Re: Revelation

Depression is a horrid thing, I am sorry to hear you have had to deal with such an affliction. Honestly.

Now, back to our discussion, regarding the word of God... being the obvious intellectual you are, you have got to admit here that the entirely true story isn't being given in the known Christian bibles of today. I'm not saying the entire message is missed out on, actually many Rabbi's today quote from Mark because what Jesus was preaching was in line with 1st Century Judaism. In THAT book. And because it was the first one, possibly, it holds the closest position we have to what might've happened. The Gospel of Thomas was probably written down before Mark, since Jews were known to just QUOTE their leaders, and that is ALL Thomas is. There is also the hypopthicized "Q" gospel, and the message from all of that is of a deeper understanding than what the Christian bible offers at this point.

But to live with beliefs that state it's one way or no way... doesn't go along with Gods word. There is something prayed in Hebrew, that is so sacred and is the CORE of the Jewish belief now as it was then... Sh'ma Yisrael, Adonai, Eloheinu, Adonai echad. Hear, O'Israel, the Lord, our God, the Lord is ONE.
To say God would be three, literally, makes it a Polytheistic religion and therefore no longer the Monotheistic religion that was and is and always will be Judaism. James, the younger brother of Jesus, never refers to his brother as God or the LITERAL son of God. He banned Paul from ever returning based upon Paul's teachings. I mean, there is a reason why they call your version of Christianity, PAULINE. He won out, got the popular vote, even though he never even so much as MET Jesus.

I'm not saying that by being a Christian someone isn't going to get into Heaven. I'm not saying that because I'm not God and it doesn't say it ANYWHERE in the Torah that that is what will happen if you're not Jewish. Noahide Law was provided for a reason.

My main problem with Christianity is that most Christians alive today, don't even know how it all started. Don't research anything. That they don't realize their religion was a Middle Eastern Religion based upon a man who most likely didn't look like a white man with flowing brown/blondish hair. Rather, probably looked more like Osama Bin Laden. They don't read up on how MEN voted on what books and writings would be included in the Cannon. And how other books, RICH and AMAZING with stories and teachings, were discarded and ordered destroyed.

It was a mass-production religion. Built for the people, by the people.

I am sure Jesus has wept for what has been done to his homeland and his people in HIS name... that is the saddest part.

I have FAITH. I have faith that God exists and accepts me no matter what. That god isn't a man with a penis, or woman with a vagina, that God is GOD. HaShem (the Name). And that what God created is beautiful and misunderstood by the masses. To appeal to a wider audience in Rome an Emperor took over a religion conflicted with different understandings of it's teacher, NOT CREATOR. Then you have a Hashesian Warlord, Mohammed, get high and go into trance-like states and have a scribe write down HIS message. Both religions, ashamed they are Judaic in origin, tried to eradicate the Jews. And yet, both worship the God of the Jews.

History is a powerful thing. Words have brought empires to burnt, bloody crumbled masses. And yet, here we are, on-line, discussing things that mean a lot to us. And nobody is getting ugly. Or rude. That says a lot about who and what we are.

I've enjoyed this. I hope you continue on your life's journey and never cease learning, accepting, and loving. I've always believed, once you think you know it all and can't be wrong, it just makes sense to accept stagnation and crawl in with the worms, because life isn't worth living if you're not LIVING. Tweet