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Originally Posted by IGotTheCottons  LOL! Name ONE prophecy from the Bible that has actually come true. All those pertaining to Christ cannot be verified - as Christ can't even be shown to have historically existed.
And by the way... Get your #'s right... Approx. 33% of the Bible is prophetic in nature, not 25...
And there are MANY that haven't come true as of yet... The one world church, one world government... The attack on Israel (as described in Daniel) by Russia and the surrounding mid-east countries.... Just to name a few  |
Okay I might very well get flamed for this, and I'm the first to say that my knowledge of religion/christianity/the bible isn't as much as others but perhaps less emphasis should be placed on the church and the bible as they are mens constructions, and asuch can be violated and corrupted and more on the following, on the mimicking, of Christ -
as a good person,
In the incarnation, Christ's divine, non-differentiated impartial love acts as the exemplar for human, partial love.
Are there any jewish people here? I read a book called Everyman's Talmud, it goes over the stuff in the Talmud with extracts and suchlike. Anyway theres this one page and its a story that sums up - to me - the entireity of what religion should be.
Simply put (I can't remember exactly how it goes) the story is:
Theres a man who wanted to be taught the faith, but of the teachers he requires them to stand on one foot while he's being taught. The Rabbi cannot do it, until one appears, who, standing on one foot says: 'What is hateful to yourself, do not to your fellow man'
What more to it is there than that?