Christianity IS a religion. Your set of beliefs from the teachings of the Bible IS a religion whether or not you have found the church of your liking or not.

When you say you do not "have a religion" that you "belong" to you are talking about a specific Church. Churches are not religions. Your beliefs common to all Christians is your religion.

Funches......let's say someone left you a legacy ,

and it is all written down and explained in his Will.


Well Funches, wouldn't you first have to READ the will,

in order to see what all is contained within that will for

you...

and then finally ACCEPT the will ,

Right?

Or, you could just refuse to believe that someone actually

left you anything in a will ...

and therefore refuse to even read it , much less accept it.


And because you refused to first even believe

that there was a legacy left for you;

that legacy left for you , that is written within that will,

would forever remain untouched.....

and would remain just a piece of paper....

nothing more....

because the WILL was never CLAIMED or RECEIVED by you.



The same goes with God.


BUT....the difference is....

GOD LEFT A LEGACY IN HIS WILL FOR US ALL!!!!!

BUT.....

STILL...

WE have to FIRST BELIEVE God actually DID leave us a Legacy(Free

Gift of Grace)...

and then RECEIVE that Free Gift of Grace......

in order for

The Legacy to Becomes Ours.

The Bible supports the killing of witches Morningsong.
I wonder where all this "religiousity" comes from?
Making up words is not going to take the blame off Christianity, the religion.

"mylifetoday"...allow me to explain why you are required to love everyone including your enemies ....it's because God created everyone...they are all part of his Divine Plan

this is why for you to go around ranting about how there should be no Muslims is actually you critizing what your God hath created ....shame shame shame..sin sin sin

those that believe in God should have no complaints with anything that is taking place in the world because it's all part of God's Divine Plan

Christians because they are commanded to Love their enemies have become apathetic as to the concept of what actually Love is.....is Love suppose to make people feel bad or be use to critize what God have done...or is Love suppose to make others feel Good and uplifted.....

Ha ha ha, you are so funny ( NOT)

well actually yeh that is how it happened, i was happy to have children i would have had more but the doctors wouldnt let me... such a bummer..

Don't you know wher kids come from, do you need me to send you a message with directions

But i still dont like making them, I just like things to happen so i have no choice

I agree...salt-n-pepper @ any age is sexy! YAY for sexy men

so why r there gay chrches because the church have condem mankind so they love jesuS and jesus love them so why not let them serve GOD R STRAIGHT PEOPLE SO PERFCT THAT THEY CANT SIN SO MANY R IN THE CHURCH HAVING RELATION AND SEX RIGHT IN OUR FACE AND THEY OVER LOOK IT CAUSE THEY PAY THEIR TITIES JUST SAK ANOTHER QUESTION ONLY LIKE TO AER YOUR ANSWERS LOVE ALWAYS SO WHAT DO U THINK

I've been following the conversation between Funches and MyLifeToday about criticizing Jesus.

What I find ironic is that no one seems to recognize that the biblical stories themselves actually have Jesus criticizing God when he calls out with his final breath, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do"

How is this criticism of God?

Well, it's criticism in two ways.

First, Jesus is assuming that God would not have known enough on his own to recognize when people are truly guilty and when they are merely acting in ignorance.

Clearly Jesus felt that ignorance is not sufficient reason for condemning anyone, yet at the same time he obviously felt that God would condemn people without sufficient reason. Otherwise, why even bother pleading with God to forgive people and explaining to God the reasoning behind the request (i.e. "For they know not what they do".

Secondly, this is Jesus basically trying to convince God of doing something that he believes that God would not automatically do on his own. That's basically a criticism of how God would normally handle things.

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I personally have no problem with any of this because I don't accept the New Testament to be the infallible word of God. On the contrary as far as I'm concerned it is so utterly riddled with contradictions and absurdities that it can't possibly be the thoughts and intentions of any God.

Either Jesus (or whoever this story was modeled after) never said half the things that are attributed to him, or the story is entirely fabricated fiction.

Moreover, the bottom line for me is that any so-called Christian, who would have Jesus himself judging people for not believing in something have no scriptural support for their claims.

Sure, they can root through the scriptures dragging out verses that might appear to support this claim when taken out of context. However, in the context of the WHOLE STORY none of those claims have any merit, because in the end, with his dying breath, Jesus renounced the judging of people who know not what they do.

Therefore the hardcore proselytizers who try to make Jesus out to be the hardcore condemner like the original biblical God are clearly in ERROR.

Even Jesus with his dying breath renounced any such unwarranted condemnations.

So if we are to "believe" theses stories we must accept that Jesus himself criticized the unwarranted behavior of God the Father.

Clearly Jesus was a rebellious son who did not agree with his father, in these stories.

So even if we're going to believe these stories we must recognize Jesus to be the rebellious son, and not merely a son who would blindly do the will of the Father without complaining about and criticizing the typical expected behavior of the "The Father".

In fact, I hold that it's Jesus rebellion against the original God of Abraham that actually attracts most Christians to Christianity. Jesus stood up to God, and everyone loves Jesus for this.

no it was God that created the Muslim faith and use the angel gabriel ( The holy spirit) to deliver it to Mohammad

but either way God still created the Muslims...and you are critizing God for doing so

but didn't God also create Muslims .. so when you critize Muslims and suggest that perhaps they disappear aren't you also critizing what God has done

of course you don't see things to critize Jesus ....once you become a Christian you give up your "Free Will" to critize him ...

allow me to explain how it works

if you're a Christian then you don't critize Jesus
if you're a muslim you don't critize mohammad
if you're buddhist you don't critize Buddha
if you're a Bruce Lee fan you don't critize Bruce Lee

besides it would make you a heretic and once upon a time they got stakes stuck up their apse

if Jesus killed your parents you would have to assume that your parents done something wrong and deserved to be killed but it's nice to know that Jesus killed them with love

and that's why Christinity breed apathy so that all your love ones that are not of the faith can be killed and roast in Hell for all eternity (give or take a day or two) and all that is required from the followers is indifference

Jesus in the end would have to kill everyone not of his faith which is the same as you accuse Islam of demanding

I went with a guy for three years...we never told each other "I love you". I asked him one day how come we never tell each other that? A couple days later...in email...I received this sweet letter with the meaning of "Love". He said everything he felt for me was highlighted in red. Not too much longer after that I asked him "where do we go from here?" He told me he wasn't in it for the "long haul".