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You keep on telling that encouraging story. That is what the Bible is full of. Jesus knows your heart.

You probably shouldn't tell people Cain and Abel were under a "law" that would not be given for thousands of years in the future. The only law we are told of that God gave their parents was not to eat the fruit of a certain tree.

Yes. The Bible speaks of offering "of the first-fruits of YOUR LABOR."

The Bible tells us Able raised animals and Cain tilled the fields. Able had animals to offer. Cain did not. He had only what he raised... crops. If Able offered his best animal....... that would leave only a leftover for Cain to hope to buy from him. It was NOT "what" each man offered, but...

The initial and primary recipient of both the respect and the lack of respect was each man, not their offerings. And later when God is talking to Cain, He says "If YOU do right, will not....." Why have we jumped to the offerings instead?

Sadly, this is far from accurate.

But someone who questions "Christianity" isn't necessarily questioning Jesus.

I prefer meeting at a larger church building also. But that doesn't change how history happened.

OP,HR, Are you confusing the keeping of laws because God said they were good for men... with being required to keep certain laws in order to be saved?

Doesn't the Bible say exactly that? As I recall, those are the ONLY places they met.

If you do not believe you need God, then change your mind (that is the definition of "Repent")..... then two of your requirement are automatically met. The third one cannot be met, because almost no one really knows what confessing is. They think it is renouncing a few things they can remember...

You are onto something important. "The elements" certainly do not mean rocks, air, dirt, and trees.

Because time (the "when" you expressed concern about) won't exist.

After you've died, I kind of doubt it will be of much concern to you, one way or another.

TT, I believe the question was about "invented" rituals.

That actually makes sense.

"People understand the parables????" Really? How does that work when I hear people actually saying right out loud that the parable Jesus spoke to the crowd, of Lazarus and The Rich Man was not really a parable, but a true story describing Hell?

That's about the first thing you've said that made sense to me..... though only partially.

Are any of us "a crowd?" Should we expect to hear from Jesus (now that He lives inside us) in Parabolic Stories? Jesus came then, and now, to individuals in various ways.

We don't have to decipher what is a parable, and what isn't. The Bible is more than explicit in telling us that Jesus NEVER spoke to the crowds EXCEPT in parables.