Say you are taking a walk and you see something shining on the road. You bend down to pick it up and discover that it is a watch, something intricate with a complicated mechanism.
Someone must have made this watch. The watch could not have created itself. Hence there is a creator to this watch. Using that same argument, we could not have created ourselves. Someone or something must have created us. Hence we have a creator and this creator is God.
A Christian soul may say that he could not accept the randomness of existence. He said he found atheism depressing as without God, there is no reason why we’re here on this Earth. Of course, science can only explain the how, but not the why.
For centuries, mankind has struggled to explain the purpose of our existence. But we cannot answer that question by inventing God just to resolve our existential angst. That is putting the cart before the horse.
We like to feel special, like we are different from the other seven billion people on this earth. It’s comforting to believe in a God who knows us personally to the extent that every hair on our head is counted (Luke 12:7). However, all the belief in the world cannot make God real.
Between The Holy Ghost or Spirit & The Soul that exists within us... Soulmate???
Christians believe in the Trinity of The Father, The Son and The Holy Spirit but not the trinity of God, Mary and Son. So when the Quran directed its condemnation of the trinity of God, Mary and the Son, it obviously was not referring to the Christians.
So who did the Quran refer to when it condemned such a trinity of God, Mary and Son? Before the dawn of Islam, a heretical doctrine appeared in the fifth century AD. The adherents of this doctrine were heathens who embraced Christianity. As pagans they worshipped the planet Venus and said that it was “the queen of heaven.”After embracing Christianity they tried to associate what they had worshipped with Christian doctrine. They considered Mary as “queen of heaven” or “goddess of heaven” instead of Venus.
Consequently, they called themselves Mariamists. They were also known as the Collyridians (as they were also known as the cake-eater sect). They were mainly women.These women would adorn a chair or a square throne and spread a linen cloth over it for their ritual, and they would offer up a sacrifice of bread rolls in the name of the Ever-Virgin Mary, and all partake of this bread. They came to believe that there are three gods: God, Mary, and Christ.
This sect also believed that God took Mary to be his wife, had sexual relations in order to have Jesus their Son (God forbid such horrendous blasphemy!).The Christian Church fought against this heresy as soon as it appeared, opposed their teaching, and deprived them of the communion of faith and excommunicated all their followers. The Church confirmed its most holy belief that the blessed Mary is a human being and not a goddess.
“Then Allah will say, ‘Jesus, son of Mary, did you ever say to mankind, ‘Worship me and my mother as gods beside Allah?” (Sura 5:116)
“Lord, creator of the heavens and the earth, how does he have a son when he did not have a wife?!” (Sura 6:101)
This verse objects to the Mariamist teaching that Mary is a goddess that she became God’s wife, and that through her God had a son.“God is one. God the eternal, He did not give birth nor was He born, nor has He equal.” (Sura 112:1-4)This is the answer to the Mariamist doctrine which purported, “There are three gods – the Father, the mother and the son, and that this son came by procreation.” “Unbelievers are those that say, ‘Allah is one of three.’ There is but one God.” (Sura 5:73) This confirms what was said and denies what Mariamists purport – the existence of three gods!
To Believe in the Invisible Beings!!!!
1 + 1 = 3 (God, Adam & Eve) or 1 + 1 = 2 (Adam & Steve) ???
God created Adam & Eve, Man create Adam & Steve... A learned Adam create Adam & Bots for it's a sin to defy god ever since Eve deceive Adam but with imagination there are Adam with Anime... Is it all a sin??? #sin
CHAPTER THREE I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT
1020 The Christian who unites his own death to that of Jesus views it as a step towards him and an entrance into everlasting life. When the Church for the last time speaks Christ's words of pardon and absolution over the dying Christian, seals him for the last time with a strengthening anointing, and gives him Christ in viaticum as nourishment for the journey, she speaks with gentle assurance:
Go forth, Christian soul, from this world in the name of God the almighty Father, who created you, in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God, who suffered for you, in the name of the Holy Spirit, who was poured out upon you. Go forth, faithful Christian!
May you live in peace this day, may your home be with God in Zion, with Mary, the virgin Mother of God, with Joseph, and all the angels and saints. . . .
May you return to [your Creator] who formed you from the dust of the earth. May holy Mary, the angels, and all the saints come to meet you as you go forth from this life. . . . May you see your Redeemer face to face.
"AMEN"
1061 The Creed, like the last book of the Bible,644 ends with the Hebrew word amen. This word frequently concludes prayers in the New Testament. The Church likewise ends her prayers with "Amen."
1062 In Hebrew, amen comes from the same root as the word "believe." This root expresses solidity, trustworthiness, faithfulness. And so we can understand why "Amen" may express both God's faithfulness towards us and our trust in him.
1063 In the book of the prophet Isaiah, we find the expression "God of truth" (literally "God of the Amen"), that is, the God who is faithful to his promises: "He who blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of truth [amen]."645 Our Lord often used the word "Amen," sometimes repeated,646 to emphasize the trustworthiness of his teaching, his authority founded on God's truth.
1064 Thus the Creed's final "Amen" repeats and confirms its first words: "I believe." To believe is to say "Amen" to God's words, promises and commandments; to entrust oneself completely to him who is the "Amen" of infinite love and perfect faithfulness. The Christian's everyday life will then be the "Amen" to the "I believe" of our baptismal profession of faith:
May your Creed be for you as a mirror. Look at yourself in it, to see if you believe everything you say you believe. And rejoice in your faith each day.647
1065 Jesus Christ himself is the "Amen."648 He is the definitive "Amen" of the Father's love for us. He takes up and completes our "Amen" to the Father: "For all the promises of God find their Yes in him. That is why we utter the Amen through him, to the glory of God":649
Through him, with him, in him, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, all glory and honor is yours, almighty Father, God, for ever and ever. AMEN.
Once You Believed In the Amen of GOD...
Ephesians 5:25-26 that says husbands are to love their wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, in response to a preceding verse that orders wives to submit to their husbands as they do to God.
The order to be submissive does not make women inferior to men, they argue. After all, the bible is telling men to sacrifice themselves for their wives.
Women to be Submissive whereby Men to Sacrifice everything... Including Wealth?? Including Life???
So as to Die Tomorrow...
If I die tomorrow
As the minutes fade away
I can't remember
Have I said all I can say?
You're my everything You make me feel so alive If I die tomorrow...
EQUALITY AS OPPOSED TO LOVING THE MASTER!!
The bible tells a man to love his wife, while the wife is to respect her husband (Ephesians 5:33). This reflects a relationship with unequal power dynamics, akin to a parent-child or a boss-subordinate relationship. The woman is not of equal status with her husband; she is meant to “respect” or obey his authority. This notion can be easily misused in abusive relationships, in which the man claims that he is beating his wife out of love to “teach” her.
Eve bit the apple and the world's been in trouble ever since. At least that's how one of the core myths of Judeo-Christian religion has been interpreted.
Not surprisingly that view has been heavily criticised by feminist theologians.
'I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men; she is to keep silent' I Timothy 2:12.
Blaming women for all the world's problems is an age-old practice. Feminist historians have uncovered horrendous stories of the persecution of women at the hands of the established order. As many as nine million women are estimated to have died in the witch-hunts between the 14th and 17th centuries. But only in the past 25 years have women begun to reveal their anger, hurt and sense of betrayal. The pain has prompted stiff criticisms of male bias in religious practice, language and thought.
Women's private lives, too, continue to be scarred deeply by religious teachings. At a recent Canadian meeting on wife abuse a woman from the audience singled out the clergywoman on the panel.
'How many times,' the woman pleaded, 'How many times must I forgive my husband for breaking my bones and battering my body? The priest, the church, the Bible - they all tell me I have to forgive 70 times seven. My friends tell me I'm stupid for going back to him. What does it mean wives submit to your husbands?"
Bed of nails I'll drive you like a hammer on a bed of nail Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow Gonna drive you like a hammer Gonna put in my slammer Oh yeah!
In The Beginning!!!! (Father Son Talk)
Son: The teacher said the world was created in six days. Dad: That’s right.
Son: The teacher told us, “And God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.”
Dad: Wow! You can remember all that? Even I can’t remember it.
Son: I know. Mum said you are not a good Christian.
Dad: Mum told you that? Oh, never mind, so what do you want to ask?
Son: Ohhh,,, God created creatures, the Angels, animals the Jinns both male & females?
Dad: Yup... Only the Angels without sexes.
Son: Ohh, likewise Adam? without sexes? God created Adam before Eve?
Dad: Precisely Son...
Son: So is Adam the Mother of Eve?
Dad: Nope Eve is Adam's soulmate... A creation from Adam's rib...
Son: You mean Adam's womb? So as to be Woman???
Dad: Woman, the womb of Man it is Son... Indeed truly precise...
Son: So Adam the mother of Eve is also considered a soulmate or partner of Adam for multiplication purposes?
Dad: Indeed it is Son,,, For only in a Woman - Womb Man will there be Life...
Son: IC.. Adam defy God over his partner it seems... OK Dad, I see it clearly now... Also Dad, the teacher said that the sun was created on the fourth day.
Dad: Well if the teacher says so then it must be true son.
Son: But day and night were created on the first day and plants and trees were created on the third day.
Dad: Is that what your teacher told you?
Son: Yes.
Dad: So it must be true then.
Son: But how could you have day and night on the first day and plants and trees on the third day if the sun was created on the fourth day?
Dad: I don’t get you, son.
Son: You need the sun to have day if not it will always be night and you also need the sun for plants and trees to grow. Without the sun there will be no chlorophyll. But the sun was created on the fourth day.
Dad: I don’t know son. God can do anything I suppose.
Son: But there was light on the first day and the sun was created on the fourth day so where did that light come from?
Dad: I don’t know, son. But that is what the Bible says so it must have happened then.
Son: When was the Bible written and who wrote it?
Dad: I don’t know son. Just that someone wrote what happened 6,000 years ago, that’s all.
Son: But paper was invented in China only around 2,000 years ago so how could someone have written the Bible more than 6,000 years ago when there was no paper at that time?
Dad: I did not say the Bible was written 6,000 years ago. It was probably written later.
Son: After the time of Noah and the Great Flood?
Dad: Yes, probably after the time of Noah and the Great Flood.
Son: But everyone died in that Great Flood. Only Noah and his family survived. So is this story from Noah?
Dad: Yes, the story probably came from Noah.
Son: Where did Noah get these stories?
Dad: I don’t know, son. Maybe God told him these stories.
Son: So this means the Bible was written by Noah then?
Dad: Yes, probably it was since he was the only one alive.
Son: 4,000 years ago?
Dad: Yes, 4,000 years ago.
Son: But they did not have paper….
Dad: Yes, I know, you told me, paper was invented only 2,000 years ago.
Son: And what about the dinosaurs?
Dad: What about the dinosaurs?
Son: Dinosaurs lived 65 million years ago but the world was created only 6,000 years ago.
Dad: Look, son, why don’t you run along? Go to the mall or something like that.
Son: Thanks, dad. I asked mum whether I can go to the mall and she said no.
Dad: (Sighs). Okay, tell mum I said you can.
Son: Thanks, dad. Bye!
What If Adam had not eaten the Apple? Will the Future World be Today & Forever???
Our Future Lives Will be Glorious Come with me, Future World!!!
The women's movement made it possible to turn this kind of private pain into an organized, systematic critique of patriarchal religion. Jewish feminists began to examine traditional views that women were unclean during menstruation and that the religious life of Jewish women should be centred in the home. Christian feminists questioned St. Paul's teaching that the wife must be subordinate to her husband, as the church is to Christ.
Today orthodox Jewish women are still excluded from the praying community and seated behind a screen. Roman Catholic and Protestant women who want to serve the bread and wine are asked instead to serve church suppers. Women in every congregation still hear such phrases as 'God our father', 'sons of God', 'men of God', and 'the brotherhood of man.
In this patriarchal theology, writes American feminist Rosemary Ruether: 'The male is taken to be the normative representative of the human species, the norm for imaging God and for defining anthropology, sin, redemption and ministry.' The female, in contrast, is seen as 'subordinate and auxiliary to the male. Women never appear in patriarchal theology as representatives of humanity as such. Their normative position is that of absence and silence. When patriarchal theology mentions women, it does so to reinforce its definition of their "place" in the system.'
Feminist scholars also began to identify the relationship between the sexism women experience at worship and the biblical worldview. The creation story shared by Christians, Moslems and Jews is a cornerstone of the historical bias towards women. According to this Hebrew folk tale, Eve tempted Adam with the forbidden fruit and thus triggered humankind's expulsion from Paradise. The identification of woman with evil, temptation and sin thus became a primary ingredient in Christian tradition.
While man was associated with the spiritual, the reasonable and the godly, woman was linked to flesh, matter and the world. Good and evil were given their clear sexual counterparts. According to this view women actually caused evil to come into the world. As a result they must atone for their collective guilt and redeem themselves.
How? Patriarchal religion says women are redeemed by willingly accepting their gender roles. They should bear children, keep their sexuality under control and be prepared to subordinate themselves to male wishes.
The victimization of women in Christian tradition is a major stumbling block for feminists. Blaming the victim, they argue, is inevitably self-defeating. It allows people to point the finger at individuals rather than at social systems. Sin and evil are thus personalized and defused.
If Adam had not eaten the Apple... Adam would not defy God but to defy his soulmate Eve? If there be will Adam be happily after with Angels surrounding him to be provided for by the creator?
So as to Win Big, Mamma Fallen Angels....
Rosemary Ruether believes feminist theologians must 'unmask' this victim blaming ideology of sin. A patriarchal social system 'legitimizes the dominating power of the male ruling class,' she believes 'and reduces women and servants to subjection ... It both produces and justifies aggressive power over women and other subjugated people and denies a genuine reciprocal humanity'.
Feminist theologians such as Ruether see patriarchal religion as an enormous pyramid of oppressive power male deity over male angels (in classical theology there are no female angels), angels over men, men over women, 'man' over nature.
So in the past decade feminists have challenged assumptions that any form of oppression is 'natural', part of the created order. And such devastating critiques of the Judeo-Christian tradition have led many feminists to leave established churches and synagogues. A 'Goddess' movement has emerged in which women are attempting to reshape ancient worship and celebrate woman's creative power. Spiritual feminism has become an important aspect of the women s movement worldwide.
Still, many feminists choose to remain within organized religions. Those who stay obviously believe the women's movement can change the church.
Christian feminists in particular look at early church history and the life of Jesus for inspiration.
In the community Jesus gathered around him women were treated as equals, playing central roles in the early church.
Holy prejudice Discrimination against women is not confined to Christianity. The major world religions all have some built-in bias - as these few quotations and stories show.
Islam According to the Quran, 'Men are the maintainers (or in charge) of women. So the good women are obedient, guarding in secret that which Allah has guarded. And (as to) those whose part you fear desertion, admonish them and leave them alone in their beds and chastise them. So if they obey you, seek not a way against them.' (Quran 5:34).
Hinduism Many Hindu religious texts describe women as deceitful and sexually provocative by nature. The following quote from the Devi Bhagaveta (1.5.83) is typical. 'A woman is the embodiment of rashness and a mine of vices. she is an obstacle to the path of devotion, a hindrance to emancipation. she is practically a sorceress and represents vile desire.'
Buddhism According to Buddhist tradition, the Buddha's stepmother wished to become a nun. She expressed this wish to the Buddha several times and each time she was refused. Finally, on the advice of one of his disciples, he acquiesced. But even as he did so, the Buddha claimed that establishing a community of nuns would reduce the time in which his teaching (the dharma) would be effective from 1,000 to 500 years.
Judaism One of the morning blessings made by an Orthodox Jewish male: 'Blessed are you Lord our God, King of the Universe, who has not made me a woman.'
If Adam Had not Eaten The Apple? There'll be no competition between the sexes so as to be made equals... And ever since Adam eats the apples, Adam just need to Stand Up & Fight!!! For his place of its origins, in a time before the Fallen. No mater what the fight is for, no mater how long and how the fight is done. Adam will have to keep on fighting even if it means to die in a state of Die Cock Standing... AMEN!!!
Even if we accept the argument that women are treated fairly in the bible, it certainly isn't reflected in society, where right-wing Christians in America oppose abortions, the Obama administration's birth control policy and gay marriage. It's strange to see right-wing Christians attacking same-sex marriage when churches allow divorcees to remarry, even though divorce is frowned upon in the bible.
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres”.