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frank Inactive Member |
I think the Protestant Reformation started with Martin Luther. Henry split off a little later for the divorce (or lack of) reasoning.
Clear Skies ! Frank
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Mike Holland Member (Idle past 511 days) Posts: 179 From: Sydney, NSW,Auistralia Joined: |
Amazing! We not only have evolution of religions, we even have punctuated equilibria!
Mike Holland
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nos482 Inactive Member |
quote: Hardly. Christianity "borrowed" much of its doctrine, rites, and rituals from older belief systems. Very little of it is original. As for Judaism they got much of their beliefs from the Babylonians during their time as their slaves. Christianity isn't even really mono-theistic. It has a head god, his son, and demi-gods (Angels), a god of the underworld, etc. Lastly, the bible uses the same sources as the Torah(etc), and the Qu'ran and puts its own "spin" on them. [This message has been edited by nos482, 09-11-2002]
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RedVento Inactive Member |
and don't forget the holy spirit..
The trinity makes for a lovely monothiestic religion...
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nos482 Inactive Member |
quote: It is also nonsensical as well.
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Quetzal Member (Idle past 5900 days) Posts: 3228 Joined: |
Yep. It's called syncretization. The Catholic church is famous for it. Examples in the past include coopting pagan rituals (samhain, for one obvious - Happy Midwinter Festival/Sun rebirth; err, I mean, Merry Christmas). It's still going on today. Look up the on-going canonization of Juan Diego (of the "Virgin of Guadalupe" fame - a folkloric cooption). Other religions do the same (albeit not as consistently - Islam, for one.) Anyway, it's a great way of gaining converts - just add-on what the peones are doing, claim it's your idea, and voila, removal of all pre-existing barriers to conversion.
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Wordswordsman Inactive Member |
In the sense of the literal meaning of "the Church catholic" (ecclesia of Christ universal) as presented in Scriptures of the Bible, few Christian sects are a spin-off of the original first-century Church. You will be unable to show they all arose from the 'germ' of the RCC. We can only say the 'Protestant' churches (EOC, Methodist, Presbyterian, etc) were spin-offs of what is now known as the RCC, some thinking to revive and preserve the original beliefs with more-or-less accuracy. The present RCC is not representative of the nature of the first century Church, having constantly added elements with the continued self-claimed authority of canonization of scriptures not held holy before the spin-offs began. An example of that statement is their acceptance of the Apocrapha, which books were written hundreds of years after Christ, during which time Muhammad wrote the Quran with all its similar inaccuracies of history and contradictions against the Bible.
Many so-called "Christian" sects are almost entirely based on obvious heresies arising from poor Bible exegesis, or beliefs apart from the Bible, such as Mormonism, based on supposed texts found in N. America claiming Jesus visited the area and began a new concept of the religion. Christian fellowships such as Baptist and Pentecostal, though diverse in some doctrines, both resulted from simple adherence to literal interpretations of Bible doctrines, not basing their beliefs on the Roman doctrines, though they independently adopted many common doctrines. Try obtaining a copy of "Trail of Blood" explaining how there always were groups of Believers from the beginning (Crucifixion of Christ onward) that resisted the waywardness of organized religion which tends to institutionalize simple belief into parcels of "men's traditions". There was much protest against the emerging Roman version long before there was a Pope in Rome.
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Wordswordsman Inactive Member |
Jesus "birthed" (began on earth what was out of Heaven) what was later called "Christianity" after people began calling followers of Christ's teachings "Christians" at Antioch.
Because his disciples were unable to absorb and comprehend all Jesus had to teach, He sent back the Holy Spirit, who inspired those same disciples to say and write the many other things Jesus said would come later. The synoptic gospels (first 4 NT Books) recorded the actual contributions of Christ, his words and ministries. Paul (in his epistles) was the primary definer of Christian doctrine, independently harmonized with the writings of the other apostles. That Paul was converted then immediately separated from other Christians, having no contact with the apostles or their writings, yet coming out of his wilderness seclusion with doctrines not at all discordant with those of the original remaining 11 apostles, is very strong evidence of the inspired nature of his teachings. Paul was at least as equally inspired of the Spirit as Peter or John, as though Paul walked with Jesus a devoted disciple, not the avowed enemy of the sect of Christ, which he was many years until his conversion on the Damascus road. The seed of truth as taught by Christ is present in and the basis of all the doctrines of all the apostles. Those men simply added to what Christ delivered, carrying out the command of Christ to do so by the power of the Spirit sent to them at the Day of Pentecost.
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nos482 Inactive Member |
quote: Spending too much time alone in the woods? You know, there are other books you can get to bring with you instead of the bible to read.
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gene90 Member (Idle past 3851 days) Posts: 1610 Joined: |
[QUOTE][B]Spending too much time alone in the woods? You know, there are other books you can get to bring with you instead of the bible to read.[/QUOTE]
[/B] Another fine, logic-filled post from Nos. Isn't that called "Trolling"?
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nos482 Inactive Member |
Originally posted by gene90:
Another fine, logic-filled post from Nos. Isn't that called "Trolling"? Non sequitur. As Mr. Spock said in the first movie, "Logic is not enough..."
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gene90 Member (Idle past 3851 days) Posts: 1610 Joined: |
[QUOTE][B]Non sequitur(sic). As Mr. Spock said in the first movie, "Logic is not enough..."[/QUOTE]
[/B] What else, from a philosophical perspective, do you need?
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Philip Member (Idle past 4751 days) Posts: 656 From: Albertville, AL, USA Joined: |
[QUOTE]Originally posted by countryLover198:
[B]...someone like Jesus could create a new religion like christianity?? B][/QUOTE] Or is it possible that someone like a Redeemer-God (Christ) invoked Christianity for many of us bigotted wretches striving to lay hold on the hope set before us, and/or perverted and denied (to varying extents). For we clearly witness redemptive observations (empirical and metaphysical) that clearly manifest a Redeemer-ID (or Christ). It's only a denialist or argumentative theology (e.g., some Muslims, Voodoos, etc.) who fail to connect these redemptive and/or redeeming attributes in nature & men ... to the Cursed-Redeemer-God/Christ-crucified-buried-risen-ascended-with-all-redeeming-power
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Me Inactive Member |
quote: At least one A Priori object and an Intention!
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nos482 Inactive Member |
Originally posted by gene90:
What else, from a philosophical perspective, do you need? And here lays your problem. You can't see any further than this. You're stuck at the start.
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