The first constitutional congress ever held was a 2 hour Bible study and prayer feast. They honed in on psalms 35 and that would be the prayer that rang around every colony when declaring independence from England.
This country was absolutely founded on Christian principals. You need to learn your history.
Religion may be flawed but Jesus was not. In fact it was religion that killed Jesus.
Jesus's life, death, and resurrection was prophecied thousands and hundreds of years before his birth. Even the method in which he would be killed was prophecied before crucifixion was even invented.
Read Isaiah 53
But He was pierced for our offenses, He was crushed for our wrongdoings; The punishment for our well-being was laid upon Him, And by His wounds we are healed.
Isaiah 53:5 NASB2020
https://bible.com/bible/2692/isa.53.5.NASB2020
Written 750 years before Jesus' birth and our oldest manuscripts, the dead sea scrolls, have proven this was not altered in any way.
The good news about all of this is that not only is there a God, but there's a God who loves you more than you can possibly imagine.
Christianity is as perfect as Jesus Christ assuming you define Christianity as actually following Him and His word as opposed to following a bunch of corrupt men's will who twist it for their own reasons.
You sign up by having faith in Jesus Christ as your savior.
God made the world so God makes the rules, and He did. The punishment for sin is death. No man in the entirety of creation outside of Jesus Christ has ever lived a sinless life so we all deserve death.
Evil dies. If you have a problem with that I don't know what to tell you. The Bible is clear that faith in Christ is what saves you, so listening to some guy in a white hat telling you what to do or risk hell isn't required. Point being if you don't repent and have faith in Christ why should he save you? You broke His rules and won't even accept it and apologize and turn from evil. But if you simply ask to be forgiven and believe in him truly and fully you will be saved.
You can't find a single verse in the bible that isn't good or isn't true, because God is good and true because He is God. You don't really get a choice. Choosing not to believe will not save you. Living in denial won't make God go away. Just like ignoring your parents won't change the fact you're being punished for doing something wrong.
I've noticed that people love to argue half the bible. "Well if God is real what's up with x, y, and z? Doesn't sound that great if he sends people to hell!"
No no, if you want to assume God is real and the Bible is his word you have to accept the whole book. That includes that He is good and that going to hell is a punishment for sin. Sin which can only be cleansed through the blood of Jesus Christ, who died to save us despite how little we deserved it. He died a violent and painful death for a bunch of murderers, thieves, rapists, and adulterers. And if they have faith all of them can be saved and will be brought towards good as a result of that faith.
Only bad people go to hell. If you have faith in Christ you will be born anew with goodness in your heart (if it wasn't already there). If not you will go to hell.
The Bible is a book of love and peace. Everything it says is good so people SHOULD do what it says. But God gave us free will, so if they choose not to for their whole lives they can bear the responsibility of their actions. You don't get to complain after the fact that God should have done this or that to prove it to you better and you would have listened. You have everything you need right now and it's up to you to decide what to do with it.
Perhaps you've noticed that death is already here, and is unavoidable. God offers a way out, through Jesus. It's that simple. God's morality is perfect, unaffected by incomplete situational knowledge or bias. He will do what is right.
The first constitutional congress ever held was a 2 hour Bible study and prayer feast. They honed in on psalms 35 and that would be the prayer that rang around every colony when declaring independence from England.
This country was absolutely founded on Christian principals. You need to learn your history.
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Who cares? Christianity is as flawed as every other organized religion out there. Even the smartest among us adhere to superstitious BS.
Religion may be flawed but Jesus was not. In fact it was religion that killed Jesus.
Jesus's life, death, and resurrection was prophecied thousands and hundreds of years before his birth. Even the method in which he would be killed was prophecied before crucifixion was even invented.
Read Isaiah 53 But He was pierced for our offenses, He was crushed for our wrongdoings; The punishment for our well-being was laid upon Him, And by His wounds we are healed. Isaiah 53:5 NASB2020 https://bible.com/bible/2692/isa.53.5.NASB2020
Written 750 years before Jesus' birth and our oldest manuscripts, the dead sea scrolls, have proven this was not altered in any way.
The good news about all of this is that not only is there a God, but there's a God who loves you more than you can possibly imagine.
Christianity is as perfect as Jesus Christ assuming you define Christianity as actually following Him and His word as opposed to following a bunch of corrupt men's will who twist it for their own reasons.
What's up with all the death? The fear motivated coercion via the concept of Hell? Worship me or I'll burn you forever!!!!
Sounds like a great guy! Where do I sign up? LOL
You sign up by having faith in Jesus Christ as your savior.
God made the world so God makes the rules, and He did. The punishment for sin is death. No man in the entirety of creation outside of Jesus Christ has ever lived a sinless life so we all deserve death.
Evil dies. If you have a problem with that I don't know what to tell you. The Bible is clear that faith in Christ is what saves you, so listening to some guy in a white hat telling you what to do or risk hell isn't required. Point being if you don't repent and have faith in Christ why should he save you? You broke His rules and won't even accept it and apologize and turn from evil. But if you simply ask to be forgiven and believe in him truly and fully you will be saved.
You can't find a single verse in the bible that isn't good or isn't true, because God is good and true because He is God. You don't really get a choice. Choosing not to believe will not save you. Living in denial won't make God go away. Just like ignoring your parents won't change the fact you're being punished for doing something wrong.
I've noticed that people love to argue half the bible. "Well if God is real what's up with x, y, and z? Doesn't sound that great if he sends people to hell!"
No no, if you want to assume God is real and the Bible is his word you have to accept the whole book. That includes that He is good and that going to hell is a punishment for sin. Sin which can only be cleansed through the blood of Jesus Christ, who died to save us despite how little we deserved it. He died a violent and painful death for a bunch of murderers, thieves, rapists, and adulterers. And if they have faith all of them can be saved and will be brought towards good as a result of that faith.
Only bad people go to hell. If you have faith in Christ you will be born anew with goodness in your heart (if it wasn't already there). If not you will go to hell.
The Bible is a book of love and peace. Everything it says is good so people SHOULD do what it says. But God gave us free will, so if they choose not to for their whole lives they can bear the responsibility of their actions. You don't get to complain after the fact that God should have done this or that to prove it to you better and you would have listened. You have everything you need right now and it's up to you to decide what to do with it.
Perhaps you've noticed that death is already here, and is unavoidable. God offers a way out, through Jesus. It's that simple. God's morality is perfect, unaffected by incomplete situational knowledge or bias. He will do what is right.
Few FF had a problem with a state religion, they had a problem with a national religion. The debates and state constitutions make this clear.
Interesting how you missed mentioning the biggest religious movement of the time and its leader; and how his fad quickly died out.
https://://www.geni.com/people/Rev-John-Murray/6000000011050001031
8 colonies were Catholic.
• Virginia.
• Massachusetts.
• New Hampshire.
• Maryland.
• Connecticut.
• Rhode Island.
• Delaware.
• North Carolina.
Does this show "decisively that the United States was founded not on Christian principles at all but on Enlightenment ideas?"
Or is your book conflating zeitgeist with substance?