when keeping it real goes wrong : The jesus edtion!

[supguyex]

for the people who find the people who are up in your face annoying, those are Jehovahs Witness... very very different from Christians.
Also, in my personal opinion, i think that people who oppressed and stuff in the name of a 'higher power' had it all wrong. As a matter of fact, I think that Christians and Catholics have been doing it wrong for a very very long time. Riding on the assumption that the bible is a God given thing, or at least God inspired, people have been misinterpreting things for ages, or using it for their own purpose, but what's not to say that maybe people can still interpret it and get it right? There are so many disagreements within the protestant church alone about different bits of the bible, and how things should be interpreted.
At the end of the day, I largely ignore those bits and just concentrate on the fact that Christianity was never meant to be a religion, but was meant (or at least in my opinion) to be a relationship with Jesus, it's just between you, and him, and no one else.
The ten commandments are guidelines and only a side note of Christianity.
The bible mentions it a small handful of times, and if you think about it, only in passing (for the record, our law system is based largely on the ten commandments). The entire new testament was more concerned about getting to know Jesus and seeing what he was like, not about following rules and regulations. Jesus was the guy who was hanging out with the bums, the hobos, the prostitutes, and cheaters and swindlers; that's largely why the officials didn't like him, he was ACTUALLY 'keeping it real' and met a very very real need of the time.

[hozer]

for the people who find the people who are up in your face annoying, those are Jehovahs Witness... very very different from Christians.
Also, in my personal opinion, i think that people who oppressed and stuff in the name of a 'higher power' had it all wrong. As a matter of fact, I think that Christians and Catholics have been doing it wrong for a very very long time. Riding on the assumption that the bible is a God given thing, or at least God inspired, people have been misinterpreting things for ages, or using it for their own purpose, but what's not to say that maybe people can still interpret it and get it right? There are so many disagreements within the protestant church alone about different bits of the bible, and how things should be interpreted.
At the end of the day, I largely ignore those bits and just concentrate on the fact that Christianity was never meant to be a religion, but was meant (or at least in my opinion) to be a relationship with Jesus, it's just between you, and him, and no one else.
The ten commandments are guidelines and only a side note of Christianity.
The bible mentions it a small handful of times, and if you think about it, only in passing (for the record, our law system is based largely on the ten commandments). The entire new testament was more concerned about getting to know Jesus and seeing what he was like, not about following rules and regulations. Jesus was the guy who was hanging out with the bums, the hobos, the prostitutes, and cheaters and swindlers; that's largely why the officials didn't like him, he was ACTUALLY 'keeping it real' and met a very very real need of the time.

New best friend, glad someone else has it right

Seeing as how I'm ib4 lock lemme set the record straight cause most Christians have got it wrong:\
You don't go to hell for being bad, in fact eternal suffering does not even exist
We don't have rules you have to live by, Jesus got rid of "the law"

And if anyone tells you other wise, please by all means tell them they have it wrong, cause they do.

A lot of people that meet with me often preface our meeting by describing why we wont get along because they don't believe in God. I ask what the kind of God they don't believe in (angry vengeful, rule creating), 99% of the time our conversation ends like so
"Cool, I don't believe in that kind of God either, we'll get along just fine haha"

[collector240sx]

Shadao, you actually have to go before that, in Egypt.

In simple term, religion brought structure, with number there was the creation
of army. At that time the Egyptian were ruled by pharaoh, and this whole
structure was run much has we where, only a couple 100 years ago, by the
queen.

The definition of government can be stated has the act of governing;
exercising authority. Witch is exactly what the pharaoh where doing
quite a long time before the Greek or the roman in my book.

Greek and roman might of perfected it, But like most thing in history,
it all depend on how you look at it.

And supguyex, totally agree with you.

[RABBIT]

gov't evolved from religon? WTF are you talking about?

greek and roman history is something you need to read up on

romans were built upon the greeks and the greeks were built upon their Persian colonial past u can keep going further and further back but all of early human civilization is interconnected and non of it is devoid of some sort of religious understanding.

[QuietChaos]

Dude, give me back those 54 seconds of my life.

[M13]

[youtube]6c2mjq2n3Yg[/youtube]

[Shadao]

romans were built upon the greeks and the greeks were built upon their Persian colonial past u can keep going further and further back but all of early human civilization is interconnected and non of it is devoid of some sort of religious understanding.

which came first the chicken or the egg?

[QuietChaos]

[youtube]6c2mjq2n3Yg[/youtube]

Interesting watch.

[doublejceballos]

We don't have rules you have to live by, Jesus got rid of "the law"
"

He added to the law its true meaning
Read.

[Kras]

[m_melen]

A few million people who have turned their life around does not equal to the oppression of billions throughout history, not to mention the rise and fall of empires, and genocides, mass murders, and old hatreds that have lasted more than a thousand years.
Why does one need to look to a supernatural being, or a set of 'guidelines' to be a good perosn? Why not just have common sense and follow the rules thate HUMANS put in place? Religion is a primitive way of politics and control of the people, this is the 21st century, not the age of the sands.

people will always find reasons to kill each other. lots just use it as the excuse or "reason" for doing it. but it usually just comes down to people being dicks.

plenty of people misuse religion. just like plenty of people misuse booze. doesn't mean it's a bad thing.

[RABBIT]

which came first the chicken or the egg?

chicken obviously , even a creationist or theoretical evolutionist would both agree on that one.

ps.
ya'll be a bunch of white bitches.
thanks for thread jookin

[cyberspyder]

AHHHHH VAGINA

[Terrh]

[R32_TDOT]

nuff said