as the resident filthy Prot, i fully concur with all your points.
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you could kind of see the Ghostbusters crew trying to round up the tongues of fire on everyone’s head at Pentecost, that would weird people out. but most people who met Jesus post-resurrection didn’t think there was anything wrong about him until he started jamming their hand into the spear wound.

“any opinion on the nature of God is almost universally wrong”

“Find me a Chruch that actually pays attention to the bible, and reads it IN CONTEXT”

Do you not see how you just contradicted yourself there?

Category error. The church is not a building or a specific gathering at a time and place. She is the bride of Christ, she is the body and he is the head, she is the collective of Christ Disciples. She is the home of encouragement, exhortation, and prophesy. She is the place of personal instruction, heart healing, chain breaking fellowship. In her the Christian is born again, baptized in blood, water, and spirit. We make space for communion with one another and are zealous for good works.

Some follow Apollos and others follow Cephas is of little importance. The Church follows Jesus. Don’t pursue the trappings of man nor draw your focus against them. Seek first the Kingdom of Heaven, and you will find the Church among those you find yourself laboring alongside.

Like all great quest fellowships, you don’t start with the entire party. You grow as the quest progresses.

Godspeed brother, find your zebras.

It’s that we are crazy enough to actually LOOK at the doctrine of most churches, where you see the minions of satan as lions prowling around a herd looking for a weak outlier, we look at the herd itself and see nothing but wolves in sheep’s clothing as far as the eye can see.

There is ONE book. The Bible. Christians follow the doctrines of the New Testament alone. That is the definition of ‘Christain’. Where the new and old testament conflict, we choose the new.

That is the ONLY book inspired by god. The rest of the doctrines of the churches, even if they are written by good men like Saint Francis, are OPINION. And any opinion on the nature of God is almost universally wrong, often proven wrong by the nature of reality, the nature of god’s creation, itself.

And yet EVERY organized religion is filled with these satan-inspired ‘alterations’ and ‘add-ons’ that are nothing more than corruption. From the concept of the ‘Trinity’ that DIRECTLY contradicts Jesus’ own words, and encourages Christians to worship Jesus like the Golden Calf, to the satanic ‘Zionism’ and worship of Talmudic black-magician Pharisees that directly denied and murdered Christ, treating them like some kind of divine prophets and ‘Jerusalem’ like it’s more Holy than God himself.

From Jehovah’s Witnesses who create an entire doctrine out of a single line taken out of context (turn the other cheek) to Mormons who invent entirely new books. From symbolic cannibalism of Catholics who have literally created an entire form of Christianity that worships saints instead of God, to churches that encourage every possible sin, from pedophilia and homosexuality to female priests who scream about men and bicycles and try to claim Jesus was an immigrant so we have to let foreign monsters invade our home and rape and murder our daughters.

I’d rather take my chances running from the lions of Satan than go to sleep surrounded by the wolves dressed up in the bloody skins of ‘the faithful’ and pray that they protect me.

Find me a Chruch that actually pays attention to the bible, and reads it IN CONTEXT instead of just throwing out lines with numbers to try and prove points the same way Congress uses the constitution’s ‘commerce clause’ to justify any tyranny, and I will be happy to have a safe haven. But so far, I am not willing to trade my soul for the imaginary safety of numbers.