Re: Daily Spirit-guided thought for 04/30/08.friend bwmey...@toast . net wrote:
> satan via a sockpuppet (corporeal demon) despairingly posted:
>
> >Doesn't all this disagreement and fragmentation indicate that religion is
> >man-made?
>
> Now you're getting closer! Yes, religion is man made, but only under
> the controlling action of a puppeteer, a real being, called satan,
> "the god of this world." he has blinded the minds of them that believe
> not. (Ephesians 2:1-3, 2 Corinthians 4:2, etc).
>
> And by that "definition," Christianity is not a religion:
>
> Here is the first section of my Christmas message, given to my
> Aviation Class at Central Washington University several years ago:
>
> *******************************
>
> WHAT YOU DIDN'T GET FOR CHRISTMAS
>
> PART 1
>
> This is December, 2001. The designation is recognized almost
> everywhere in the civilized world.
>
> What do we mean, "2001?" Well, of course, that means "2001 anno
> domini," or the "year of our Lord, 2001." The world's calendar, in
> other words, is based on the honor of the entry into the world of a
> Man known to most as "Jesus Christ."
>
> So, when we speak of Christ, or of Christianity, we aren't talking
> about a "religion." We are talking about the central fact of all
> history, that the whole civilized world, whether it likes it or not,
> is firmly aware of and has recognized.
>
> And the following are not religious beliefs; they are facts from the
> best ancient history records in existence . If the following are not
> facts, then as Napoleon said, "history is all so much bunk:"
>
> His coming was announced by the Hebrew prophets since the
> beginning of man .
>
> The moment of His birth was announced by angels and prophets ,
> and accompanied by astronomical signs.
>
> Thousands of hopelessly sick people came to Him, and "He healed
> them all! "
>
> He completely controlled animals, men, weather, and space and
> time around Him.
>
> He already knew, intimately, people He had never met .
>
> He raised the dead back to life.
>
> He claimed to be God ; and the Scriptures and the men who knew
> Him agree.
>
> He fulfilled the prophecies about the coming Messiah (that is, The
> Christ) to the exact date and day of the week.
>
> He was murdered on the exact date and day of the week specified in
> the prophets.
>
> Accompanying His murder was three hours of total darkness over all
> the world, attested to by secular history, and which was lifted by
> His words at the end: "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani."
>
> He returned to life on the third day, attested to by over 500
> people still living 15 years afterward .
>
> A large crowd saw Him leave the earth, alive, from a mountain top,
> with the promise that He would return in the same way .
>
> The world remembers, in spite of all the efforts made by rulers,
> churches, universities, foundations, scientists, historians,
> journalists, teachers, and armies, to eradicate His record through the
> ages since.
>
> A higher caliber of men than these, in general, have been the great
> scientists of the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Men like
> Isaac Newton (the "father of classical mechanics," inventor of the
> calculus, etc), Louis Pasteur, Blaise Pascal, Galileo, Robert Boyle,
> Michael Faraday, Lord Kelvin, Johannes Keppler (the "father of modern
> astronomy"), etc, were, even more than they were scientists, men who
> believed in the Lord Jesus Christ and were therefore avid Bible
> students and scholars .
>
> ********************************
>
> Bob
>
> Christ Died to Save You...
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