"christianity" is Anti-Messiah!
"The Way of Truth is evil spoken of" because of pagan "catholicism" and her harlot pagan "christian" daughters ;-( Their "imag"ined "jesus christ" is not The Messiah! It was some five hundred years ago that they named one head of their three-headed pagan "god", "jesus", during a time that has been called the "reformation". Prior to that time there was no "j" sound in the english language.......period.......
Yet the "reformation" was an aptly named time! For it was a time when "catholicism" birthed her harlot "christian" daughters ;-( Her "christian" daughters are of her substance ;-( Her substance was merely "reformed" so that her "christian" daughters might appear a bit differently outwardly, yet inwardly they remained liken unto their pagan harlot mother ;-(
"christianity" is but the byproduct of the fornicative relationship pagan "catholicism" has always had with "the god of this world", he who is "the father of lies", he who is "the angel of light", "d"evil spirit that rules over this wicked world ;-(
All religious systems, muslin, jewish, buddhist, catholic, christian ,,etc,, are Anti-Messiah!
Religious systems of this world, all alike they are,
Their clones have fought, killed and died, both near and far ;-(
And then once a week, or multiple times a day they may pray,
Yet as hypocrites they begin each new day ;-(
Days that are filled with deceit and lies,
For in a "religious system" Truth can not abide ;-(
And so the fruit of death is born of religion's way,
Because life is but a pawn in the wicked game they play ;-(
Simply, Faith will not create a religious system!
The Messiah testified of a "wicked world", and of His disciples being "in, not of, this world".
John exhorted those who believed "to love not the world or it's things" for "the WHOLE world is under the control of the evil one"!
And James testified, "whoever is a friend of this world is the enemy of GOD(Father, Great Spirit, Creator,,)"!
And "the god of this world", "the father of lies", "d"evil, is the author of all religious systems and has his way with those who are "of this world" because they follow their own "vain "imag"inations" ;-( And so it is that mankind's "imag"ination is destroying and perverting Creation ;-( And Our Father has promised that HE "will destroy those who are destroying and perverting HIS Creation(earth, air, water, creatures, Truth, Love, Peace, .etc.)"!
May there be those who heed GOD's Call to "Come out of her, MY people"!
All who take heed unto The Only True GOD's Call will exit "the broadway to destruction" and they will follow The Messiah on "The Way to The Truth of The Life"! They no longer will have their portion with the "catholic/christian" LIE or any other religious system of this world.
The Messiah testified, "whoever lives and believes in Me(His Teachings and Life example) shall never die."
And then The Messiah questioned, "Do you believe this?" YES!
And you? Do you believe? Or do you believe in death?
While there is breath(spirit) there is hope!
For Miracles Do Happen! Thankfully so!
Hope is that there would be those who "come out" of the "strong delusion" that is the religious systems of this wicked world. Hope is that there would be those who believe in and receive of The Life. Hope is that there would be those who would "experience The Messiah and The Power that raised Him from among the dead".
Hope is you will, or have experienced The Miracle that is "receiving a love of The Truth".
All who have "received a love of The Truth" will have:
Peace, in spite of the dis-ease(religion) that is of this wicked world....... ElderChild
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This is true. Christians modeled their "satan" on Pan, the chief "good" god of paganism. This was done as a way of getting people to throw away their old religion by making their god out to look like an evil being. Might I also add that most of the Christian holidays were stolen from the pagans, including christmas. Pagans called it Yule.
I think many christians don't celebrate halloween.
I think all religions have a mixture of other religions as well, of previous ones, some mixture between monotheist and pagan religions, Christianity as well as Islam have their roots in Judaism, after the romans adopted it, they included some of their pagan stuff, so that is where Christmas and the Virgin Mary and other stuff came from, Catholicism, then later Protestant Reformation came.
I don't know much about the origins of Judaism, just that Abraham is the one who has been said founded it, some scholars say that there was some sort of transition from politheism to monotheism and the mythologies from Egypt and Babilonia as others were an influence to eventually form Judaism.
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I think all religions have a mixture of other religions as well, of previous ones, some mixture between monotheist and pagan religions, Christianity as well as Islam have their roots in Judaism, after the romans adopted it, they included some of their pagan stuff, so that is where Christmas and the Virgin Mary and other stuff came from, Catholicism, then later Protestant Reformation came.
I don't know much about the origins of Judaism, just that Abraham is the one who has been said founded it, some scholars say that there was some sort of transition from politheism to monotheism and the mythologies from Egypt and Babilonia as others were an influence to eventually form Judaism.
Holloween isn't really a holiday, it is the eve of a holiday that most people have totally forgotten about, All Saints Day. Some Churches celebrate All Saints Day.
In response to the original post...
It seems to me that religion, as an institution, can both be good and evil at the same time, as it is made up of people. It is my understanding that the Church is supposed to represent Christ on Earth. To the degree that it fails to do that, it represents what is not Christ as if it were Christ, therefore, the Church itself sometimes is the Anti-Christ.
I think all religions have a mixture of other religions as well, of previous ones, some mixture between monotheist and pagan religions, Christianity as well as Islam have their roots in Judaism, after the romans adopted it, they included some of their pagan stuff, so that is where Christmas and the Virgin Mary and other stuff came from, Catholicism, then later Protestant Reformation came.
I don't know much about the origins of Judaism, just that Abraham is the one who has been said founded it, some scholars say that there was some sort of transition from politheism to monotheism and the mythologies from Egypt and Babilonia as others were an influence to eventually form Judaism.
Holloween isn't really a holiday, it is the eve of a holiday that most people have totally forgotten about, All Saints Day. Some Churches celebrate All Saints Day.
it was to pagans
and is to wiccan and neo pagan alike
I think all religions have a mixture of other religions as well, of previous ones, some mixture between monotheist and pagan religions, Christianity as well as Islam have their roots in Judaism, after the romans adopted it, they included some of their pagan stuff, so that is where Christmas and the Virgin Mary and other stuff came from, Catholicism, then later Protestant Reformation came.
I don't know much about the origins of Judaism, just that Abraham is the one who has been said founded it, some scholars say that there was some sort of transition from politheism to monotheism and the mythologies from Egypt and Babilonia as others were an influence to eventually form Judaism.
Holloween isn't really a holiday, it is the eve of a holiday that most people have totally forgotten about, All Saints Day. Some Churches celebrate All Saints Day.
it was to pagans
and is to wiccan and neo pagan alike
The term Halloween (and its alternative rendering Hallowe'en) is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the eve of "All Hallows' Day", which is now also known as All Saints' Day. -Wikipedia
-First off your concept of anti-messiah and churches/religions being anti-messiah is deluded. An anti-christ or anti-messiah would be a person by definition of the word. Messiah is the Hebrew word for anointed one which was originally a term implying king or God's chosen, normaly political, and the concept of a savior/messiah sprang out of the Jewish faith.
-Jesus was not imaginary he was a real person and we know that "Jesus" is a translatin of his name, as is Isa, Jesu, and all the other variations. His Hebrew/Aramaic name would be pronounced ya-osh-oo-a. Nobody of any intelligence denies this. We use our translation of his name just as we read our translatio of the Bible. It doesn't mean we're thinking of a different person.
-Christianity does not have three gods, nor a three headed god. The Holy Trinity is one of the most complicated pieces of theology to explain. Three forms of God yet still one God. One God equals monotheism. Is it completly pure monothiesm in a tecnical sense not exactly. The only completly current monotheistic faiths I know of is pure Brahmanism as everything is just Brahma.
-Not all Christian Churches are daughters of the Roman Catholic Church, its a lot more complicated than that. The Eastern Orthodox Church (namely the Greek Orthodox Church) formed at the same time as the Roman Catholic Church. They were one church which slowly swifted away from eachother before spliting in 1064. Each group (Catholic and Orthodox) has its on sub-sets and related churches. Most Protestant Churches split off of either Lutherism or Calvanism or Anabaptism, which split from the Catholic church. The Gnostic Church was pretty much always seperate from Catholic and Orthodox Churches and some churches developed from it and other smaller churches which survived the heresy purges or from the ideas left behind of groups purged. Christianity is a complicated group of religions, with strange relationships all of which at can be traced bact to a split with mainstream Judaism.
-Further the Protestant and Catholic church dispite there simularites do in fact have some key theological differences
-Its humorous that you quote Jesus' saying that those who live and believe in him shall not die to condemn Christianity because the one fundamental piont all Christians share is their belief in Jesus as the Messiah. It kind of counters your argument a bit.
-You seem to go into circles starting with a condemnation of Jesus as imaginary yet ending by quoteing him and encouraging people to follow him.
-Not all religion is a disease, yes there are those who do and have twisted religion to justify non-religious, terrible, sometimes down right satanic things. Yet you blame all people who are part of a religion for this when the vast majority do not condone such things and were not involved with these, which is wrong.
-You are vastly stereotyping and oversimplifying things
-What is your purpose anyway?
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Christ is actually meant to be the 17th messiah or 'annointed one' (the term means deliverer expected by Jews - Christ as one). Buddha, Crishna and several overs were each annointed in the same way that Jesus was, and they all lived parallel lives, going back over a 10,000 year period. Now the fact that the Jews rejected him as their Messiah means that he wasn't the annointed one they were looking for. Maybe their messiah is still to come, but they believed their 'Chosen One' (as opposed to yours truly, who is the only true one) to be John the Baptist. Also, being the 17th 'messiah' means that the Christians practiced their larceny on the other faiths by subverting those faiths to almost non-existence to propagate the lie that their 'god'was the one true deity. So without Paganism and all it has brought as far as faith, Christianity would be dead in the water.
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