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The second translation of that first verse is the only one which makes sense.
Critic of the bible attacks the idea that the bible is perfect & the word-of-god, and the defenders try to back-up that idea in some way or another.
But, if not all of the books of the bible were divinely inspired, wouldn’t bible critic just root out the crap?
All of the non-sense, firstly, should be rooted out.
Paul, for example, claimed to be Christian, but the miracle which he claimed to have experienced – only he saw. Before that he was killing christians. Then, he desided to change them and use them instead of killing them. Paul wrote around half of the new-testimate.
We can throw Paul out.
Next, we through out which ever parts of the bible that contradict the other parts. Example: “thou shalt not kill”, and then god supposedly kills thousands of people. Sounds like bullshit to me. Let’s say that the people died from natural causes, like a plague or something, then terror-inspiring religions terds blaimed it on god and screamed for submission/guilt.
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The 7 marks of a christ.
- Inability to kill/harm others.
- Disgust with bad-leadership, corruption and false religion…
- Love for all creation [thus love for its creator].
- Desire for reasonable equality & moderation.
- Courage.
- Inner strength.
- Wisdom.
After developing a deep enough understanding and connection with all life, he will begin to realise what it needs most, therefor will know the meaning of its creator.
If you’d studied thousands of musical works be a certain artist, through that, you could come to know his personality and his will. This also applies to learning about the origin and meaning of all things.
These seven steps are all that really matter.
The power of love and the faith in the higher, invisible meanings in the universe – are the paths towards becoming christ-like.
Jesus overturned the money-tabels of the money-makers in the temple because he hated religion being turned into a money-making-scam.
He’d probably break the studio of a televangelist if he got his hands on their equipment, because of how disgraceful it is to misrepresent the origin and meaning of all life on earth.
Jesus couldn’t physically help everybody on earth, but he could help some of them.
In the same way, a imitator of christ can help some people on earth, but as that fallower honors life and denounces corruption, his life wont be very easy.
Jesus’s healing on the sabath shows that people’s health is more important then any law. Overly strict Jews would have killed someone for doing work on the sabath day. That’s rubbish.
Becoming a christ doesn’t mean save-the-world, it means save, salvation, etc.
All acts of salvation, big or small, are the works of a christ.