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I think that I might have given some people here some wrong impressions in the past. So, I'd just like to clear a few things up.
1. I am a Christian.
2. This means that I believe in one God, who expresses Himself as a Trinity of people - God the Father, God the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
3. This also means that I believe all other gods/godesses/deities-of-any-description are fakes, invented by humans or by Satan to trap people and keep them away from God.
4. In addition, I believe that everyone who isn't a Christian is going to Hell.
5. Understandably, I would really rather all you people didn't go to Hell. Hence, I'm praying for you. And I'm going to keep praying for you. Even if you ask me not to.

So, there we go.

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Re: Aren't all religions man-made?

[speccy67.livejournal.com]

People tend to make dieties. There are those who opt out of such things.
At times I think to myself, perhaps they are better off. Outside of the looking glass looking in on Wicca's gods, Christians God, old Greek gods fighting it out.

Those who flee God, do they end up punished? I wonder. Punished on earth? They are layed to waste and corruption indeed. Read a part of Romans starting at chapter 1 if you'd like an example. You may find yourself looking into a very dim mirror.

Whats more appropriate to ask you though, is if you abandon your 'gods' do they get Jealous? My God does to no end.

Some group outside of Judiasm (I want to say Wicca or Zionist) 100 BC fashioned a man into a christ, to fool the jews. Today I know that man, only fufilled 100 items out of 481 items that the Messiah was prophecied to fufill.

The real Jesus Christ fufilled 481 items prophecied of his coming 100 years later. Only 2 more the Jews had that were unspoken. How can man become God? (I can't recall the other at the moment) When in fact it was God become Man.
There is a huge logical thought in all that the bible outlines, all the prophecies. In the way that our God has done things

Back to the point though

Religions, man made?
Religion, I use to think of this in terms, of a mechanical way of doing things for the means at the end.
As I have become a Catholic Christian, I have found it is to be an encompassing life. Not something done on Sundays. Not something thought of once, stated, and forgotten.

What is the one real true religion. When God became Man. When he did what was told of him. When he took on sin as most men have and denied even himself. (God denied Himself? An Athiest?) He pointed to the truth. Not a religion like Judiasm. He pointed to a way to treat all human beings. And whom to love above all else.

Most importantly, he allowed us to put idols away, for when you look on the image of Jesus. You view the face of God, the image of his likeness. No longer is he "I AM", the nameless creator, but Jesus. Yet still "I AM".

No other being has come down to earth like Jesus.

And to those who think God having been inactive for the past 2000 years. He was active 140 years ago, 300 years ago, 20 years ago, even now still today. For all time he will remain active.
There was a time, that I found out that The original religion was not Judiasm. Witch Craft, and other religions spanning further back in time to around 8000BC during the first recorded history (is there more?). Choosing one based on earliest would be an incorrect assumption.

We'd still be killing people to sacrific to our gods.

I even considered Judiasm. By all rights they'd kill me. I am unclean.
Anyway. There is one God. He saw to it that a new religion would survive, spread, and grow. The person Jesus came down to clarify all this for us.
He survived Death, to show us it isn't real.
And he showed us how we are to live our life properly. That there are no others like him.

Who made religion? God created Judiasm, when it wasn't done properly, he created christianity to superceed it.

So who were these first "gods" then?
Theory is great. Perhaps there were beings, and they got bored? Perhaps the care takers of our world, took advantage of our people, demanding sacrifices of humans.
Perhaps those beings never left, or were "swept" away.
In any case, it is not permissive to seek them out any longer.

Why compelled to say so much? Now I have to read those other really long posts.

Re: Aren't all religions man-made?

[passage.livejournal.com]

"So who were these first "gods" then?"

Sorry, I'm lost, WHO(/what)?

Neil