(September 28, 2015 at 8:39 am)Rekeisha Wrote: So Jesus Christ is my cult leader? Where might He be residing on earth? Do you have His residence?
The Branch Davidians had a cult leader and his name was David Koresh and even if they thought he was God he wasn't. Actually I remember watching that on TV and my mind when to this verse. Mt 24:26 “So if anyone tells you, ‘There he [Jesus] is, out in the wilderness,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he [Jesus] is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.
I believe the word or God. I also know that there are different types of writing in the Bible like poems, history, prophecy, and letters. They should all be looked at in light of that. Also I have looked at How the construction of the Bible came about. What I will not do is try to make God's word conform to what I want to be right. I conform to God not the other way around. I am not smarter than the God of the universe and neither is anyone else on this earth.
Yes Jesus is the head of the church. In fact Jesus has all authority in Heaven and on Earth. You are not out of His jurisdiction and in His mercy He want you to come into right relationship with Him. He shed His blood for your sins and He defeated death so that you may live an eternal life enjoying Him. You can try to throw your erroneous labels on my statements about God but in the end the truth prevails. We will all see what is reality and God will be there because He is in control of everything.
Redbeard has already said what i would have wanted to say, on this. I do worry about you. The fact that you are a Bible Idolator, who think that the Word is something that must be conformed to over testable reality, indicates serious problems in your life, to me.
Why do you think a cult leader has to still be physically alive and somewhere currently on earth? The whole point of the story told by his disciples is that he's not really dead, but came back to life and went to heaven but will return "soon".
Like David Koresh, Jesus built a cult of followers and predicted that he would be executed by the authorities, and he was. My point isn't that Koresh is special, it's the opposite: the basic concept of the cult is the same, anywhere you look. Except you don't look, because you have been trained not to look by your religious teachers. They teach that it is a good thing to shut your mind down and "just believe". That is a mark of a cult. They teach you that your cult leader was God incarnate, a divine messenger, even though he was physically human. That is a mark of a cult. They teach you that you are so inherently flawed that you own brain cannot possibly figure out The Truth™, but only to accept it. That is the mark of a cult. When others tell you that you are talking like a cultist, you defensively proclaim the strength of your faith instead of examining the lies you have been told-- like about the "prophecy" about Tyre.
Cult. Cult. Cult.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
