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One concept which stops many at EvC in their tracks from accepting GOD as real is the lack of evidence for a Creator and/or Jesus Christ:Alive Today.
But the Bible says the fruits will be the evidence of the Holy Spirit.
It seems that all the peaceful, pacifist, tolerant versions of Christianity died out. Where is the spirit today?
He is one example of a religion, that had it survived, could very well be seen as evidence "of the spirit"
This version of Christianity (which is fairly well related to the early Jewish Christians of James in Jerusalem).
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In 228, in what is now Iraq, a boy of 12 had a vision. He saw the world divided into a great battle of good and evil, the sons of light caught within the flesh o f a wicked earth. The vision came to him again when he was 24 and he began preaching the word of his new faith. The boy was called Mani,
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From its origins in the Middle East, Manichaeism reached out to the rest of the world.
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They reached the furthest corners of the earth; Christian monks were praying in the high places of Tibet as early as the sixth century, where in future years local believers would carve crosses into rocks and write divinations to the god called Jesus Messiah. In Europe, Manichaeism was soon stamped out by a dominant Christianity,
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In Asia, however, the followers of Mani competed in a much more diverse and competitive spiritual marketplace. Manichaeism’s great coup in Asia was the conversion of the Uyghur Khanate, a massive Turkic Central Asian power that spanned from the Caspian Sea to Mongolia. Tengri Bogu, the Uyghur Khan, was converted by Iranian Manichean preachers and declared it the official religion of his empire in 762. The official memorial of his conversion praises the religion for turning the Uyghur from blood sacrifices to a region of vegetarians, from a state which indulged in excessive killing to a nation that exhorts righteousness.
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Manicheans were a remnant of the Jerusalem church of James.
James has been blotted out for sure by Catholics and their hundreds of millions of "Protestant" imitators. Some leading scholars have noticed this overly obvious fact.
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The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family, and the ...
By James D. Tabor
PREFACE
pp. 4-5
Shortly before he died, Jesus set up a provisional government with twelve regional officials, one over each of the twelve tribes or districts of Israel, and he left his brother James at the head of this fledgling government. James became the uncontested leader of the early Christian movement. This significant fact of history has been largely forgotten, or as likely, hidden. Properly understood,it changes everything we thought we knew about Jesus we though we knew about Jesus, his mission, and his message. Everyone has heard of Peter, Paul, and John - but the pivotal place of James, the beloved disciple and younger brother of Jesus, has been effectively blotted out from Christian memory.
Christianity today just isn't the same religion as the 1st century founders.
Why is James blotted out anyway?
It is simply because he held views on war, peace, meat, violence, nationalism, etc. that modern day Christians consider repugnant.
If the Spirit was real, then that wouldn't be the case.
You would at least have small pockets or a remnant (anyway).
None exist from what I have seen.
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