
What was REALLY on offer (real or otherwise) by the writers of the Christian-Jewish propaganda in the first century of the Common Era …?
What do 21st Century Christians expect …?
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The churches I was a member of promised us both mansion and entire planets to rule over. There would also be entire planets just for enjoyment that we could travel to at the speed of thought. Yup, the speed of thought.SallyF wrote:OMG …!!!bjs wrote: [Replying to SallyF]
In John 14:2 Jesus spoke of a house with many rooms, not individual mansions. The image he used was not of privately owned homes where people could live separate from each other, but of a one house of God so large that all people could be living together.
And they call this "Heaven" …?!
Most Christians I know can't stand each other.
At least if you're a Mormon Christian, you get a whole planet to rule …
But …
Like so many things in ALL the Christianities …
Folks are dodging admitting what they believe is real, and what is just stuff that's been fabricated by imaginative minds …
And is sort of taken as being articles of faith …
Because while it LOOKS like obvious make-believe …
Some folks in the congregation don't KNOW it's possibly ALL just make-believe.
And ... just as we do with Santa for the kiddies …
We need to do for the faithful and their unwavering credulity …
Because it might upset them.
So perhaps we all just live a self-deluding, feel-good, distort it and leave-out-the-bits-we-don't-like lie …?
I was brought up in a Christian home that claimed that Catholics worshipped Mary and not Jesus.bjs wrote:I am sorry to hear that you view Christians that way. However, the fact that Christians regularly and willingly meet together, both in individual congregations and in larger multi-congregational groups, is evidence that your assessment is not accurate for the vast majority of Christians.
I always pictured a tropical island without annoying insects. It had a small waterfall fed lagoon and no sharks, where I could swim underwater with perfect vision and not have to hold my breath.Clownboat wrote:
The churches I was a member of promised us both mansion and entire planets to rule over. There would also be entire planets just for enjoyment that we could travel to at the speed of thought. Yup, the speed of thought.
Want to go horse riding? Go to the horse riding planet.
Want to play paintball? You guessed it!
Yes … the Christians I know and knew all had their own imaginings of what "Heaven" holds.Danmark wrote:I always pictured a tropical island without annoying insects. It had a small waterfall fed lagoon and no sharks, where I could swim underwater with perfect vision and not have to hold my breath.Clownboat wrote:
The churches I was a member of promised us both mansion and entire planets to rule over. There would also be entire planets just for enjoyment that we could travel to at the speed of thought. Yup, the speed of thought.
Want to go horse riding? Go to the horse riding planet.
Want to play paintball? You guessed it!