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coincidentally
Jesus said "I go to MY GOD"
which makes him NOT... God
John 8:23
But he continued, "You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
Doesn't take a God to get crucified... just an extremely brave selfless man
originally posted by: 2012newstart
a reply to: beenharmed
Thank you.
I also don't think that God is Satan, but that the role of God in CERTAIN books and parts of books is more appropriate to that of Satan. Such as the book of Job. God gives permission to Satan to torture the one who served God most - Job. I can quote more books, and my purpose is NOT to say that God of the Old Testament is equal to Satan. But that the books are grossly misinterpreted, and some of them - doctored. How can we say for certainty what Moses wrote is absolute truth, if he wrote Genesis some 2000 years after the Flood (or 10,000y nobody knows).
And not so much the books themselves as the practice of them. Moses cut hands for small trespasses as his interpretation of the 10 commandments. Human sacrifice of children and youth became a practice in post-Solomon time. I don't know how wide spread it were, but the books are clear that indeed happened. Let alone post-Christ practice that outruns everything known in ancient times or with pagans. Burning of heretics since the time of the Roman empire continued to post-Columbus time etc. That cannot but equal to the role of Satan in this world, yet in the "name of God and Jesus". Indeed, apologies have been given by the last 3 popes...BUT what are few words of regret that no one of the billion crowd repeats again? We hope today's churches are completely cut off their bloody past. Let it be so, let it be a new era! I still don't see it though, despite the absence of the Inquisitors. Satan acts today much more sinister than in the time when popes decided who would live and would die in the fires, to be spared his soul from the fires of hell...
About Jesus, it is a long story that even the pages of the entire forum would not be enough to retell. What we observe as Christians (and I am proudly a such) is de facto the Constantinian Christianity. It is not what Jesus taught, to the letter or to the spirit. We don't know what Jesus taught in first place. If He was denied the wife he had by those crazy elders in Nicaea... Perhaps those who declare themselves free from dogmatic religion and searching the truth, are actually closer to Jesus in spirit. I don't know and nobody knows, until He makes himself known to the multitudes - not to a selective secluded number of scholars that would bow before imperial or alien power. If we believe Jesus is atop of any alien power as real Son of God. The wife goes beyond the sexual and touches upon the real possibility we have not one Son of God standing alone on a cloud for 2000 years and expecting Armageddon to reign on desolated earth...but a multitude of sons and daughters of the Son of God who already reign and enjoy life with others somewhere else.
Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
originally posted by: arpgme
If Jesus is God, it would be strange for him to say this in Luke 22:42
Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
Why would God pray for his perfect will to not be done and for his father's will to be done? Two different wills - Jesus said not his but God's be done.
Jesus is not God but Jesus is One Wirh God and showed us The True Way to God through his teachings such as Compassion being The Law of God (Matthew 7:12).