Katazia said:
Southstar,
Your perspective isn’t very accurate.
Although, this is true. Christianity is simply another variation of a god concept. But note also that “God” (upper case G) is simply the name of the Christian god.
Simply showing respect for God.
This seems a little confused. Satan is just another of the gods from Christian mythology, an evil god for sure, but still just an image of another powerful supernatural mythological character.
You're determining the Almighty Godhead to be mythological
A state of denial: (Romans 1)
18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23
Two points I would like to address here:
The first verse (18), points to rebellious man (in this case you) who suppress the truth. But note that the writer, penning God's inspired words, did not refer to the Father of lights as "God of the Christians" but as God.
And the lastVerse 22 is pretty much self explanatory. Don't lean on your own "
understanding" or what you believe to be understanding..
Whose true god? Every theistic religion claims their god is the one true god. Your claim carries no more weight or truth than theirs, if any.
Did I not just say there is no God of Christianity???
Buddhists aren’t particularly hot on god concepts, and Muslims don’t believe their god has a triple split personality like the Christian god. Each theistic religion has created its own imaginative variation of a god concept where each has quite different personalities, properties and characteristics. But these properties conflict with the properties from the other religions. If such a “one” god existed then it would be so screwed up that it would need to spend all its time in a psychiatric hospital.
Thank you for pointing out those tidbits but thankfully you got the gist of what I was trying to say. It is important to remember, God is not defined by man. God reveals Himself to man. All other viewpoints of God are heresy.
Remember: (Galatians 1)
6I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you by the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel-- 7which is really no gospel at all. Evidently some people are throwing you into confusion and are trying to pervert the gospel of Christ. 8But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned! 9As we have already said, so now I say again: If anybody is preaching to you a gospel other than what you accepted, let him be eternally condemned!
Any "religion" that does not glorify the risen Messian according to what
He has revealed to us is heretic and shameful.
Well yeah it does. If they have chosen a different concept then they have certainly rejected your variation, right?
You keep maintaining this idea of "my variation" even though I insisted there is no such thing as a "God of Christianity". They have rejected the ONE true God.
No you don’t. You only serve the idea of Christ. Christ is only a character from a fairy story.
And now I see that your critism came from a stance of denial. Denial of Christ.
