World Religions vs. Christianity


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JennJenn is offline JennJenn Post #1  June 26,2009, 3:32pm
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My interest is peaked on the difference between Christianity and other world religions. Currently reading a book by Len Woods called "The Handbook of World Religions." I will be adding more to this thread as I read through the different religions. You guys add in your input on what you've studied so that we all might be able to break through the lies that sentence the Lost to an eternity of torture and despair.

Might be interesting to add in conversions from other religions to Christianity. I can't help with that one because I chose Christianity as an 8 year old child.
 
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Hello,
I'm new here, I'm usualy on different threads. It is more important to keep our focus on knowing and loving Yahua GOD. Through that relationship with him and close study of the scriptures, everything which contradicts his words, will stand out to us very clearly.

Having some familiarity with the variouse traditions involved in different forms of idolatry also has it's value.

I encourage all belivers to search out the Origination of "Easter" "Ishtar", "Valentines Day" "Lupercalia" ," Christ-Mas", "Halloween " " All Hallows Eve".

Also Read Jeremiah chapter 10

Look up the words " Yule Tide" ( The Christ-mas carol) read it's meaning of origination.

Love Messiah with all your heart mind soul and strenghth.

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Evolution is in reality a religion though it is believed by many to be a scientific theory.

For better understanding of why evolution will never agree with Christianity, read through Genesis and the account of Creation. Then read about what Evolution really means. I encourage you to read such resources printed out by Answers in Genesis. The people involved with AIG are highly intelligent professionals, some who come from athiestic or agnostic backgrounds, who have found the Truth through AIG.

Quoting Ken Ham's book, The Lie: Evolution; "Evolution is basically a religious philosophy." page 32. "Webster's Dictionary defines religion as follows: "Cause, principle or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith. Evolution is a belief system." page 33. A scientist must use the five senses: taste, touch, smell, sight, hearing to actually experience the science of the world. One can only observe what exists in the present. Page 32.

What about sedimentary layers? What about them? Did you know that fossils have been found in several sedimentary layers? Some even had fossilized food in their mouths! This is evidence of the cataclysmic flood that occured in Genesis. Scientist are trying to prove evolution is a fact, but there's one problem: all of the missing links.

Evolution is a religion against the creative authority of God. It goes against the Word of God. In Isaiah, several verses refer to God as being the Maker/Creator of all things. If God created all things, then evolution is not possible. If evolution is possible, then God did not create all things. Therefore I have come to the conclusion that evolution is indeed a religion to prove that God does not exist.
 
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JennJenn wrote :
Evolution is in reality a religion though it is believed by many to be a scientific theory.
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It certainly is the religion of a bunch of folks! With all the zeal and reverence and devotion to dogma that other religions have! It is a scientific theory however. - which does NOT make it a proven fact. It is still, despite all objections - just a theory!

What I find both amusing and disturbing is that it was always clear in the past that a "Theory" was still a theory (as opposed to FACT) More and more I see the definition of the term morphing into suggesting that the term: "Theory" when connected to the term: "Evolution" - is actually a proven fact!

Which proves nothing but that when the Zealots of a particular religion are also the guys controlling the educational system and the flow of information - ideological hegemony and academic fascism are the result.

Here are some snippets from Wikipedia about the term: "Theory".

....There is considerable difference and even dispute across academic disciplines as to the proper usages of the term.

A theory, in the scientific sense of the word, is an analytic structure designed to explain a set of empirical observations. A scientific theory does two things: it identifies this set of distinct observations as a class of phenomena, and makes assertions about the underlying reality that brings about or affects this class.

...Theories are abstract and conceptual, and to this end they are never considered right or wrong. Instead, they are supported or challenged by observations in the world. They are 'rigorously tentative', meaning that they are proposed as true but expected to satisfy careful examination to account for the possibility of faulty inference or incorrect observation.

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Above I Made a part of the paragraph bold - notice what it says - and notice that the "Theory" of evolution - doesn't seem to be held to that standard - in light of the fact of the ludicrous amounts of "missing links" that exist. There should at least be a major footnote in academia that some serious questions in the fossil record remain unanswered by the theory of evolution. - There is not!!!

What we have to understand is that it is important for Christians not to abdicate science just because a large part of the scientific and academic community have taken it hostage.

One of the reasons, I believe, that the lack of "Missing links" is not taken seriously - is that some Christians who couldn't deal with the guys digging up the dinosaur fossils ceded the moral high ground of the importance of the fossil record and minimized it because they were concerned that it might pose an insurmountable challenge. - When it is actually the fossil record that gives us the greatest bully club to beat the evolutionist senseless (well, you gotta have sense first)! And the sensational "discoveries" have gone a long way to making evolutionary theory a defacto fact - if not really a factual fact!

Now it's hard to go back and reclaim that lost ground because much of this is really a cultural war and a political fight - rather than truly stemming from science! In other words: "A whole lotta people WANT to believe in evolution. Why... ...because our society is increasingly morally corrupt - how'd that happen? Well, partially because they were told by the "experts" that there was no God, we came from the Ooze and so you might as well "GET IT" while you can!

So was it the immorality and amorality of the "experts" that corrupted society - or was it the corruptions that influenced the "experts"? Which brings us back to THE original question: "Which came first - the chicken or the egg?"

All that said...

The movie: Expelled" was an absolute triumph!!!

For anyone who doesn't think that the scientific and academic communities have been compromised by those who "worship" evolution - I highly recommend that you watch it!
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Just throwing in my .02 here, but I see Evolution more as a doctrine of Humanism.
(For anyone not familiar with Humanism you can get a pretty good summary here:
Humanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )
While most of those subscribing to this philosophy don't really label themselves as such (probably many aren't even aware of the term) - people subscribing to this type of belief to some extent are the majority of our society.

The lure of Humanism is that if you take God out of the picture, Humanity can be the supreme being. People want to believe that they are in charge of their own destiny, that they deserve praise for anything good that happens, and that they have to submit to no one. People also want to be free to "re-write" right and wrong for anything they like if they can just present a convincing argument. They just love the thought of being able to label anything once considered basic morality as "archaic" and "not applicable in today's society because we are now smarter than we used to be".

In order for the philosophy of Humanism to work - there can be no God. They can ignore the Bible declaring it a bunch of Fairy Tales designed to control the uneducated masses, they can write off Christianity as a bunch of kooks - but there is just no way around the creation. The creation is the visible, tangible evidence of a Supreme Being. Until they can explain away the creation - they cannot deny the existence of God. Thus comes this notion of evolution. Many people think that we "discovered" evolution and that is what led to the falling away from the belief in God -but it is actually the other way around. An intense desire to attempt to show that God did not exist led certain highly educated individuals off in search of another explanation of the creation. Evolution is filled with holes - but people believe what they want to believe. They do not want to believe in God - so they are willing to accept any explanation for the creation because as long as they can avoid the creation - they can deny God.Once they can deny God, they are free to elevate themselves to the final authority.
 
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