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Re: The Mainstream Christian Idea of "The Second Coming of Christ" [Re: dr_gonz]
#12958139 - 07/26/10 08:33 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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most christians don't even really know what Christ is, I feel like.
They know who Jesus is, but have no idea of christ consciousness.
Therefor, they don't understand that the second coming could be in an infinity of forms, and whatever christ was referring to could have already happened for all I know.
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Re: The Mainstream Christian Idea of "The Second Coming of Christ" [Re: g00ru]
#12958526 - 07/26/10 09:29 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yep mainstream Christians do in fact believe that. And when they talk about the Kingdom of Heaven, most people believe it to be the future Heaven, which will come to earth after the second coming and Jesus will be the King and rule from the new temple.
The problem is most Christians seem to have only half the truth. They believe that saying a couple sentences gives them eternal life. And while I'm not the position to say whether they have that or not, I think most people can agree that a lot of Christians act unlike Christ. They believe they have been forgiven but don't believe that the "I" that seeks pride, strife, lust, and all things that create separatnesss was put to death with Christ on the cross. To me that is the Kingdom of Heaven.
There are plenty of Christians who do believe in "Christ consciousness" but wouldn't call it that, they would say thats a new age term. Christ didn't see equality with God something to be grasped, which is what seeking "Christ consciousness" seems to be, grasping at God. When your searching for enlightenment you can always have just a little bit more, like chasing the horizon. Isn't Zen essentially finding out that you were already enlightened and it's just you who thinks you aren't? From my own experiences (not with Zen) it doesn't come if you desire it. That's probably the thing I wrestle with the most. Wanting some sort of experience because everything is so easy and understandable then, but then it becomes about me.
I was reading a book by the pastor of that church in south Korea with 830,000 members and he was saying the reason in the west for so many people's interest in Zen and eastern mysticism is the Church has failed at showing people that there's any spiritual life in Christianity. I think that's pretty accurate especially when looking at the Catholic and more orthodox churches.
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Re: The Mainstream Christian Idea of "The Second Coming of Christ" [Re: dr_gonz]
#12960278 - 07/27/10 07:20 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yes, and so do Muslims. Protestants believe a lot of things, but the traditional Catholic belief is that this world will be transformed into a new earth, and everyone will be physically resurrected from the dead in order to be judged.
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Re: The Mainstream Christian Idea of "The Second Coming of Christ" [Re: blewmeanie]
#12960495 - 07/27/10 08:58 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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well, the sun comes back to its initial height in the sky after the winter solstice every year so...yea, tho it's funny that so few people realize they're part of a solar/saturnal cult that condemns astrology and idolatry lol. If you wanna know the message of christ just look up at the brightest fucking thing out there during the day-the sun. It is burning, loving, nourishing even tho to do so will lead to its eventual death. The sun loves indiscriminately and without question to all that will come out from the darkness and soak in its radiance. It descends into the "dark" by being viewed as lower in the sky while traveling through the dark/feminine signs of the zodiac during the winter but sure enough, it is reborn every year and rises to its glory in the sky. People need more astronomy methinks. Now as far as some kind of worldly event to coincide with those of the sky, which I believe in, we'll have to see, but it's rather silly to limit it to this one bearded white dude that'll be back to judge everyone.
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Re: The Mainstream Christian Idea of "The Second Coming of Christ" [Re: Boozerguyzer]
#12960600 - 07/27/10 09:35 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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There are literally billions of belief systems out there. Early sun worship was based in fear from what I've read and the father of all our religions.
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Re: The Mainstream Christian Idea of "The Second Coming of Christ" [Re: Icelander]
#12962159 - 07/27/10 03:46 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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It is burning, loving, nourishing even tho to do so will lead to its eventual death. The sun loves indiscriminately and without question to all that will come out from the darkness and soak in its radiance.
Except that its radiations can give skin cancer. Loving skin cancer.
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Re: The Mainstream Christian Idea of "The Second Coming of Christ" [Re: MushroomTrip]
#12962349 - 07/27/10 04:23 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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It is burning, loving, nourishing even tho to do so will lead to its eventual death. The sun loves indiscriminately and without question to all that will come out from the darkness and soak in its radiance.
Except that its radiations can give skin cancer. Loving skin cancer. 
BUT....Only to white people without melanin!  Or so the "original black christians/egyptians" say.
They use that cancer theory as to why blacks are the original race, and whites are a mutant/hybrid race between humanoid-aliens/pigs that dont belong on the planet.
Because how can whites really be humans, when they can't even handle the light of God in the sky. lol
I am white, btw.....lol
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Re: The Mainstream Christian Idea of "The Second Coming of Christ" [Re: Holoverse]
#12962417 - 07/27/10 04:32 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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So god is a douche that created white people to give them cancer. Well, if you think about it, that is a very accurate description of the Christian god.
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Re: The Mainstream Christian Idea of "The Second Coming of Christ" [Re: MushroomTrip]
#12962550 - 07/27/10 05:02 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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MushroomTrip said: So god is a douche that created white people to give them cancer. Well, if you think about it, that is a very accurate description of the Christian god. 
Sounds about right. 
Heres a list of some more sick shit YHWH commands of us....
• Slaughter Non-believers (2 Chronicles 15:12-13) (Exodus 22:19 ) (Deuteronomy 13:7-12) • Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God (Deuteronomy 13:13-19) • Death for Fornication (Leviticus 21:9) • Death for Cursing Parents / Being disobendient (Proverbs 20:20) (Deuteronomy 21:18) • Death for Hitting Dad (Exodus 21:15) • Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins On Their Wedding Night (Deuteronomy 22:20-21) • Mass Murder of children, women, babies and animals (Samuel 15:2-3) • Kill People for Working on the Sabbath (Exodus 31:12-15) • Kill Witches (Exodus 22:17) • Kill Homosexuals (Leviticus 20:13) • Kill Fortunetellers (Leviticus 20:27) • Kill People Who Don't Listen to Priests (Deuteronomy 17:12)
Theres no possible way I would EVER worship this sick son of a bitch. I really, really do not understand how Christians talk themselves into this BS.
Christianity is the furthest thing from spirituality there has ever been.
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Re: The Mainstream Christian Idea of "The Second Coming of Christ" [Re: Holoverse]
#12964903 - 07/28/10 12:27 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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lol yea it's pretty fuggin sick...just shows you how any ideology in the wrong hands can become such a nasty force. Take our gods "Capitalism" and "democracy," and look at the shit we justify in their name. People need to learn to think for themselves, methinks. it's ALL idolatry
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Re: The Mainstream Christian Idea of "The Second Coming of Christ" [Re: Holoverse]
#12964936 - 07/28/10 12:37 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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MushroomTrip said: So god is a douche that created white people to give them cancer. Well, if you think about it, that is a very accurate description of the Christian god. 
Sounds about right. 
Heres a list of some more sick shit YHWH commands of us....
• Slaughter Non-believers (2 Chronicles 15:12-13) (Exodus 22:19 ) (Deuteronomy 13:7-12) • Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God (Deuteronomy 13:13-19) • Death for Fornication (Leviticus 21:9) • Death for Cursing Parents / Being disobendient (Proverbs 20:20) (Deuteronomy 21:18) • Death for Hitting Dad (Exodus 21:15) • Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins On Their Wedding Night (Deuteronomy 22:20-21) • Mass Murder of children, women, babies and animals (Samuel 15:2-3) • Kill People for Working on the Sabbath (Exodus 31:12-15) • Kill Witches (Exodus 22:17) • Kill Homosexuals (Leviticus 20:13) • Kill Fortunetellers (Leviticus 20:27) • Kill People Who Don't Listen to Priests (Deuteronomy 17:12)
Theres no possible way I would EVER worship this sick son of a bitch. I really, really do not understand how Christians talk themselves into this BS.
Christianity is the furthest thing from spirituality there has ever been.
Those were all extremely useful beliefs and practices for the time. After all, we're still around as a living culture after how many thousands of years.... Unless I'm mistake it's the oldest tribal culture to be in continual existence in the entire world.
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Re: The Mainstream Christian Idea of "The Second Coming of Christ" [Re: blewmeanie]
#12965094 - 07/28/10 01:29 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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blewmeanie said: Unless I'm mistake it's the oldest tribal culture to be in continual existence in the entire world.
Uh, I think youre mistaken there. What about the Aboriginals of Australia, Peru, Siberia. Im pretty sure there cultures were untouched, for over 20,000 years. Alot longer than Christianity.
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Re: The Mainstream Christian Idea of "The Second Coming of Christ" [Re: Holoverse]
#12965377 - 07/28/10 05:45 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Holoverse said:
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MushroomTrip said: So god is a douche that created white people to give them cancer. Well, if you think about it, that is a very accurate description of the Christian god. 
Sounds about right. 
Heres a list of some more sick shit YHWH commands of us....
• Slaughter Non-believers (2 Chronicles 15:12-13) (Exodus 22:19 ) (Deuteronomy 13:7-12) • Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God (Deuteronomy 13:13-19) • Death for Fornication (Leviticus 21:9) • Death for Cursing Parents / Being disobendient (Proverbs 20:20) (Deuteronomy 21:18) • Death for Hitting Dad (Exodus 21:15) • Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins On Their Wedding Night (Deuteronomy 22:20-21) • Mass Murder of children, women, babies and animals (Samuel 15:2-3) • Kill People for Working on the Sabbath (Exodus 31:12-15) • Kill Witches (Exodus 22:17) • Kill Homosexuals (Leviticus 20:13) • Kill Fortunetellers (Leviticus 20:27) • Kill People Who Don't Listen to Priests (Deuteronomy 17:12)
There's no possible way I would EVER worship this sick son of a bitch. I really, really do not understand how Christians talk themselves into this BS.
Christianity is the furthest thing from spirituality there has ever been.
All ur quotes are from the Jewish Torah, the old Testament. Christ came to make a change exactly with (most of) these statements. That's the New Law, the New Testament, what differs Christs from Jews. The Jews still wait for the ('second coming') of the(ir) messiahs.
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their mess(iahs).
Fixed.
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Re: The Mainstream Christian Idea of "The Second Coming of Christ" [Re: Holoverse]
#12965501 - 07/28/10 07:08 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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blewmeanie said: Unless I'm mistake it's the oldest tribal culture to be in continual existence in the entire world.
Uh, I think youre mistaken there. What about the Aboriginals of Australia, Peru, Siberia. Im pretty sure there cultures were untouched, for over 20,000 years. Alot longer than Christianity.
Their cultures aren't still in tact...and who said anything about christianity?
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Re: The Mainstream Christian Idea of "The Second Coming of Christ" [Re: BlueCoyote]
#12965835 - 07/28/10 09:21 AM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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MushroomTrip said: So god is a douche that created white people to give them cancer. Well, if you think about it, that is a very accurate description of the Christian god. 
Sounds about right. 
Heres a list of some more sick shit YHWH commands of us....
• Slaughter Non-believers (2 Chronicles 15:12-13) (Exodus 22:19 ) (Deuteronomy 13:7-12) • Kill the Entire Town if One Person Worships Another God (Deuteronomy 13:13-19) • Death for Fornication (Leviticus 21:9) • Death for Cursing Parents / Being disobendient (Proverbs 20:20) (Deuteronomy 21:18) • Death for Hitting Dad (Exodus 21:15) • Kill Women Who Are Not Virgins On Their Wedding Night (Deuteronomy 22:20-21) • Mass Murder of children, women, babies and animals (Samuel 15:2-3) • Kill People for Working on the Sabbath (Exodus 31:12-15) • Kill Witches (Exodus 22:17) • Kill Homosexuals (Leviticus 20:13) • Kill Fortunetellers (Leviticus 20:27) • Kill People Who Don't Listen to Priests (Deuteronomy 17:12)
There's no possible way I would EVER worship this sick son of a bitch. I really, really do not understand how Christians talk themselves into this BS.
Christianity is the furthest thing from spirituality there has ever been.
All ur quotes are from the Jewish Torah, the old Testament. Christ came to make a change exactly with (most of) these statements. That's the New Law, the New Testament, what differs Christs from Jews. The Jews still wait for the ('second coming') of the(ir) messiahs.
So.......doesn't change the fact that YHWH is the father God of that book, and all these things, he told us to do.
So youre saying when Christ came, God suddenly became unwrathful and nice??? Uhhh...Revelations???
Sure Christ is nice and he showed us a good way of living, but in the end Christians still believe in the wrath of God, Heaven and Hell as a place, Satan, and the judgement of man in a final hour. A truly enlightened person, can see through all of that.
So even though the New Testament is the new way, YHWH still sounds like a douche in that one too. And yes, I've read the whole bible, so Im not just throwing out wild allegations here. There are a few morsels of spiritual truth in the bible though.
But give me the Tao Te Ching, Gnostic Gospels or Baghavad Gita over that book anyday.
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Re: The Mainstream Christian Idea of "The Second Coming of Christ" [Re: Holoverse]
#12969737 - 07/28/10 11:03 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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if the second coming of Christ was real, then the devil would be real, and i would be able to make a deal with the devil, which i can't...
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Re: The Mainstream Christian Idea of "The Second Coming of Christ" [Re: psilyguy]
#12969895 - 07/28/10 11:45 PM (13 years, 6 months ago) |
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Everyone knows religion is just an accepted form of making a total mockery of yourself.
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