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“… atheists have a good point. If there were no God, there would still be religions. The need for God is so great within us that we would project gods even if none existed. God created humankind as naturally, inherently, and incurably religious. It is our nature, made in the image of God, to seek him.”

(Clark H. Pinnock, A Wideness in God’s Mercy: The Finality of Jesus Christ in a World of Religions, p. 102)
 

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The need for God is so great within us that we would project gods even if none existed.

If the "need for God is so great" then why do Atheists not believe in God?

If the need for God is So GREAT, then why is Hell still receving Christ Rejectors today and tomorrow and for the last 2000 yrs?
 

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From my X / Twitter “For you” feed this morning -

“The advice is to not ‘push religion’ on your children.

Harvard followed 5,000 kids for 14 years.
Teens who attended church weekly were:

18% more likely to report high life satisfaction

18% less likely to suffer depression

33% less likely to abuse substances

Psychologists say religion provides three things nothing else replicates together:
meaning, structure, and belonging.

Obama’s Surgeon General spent years warning about a youth mental health crisis driven by loneliness, loss of purpose, and lack of community.

Secular isn’t neutral.

You will raise your child with someone’s values.

The only question is whose.

(Via Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2018)”

 

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From my X / Twitter “For you” feed this morning -

“The advice is to not ‘push religion’ on your children.

Harvard followed 5,000 kids for 14 years.
Teens who attended church weekly were:

18% more likely to report high life satisfaction

18% less likely to suffer depression

33% less likely to abuse substances

Psychologists say religion provides three things nothing else replicates together:
meaning, structure, and belonging.

Obama’s Surgeon General spent years warning about a youth mental health crisis driven by loneliness, loss of purpose, and lack of community.

Secular isn’t neutral.

You will raise your child with someone’s values.

The only question is whose.

(Via Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2018)”


So, if that is what RELIGION can offer a child. .(according to a Harvard study).....then just imagine what CHRISTIANITY can do for them.

Reader, dont give anyone some religion, as that has nothing to do with CHRISTianity.

Instead Give them Jesus.......Lead them to CHRIST.... as He's not a "religion".....and a real Christian understands this, and a fake one doesn't.
 
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So, if that is what RELIGION can offer a child. .(according to a Harvard study).....then just imagine what CHRISTIANITY can do for them.

Religion and Christianity, though not synonymous terms, are good for children and for adults.

Reader, dont give anyone some religion, as that has nothing to do with CHRISTianity.

Christianity began as a sect of Judaism. It’s that primitive religion that we read about in the Bible.

Instead Give them Jesus.......

Jesus of Nazareth is a Jewish monotheist.

Lead them to CHRIST....

The point of Christian religion.

as He's not a "religion".....

That’s right, as any standard dictionary will confirm.

… and a real Christian understands this, and a fake one doesn't.
 

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Religion and Christianity, though not synonymous terms, are good for children and for adults.

Paganism is religion.
Satanism is religion.

So....Try thinking more clearly next time you try..... regarding this word "religion".... before you wrongly define it again as always "being good for children"


Christianity began as a sect of Judaism. It’s that primitive religion that we read about in the Bible.

What you posted is not true. @Matthias

Christianity didnt start with a sect of Judaism, and that is why Judaism rejects Christianity in '2026.

You should know this, but you dont.

A.) Christianity "began" with Jesus on The Cross.

Its The Cross of Christ that Birthed "CHRISTianity"

Now you know.


Jesus of Nazareth is a Jewish monotheist.


Try to prove what you posted about Jesus, by using a NT verse that includes Jesus's own words.

It cant be done, but your imagination would think differently, which is obvious. @Matthias
 

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Paganism is religion.
Satanism is religion.

Those are examples of impure religion.

So....Try thinking more clearly next time you try..... regarding this word "religion".... before you wrongly define it again as "being good for children"

I’m speaking in this thread about pure religion. Please see again the OP.

What you posted is not true.

It’s well-documented truth. I’ve posted the documentation in various threads on this forum since becoming a member. Anyone can Google “Christianity began as a sect of Judaism” and know within seconds that it did. Those who read the New Testament, some without realizing it, are reading about the sect founded by the Messiah.

Christianity didnt start with a sect of Judaism …

Christianity began as a sect of Judaism in the 1st century; the Messiah’s sect.

… and that is why Judaism rejects Christianity in '2026.

Judaism has rejected Jesus of Nazareth and the sect which he founded since the 1st century.

You should know this, but you dont.

I’m very well-educated on the subject.

Christianithy "began" with Jesus on The Cross.

Christianity began with Jesus’ teaching and preaching the gospel of God.

Its The Cross of Christ that Birthed "CHRISTianity"

Now you know.

I’ve known for quite some time what you teach.

Try to prove what you posted about Jesus, by using a NT verse that includes Jesus's own words.

”You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.”

(John 4:22, NET)

It cant be done …

It’s easily done.

... but your imagination would think differently, which is obvious.

It doesn’t take imagination to think Jesus is a Jewish monotheist. It takes imagination to think that he isn’t.
 
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Jesus of Nazareth is a Jewish monotheist.
Try to prove what you posted about Jesus, by using a NT verse that includes Jesus's own words.
It cant be done, but your imagination would think differently, which is obvious.

You prefer the KJV, correct?

Matthew 4:8-10 KJV
8 Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and sheweth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them;
9 And saith unto him, All these things will I give thee, if thou wilt fall down and worship me.
10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, [Hebrew text: YHWH your Elohim] and him only shalt thou serve.

Deuteronomy 6:13 Brenton Septuagint Translation
13 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, [Hebrew text: YHWH your Elohim] and him only shalt thou serve; and thou shalt cleave to him, and by his name thou shalt swear.

Mark 12:28-34 KJV
28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him, Which is the first commandment of all?
29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: [Deut 6:4-5] this is the first commandment.
31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. [Lev 19:18] There is none other commandment greater than these.
32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.
34 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. And no man after that durst ask him any question.

Deuteronomy 6:4-5 KJV
4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God [YHWH Eloheinu] is one LORD: [YHWH]
5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God [YHWH Eloheika] with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Leviticus 19:18 KJV
18 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself: I am the LORD [YHWH].

John 17:1-3 KJV
1 These words spake Jesus, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, Father, the hour is come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee:
2 As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him.
3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Pure, unadulterated, Jewish monotheism.
 

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From my X / Twitter “For you” feed this morning -

“The advice is to not ‘push religion’ on your children.

Harvard followed 5,000 kids for 14 years.
Teens who attended church weekly were:

18% more likely to report high life satisfaction

18% less likely to suffer depression

33% less likely to abuse substances

Psychologists say religion provides three things nothing else replicates together:
meaning, structure, and belonging.

Obama’s Surgeon General spent years warning about a youth mental health crisis driven by loneliness, loss of purpose, and lack of community.

Secular isn’t neutral.

You will raise your child with someone’s values.

The only question is whose.

(Via Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, 2018)”


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Those are examples of impure religion.

Oh, so now you are redesigning your previous commentary........>Now we find that what you meant was........."well there is impure religion also".

But see you didnt say that originally.........you just said that RELIGION is "good for children" and ive shown you why its not.

I’m speaking in this thread about pure religion. Please see again the OP.

Pure religion according to the Bible, the NT, is to help ""widows and orphans".

It has nothing to do with teaching them some man made "religion": as children.


It’s well-documented truth. I’ve posted the documentation in various threads on this forum since becoming a member. Anyone can Google “Christianity began as a sect of Judaism”

I guess that you have not yet realized that "just because you can find a lot of religious CRAP "documented on the internet"...... you still have yet to learn that this is oftening meaningless.


Christianity began as a sect of Judaism in the 1st century; the Messiah’s sect.

Not at all.

Christianity began with Jesus The Christ, having sacrificed Himself on The Cross, to birth Christianity.

I dont expect you to know or understand any of this reality.

Judaism has rejected Jesus of Nazareth and the sect which he founded since the 1st century.

Religious Jews and how they define Jesus, is meaningless.

What has meaning is how each person themselves defines the Lord of Glory and the King of Kings.

That's how i define Him.

Why dont you give it a shot, little one.,..

I’m very well-educated on the subject.

According to your Thread and posts, your education is very "circular reasoning" involved.


Christianity began with Jesus’ teaching and preaching the gospel of God.

Christianity began when Jesus fullfilled God's requirement that He die on The Cross for your sins and mine, and then later He rose from the dead and is alive right now.
See those 2 situations?
That is when and where CHRISTianity began, and it never began with Jewish Jesus talking to Jews during His earthly ministry TO "the house of Israel".
He told them "the KOG is HERE"...............as that was what He was preaching to them., and that is not the Gospel that CHRISTians believe so that they may receive from God, "imputed righteousness".

Its obvious that you dont understand any of this at all.

I’ve known for quite some time what you teach.

I teach Pauline Theology. (Paul's NT Doctrine).

Google it..


”You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.”

(John 4:22, NET)

Salvation is "from" the Jews, because a JEW who rose from the Dead after dying for our sins, is our only Salvation.

It doesn’t take imagination to think Jesus is a Jewish monotheist. It takes imagination to think that he isn’t.

You obsess on "montheism", like others obsesson on the virgin mary, and others obsess on "tallking in tongues"., and others obsess on fishing gear or collecting a "trophy wife".

So, all of that is just what some people chase as their rabbit trail religion concepts or something like it.
 

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Definition of Christianity, just for you @Matthias .

"God became One of Us to offer Salvaiton, Righteousness, and Eternal life, to all who Believe".

See that @Matthias .

That is NOT a RELIGION.

Try to understsand that GOD becoming a man to deal with the sin of the world, is not a Religion.

Religiou is man trying to become GOD or to reach Him by their own design.

Got that?, and that is NOT God come down from Heaven.......now is it, little one?

However, if you can never understand this....... who would be surprised..........certainly not me.
 

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Anyone can Google “Christianity began as a sect of Judaism” and know within seconds that it did.

I invite and encourage my readers who don’t know how Christianity began to try it. There are also many excellent books on the subject.
 

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“Christianity began as a sect of Judaism.”

AI Overview

“Yes, early Christians were initially a sect within Second Temple Judaism …”

A fundamental and foundational beginning point in the study of the origin of Christianity. Beware of those who would try to persuade you otherwise.