Originally posted by kirkyboy85
Here's one for you...
If humans didn't invent religion, are you claiming that god's and deitys invented these religions themselves for humans to worship them?
Think, with so many different religions, is it not falable that humans invented their own gods and religions as a false belief that their lives will mean something when they are gone and th ...[text shortened]... re.
obviously from my post, it's easy to see that i don't believe in god and have no faith.
I'm not claiming God invented the religion. I'm claiming God showed Himself to Moses roughly 4000 years ago and gave Laws to a mankind that had forgotten Him. He had made a promise with Abraham that the Jews would be His beacon to the world. Proof that He exists. He also promised that the savior of mankind would be born of the Jews. Guess what Jesus Christ was? A Jew. From Him we have Christianity. Why is it that almost every other religion considers Jesus Christ a great prophet? Or one of the greatest teacher ever? While Christianity maintains that every other religion is false? How could an "obscure Jew" who was CRUCIFIED (who wanted a crucified Jew as a hero of their religion???) be the most spoken and adored name in human history? I will need something other than millions of intelligent, rational people--who are willing to die for the God they say they have a personal relationship with--are "making something up to comfort themselves.
Christians claim God exists. By extension, we claim Satan exists. Now, if Satan exists, how do you think he would attempt to damn men's souls? By appearing in front of them and saying "I am Satan, bow to me, fools!" ? Uhh...if he proved he existed, then by extension we know God exists and who would knowingly worship the weaker guy?? No, his method has always been disillusionment and lies. If he cluttered the world with other religions, men would damn themselves. If he made Christians out to look like crazy, intolerant fools, men would damn themselves.
Why do so many people hate Jews? Why? What are they guilty of? Why is anti-Semitism rising steadily every year? Why did Hitler hate them above blacks, or asians? Why do Muslims hate them so much? Why are they unwilling to do anything less than "drive them into the sea"? I am making the claim that this hatred comes directly from Satan himself. It is supernatural hatred from a supernatural being. The Jews remind him of what awaits him at the end of this age. He is damned to the Lake of Fire, and he wants to damn the Jews and other men with him. I suppose in some small part of himself he still holds out hope that he will defeat God--with the coming Antichrist--but he is most assuredly doomed.
Think critically. If Christians merely wanted to "comfort" themselves, why would they impose seemingly harsh rules on themselves? What human would take away rampant sex from themselves for comfort? Why would they even believe in hell if they wanted comfort? Ask a Christian if they relish the thought of ANYONE suffering for eternity. Wouldn't the threat of 10,000 years of punishment have sufficed if they were merely trying to "keep people in check?" Clearly this judgement is coming from a higher power who believes 10,000 years to be too short a time for punishment.
I realize you are simply finishing this post as a formality before you respond to it with insults and smart remarks, but do a double check. Read one of the Gospels with the hypothesis that Jeses loves you more than anyone ever could. Maybe then you'll get insight into His motivation. Pray a simple--10 second--prayer that if God is real, He give you whatever truth He wants you to know while you read. Say if He does, you will follow His son as He wishes.
If you're honestly after the truth--no matter how uncomfortable it makes you--this should be a simple enough thing. But make sure it's sincere. Arrogance doesn't aid in truthfinding.