar, it is Thul-Hijjah 1436 A.H. or Muharram 1437 A.H. currently
Hebrews have a Solilunar calendar which brings the year to 5775
There's the Persian Calendar which is considered the most accurate
The Indian/Hindu calendar, Kaliyuga calendar, Copptic Calendar..
How about the still used Yoruba calendar that dates over 10,000 years..
In fact, the Calendar that we now use, the "
Gregorian Calendar" wasn't implemented until 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII which refined the Julian Calendar. This was done because the celebration of Easter was tied to the Spring Equinox and the Roman Catholic Church considered the steady drift in the date of Easter caused by the year being slightly too long to be undesirable.
Of course, Christianity didn't bother changing the names of the months from the
Roman and
Pagan Gods and Goddesses for which they are named.
Here's an interesting fact, because of all of the calendar changes and adjustments during the Middle Ages it turns out that Jesus was born around 6BC, so there goes your theory of such an important date.. it's not even right.
Also, most journals and scientific papers do not refer to B.C. and A.D. - they use B.C.E (Before common era) and C.E. (Common Era), as do many others.
So, no, your premise doesn't hold.. the only reason we use B.C. and A.D. is because a
Pope made it and culture has perpetuated it. It doesn't matter what you use, so long as we all agree to it as for ease of use and commerce. It could very well be some other system of "time" had history gone differently.
If you read the Bible, sin entered the world through man's disobedience to God. Therefore that blood line of Adam and therefore his sin was passed to each of us.
No, if you
believe the Bible, sin entered the world through man's disobedience to God.
So thank you for proving my point and uncovering a fallacy of the Bible. You are admitting that God is NOT omnipotent nor supreme. Did God not SEE that man would disobey him prior to creating man? What kind of God is this? Some kind of royal screw-up? On top of that there is this thing "Sin" and God is just helpless! "How oh how do I get rid of Sin?", says God. Maybe we should be worshiping SIN as it seems to be something God just can't handle.. which would infer that Sin is greater than God. Either that OR God wants us to have Sin because he's an evil man holding the proverbial magnifying glass. Which one is it?
Do you see the circular logic here?
Why do we have defects, and why does God allow things to happen? Don't ask me. But I would say that due to sin things were introduced that God never intended.
Again, you are admitting that God is not all powerful, not omnipotent. "God never intended."? Really!? How very interesting. What else does God not intend? Perhaps he is long gone and he never intended us to worship him and there is nobody "up there" at all, I mean, if something happened that he never intended.. well.. he could mess up "anywhere"! Wow. Pick up the "Good Book", sir... you have more reading to do! The Bible plainly states "what" God is.. so I don't have to ask you and it is clear you don't understand your own faith.
Believe in
a "God" if you want - I can even find that reasonable.. but from how you have answered, you may as well drop the Christianity part.
From what I've read they say that there is no reason we should actually die. But again, sin is poised to each of us, so whatever defects or behaviors that came as a result were passed down as well.
You are a God apologist. I would rather prefer God not have introduced Sin or made the universe in such a way that defects or mal-behaviors be able to be passed down. It would have saved us from the "Hell and Brimstone" afterlife option and he could have skipped the whole Jesus thing. Just another God "after-thought"? This is not the definition of an Omnipotent God.
If you choose not to believe in God then arguing with you won't convince you.
Most do not choose to "believe", it is bestowed upon them at a young age before logical thought has had a chance to occur. It would be easy for God to reveal himself to the world in many ways that could not be mistaken for anything
but God. So where is he? Either he isn't there or he doesn't care if his "Children" go to hell... that is his rule, right? Non believers, false prophets get doomed to hell for eternity. Yet another force at work that God is either unwilling or unable to correct..
Hell. Omnipotent?
I suppose perhaps how I should have said about God ever changing is that He is constantly changing us and working on us. The children of Israel for example wandered for 40 years, yet God still led them even at times when He seemingly should have given up on them. I think the same applies today. God is constantly working on me.
Yet another story that is predated by almost a 1000 years by prior religions. If God is constantly working on you then it goes to show you that he has no idea of the future, for if he did, he would only work on you once.. or better yet, an Omnipotent God would have got it right the first time. You're telling me that the God who created the heavens and planets and stars with such great precision and care is unable to fix a simpleton? Hmm. Omnipotent?
However if you are talking science then remember that the 2nd law of thermodynamics even states that a system left to itself will result in greater disorder. So to me that says the big bang theory is not probable.
No, it does not.
"The
second law of thermodynamics states that in every natural thermodynamic process the sum of the entropies of all participating
bodies is increased. In the limiting case, for reversible processes this sum remains unchanged."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_law_of_thermodynamics
Nor do any of the 4 laws of Thermodynamics state what you claim...
quite the opposite, in fact. Remind me never to send my kid to college in Ohio.
By your logic, God should have shaped God finger and presto it should have fixed itself. I've heard stories, but sometimes life is life and you can't do anything about it.
And why shouldn't God do that? It's what he wants anyway and we keep disappointing him (as if he didn't already know he would be disappointed). Why should we sinners need to go to God's Hell for eternity because of God's rules because God won't fix his creation? Pretty Sh***y of God, if you ask me. I would ask God to take it all back and save us from this cruel thing called life (And eternal death). At the very least, God doesn't seem very worthy of worship, according to you... and I doubt he would care anyways.. heck, he doesn't care about anything else.
You know, the Muslim faith doesn't have an impotent, do-nothing God. Maybe we should check with Allah instead.
