This video plainly explains how Greek Mythology and Philosophy infiltrated the pure worship of Christianity early on in its beginnings...
In 1870, Charles Taze Russell and others formed a group in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to study the Bible.[23] During the course of his ministry, Russell disputed many beliefs of mainstream Christianity including immortality of the soul, hellfire, predestination, the fleshly return of Jesus Christ, the Trinity, and the burning up of the world
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah's_WitnessesIn 1876, Russell met Nelson H. Barbour; later that year they jointly produced the book Three Worlds, which combined restitutionist views with end time prophecy.
The book taught that God's dealings with humanity were divided dispensationally, each ending with a "harvest," that Christ had returned as an invisible spirit being in 1874 inaugurating the "harvest of the Gospel age," and that 1914 would mark the end of a 2520-year period called "the Gentile Times,"[25] at which time world society would be replaced by the full establishment of God's kingdom on earth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah's_WitnessesSignificant changes in doctrine and administration were regularly introduced during Rutherford's twenty-five years as president, including the 1920 announcement that the Hebrew patriarchs (such as Abraham and Isaac) would be resurrected in 1925, marking the beginning of Christ's thousand-year earthly Kingdom.
And we wonder why this country has a separation of church and state...
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Show me where I stated I want an eternal future.
How'd you like finding out the founding fathers attended church services in numerous government buildings for decades after the Constitution was adopted? Some separation of church and state!
How'd you like those apples? :lamo:
In the U.S ,Muslims,Hindus,Taoists,agnostics,atheists,Buddhists,Judaism, all other religions have the very same rights as Christianity. How do you like those apples?
John 14:6 tells the story about those others.
NOPE.. That biblical verse is irrelevant to the fact I posted about religious rights in the U.S. Are you saying all religions don't have equal rights per U.S. law ?...YES or NO plz.
Did you kick Jesus Christ to the curb? Why don't you answer the question from earlier?
I'll be happy to answer your question after you answer mine about equal religious rights in the U.S., . Reason? you have shown time and time again you opt to deflect as opposed to honestly debating a topic.
Go play your stupid, juvenile games with somebody else.
How'd you like finding out the founding fathers attended church services in numerous government buildings for decades after the Constitution was adopted? Some separation of church and state!
How'd you like those apples? :lamo:
Show me God, Jesus and the Ten Commandments in the US Constitution.
Jesus (who is God) is there. You didn't know that either did you?
I said - "show me" -
If trying to serve God as closely in the same way as Jesus taught the 1st century Christians to do, then so be it...
Well the Bible was put together 300 years after Christ died by the Nicene council. Out of thousands of books only the four Gospels were chosen. So if you follow the Bible and nothing else you are trying to serve as closely to the same way the Nicene council decided, 3 centuries after the death of Christ.
He can't. It isn't there.
I said - "show me" -
He can't. It isn't there.
They left out one of the best bits, the Infancy Gospels. The young young Jesus fighting dragons and so forth.
There were gospels that said that?
And, lo, suddenly there came forth from the cave many dragons; and
when the children saw them, they cried out in great terror. Then Jesus
went down from the bosom of His mother, and stood on His feet before
the dragons; and they adored Jesus, and thereafter retired.
But the Lamb of God’s powers do not remain dormant for long. In one book, Jesus is described as playing by a stream with some other children. While the other children are probably just splashing around, Jesus is digging pools of water next to the bank, in which he forms statues of birds out of the muddy clay. Being a miracle-worker, he then turns the bird-statues into real, living birds, which then fly away. Observing this, a child comes by and proceeds to splash the water in the pools with a stick. Jesus does not take kindly to his playmate’s antics, and uses his spell-casting powers to wreak vengeance on him:
“O evil, ungodly, and foolish one, what hurt did the pools and the
waters do thee? Behold, now also thou shalt be withered like a tree,
and shalt not bear leaves, neither root, nor fruit.” And straightway that
lad withered up wholly.
And no matter the creature, whether great or small, Jesus is not necessarily compelled by any
nagging conscience to acknowledge an act of contrition; indeed, like his Old Testament father, Yahweh, he much prefers a merciless display of wrath to keep his loyal subjects in line. Apparently, the children of Nazareth feared him so much that some of them became his sycophants, guarding him and forcing others to pay their respects to him. In one case, a group of men carrying a small child through town refuse to follow the terrified children to visit the Christ-child. When Jesus asks the men why they refuse, they say that they urgently seek a cure for the child, who has been bitten by a poisonous snake. Even after the snake shows penitence for its crime, Jesus deals with it as a true son of Yahweh would:
Then the Lord Jesus calling the serpent, it presently came forth and submitted to him; to whom he said, “Go and suck out all the poison which thou hast infused into that boy”; so the serpent crept to the boy, and took away all its poison again. Then the Lord Jesus cursed the serpent so that it immediately burst asunder, and died.
https://www.themonastery.org/blog/2011/01/jesus-the-child-killing-dragon-tamer/
They are just as believable as the other gospels.
Don't you guys EVER do your due-diligence before you yap?
Section 4, Article VII
"DONE in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven."
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It's a closing note from the Article itself, followed by the signatures. God or Jesus is not in any a part of the laws and rights covered by the constitution.
So, sorry dude, but you fail miserably again.
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