Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
Time you woke up!While knowledge of science can indeed explain nature and the world around us, I have yet to find a chapter in a science book about the physical science of how words and language came into being. Words come from within, instead of from without.
education.nationalgeographic.org
The not so haha funny fact is....there IS only ONE God. But like pets, we all choose to name that God to OUR own ear tickles. Islam. Buddha. Christian. Great Spirit. etc etc etc. He is all of them but humans need to claim Him as this or that, belongs to those and them. He has many names, but it's ONE spiritual being. Cuz thats how our imperfect minds roll.
Hmmm....more and more evidence is appearing that we here on earth are not alone. There are other worlds. Other beings. I wonder if they are so advanced (obviously they are), they have the same deity? If you were God, would you create just ONE world? Or would you keep creating until one of those worlds finally finds enlightenment? Me? I would have more than one and see which ones outwit, outlast, outplay (Survivor motto there, lol).
Wasn't the 'Holy Bible" of Christianity assembled by order of a Roman Emperor for political purposes? Weren't a number of Christian writings available at that time excluded from the final project? Could the emperor have been inspired by the "one true God" despite the fact that he never converted to Christianity himself but maintained his own, Roman gods right up to his death? It seems that many people put great faith in this book. Wouldn't that make the Bible a graven image? This is what I've been inclined to believe about the Bible. But, I do find some of the words attributed to Jesus quite fascinating and mysterious.
Wouldn't that make the Bible a graven image?
You're a gem GracieLove ya Buttercup. No need to apologize. Threads go hither and yon and that's the whole point. Differing opinions. Except when one tries to ....cough...."teach" others how wrong (or ignorant" they are when they do not agree with her.
There are many gods in the mind of Man. But the reality is, there's only onethere are as many god's as there are slots to fill - hopefully a single heavenly source. from whence life on earth evolved.
There are many gods in the mind of Man. But the reality is, there's only one
The bible is made up of experiences by men told to them father to son, etc Problem is...someone CHOSE which of those repeated stories handed down or heard with their own ears, would make into one big book. The bible. And those who transcribed those words were probably edited by higher ups. A lot of it is fake news. A lot of it is legit. But which gospels? And why did some gospels make in past the editors...and others didn't. Mary had a gospel. Its not in the book. Agendas. They have been around since the day this world was created.Wasn't the 'Holy Bible" of Christianity assembled by order of a Roman Emperor for political purposes? Weren't a number of Christian writings available at that time excluded from the final project? Could the emperor have been inspired by the "one true God" despite the fact that he never converted to Christianity himself but maintained his own, Roman gods right up to his death? It seems that many people put great faith in this book. Wouldn't that make the Bible a graven image? This is what I've been inclined to believe about the Bible. But, I do find some of the words attributed to Jesus quite fascinating and mysterious.
It's not just the Catholic church, Jim Jones comes to mind.Maybe someone can answer? Bowing/praying/groveling to a golden calf was wrong. So what is the difference in doing the same to a man (pope), wearing a cross pendant, worshipping a piece of wood supposedly from the crusification, etc?
The first of the biblical Ten Commandments prohibits idolatry: “You shall have no other gods before me.” Several forms of idolatry have been distinguished. Gross, or overt, idolatry consists of explicit acts of reverence addressed to a person or an object—the sun, the king, an animal, a statue.
What I found in Google about idoltry. ^
People bow, kneel, worship statues. Mary, Jesus on the Cross, etc. They also "grovel to some guy that claims he speaks for God. For example, look at what happens when a pope dies..or is admitted as a new pope. The idoltry in churches of Mary, of Jesus himself. The scraping and bowing and showing love and admiration to an inanimate subject. Even wearing a cross pendant around your neck. Is this not idoltry?
People have an odd definition of 'worship', 'God', and 'replace' if they believe Catholics worship anyone/anything other than God or if they believe God can be replaced.It's not just the Catholic church
Jehovah Witnesses? How do they replace God?It's not just the Catholic church, Jim Jones comes to mind.
Anything that replaces God, whether it be a leader or organization like the JW's, is idolatry.
And it's not just that. The books that are included in the bible have been translated and interpreted, and retranslated and reinterpreted over the centuries. To me, it doesn't seem likely that much, if any, of the original meaning survived to the present day.WHO decided what would be included in the Bible, and which ones would NOT?
And it's not just that. The books that are included in the bible have been translated and interpreted, and retranslated and reinterpreted over the centuries. To me, it doesn't seem likely that much, if any, of the original meaning survived to the present day.
I've played this game with several classes. The last sentence was exactly the same as the original. Some of the students told me that the only reason it would turn out otherwise is that if students deliberately changed it for fun.Remember the grammar school game where we all stood in a line.....teacher whispered a simple sentence into the ear of first student, CLEARLY. That student then passed the sentence to the next in line, so on and so forth. By the time the last student was whispered the sentence, it was totally different than the original whispered sentence.
Talk about a grammar school game of 'Telephone' going deliberately wrong...What MY personal gripe is, is worshipping a flawed man in a fancy bejeweled robe sitting in a cubby and telling him your sins and that man tells you to pray to beads and say Hail Mary (why MARY?), and claims your sins are forgiven cuz you told him instead of praying to the one that CAN forgive. That just gripes my ass big time.
The reason you are not Catholic is because you see no reason to any longer practice/follow the initial steps Jesus commonly used among his followers. Some feel that they no longer need to audibly hear, "Your sins are forgiven." It's not legitimate to hear "Your sins are forgiven" when those are the very words that took Jesus to the cross?Which is only ONE of the reasons why i never returned to a catholic church. And if you spoke up about the confusion or denying the legitimacy of the concept, you got ridiculed. Kinda like here where catholics all get their panties in a wad and will soon come in to call me ignorant or stupid or a bitch or whatever.
I suppose. Personally, I would rather confess to a live tree, where I might be able to imagine the breeze whispering through the branches and leaves, "Your sins are forgiven." The words mean that much.I'd rather confess to a tree stump. At least I know who created it to begin with and not the lumberjack that whacked it down.
