Yeah I still need to check out your recommendations, my backlog is large but I am getting to it.
Some things worth getting to do take a LOT of time
This forum is no longer offering me anything in the way of real discussion or helping me answer my questions. I was biasing towards Christianity for awhile but the hostility and intensity of this place reminds me too much of the past, no thanks!
... I don't know what my icon should be now, probably Agnostic. But thanks for your concern!
I'd hope, based on discussions within this specific thread on Christianity, that you didn't adopt the mindset of a system being not valid or worth taking up because of people doing things in the name of it which went counter to it - like not using money due to the fact that there were counterfeit dollar bills that were given to them/got them in trouble instead of learning to realize the real thing.....
Yes, unfortunately...as one noted best in the past:
That said, that doesn't mean one discounts a concept because of others proclaiming it -as what matters is the founder. Tying it back with the OP topic (for humor) - just as it is with something such as not dismissing bending because of corrupt benders in the Avatar Universe or those who used it for harm, so it is with Christ and Christianity. If you don't know what the system is about and are seeking to see the variety within it (as you were doing), you don't dismiss it because others from a bad variation of it bother you...
And there are many noting the issue of how you have to stay focused on the founder if really seeking to know what's true.
How do you know that Christianity is the one true worldview? - YouTube
Has Christianity failed you? and if so, what does that say about Jesus ? Full - YouTube
The Uniqueness Of Christ - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6aDoOzYN-U
One deals with the founder of the system they're looking into - and if dealing with people in it who are frustrating, one should remember how people are people many times
People are not perfect, of course, but perfection was never the standard for the system and whether or not it's true (just as it is with all other systems). But I can understand where you're coming from with the frustration at others - if you'd like, you can email me any time to discuss more on it since it's often better to change the venue of where you do your searching rather than giving up the search due to being stuck at a specific venue.
Icon wise, it seems you'd probably be best described as a Deist based on your comments and others - but again, that's based on what I've seen.
But in all of it, I hope one would consider Christ in what He was about and truly investigate Him for who He is (as
there are MANY logical reasons for it and it is truly the most logical when
seeing how the world works, IMHO)....and no one else did what He did, in light of how the early church understood so clearly the abject horror of Jesus’ salvific act that it correctly appropriated Isaiah 53 as a description of that deed - and thus, is worthy of real study
3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. (Isa 53:3-10 KJV)
