INTRODUCTION
Have
you ever questioned the religious tales taught to you as a child,
have you ever wondered about the inconsistencies surrounding
Christian doctrine? This is the first sign of intelligence and
individual will.
Why is it that the word “Lucifer” is considered negative, evil
or the embodiment of everything Christianity opposes? Why would
there be Luciferians if it is evil and destructive?
Christianity is one of the greatest anti-natural religions to
ever embrace and subdue in part humanity. It embodies vile behavior,
restricts individual Will and the right of choice with self-determined
consequence, it encourages hatred and the killing of others
just as long as it is “God’s Will”.
How would you feel if I told you that everything you have been
told to believe is based on a book of stories? These stories
were meant to keep people from doing things that were against
the moralistic laws of the time. Would you base your life around
Humpty-dumpty, Aesop’s Fables or others?
The people mentioned in the Bible could have existed as literal
people. However, like all myths and tales which expand from
individuals things are added on until eventually, they are looked
at as supernatural or beyond belief.
Christianity has only been around for several thousand years,
it indoctrinated tales from other religions such as the Jewish
Faith, Zoroastrianism, Paganism and other elements.
If God created the world, what about all the people who existed
previous to Christianity and this religion? Because they lived
before this religion had spread are they condemned to hell?
ORIGINS
OF CHRISTIANITY
Christianity was developed by a seeming outlaw group of disciples
of an individual named Jesus. This man taught and continually
sought to disrupt the Hebrew Temple and the citizens of the
area until he was arrested and executed by crucifixion, a common
method of death for criminals in the Roman times. Upon the death
of Christ, his remaining disciples sought to project their story
into one which is spread by travelers, individuals who would
go from town to town and preach of spiritual salvation and the
resentment of money. This very philosophy was spread throughout
the early Roman Empire, although not taking hold until later
on.
Early Christians were a break-off group from Judaism. The Apostle
Paul who founded much of what Christianity would become known
for, was successful at preaching a folk-based religion which
spoke of better things and something to look forward to with
the lives of the majority population, who were poor or near
poverty throughout his travels.
The words in the Bible actually are not directly from this individual
named Jesus, no one is able to prove if these are actually his
own. From a text written between 303 and 311 AD Lucius Caelius
Firmianus Lactantius wrote a treatise entitled “Institutiones
Divinae” which aimed at appealing to intelligent, non-Christians.
Why
do so many intelligent people believe these things? Why don’t
people research and know?
Most Christians do not reject this belief as people do not want
to go against the grain.
Majority and repetition always dictates what people call “truth”.
Christianity grew as it was in its origins a slave-religion,
it gave common people (the majority) something to believe in
and remain positive with. A normal slave or peasant’s life was
painful and thus they wanted to have something “better” or something
to look forward to in the afterlife.
Original Christianity arose from Judaism which has nothing to
do at all with Jesus.
GENESIS
AND THE QUESTIONS AROUND IT
If
one were to study Genesis according to the Bible itself, individuals
should begin to question the nature of association and the process
in which the universe is created. It is suggested in the text
that “God” (note God is male, there is no female mentioned,
considering the actual process of creation or birth is from
the female) creates light and separates it from darkness, day
from night on the very first day. Without a created Sun, this
would not be possible would it? Read Genesis 1:14-19
God states heaven is created to separate the higher waters from
lower waters. Read 1:6-8
It is significant to understand that the Universe if scientific
logic and reason is applied could not have been made within
this model – it is just not logical. Believers of Christian
theology will tell you it is a question of Faith and that it
should not be pressed. Faith for any intelligent being may be
built once something is experienced, logic and reason applied
to define its nature and then affirmation in the act.
The creation of man and woman in the bible is degrading to woman
as it places her as second best. This is problematic when woman
is the one who actually bears children.
DON’T
TAKE OUR WORD FOR IT – DO YOUR RESEARCH!
SO
does that mean you should be a criminal, do bad things to others?
Does this mean there is no Spirit world or that you cannot believe
in spiritual existence?
In
2001, only 33 % of the world’s population was considered Christian
according to the Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary (2006).
In the CIA World Fact Book of 2002, 78.5% of the American population
is considered Christian. This no doubt explains why people are
so hesitant to question the many holes in the Christian Bible
and this faith. The Adherents.com website provides a ranking
of the major World Religions with Christianity being 33%, followed
by Islam being 21%. With this said, 67% of the World’s Population
will burn in hell as they do not accept Jesus Christ as their
lord and savior.
