Guys, I have looked thru your comments and to be honest I have tried not to say anything as I didn't think it my place but here goes, gota get this off my chest. I have been a christian since I was 12 and over the years been comfortable with it, but then I became an engineer. this means that i measure everything if i can. In some ways with religion that is not right because it should be about faith but having said that, Jesus said to "try the spirits" (and no he does not mean to take a shot of jack daniels) so I have done a bit of background research.
I won't bore you with it in detail but I would suggest three books. Please take them all with a pinch of salt but there are elements in all three that really hit home. the books are 1) the Hiram Key. 2) he key to the book of Hiram and 3) The holy blood and the Holy Grail, latest edition.
Ok I know that there is some simply ridiculus claims but actually, some of the things we all take as blind faith have been skewed ny, what someone else touched on in this thread, by political interest. Every civilisation has been guilty of this. Rome, London, Paris, the promised land, all of us have, for good intentions sometimes, been weak in theinterest of misguided interest as well as downright deciept and political manipulation.
I have, over the years realsied that some divisions were put there just to do that, divide us I mean. I now have more respect for the Muslim Culture than the way my own religion has conducted it's self, or more to the point, it's self imposed so called leaders.
The Qumran sects, the dead sea scrolls, the name "barabus" not being a real name but a word meaning "twin" or "Lawer" when Pilate washed his hands. It seemed to me that something didn't "fit".
I am still a christain but now I am not sure if my "protestant" belief was right and the Catholic version is nearer the truth or indeed if Jesus should in fact be woorhipped.
The one thing I do know is this. I can eat with my Muslim Brother, my Jewish brother and my Hindu brother, sisters also, and I love them all. I would agre to dissagree in some things but in one thing we all agree.
To love one another more than our own selves, to share what we have been given by God, to tell the truth even if it hurts you and to look out for each other.
God bless you all while we all still search for the truth.
Guys, I have looked thru your comments and to be honest I have tried not to say anything as I didn't think it my place but here goes, gota get this off my chest. I have been a christian since I was 12 and over the years been comfortable with it, but then I became an engineer. this means that i measure everything if i can. In some ways with religion that is not right because it should be about faith but having said that, Jesus said to "try the spirits" (and no he does not mean to take a shot of jack daniels) so I have done a bit of background research.
I won't bore you with it in detail but I would suggest three books. Please take them all with a pinch of salt but there are elements in all three that really hit home. the books are 1) the Hiram Key. 2) he key to the book of Hiram and 3) The holy blood and the Holy Grail, latest edition.
Ok I know that there is some simply ridiculus claims but actually, some of the things we all take as blind faith have been skewed ny, what someone else touched on in this thread, by political interest. Every civilisation has been guilty of this. Rome, London, Paris, the promised land, all of us have, for good intentions sometimes, been weak in theinterest of misguided interest as well as downright deciept and political manipulation.
I have, over the years realsied that some divisions were put there just to do that, divide us I mean. I now have more respect for the Muslim Culture than the way my own religion has conducted it's self, or more to the point, it's self imposed so called leaders.
The Qumran sects, the dead sea scrolls, the name "barabus" not being a real name but a word meaning "twin" or "Lawer" when Pilate washed his hands. It seemed to me that something didn't "fit".
I am still a christain but now I am not sure if my "protestant" belief was right and the Catholic version is nearer the truth or indeed if Jesus should in fact be woorhipped.
The one thing I do know is this. I can eat with my Muslim Brother, my Jewish brother and my Hindu brother, sisters also, and I love them all. I would agre to dissagree in some things but in one thing we all agree.
To love one another more than our own selves, to share what we have been given by God, to tell the truth even if it hurts you and to look out for each other.
God bless you all while we all still search for the truth.