User talk:ChristTheTruth

I have read and heard individuals who say the historical christ either never existed or his existence was distorted by people who made something more of this man then what he actually was.

Lets take a small argument and expand on it. During the days that this christ lived it was considered blasphmy (Mark 14:62-64) to claim to the son of a living god. In Judisim or the monothestic era of Jewish life claiming to be god by a man in itself can lead to violence including being put to death whether it be done individually or systematically by a group. The Jews till that point chose to only understand the notion of one god in heaven although in the first book of genesis 1:26 the supposed creator says "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness" ( Holy Bible: From the Ancient Eastern Text, translated from Aramiac by George Lamsa & The University Of Chicago). Regardless of the Old Testament being proof of a pluralistic god is irrelevant. The bigger picture remains which is blasphemy is a very serious charge with dire results if raised.

Another group referred to in the bible are the ninevites another semetic group in what is now Iraq, Syria and Iran whose paganistic identity would not allow obedience to the monothestic god or pluralistic of the jews. During the height of their empire the ninevites aka the assyrians worshipped many gods (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/sargon/peoplegodsplaces/) and but not the god of the jews. But why did these people as mentioned in the book of jonah suddenly change this? Were these assyrians not the same assyrians that as referred to in history seperate the 10 tribels of israel and the 2 tribes of judea (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/Kingdoms1.html) and were these assyrians not the same people who forced taxation upon the jews and for those who did not adhere to their way were punished swiftly? So how does the conqurer become the conqured to the words of this "jonah" who hated the assyrians with his heart or even this "christ" who is also believed to be a jew? http://www.oikoumene.org/member-churches/regions/north-america/united-states-of-america/holy-apostolic-catholic-assyrian-church-of-the-east.html

Last we have the Romans and the greeks(http://www.desy.de/gna/interpedia/greek_myth/olympian.html) themselves who like the assyrians worshipped many gods. PBS a non-religious organization has a series "from christ to god" the chronicles the historical evidence showing the treatment of christians ( http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/why/martyrs.html) by the roman power. Like the assyrians the romans stood to lose greatly by bowing to this christ. How? Well sexual indulgences would have to be done away with, fair treatment those who did not worship roman gods would have to be done away with, the notion of roman superiority and begitry would have to be done away with and overall treatment of ones fellow man would have to change i.e., throwing people into a colosseum to fight till the death. So why did rome go from this notion of killing christians and persecuting them to embracing them? Why wouldn't rome just go on exterminating these people? Their places of worship were underground, their sign to identify one another was a fish, and their membership was mostly of working people and the poor. Why did the romans eventually submit? This spiritual belief was thought to be a small cult of no significance and would eventually die out, but didn't it? Why didn't social darwanisim dispose of this small movement?

Conclusion, there are many more questions about christanity then answers at the present time for most people. As individuals who are curious about the movement more research must be done. More rocks have to be looked under because unlike many other movements or spiritual beliefs whose doctorination is passed down by the sword, or by treating others the way you want to be treated this movement has no catch to it. It is done by hard spiritual work that forces one to look within more then out. Do not follow movement out of association, or out of sheer logic, examine it carefully disecting the body of it's own text, use logical and historical examination and let your heart lead you through it only after you have come to a clear and thoughtful conclusion because anything less then that would be foolish.