The following is a poem by John Newton(Amazing Grace) that he had put on his gravestone. It was never a song until recently the Chorus was added https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyumcWLZDjc
I saw one hanging on a tree
In agony and blood
Who fixed His loving eyes on me
As near His cross I stood
And never till my dying breath
Will I forget that look
It seemed to charge me with His death
Though not a word He spoke
My conscience felt and owned the guilt
And plunged me in despair
I saw my sins His blood had spilt
And helped to nail Him there
But with a second look He said
"I freely all forgive
This blood is for your ransom paid
I died that you might live"
Forever etched upon my mind
Is the look of Him who died
The Lamb I crucified
And now my life will sing the praise
Of pure atoning grace
That looked on me and gladly took my place
Thus while His death my sin displays
For all the world to view
Such is the mystery of grace
It seals my pardon too
With pleasing grief and mournful joy
My spirit now is filled
That I should such a life destroy
Yet live by Him I killed
Forever etched upon my mind
Is the look of Him who died
The Lamb I crucified
And now my life will sing the praise
Of pure atoning grace
That looked on me and gladly took my place
Forever etched upon my mind
Is the look of Him who died
The Lamb I crucified
And now my life will sing the praise
Of pure atoning grace
That looked on me and gladly took my place
You're wasting your time with these guys lol. Their understanding of history is limited to what they were taught in American and European Roman Catholic churches and non-Roman Catholic churches that were heavily influenced by the RCC.
They have no clue who Mithras is, where that belief originates nor anything about the peoples in the periods prior to Christ.
They don't even know that the Egyptians, well over 2000 years prior to Christ had Pharaoh Amenkept (or Amenophis) III.
What were this entities attributes?
The Annunciation: the god Taht announcing to the virgin Queen that she is about to become a mother.
The Immaculate Conception: the god Kneph (the holy spirit) mystically impregnating the virgin by holding a cross, the symbol of life, to her mouth.
The Birth of the Man-god.
The Adoration of the newly born infant by gods and men, including three kings (or Magi?), who are offering him gifts.
The above is just one of many, many deities ranging from Egypt to Babylon thousands of years before Christ.
This idiot Devolution1776 in particular is brain dead. I suspect he is one of those guys who was a degenerate prior to his baptism and now is hardcore into throwing flames at others. He told me I was going to hell because I informed him of the fact that the cross was introduced several hundred years AD by Constantine who had a dream about it in the middle of a battle.
Some of these guys are too thick headed to believe anything other than what they were told in Church.
They also aren't aware that many Christian communities in the Middle East celebrate Christmas, Easter and other important events on entirely separate dates than they do. Especially Christmas which is comically the same day as ancient Egyptian deity Horus who was born of a virgin birth and day coincides with December 25th on the Gregorian calendar lol
The sad part is that these things are easily found online. They can't be bothered because it's easier to point the finger at you for being a heathen than it is having their belief shattered.
But belief in God is not the issue, nor is belief in the Bible. The ridiculous part really hits when they can't be bothered to explore their religion and understand that most of it is corrupted by institutions like the RCC which have been at the center of corruption on this planet in one form or another and prior to being the RCC, was just another corrupt entity at the center of the Roman Empire.
Stupidity is infinite in the modern stubborn Christian. More so than any other religion I've come into experience with.
Especially the Trinitarian ones. To them, God the Father, The Son and Holy Spirit are the same yet different. Jesus (God) decides to come down to Earth as man to sacrifice himself in order to forgive mankind of the original sin. Yet he asks himself (God) "Why have you forsaken me?" as he's being tortured. God, being omnipotent, omniscient and boundless, cannot simply forgive man for individual deeds but requires his only begotten son to come down to earth and be tortured and killed for this forgiveness to happen. But Christ is also simultaneously God.
God needed to come down to earth to see what life as man is like even though, again, he is boundless, omnipotent and omniscient.
Now mind you, Trinitarianism was NOT a thing in Christianity during the time of Jesus Christ so they only associate that to him (without knowing) it was introduced yet again by the Romans 350 years later. So they compare God to things like eggs and water. Like ice, liquid and gas or yolk, egg white and egg shell to "prove" that 3-in-1 indeed exists.
These guys don't even understand how ridiculous and contrary their belief is, nor do they understand where it's roots come from.
I know ...but...here is hope for them....they escaped the COVID brainwashing and being on this site learnt to research ...Q himself says. Does the thought of satan exist....so I am hoping some will take the hint and do some research...but some like COVIdians will never get free.
The amount of retardation that comes out of you is insane lmao. I describe historical facts and you take offense to it. It's mind bending how delusional you are. Stating I "lost" prior arguments is comical and simply your opinion. It's not fact. Unlike you, I've pointed to fact in reference to past figures, deities and stories that match the churches version of Christ' events. This isn't up for argument you fucking idiot lmao. I'm not giving you my opinion and I'm not arguing anything lmao.
Me pointing to historical figures who have identical attributes to the modern version of Christ's history is not indicative of being an unbeliever. This is fundamentally indicative of your stupidity.
You are what's called an extremist. The only difference is that you use your arrogance as a weapon. The "yOU'rE GoiNg To HeLL" is a tired way of not being able to admit you have no idea what you're writing about.
You don't even know what a strawman since you keep using it the wrong way. There's nothing weak or imaginary about what I've written. I haven't given my opinion, you retard, I've written established historical facts that can easily be found with a simple search.
I used you as an example because you run around this site desperately trying to defend your belief and when someone throws facts at you, you turn around and act like they are going to hell. You're a degenerate and you sound like you have some impulse control issues.
You're the type that fundamentalists love. You're one tick away from becoming a terrorist. You speak with emotions rather than debating history which is what all these topics are all about.
"Spouting random facts"...? Are you fucking stupid or what? How are they random when they are in relation to the topic of a historical figure which is what the entire convo is about?
My likes and dislikes on this topic are irrelevant you reddit faggot. That's what they say over there lmao. People like you are a dime a dozen. You love to describe yourself as 'i USed To bE JUst LIKe YOu" which really means "I used to be a scum bag and spent most my life being some sort of compulsive degenerate but now that I've found x belief, I need to spread the same negative energy I spread before but now I think it's positive. But I'm still a horrible loser running around telling people they're gonna go to hell". You're the exact reason why so many get turned off to religion. You think you're spreading the truth but all you do is turn people off with your insanity. No one with a sound mind ever tells another person they're going to hell while simultaneously believing God is the final judge. In my travels to the Middle East even the Muslims refrained from saying this, unless they were fundamentalist retards that is.
You've already lost this, kid. Kick rocks. And that little microphone you added at the end is so cringe af.
You wouldn't take offense to my simple fact stating if you did study them, you idiot lmao. You got offended cause you're a fucking psycho. Now stfu already.
You pointing out a history that you have no clue as to its source or veracity. I know my source.