"James" <bireda@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> >HAVE7@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>Re: Are sunday churches cults?
>
>>How can we know for sure what church is a cult?
>>have7
>
> Hello,
>
> The Bible tells us how. Just follow the example of the ancient Bereans
> that is recorded in the Bible for our benefit. Ac 17:11,
>
> "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians,
> for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the
> Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." (NIV)
>
> Notice here that God wants us to look up in the "Scriptures" any
> religious teachings being told to us, to see if they are really "true"
> or not.
>
> For example, many churches today, and in the past, sup****t the
> politicians call to wars. They willingly permit and/or encourage their
> flocks to participate in wars. Yet Jesus told his true servants how to
> treat their enemies. Mt 5:44,
>
> "But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute
> you," (NASB)
>
> Thus if a person's church tells them God approves of them to go to war
> and pick up war weapons to kill their enemies, according to Ac 17:11
> just compare their words to what the "Scriptures" tell us, such as Mt
> 5:44. Then you will see if their words are lies and not the truth. If
> they are lies, then you would be in that "cult" you mentioned above,
> and not the true "one faith" religion that the Bible talks about. (see
> Eph 4:5)
>
> I hope this has helped you.
The very foundation of Christian and Hebrew religions is the Bibles. They
totally base their faith on the Bibles.
The Bibles are nothing more than books of myths, fables, contradictions,
human and animal sacrifices, genocide, slaveholding, misogyny,
destruction,
barbarisms, and impossible tales. They are not accurate history and
certainly are not the words of any god unless he is an insane and totally
untrustworthy monster. They are not even good fiction.
The average person today does not appreciate the difficulty and
unlikelihood
of producing accurate transmissions of the original Bibles. Firstly there
are NO ORIGINALS in existence. They are all copies of copies of unknown
accuracy.
One of the problems with the accuracy of the Bibles is that when they were
first copied, no marks of punctuation were used, no distinction was made
between lower case and upper case letters and more bizarre to modern
script,
no spaces were used to separate words.
This kind of continuous writing was called "scriptuo continua".
'godisnowhere' could mean 'god is now here' or quit the opposite, 'god is
no
where' depending on the spacing which was not used at the time. This left
accurate interpretation very unlikely if not impossible.
Add to this the natural occurrence of errors of transmission and the
intentional modification to suite the transcribers wishes and beliefs and
you have do***ents of highly questionable meaning and very atrocious
accuracy.
Further compounding the problem was the size and accuracy of the
vocabularies were much more limited than today. And they were written
before
the modern dictionaries so there was room for much conflict between the
meaning of words.
The Bibles are a foundation of quicksand. There are NO ORIGINALS in
existence. Why would not any 'real' God protect the originals??? What are
available are altered copies of copies by unknown men of questionable
veracity. The books of the Bibles were written over 1,000 years before the
invention of the printing press. Even the so called originals were
supposedly written by 50 or more different authors of unknown veracity.
They
are biased by, and dependent on the writings and opinions of the clergy.
And
the status and survival of the clergy is totally dependent on their
follower's
belief in their Bible stories. There are 18 different English versions
alone
and there is no way of knowing how far they have wondered from the
originals.
And there is no evidence that even the originals are anything more than
inaccurate fiction.
Basing ones life and faith on these do***ents is basing ones life on
trash.
It is the equivalent of depending on the good luck of a rabbit's foot.
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