Anti-Theism

[Whateverist]

It seems that you want to defend God but not the institutions which revolve around its worship.  Why is that?  I mean, what do you think God is (please be as explicit as possible as I truly have no idea) and what do you think people should do differently in their lives based on what you believe?

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Also, what did you mean by "anti-theist" when you made this thread?

1.) My life has always been one of extremes. The present is no exception--it's off the charts and unexplainable. However, when I was 29, I reached an end. Is my life a lie or, is theology a lie? I knew my life wasn't lying. I had been studying Greek for years and being taught by people whom studied Greek in college.

But, I had to know more. I started with the word pistis translated as "faith". But the ecclesiastic usage was nonsensical. I started with the verb so that I could understand the noun and the participle. pistis means trust(trust what you know) not "faith" or "believe". Yet, the church uses the noun as a verb. So, from there theology was unraveling.

Then I got heavy into the grammar and started translating myself and found something beautiful. But, I had to shuck that barnacle encrusted oyster to find that pearl. My life and the bible now make perfect sense but the church is a clusterfuck from the beginning!

I'm guessing this has to do with why you are defending God, but I'm not sure.

2.) Biblically speaking: Jesus IS God and He is man. Jesus plainly says so. God became a man so that He could die on a cross to pay a price for our ransom to our captor Death so that we might have life is His fame. However, that death made man right so, Jesus no longer had to be dead so, He raised the third day.

Jesus also plainly stated that He IS the Father: the Head of the house. We are the house.

You mean God was/is this historical guy Jesus born a couple millennia ago?  Somewhere in that bible book you love/hate so much it also says Jesus is the way.  Are you sure he isn't pointing to his example rather than his historical self?  I lean toward interpreting that symbolically rather than literally.

3.) I didn't understand anti-theism but, I knew whom to ask. I have a much better understanding now but, it still doesn't make a lot of sense. I understand now the 'why' but, not so much the 'what'.

Added: I am like you. What others do is none of my business until they make it my business. I answer only for myself and make excuses out of no one.

So you're signing on to the anti-theist = possessing serious objections to theist ideology?  You seem to have serious objections to what mainline Christians believe yourself.  Are you an anti-theist?