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| quote: | Originally posted by tribu
People suggest that by accepting Jesus, you accept the entire judeo-christian ideology. Do you consider that to be true?
I understand your point about God being the source of everything, but it seems to come down to the differences between how people interpret what their specific god wants. Codes of conduct, accepted governments, social living; all of this is affected by what the society sees is "right" by their god's standards. Right and wrong is a very sticky issue to discuss and people have argued to warred over it for most of mankind's recorded existence.
Its hard for me to accept the church's story of jesus, specifically the spiritual half. The church is a clearly biased body which financially benefits from the increased membership of its congregation. By claiming spiritual superiority and access to god, the church (I speak here of judeo-christianity, but really of all religious based governments) has been able to control much throughout the history of man. If I'm going to try to understand the message of Jesus, I want to read what was recorded and interpret it personally. And I don't need to think of Jesus as a spiritual guru or half heavenly creature that came to reconcile a humankind's forray into the knowledge of the gods. Jesus had plenty to say concerning life-style recommendations and living in a society that I feel we would benefit more from today tha the spritual nature that everyone seems to concentrate on.
This is a very faith-based statement that is an impossible arguing point. |
By accepting Jesus, people do not merely accept the whole Judeo-Christianity platform because Judeo-Christianity is made up of several different denominations. Whereas, when people accept Jesus they are merely accepting that he is the son of God and that he died on the cross for the sins of mankind. Yes, Judeo-Christianity is the basis of believing in Jesus and God but Judeo-Christianity has evolved to modern day belivers to be apart of the church. In today's society many people accept Jesus into their hearts but only turn out to be worldly Christians. Accepting Jesus means to enter into a personal relationship with him and looking to him and no worldly influence. Yes, it does come down to the different interpretations of what a specific God wants. But on the contrary, there really is not a specific God for the different world religions. There is only one God with many different meanings to different cultures. Right and wrong has always been a very difficult subject to discuss with different cultures. However, those cultures have adapted different codes of conduct over the generations and have embraced God in their own way. However, sometimes the way that various socities view what is right is sometimes not fitting with the standards of the biblical scriptures that God has laid out through his word of the Holy Bible. I agree with you when you state that the church has become a self governing body that seem like religious based institutions. Jesus and for that matter God himself is not meant to be made into a self endorsing package for mankind rather is intended to be the universal ruler for mankind. Yes, you do not need to see Jesus as a spiritual guru or modern day tv prophet but rather looking at the scriptures for yourself to discover what it is that you personally believe in. That is what God wanted for humans when he gave us freewill. Yes, we would benefit from the recommandations that Jesus gave while he was preaching. Alot of the spiritual displays that exist today are people's own takes on how they think they should behave spiritually.
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