This time I was smart. I scrolled down to see how long it was before I started reading. This post is a bookmark. :)
I will say I’ve been saying for over a decade now that just as the invention of the printing press gave us the reformation, the invention of the internet will further purify the church.
Old teachings that can’t really be supported biblically will fall away like scales - ARE falling away like scales from Paul’s eyes. We are living in interesting times.
The writer of the article better do a little more research on the history of Hinduism. :-)
Interesting and well researched. But clearly anti-Catholic and a trifle self-serving. This is a triumph of “reason” over Faith, which I believe God rejects.
[[how can anyone know what to believe?]]
“Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”
It is obvious that in Western societies, being founded on / dominated by Judeo-Christianity, the concepts of Judeo-Christianity will be "common" and seem woven into the very fabric of what it means to be upstanding and moral. But this is nothing more than circular reasoning!
The "holy scriptures" of the Fungo-Fango Tribe on the island of Bango-Bango all contain "common" (for Bango-Bango) concepts such as "Don't eat squid during a Full Moon," "Spit three times if you see a dolphin," "Kill your new-born babies if they have six toes," "Never forgive your enemies," etc.
All other religions (Judaism, Lutheranism, etc.) are sad and twisted imitations - or don't even reference this "self-evident and common" wisdom!
Regards,
This reminds me of ...
“There are lots of different religions out there. Maybe thousands. We both agree they are all fairy tales - except one. I disbelieve in one more religion than you. You disbelieve 99.9% of the religions, while I disbelieve 100%. So we both have a healthy skepticism of religion, but I am just slightly more skeptical than you.
What you think about all those other religions, I think that about yours, as well.
If you can understand why I don’t believe in all those other religions, then you’ll understand why I don’t believe in yours, either.”
n the midst of this doubt and reinvention, Augustine wrote The City of God, which promoted the idea that prophecies of Christ's second coming and "end things" were somehow different than the rest of Scripture.
OK. Augustine's the big poopyhead. I think I see where this is going.
(If you actually read the relevant part of City of God, you might be surprised.)
Excellent overview of the history of religion and Christianity.
This is an article to be saved and read over and over, and shared with others.
Thank you!
Something I would add to this part:
Not only did the Dead Sea Scrolls disprove that claim, showing that the Old Testament we have today is equivalent to the one used by Christ and His disciples, but they also provided rock-solid evidence that certain prophecies about Jesus Christ were written before He was born.
We can also know the Old Testament Messianic prophecies were written before the birth of Christ because the Septuagint existed two hundred years before. The Septuagint was the Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament books in addition to several other non-inspired ones.