Religious rants

I believe not all Catholics and other Christian groups aren't evil. What makes Catholics and other Christian groups evil are ignorant hypocrites. It is a human failing. We recognize these huge chasms between how things are and how things ought to be and it forces some real cognitive dissonance. As Christians our LORD told us that the entire law hinges upon concepts of loving GOD and loving our fellow man. God is the perfection, the good that we're looking for and can't quite find in this life. The best we have is a dim reflection of that which we hope to clarify into a face to face understanding some time after this world has passed away. Our love for him is flawed in so many fractured ways that most of us can only hope that we please him like a two year old can please his mother by bringing her a bouquet of dandelions. Sometimes I hope for a ribbon that says “you tried”. Ignorant. And even in those things that God has revealed to us as truths we are inconsistent at best at following the actions that would flow from that truth. Hypocrites. Seeing human beings raping women and children, murdering innocent people, hating person's sexuality, other people's religions, their cultures, the person's ethnicity, and etc. Thats not a TRUE Christian is. A TRUE Christian were taught to love and to accept them for who and what they are. God doesn't hate them, he loves them all. <3

What I don't understand in the Christian structure is why everything has to be bottlenecked through Jesus to get salvation. It's more reasonable to believe that at this point He would have subordinates to hand out salvation. This is my two cents, but I don't think "salvation" is achieved through a single path. Nothing in the world works that way. I find it very hard to believe everyone who doesn't follow Jesus Christ is burning in hell for all eternity. I will admit though, some of the most peaceful people in history have followed Christianity. MLK, Nelson Mandela, etc. I guess faith works for some people who need it.

I often questioned myself if jesus was the right path to salvation and not simply the God himself. When i initially abandoned all religion i prayed to God directly. The father if you will. Imho religion is trial and error. You try, you fail, you try again. Some of us try and fail then give up. As for myself im in my try again phase. Thats why im so adamantly here trying to convince people to try again. I have explored the different religions and the devil has tempted me. But i always got a bad feeling, eventually i threw it all away and fell into sin. A period of time i gave up and rebelled against God, i was gonna do what i wanted and have fun. Sleep with as many women as i wanted do whatever it is i pleased. But in the end you cannot achieve happiness through sin. The true path to happiness is God. Sin makes you miserable and repentance leads to joy. I am much happier now finding Jesus christ again. It is only after immersing myself in my religion once more that i realize all those other feelings were bogus. If you can see people achieve great things while being religious isnt that a tell tale sign of it actually working? I mean before i could care less about my fellow man, but now i cant help but try and help people. I desperately want to reach out to my neighbors and assist them. Not because i want to gain favor but because i feel a connection with my fellow people. I know the hearts of men are wicked, i used to often say humans arebthe most selfish creatures on planet earth. They would step on the necks of others if it meant saving themselves. I have been burned by people so much by helping them but i still wanna try. I think religion is Good to have and even better when you find the right one as many of them teach you to hate people.

@arc there are many interpretations of what hell acutally is. The actual place of suffering is made for the demons while sheol also known as the pit and the void. Is referred to as the grave. I have a video that can explain things more if you are interested.

Sheol, Gehenna, Tartarus, Hades...etc. However, Jesus described it as a place where the worm does not die and teeth are gnashed, he spoke more of hell than anything else. However, Jews do not believe in a literal physical hell. Take all that with a grain of salt. There's even a story about a man who's in hell asking for a bit of water from Abraham... LUKE 16:24 KJ21 And he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’ So... Guess they can see heaven as torture, too? Edit: Even legion seemed to fear it or at least final judgement. Mark 5:1-20 New International Version Jesus Restores a Demon-Possessed Man 5 They went across the lake to the region of the Gerasenes.[a] 2 When Jesus got out of the boat, a man with an impure spirit came from the tombs to meet him. 3 This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. 4 For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. 5 Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones. 6 When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him. 7 He shouted at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God’s name don’t torture me!” 8 For Jesus had said to him, “Come out of this man, you impure spirit!” 9 Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” “My name is Legion,” he replied, “for we are many.” 10 And he begged Jesus again and again not to send them out of the area. 11 A large herd of pigs was feeding on the nearby hillside. 12 The demons begged Jesus, “Send us among the pigs; allow us to go into them.” 13 He gave them permission, and the impure spirits came out and went into the pigs. The herd, about two thousand in number, rushed down the steep bank into the lake and were drowned. 14 Those tending the pigs ran off and reported this in the town and countryside, and the people went out to see what had happened. 15 When they came to Jesus, they saw the man who had been possessed by the legion of demons, sitting there, dressed and in his right mind; and they were afraid. 16 Those who had seen it told the people what had happened to the demon-possessed man—and told about the pigs as well. 17 Then the people began to plead with Jesus to leave their region.

The Smithsonian article indicates they found evidence of a flood, not a global flood. It kinda reinforces what I was saying about regional flooding. https://ncse.ngo/yes-noahs-flood-may-have-happened-not-over-whole-earth Yes, Noah's Flood May Have Happened, But Not Over the Whole Earth "Because this flood was intended by God to destroy all flesh on earth (Genesis 6:13) and because sedimentary rocks on all continents contain fossils that supposedly represent the "destroyed flesh of all life," it might be thought that the Bible story, describing a wholeearth flood, was true. However, interlayered with these fossil-bearing sedimentary rocks on all continents are layers of evaporite rock salt (sodium chloride), gypsum (hydrated calcium sulfate), anhydrite (calcium sulfate), and various potash and magnesium salts, which are associated with red beds (shales) containing fossilized mud cracks (Schreiber and others 2007). Many of these mineral compounds and red beds have combined thicknesses on different continents of more than one kilometer (~3,281 feet) (Collins 2006). The red beds are red because they contain red hematite (iron oxide) which formed from magnetite grains that were oxidized while the muds were exposed to oxygen in open air. The mud cracks can form only under drying conditions that cause the mud to shrink and form polygonal cracks. The evaporite mineral compounds in the layers are deposited in the correct chemical order predicted by the solubility of each kind of ion in these compounds and whose increasing concentrations during the evaporation of water would cause them to precipitate in a predictable depositional sequence as the water volume decreased. Such evaporite deposits would be expected to occur where a marine sea was once present and to disappear when the sea became completely dry. Therefore, one could expect these evaporites to be at the top of the supposed Noachian Flood deposits when the water supposedly receded and the land dried out, but certainly not in different levels in between older and younger fossiliferous "Flood deposits". We read in the Bible that there is only one time in which the Flood waters are said to recede and leave the earth dry. That is, no multiple worldwide climatic conditions are described in which flooding, then drying to a dry earth, more flooding, more drying to a dry earth, in repeated cycles that occur over and over again in that Flood year. On that basis, it is logical that all the kinds of evaporite deposits and red beds in many different levels in the supposed Noachian Flood deposits could form only in local climates with desert drying-conditions and could not possibly have formed all at the same time — a time when a flood covered the whole earth for more than one year (Collins 2006). On that basis, the Noachian Flood story cannot describe a whole-earth flood, but it could only represent a large regional flood."

I cannot explain it because i am not a scholar. I didnt dedicate my life to the interpretation of the bible and its word and translations. However as i stated, i have a video of someone who has dedicated their life to that and is literally a professor who explains it. He explains the differences and breaks it down. You as someone who does not believe in that anyway, and me as someone who does know as much cant determine what the translation says. But unlike you i have somewhere to go to interpret that. See alot of what i say seems like word of mouth. But i seek people who actually do this for a living. What sort of research have you done? What sort of studying have you actually sought out? Going to a catholic school and questioning scripture isnt credible. You have not consulted any academics, you have not had anything peer reviewed. All of those who claim they know the answer how do you know? Just like science and history evolves through continuous research so has interpretation. The bible is the LIVING bible. How many times have scientists revisited the same topics and subjects and discovered something new? Its the same with the bible. Also its prophecies come to pass and they come to find things. Alot of things are lost in history and we are hvaing to rediscover centuries of death, destruction, crusades, calamities. All of these impact what we know and how we know it. But again if you dont wish to understand thats fine.

All im saying is that while you have determine you know what you know and anything outside that is false. I continue to search, and i present that information here. There are deeper meanings behind the text. The more you read, the more you see, the more you understand. Reading the bible daily i have questions. I then look up why we do this instead of that. Why is this done that way instead of this. You STUDY the bible. You dont read it. There is an answer for everything in this world, you just have to seek it out. Im not trying to insult anyone's intelligence but if ur gonna go by the rules of science and history then at least follow the rules it presents that everything can be revisited and find new discoveries. Alot of what the bible presented hasnt happened yet or hasnt been found yet.

I can understand... I know that the KJV is very, very accurate to the original letters/ancient texts. You just want to be right, even when your own texts are quoted to you. Also, providing "evidence" is not how faith is done,but you do you boo. It comes across like you need the evidence. Perhaps that's just my "translation". I added in a peaceful manner.

@verucassault yeah maybe regional flooding happened. I honestly dont know, it could be either or. I mean some people believe pangea was a thing and that an asteroid killed the dinosaurs. What does a flood of that scale even look like? Enough water to cover mountains? I mean there is an idea that we are losing water on earth. While the oceans are vast we do experience severe drought and water does turn into ice. Even if people dont believe earth could have enough water to facilitate that. Keep in mind fossils are made somehow and all the dead bodies and things that happen on the earth The earth gains more land than it loses. That last sentence is from national geographic themselves