To Innocent Christians

I encountered an odd person here who claimed to be follower of Jesus Christ peace be upon him

that person said the spirit talks to him directly so he is guided on to right path

odd ...how can he receive revelations
is he an equal to Jesus Christ

only prophets of God use to receive revelations through angels

instead of a healthy debate the usual
escape to shut down questions is
people start quoting from bible and just gang up

why are you afraid to answer the questions

someone truthful will be not be afraid
to answer nor will resort to blind faith

a human is suppose to be logical

sadly most of the innocent Christians don't even know the bible was never in English

but Aramaic

nor name Jesus Christ is the actual name of that figure

his name was "isa" peace be upon him

have you ever questioned why and who
removed his name and gave you Jesus

bible is a word of god ?

hmm .. A question for you regarding the Gospels

gospel of Matthew / by Matthew
gospel of Mark / by Mark
gospel of Luke / by Luke
gospel of John / by John

these are men right ?

where is the gospel of Jesus Christ pbuh / by him directly

only the red letters are considered by him right ... which amount to barely 3 to 4 pages

I believe the God is smarter than me and you that's my logic

it makes zero sense that god makes mistakes / contradictions

yet the vids below quote / talk about contradictions in present bible

the actual book got tempered by people
for monetary gains and to create disunity

donations do make people rich

Alpha and omega hmm ..but he was born in a stable right

do you know in the song of Solomon chapter 5 verse 16 there was a name but in translation they removed the name

why did they remove "Mohammad"

is it common or right to remove a name when you translate something

do you know the only non Christian faith that talks and believes in Jesus / isa
is Islam

and you are taught to hate it ..

don't you think you should be curious what is the talk about Jesus / isa in Islam book "Quran"

you love Jesus right so do you not want to read about him ..

why beards are often associated with a singular religion odd

Many practicing Sikh and Jews have beards and countless homeless men have beards too

beards don't make you terrorist

the statue that is said to be of prophet Jesus Christ peace be upon him is also with a beard odd

before you go quoting on me watch these

[media=https://youtu.be/58A2c4BvOk8]

[media=https://youtu.be/0dCBc4ObgzM]

the word Trinity isn't in bible ..

but the word Trinity is talked in Quran chapter 5 verse 73

why is a different religion sacred book talking about Trinity

why is a different religion talking about Jesus peace be upon him

think cause you are capable of thinking
question cause its your right

you can shutdown a child but not a grown up ...

which one are you ?

ArishMell · 70-79, M

A good point, questioning if claiming to have received "revelations" is claiming some sort of Divine characteristics. I do not question that they sincerely have had some deeply inspiring thought, but do not believe it any more divine than the claims of other types of "revelation" or "visitation".

Historically, those other claims were more common among Roman Catholics and I think the Church does now investigate such claims rather than accepting them blindly. Most are spurious, such as hallucinations, wishful thinking or by lack of investigation. An example of the last was a church icon stained with, supposedly, Christ's blood, but in reality, bat droppings!
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More widely though, your question and a lot of the answers have pointed to so many people whoo are religious imagine their own faith, or their own interpretation of it, is the only "true" one.

Of course it isn't. It is "true" only to its sincere followers, and there are several major faiths and many interpretations of them around the world so no one belief can monopolise the "truth" claim.

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It is refusing to accept that variety, refusing to accept others find hold alternative beliefs valid for them, that is at the heart of so much distress, selfishness and cruelty.

By religious beliefs - which are only personal opinions about something mystical - I include agnosticism and atheism.

- Agnostics doubt any deities but do not deny them because they say the existence of any gods is neither provable nor improvable.

- Atheists simply deny any such beings exist - and are sometimes challenged by religious fundamentalists to "prove" that, yet cannot "prove" their own case! (The challenger's fall-back defence that their faith is described in ancient books, merely cites the belief.)

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Sadly there are many hard-line types claiming to be "Christians" on SW who cannot see this. Instead they divide everyone into just two categories, "Christians" and "Atheists". The latter must therefore, in their view, be not only atheists but also agnostics, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs, Hindus, Wiccans... Some are even deeply sectarian: I recall one professing to be "Christian" with his as the only "true" religion, trying to say the Church of Rome is not Christian!