The two are not synonymous.. I believe in god who made free flourishing unrestricted nature, so I don't believe he intends to restrict people either..

I dont believe in religion it is all fear and restriction..

I love the bible, the Quran, the bhagavad ghita , the Dead Sea scrolls, the books of enoch, jasher, and jubilee, the emerald tablets of thoth the atlantian god king; but I only read the bible continually..

I worship the god mentioned in all those articles and I dont exclude any articles of religion I forgot to mention..

I do not believe in religion though

I believe in God, I'm in the process of becoming a Christian

Just to correct my post and stick to the question. -No, not religion. Relation. A relationship between the living God, Jesus Christ Himself and the fellowship in the Holy Spirit.

I agree with you. A Universal vaccination does not sound right to me either. The pope is pushing for a one world religion, that goes against the life, the death and resurrection of Jesus.
The global economy has crashed..Hmm what's coming after that!

In Luke Chapter 21, Jesus speaks about the end days very clearly.

Armageddon is a place where many will gather for battle. Some say it will be in Israel (Jerusalem)
But that isn't proven. It could be anywhere.

These are awful times and never seen before. Even folks in there 80s-90s have said, this is something they have never witnessed.

The pandemic, really is just the dress rehearsal of what is to come.
Your concerns are shared by many. Some see it as one huge party and a time for protesting. Ive not seen one peaceful protest ever.

Im a Christian too. I thought I had a great relationship with Jesus, throughout my life. But, I was far far from knowing the true meaning of being a true servant for the Kingdom of God.

In the last month, I knew I had to choose between the world, or Jesus. So I confessed. Spoke to my pastor, and repented.

I share your concerns x.

ps. Don't entertain the hate replies, thats what they want. It's not worth it. You've got Jesus

In terms of eschatology, that is a “futurist eschatology” approach. The mark of the beast bring physical.

If one embraces such an eschatology it seems the challenge is to identify one thing as the “mark”. I could see any number of technological advances being a mark of end of times.

I tend to be of an idealist eschatology. I feel the mark is symbolic. I have my own ideas, but I won’t go there....

The mark is not a vaccine as needles existed when revelation was written. So there would have been no need to make a metaphor in place of some future not understood technology. The mark is a literal mark. A brand. Like one would brand a criminal at the time. It was meant to distinguish people. So you know who you can and cant not trade with. You cant distingue people with a vaccine which is effectively invisible. Nor do you get a vaccine in your head and or hand. If you are going to go this far you might as well say no shoes, no shirt, no service is the mark as well. They tried this with UPC codes in the 70-80s as well. And paper money. And the Euro. At this point it's crying wolf.
Most of this has to do with the fact that Revelation was written by a Jewish convert to Christianity and therefore uses Jewish occult symbols. Including things like gematria. Modern Christians not raised around Judaism have completely lost most of the context of Revalation therefore.
Christians need to be more worried about false prophets and worshiping antichrists. As many have fallen for an antichrist in tr*mp and have taken the word of false prophets like Jonny Enlow, Kat Kerr and Jeff Jansen to heart and believe them despite their prophecies failing time and again.

"When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him."
Deuteronomy 18:22

But I have heard many "prophets" hide behind: ""Do not touch my anointed ones; do my prophets no harm." 1 Chronicles 16:22'

But this is cowardly and arrogant as they are claiming that they themselves are prophets and anointed and chosen of God despite no evidence not God telling anyone else that he chose them.

Ultimately the Bible only says one sin is unforgivable and that is blasphemy against the holy spirit.

I do believe in a God. But I don't believe in organized religion, if that makes sense. But I don't judge those who do 🌺 We're cool beans 🌺

I believe I am god.. does that count? 🤔

I take the mark of the beast ( in the head and the hand) to be more of a thought and actions thing.

I believe in god. Not religion

Do you personally know of a knowledgeable Pastor who can help break down these verses for you?

I believe in a personal relationship with God.
What caused the big bang?
Why do humans laugh? What evolutionary reaction causes us find things funny?
Who coded DNA. Random mutations do not build ordered systems imo.
Anyway I don't know alot but I'm betting that there is something bigger than us out there. We can't be the best and brightest of the Universe.
I place my bet on Jesus.
I know people hate religion but people tend to muck up everything that they touch including God's word.
Religion is not evil, people are.

You can buy if you wear a mask, though.

Not anymore. i can barely think of a single meaningful moment where religion was a positive part of my life.

I believe in god but I don't worship it .Religion is the root of all evil.

I do believe in God but I'm not an extremist. I have my own way

The latter exists. The former doesn't.

Nope

Nope

No

Sorry to say no.

I notice you don't specify which god or which religion. This is typical of Christianity. You pretend those words can have only one meaning.

I believe in god but not so much in religion