Human timeline of mythology and religion

@Imsleepy it wasn't fair that Jesus had to die on the cross to save us from our sins, either, but he did. In fact, He volunteered, because that's how much he loves us and wanted to save us from the condemnation sin placed on us. The salvation that Jesus offers, is our security that we will live in the place He has prepared for us in heaven. That way we don't have to guess where we'll end up. I would be pretty scary to die and not know where you're going, but many don't. But Jesus keeps his promise to forgive us our sins so that we can live in heaven with him. He didn't die and suffer on the cross for nothing.

If god knows everything, it knows where every soul will end up before it is created. There is no free will involved. If god erases your memory of your loved ones that are in hell, you aren’t yourself and again you don’t have free will. Also, in the story, Jesus didn’t sacrifice anything. A sacrifice would have been him remaining dead. Furthermore, in this story, god created sin in the first place, so all sin comes from god. When you look at the Bible rationally it simply does not hold up. @LadyGrace

@Imsleepy Just because of God knows something doesn't mean we're predestined or that he made that choice for us. It just means that since he is all-knowing, he naturally knows as God, what the outcome was. God doesn't predestine anyone. Each person on Earth has that choice to make of where they want to spend eternity.

Why would God create sin just so he could die on the cross to save us from our sins? That's what doesn't make sense and that's not what happened. God did not create sin. He is pure and holy so why would he create sin? Makes no sense at all. Instead, the Bible says that sin was found in our character. We make the choices. Not God.

I thank God that I won't know who went to hell. Spiritual things cannot be looked at rationally because they are spiritual and supernatural, as in miracles, and God said not to lean to our own understanding because we will be wrong in assuming things about God. That's why he gave us His Word. And the Word of God cannot be deciphered, the Bible says, unless you are "born-again". That's when we ask Jesus to forgive us our sins and then he sends the Holy Spirit to dwell in us as a guide and help, so that we can understand the things of the Spirit, as the Holy Spirit reveals them to us. God never told us we would understand every single thing in the bible, but without it, man would be lost forever and surely everyone would be in hell. But he did tell us the most important thing, and that is how to be saved.

Yeah, you seem more knowledgeable on that than me, so you’re probably right. I’m definitely going to research it more in depth. @HijabaDabbaDoo

@HijabaDabbaDoo and we all ultimately came from Africa, and spread out from there

@Imsleepy
Thank you, it works! 🙂

I’m not even familiar with anthroposophy. That chart has a lot that I wasn’t aware of. It has given me a lot of good stuff to research. @helenS

@Imsleepy The real relation between religions may be much more complex. I know, for example, that some scholars think that early Islam derives from pre-Nicaean versions of Christianity.

Yeah, I’m sure the most accurate chart would be much more complex for most of the religions. @helenS

@Ducky You’ll notice that the various gods of Greeks, Romans and Egyptians usually related to aspects of creation like the sun, moon, sea etc. These are all things that God himself created. So God rightly calls on all people to worship him, and not the things that he created.

@LadyGrace I got nothing to say to you.

@Ducky I'm sure.

December of 1953, so basically. @Dan193

@Imsleepy oh right, Idk why it felt like 1054 AD

I was under the impression that it was much older. Like you said, it’s probably because of its roots and people saying what you quoted. @canusernamebemyusername

What impact would that have? Or, where would it fit in that chart based on your knowledge? @jshm2

😂 @PiecingBabyFaceTogether

I will check it out. Thanks. @SW-User

Thank you! @Ceinwyn

I don’t see how you could come to that conclusion, but fair enough. @Pfuzylogic

@Imsleepy
We are very different in conclusions.
The chart is a fun source but not authoritative.

@SW-User I agree. I'm a spiritual person, I'm wiccan and yet I'm a huge advocate for science. I love science and I've studied a lot of science myself over the course of my educational career. In my brain my spirituality can coexist with science. I don't understand how religious or spiritual people can become so self deluded that they deny science out right. It seems so naïve and archaic to me.