Potus ???

[Mark J]

Having total belief in something that there is no definitive proof of is not easy.

 

I don't suppose it is.

[Haironyourchest]

This is my journey.., sort of. I was raised an atheist by atheist parents.

I got into exploring spirituality by way of psychedelic substances in my youth. Probing the boundaries of consciousness, exploring eastern mysticism, etc..

I found Christianity by accident really. I certainly wasn't looking for it.

I found that it was the only religion that delivered what it said it would.

The radical transformation of my life stands as a testimony to its authenticity. Despite the fact I'm still far from perfect....

 

I came across this quote recently:

 

[1] Grant Osborne says, “The purpose of this is evangelistic, to say that what the Greeks have known only as myth has now been actualized in history…What the pagans longed for in their myths has now become true in Jesus. Therefore, the form is both deliberate and brilliant, using what in our time has been called a ‘redemptive analogy’ to present the gospel in such a way as the capture the interest and hearts of the non-Christian reader.” Grant Osborne, Revelation: Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2002) p. 454.

 

Ah, the auld psychedelics! I tried acid twice - hated it both times. It did teach me something about myself though, made me realise that I actually wasn't the devil-may-care rebel I fancied myself, but rather a overly-concientious nanny! Did what it said on the tin, opened my mind, but was not pleasant.

 

I was into the occult, still am really. Experiments in divination of future events yielded concrete and indisputable results that science cannot explain. I may not know much about anything, but I know this: information transference is not necessarily dependant on the physical brain, or linear time.

[Ian Leach]

How can someone believe in this crap when it's the cause of most wars, also one of the richest Businesses in the world yet so much poverty.

Then you have the pedophile priests .

It's just load of horse shite, love thy neighbour my arse.

[wrsni]

What cracks me up, is you all hate and deny a God / creator / other but most defininely believe in the spiritual realm.

 

 

Very true, I've seen that myself on many occasions.

 

Maybe even the staunchest disbeliever is actually closer to God than they think after all!

[wrsni]

How can someone believe in this crap when it's the cause of most wars,

 

Nonsense, a true Christian won't start a war with anyone.

[the village idiot]

Add Dawkins "God delusion" to that list then.

 

What cracks me up, is you all hate and deny a God / creator / other but most defininely believe in the spiritual realm.

 

 

In no way do you need religion/faith to be spiritual.

[Richard 1234]

Nonsense, a true Christian won't start a war with anyone.

 

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_and_violence

[Joe Newton]

How can someone believe in this crap when it's the cause of most wars, also one of the richest Businesses in the world yet so much poverty.

Then you have the pedophile priests .

It's just load of horse shite, love thy neighbour my arse.

 

 

Unless it's a poem it ain't fact,

 

Ask Yankee Doodle...

[Vespasian]

It's that Vesp I tell yu!

 

Like some wiley serpent, slitherin round, instilling doubt n discord!

 

I warned him!

 

Humanity's mortal oversight

The ease with which it's cured

Sex acting as a plebiscite

Obscuringly endured

 

Where the holy tree of life

Where the fruit delicious

Embedded deep within your wife

And flawed men malicious

 

Evicted from heavenly Eden

To wander amongst the animals

Bruising each other beseeching

Until you too are wretched cannibals

 

Now the latter days are here

As humanity becomes untenable

A society driven by hate and fear

Saved only by our maker's residuals

 

Hot off the press!

 

Jomoco

 

Not bad for hot off the press...

 

Now were was I?....

 

Yes, rooting a myth into the real world.... I'll set the story in the early first century.. who was whom at the time?... Pontius Pilate was knockin about, we'll include him in our fable....

 

Its not rocket science figuring people would do that, apparently it was common practice at the time....

 

They're called foundation myths... roots a new idea into the past to give the tale some credibility...

[jomoco]

What's christianity's unfulfilled promise Vesp?

 

Heal the sick, feed the poor, building heaven on earth, eternal life?

 

All very conspicuous and attention getting markers, ducedly hard to fake, eh?

 

Kinduva when it happens you'll bloody well know it, sort of scenario?

 

Get me drift mate?

 

Jomoco