Having premonitions is a natural instinct. Also being able to predict events is a function of intelligence and data processing, we can predict the weather days in advance by completely natural means.
dhardline: OK. I'll gladly wait while you completely break free from all curruption within and without and fill the void within with all the things your flesh desires. When and if you achieve this, then you can come back and state your thoughts again.
Cubalabloo: Any religious sect that does not belief in the existence of a supreme being is not a religion. The first to be considered in establishing a particular religion is WHO TO BE WORSHIPPED!
LoL! Go and tell the practitioners that they are not practicing a religion because they don't believe in a supreme being. Bwahahahahaha!
dhardline: They all desire to find a way to God. All but one tries to achieve this by doing this good or that good to become acceptable to God and hence enter paradise but only one provides the way to God through what another(Jesus Christ) has done(Christianity).
Hence just two religions exists.
Actually there is only one religion, man made religion. LoL
Cubalabloo: The jains and sikhs are just a section just like we have the Shittes. And is it possible for a religion to exist with holding a belief in a supreme spirit?
Section of what?
Yes you have religions that don't have belief in a supreme being, already gave examples.
iramure: I can across two ladies who identified themselves with a popular penticoastal church in Nigeria. After series of preaching urging me to accept the white jesus who died for my sake and reject the devil who is responsible for all the evil in this world. I then asked them that why is it hard for the Almighty God to eliminate the devil so that the world can be at peace?. None could provide any convincing answer. Now why would Alimghty and caring God choose to kill his only begotten son to die for my sake while still allowing the main culprit to roam about killing and causing more pains to humanity. Can someone help me out?
LoL! Smart question, one the storytellers can't answer because the story is already set and they can't alter it cos it'll make them look foolish. Given the size of this universe any god capable of creating such a thing would not even need to blink to eliminate a nuisance but here we have them making excuses for their ever bumbling god. Even declaring their god so incompetent that he needs to commit "suicide by cop" to fix his own plan.
Cubalabloo: It may interest you to know that the world is entirely a religious institute. Every human being belongs to a particular religious family. Sadly, most people, especially here in Africa feel that the existent world religions are; Christianity, Islam and African traditional religion. But there is more to that. The other 6 religion are dominant in the regions of Asia. For the records, these are the 9 types of religion that exist around the world; (1) Christianity. (2) Islam. (3) African traditional religion. (4) Judiasm. (5) Hunduism. (6) Toaism. (7) Budhism. ( Confucianism. (9) Zoroastianism. All the 9 hold to the belief that GOD is the creator of the universe. They unanimously agree that after creation, man disobeyed GOD and has feeling short of His Glory, and that man is living solely on GOD's grace. This means which ever your religion is, we are brethren.
It will surprise you that there are more than 9, for instance the Jains and Sikhs. Buddhism does not have a single creator god nor does Hinduism. Taoists don't believe in a supreme being nor do Confucianists.
Matrixlord2021: I don't hate women,I only fear what they do when they emotionally react!!! Things get destroyed in a second and some are not repairable. Eve lost her home and lost what is eternal by taking a decision based in her emotion. Simple
mrZENographer: Heaven is up above, Hell is down below. Light contends against darkness Holiness eschews evil Humility cannot be arrogant Beauty cannot be ugly Wisdom cannot be a fool A king cannot be a servant God desires a holy people, Satan desires a sinful, wicked, immoral people
All the privileges you enjoy on earth was given to you by God. Your breath, your life, the feeling of joy etc Satan desires to take everything from you and give you pain, sorrows forever.
Usually, a victim doesn't know he is being defrauded until it's late. You are being defrauded by your flesh which is a willing vessel of corruption.
Read the book of Job and understand how your sado masochist god operates with 2 faces.
mrZENographer: If you describe God as sado masochistic, then what word would you use to describe Satan? If you die in your rebellion, you'll spend eternity in hell with Satan.
Choose one: A master who feeds you 1-2 times daily with cheap food
A master who gives you nothing but takes a piece of your flesh and eats it daily
Your god and Satan are 2 sides of the same coin so no need to use another adjective.
Well, the totality of the consciousness is what is referred to as God.
It is just a word people have chosen to call it..
So parts of this god are making other parts to suffer and be extinguished. Your god must be a sado masochistic god. Why would you revere such a concept?
sonmvayina: Lol....atleast you alive. That energy that is keeping you alive and making you conscious of life....is what is referred to as God. The totality of it in the universe...is called "Chukwu "
DavidAO: If you come to the realization of the truth, then you’ll see there’s but only one God. Every sinner is a god but the ones who have come to the realization of the truth through Jesus is a son of God. I think you can try to get my book now. I’m not claiming to have special insights but just check out and see.
You are already on the track, you'll soon get there.
Dealing with a glaring lack of evidence for Moses and the Exodus story. The entire series highlights how clearly the narratives in the Bible are mythology and legend rather than fact. Which invariably means none of it was an actual act of Yah, Jehovah, Yahweh, El-whatever you want to call this god. We look for evidence where there is supposed to be unmissable evidence and we find none. The god that supposedly created a universe that has endured several billion years cannot leave a lasting trail of actions on just a tiny insignificant planet that would be traceable after a few thousand years? This god doesn't exist.
DavidAO: This subject is one of the funniest parts of the Bible a person can find to today. Most teachers do not like to speak of these parts because it certainly sounds both diabolical and ridiculous. Unbelievers have also played their part in unbalancing most preachers so that they never try to speak of such messages.
Most ridiculous of this message was the Bible audaciously stating that a snake spoke to Eve in the garden of Eden. I found this utterly preposterous even as a religious person but the imbibed fears hindered me from trying to counter this.
I hid my doubts, best option was not to focus on such parts of the Bible as it might destabilize one’s faith. I really did think I had faith at these times even though I was only religious but was devoid of knowledge (Romans 10:2). But when I actually did receive the faith, I started seeing things differently.
My most important realization was that everything the Bible talks about is real. While I didn’t understand everything at once, I knew that they’re all real and can be observed in everyday life. I started to interpret biblical information objectively with scientific facts and even observed around to see what the Bible was talking about. When I speak of the messages imprinted in the sky, it draws scare for some while others marvel. The Bible became an entirely different book altogether.
So at this moment, I had no fears anymore, so I knew I had to re-visit those questionable parts of the Bible. I started reading the whole thing again and lo and behold I had been the fool all along. It was stupid for me to even imagine that a snake could speak. After I realized the interpretation of the snake in genesis, I also visited others animals like young lion, lion, scorpion, dogs, eagle, dragon etc. to know the message relayed.
The Bible is actually a very beautiful book when read objectively. It’s just that most people aren’t objective. It’s by grace that I was able to fall away from the river of perceptibility. No one actually pays attention to anything, everyone speaks before they look. Such is the reality and no one is spared from this delusion.
Every time the Bible mentions an animal, the Bible is not talking about an actual animal, what the Bible is saying is that we should observe such animal. So as a biblical enthusiast, you must take your time to observe the animal to realize the message. The animal is just a representation of the message but not the actual message. In accordance to this, even though some of the situations had occurred, they usually bear deeper meaning than written.
It’s very controversial to tell certain people that no snake appeared to Eve in the garden of Eden. These people misinterpret the sentence because of a popular pagan belief that the snake liberated mankind. Most people read the Bible with this fable in their head and this affects their ability to comprehend the grammar. It’s even more controversial to tell someone that the devil is not a snake or a dragon. In fact, a person will be termed heretic when they explain to others that the devil is just a man that lies to every other man that he’s different.
My favorite of this animal representation of messages is in psalm 91:13, when King David prophesied the coming of Jesus. He says he shall thread on the lion and the snake: the young lion and dragon shall he trample under his feet.
For the purpose of this thread, I’ll be interpreting what the Bible means when it says “young lion”. I never actually did know this message until I was led to reflect. I had started enjoying NATGEO WILD after I received the faith but I never knew what I was looking at. I just found animals a bit more interesting than I did.
So on actual day, I reflected and realized that a young lion always fights his father for authority of the tribe. In fact, in one particular documentary, the young male lion fought three adults for the power to rule the tribe. Therefore, the message is stating that Jesus shall overcome that compulsive need to want to attack His father for authority. The Bible also establishes this to be the case in Philippians 2:6-8.
When that particular verse is read, we’ll realize that unlike the young lion who has now come of maturity and sees himself equal to his father by fighting for authority, Jesus humbled himself and obeyed the father by doing his will. This is exactly where Satan fell in the beginning because Satan rose against God like the young lion always does. In fact, Satan’s banishment from the presence of God is just as the young lion is usually defeated and banished from the tribe.
It’s important that we learn to look at the Bible objectively and try to seek evidences for things mentioned. This solidifies our understanding and teaches us more about the truth. The Bible isn’t a magic book, it’s a realistic book that covers almost anything humans can think of.
You are just a step from realising gods are the same. There are no gods or demons, only the battles on the internal landscape of our minds. Religion merely gave voice to those thoughts in our heads.
Christianity Etc › Re: Did You Know That There Are 9 Types Of Religion In The World? by LordReed(m): 10:30am On Jun 19, 2021*. Modified: 11:29am On Jun 19, 2021
Confucianism. (9) Zoroastianism. All the 9 hold to the belief that GOD is the creator of the universe. They unanimously agree that after creation, man disobeyed GOD and has feeling short of His Glory, and that man is living solely on GOD's grace. This means which ever your religion is, we are brethren.