“We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.” Winston Churchill
Ender the pirate story of the night .. wandering through the streets of Austin Texas wondering what to do.. blaster tag lazer yeah.. what fun what.. umm.. sort of wondering what else or next to do.. Ender realizes two things.. life is about survival and maybe procreating otherwise.. everything else is just imagination.. one can imagine to be king of the world or a something and or a pirate which is almost as good or better because one does not need to tax others then.. just realizing that would one prefer to be king with all the rules, etc or a pirate where one has to steal from others to live.. one taxes and provides.. one steals and provides work for the one that taxes.. without the one could the other exist or would there be a need for their existence? humor me this..
to be a prophetic in this day and age one has to look for meaning.. so. with that said lets look for meaning. Jesus Christ- was a jew- he said follow him- therefor anyone calling themselves a christian should be jewish. if not show me in the bible where this is removed-
Grace and your statements are correct- however the general answer does not met with what happened in history.
all 12 followers continued to be jews-
Paul who is saul- wrote letters that were based on his legalistic ideals that did not met with those 12 followers-
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maybe this is how to respond- christ through out his life was a jew-
Christ said follow him- his statement was not to gentles but to fellow jews that were following him at the time-
sin and jewish ideas of sin seem to be a bit different too.
ted remember as a baptist follower of christ i understand what you are saying-
I am just saying after rereading everything several times I do not see it-
What i d o not see- God stating something to Paul who is saul which would give him the authority to change what was the past; let alone set up a new religion. what that means is we are listening to a person justify actions and new ideas without a) being part of the original team (christ and followers)- b) does not have a single letter from the original 12 nor christ to point that his statements are worth anything.. meaning Ted I am looking for original works- the letters used to write the book of James came from 400 adish I believe reading once- so after 400 plus years this context is what we have to go on. the only context from the jewish religion that is confirmable about christ is something dealing with tithe of a prostitute and where that money goes to which is a latrine..http://www.mosquitonet.com/~prewett/historicalchrist.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php...
thus I understand, was raised as you were, and followed that belief up to the point allot of these people claiming to be christian stole from me. you might say what is the difference.. the context of life -a jewish Christ is much different from a modern day Christ- redemption is what you are saying is the way forward- I am looking at these people that call themselves Christians and hoping if I make it because believe Christ is God's that I will never have to deal with them again.