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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (11361)	2/28/2002 7:55:26 PM
From: Grandk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

Unfortunatley, it appears as if you have succumbed to the great lie which denies the deity of Christ. Christ living His life through the individual represents a piece of the body. Every individual is a piece forming the whole which is the church. The church is not a building nor any organization. Peter, whom the Catholics claim the pope's lineage stems from, was but the rock that the church was built on. Not with wood but with Christ as the cornerstone. For God does not occupy any man made temple but He inhabits His creation. God's Spirit in me, and I the temple. Therefore, all this talk about the church and the many crimes done in the name of Jesus is moot because they were never done by those who truly know Christ. During the crusades many true followers of Christ were killed for not succumbing to the dis-illusion of the masses who killed in the name of Christ, something that is so contrary to Christ and against all that He was and is. We wage war against the principalities of this dark world. Our battle is against the spiritual forces of evil. That is a Christian's battle. Not against any man. You are ignorant of Christ, because you do not know Him. The gospel is foolishness to you because the god of this age has blinded your mind. If only you would let the light of Christ into your life to dispel the darkness and lead you back to the Father.

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (11361)	2/28/2002 8:02:00 PM
From: Grandk	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

“The resurrection of Jesus offers the best explanation for the incredible success of the early church. Without the resurrection there would have been no early church. Furthermore, it explains how a large generation of Jewish people (remember, most of the early Christians were Jewish) would have been willing to risk the damnation of their own souls to hell and reject what had been sociologically embedded in their community for centuries; namely, the Law must be kept for salvation, the Sabbath must be kept, nontrinitarian monotheism, and there is only a political messiah, not a rising and dying one. How does a group of people in a short time span, a society, disenfranchise themselves from that into which they had been culturally indoctrinated for centuries and risk the damnation of their own souls to hell to follow a carpenter from Nazareth? The most reasonable explanation is there was something about that man that caused this change. He was a miracle worker who rose from the dead.” J.P. Moreland