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Account One: Acts 9:3-17: "…[Saul] was approaching Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him. He fell to the ground and heard a voice saying to him, `Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?'…The men who were traveling with him stood speechless because they heard the voice but saw no one. Saul got up from the ground, and though his eyes were open, he could see nothing; so they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. For three days he was without sight, and neither ate nor drank.…there was a…disciple at Damascus named Ananias…laid his hands on Saul and said, `Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on your way here, has sent me so that you may regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit." Account Two: Acts 22:6-21: "While I was…approaching Damascus…a great light from heaven suddenly shone about me. I fell to the ground and heard a voice saying…Saul,Saul, why are you persecuting me?...those who were with me saw the light but di

Because I no longer believe that the “Mark of the Beast” has anything to do with further end time events when futuristic Bible Literalistic prophets prophecy about a new computer chip that allows people to store their medical records, or purchase products by placing the chip under a scanner, I do not equate this with the Great Tribulation. The end of the world, the rise of the Anti-Christ, or the Mark of the Beast. What did Jesus say about the Great Tribulation? Jesus listed ten signs concerning a great tribulation and all of them were fulfilled within a five month period in AD70. Your enemies will throw up an embankment and surround you (Luke 19:43) False Christs/prophets will arise showing signs and wonders (Matthew 24:25) False leaders will lead people into the desert and inner rooms (Matthew 24:26) There will be great and unprecedented distress (Luke 21:23) People will fall by the sword (Luke 21:24) Nursing mothers will especially suffer (Matthew 24:19, Luke 21:23) The d

Religious Relational Concept Misconceptions regarding the HOW of being Engaged in the Doings within Relationships. Some of the intimate relational practices that have been reduced to mere ICONIC relationship practises believers engage in that gives them the satisfaction of performing their spiritual relational duty are; Praying. Worshipping. Fellowshiping. Ministering. Witnessing. Preaching. Bible Reading. Churching. To relegate such relational realities to ICONIC practices does not establish relationship reality with God or with people, further more, it leaves a false impression on people as to the function of these practices by the community of the redeemed in the community of humanity.   Take praying for instances. We are led to believe that the longer and harder we pray, the more people we can get to pray, the better the chance of moving the hand of God to answer the prayer as if God were saying; "come on man get another 10 people to pray, pray for another 2 hours and I will a

  Because I have questioned ALL of my religious beliefs and practices and concluded that some of them are ungodly to the point of being devilish in origin, Christian people question my relationship with God, and if I still believe in Jesus? To which I answer with assurance, YES! Deconstructing the religious beliefs I have been taught about God, the finished cross-work of Christ and the Gospel, has brought me to a place where I have rejected Questioning Religious Beliefsmost of what religion taught me, and in their religious viewpoint I am hell bound on the hell train with only a one way ticket.  Some have informed me that I am a heretic for saying that the religious doctrine of the torture chamber of eternal hell fire is devil inspired and man-made however, I feel that I have risen above the religious deception I was led to believe was truth. I have risen above the message of exclusion and damnation of the vast majority of God's beloved creation, in believing that God will tort

The Bible is a book misused to control God to do man's bidding. The Bible is a book misused by religion to control man's believing and man's doing. The Bible is a book misused to blame and shame people to manipulate them. The Bible is a book misused to scare the hell out of people. The Bible is a book misused to condemn people to hell. The Bible is a book misused to give validity to man-made doctrines. The Bible is a book misused to segregate people into denominated buildings called churches. The Bible is a book misused by charlatans to swindle people out of their money to support their extravagant life styles. The Bible is a book written by fallible men, translated by fallible men and interpreted by fallible men, yet it is believe to be infallible and error-less! The Bible is a incredible book that is meant to point us to Christ...God's express image...for us to gain the truth about Him. The Bible was never meant to be misused and abused to control God or to control pe

  Here is a verse Religion uses to pin the sending of people to hell! "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." God said..."let us make man in our image" and in His image created He them (Gen. 26-27). God's creation of man was the crowning glory of His creation...that means that there was nothing in all of God's creation any more important to Him than the Community of Humanity. God created man to be in fellowship with. Before any person is conceived God knows them. God created people out of His love and a desire to be loved by them. While people are in the womb God loves them. When people exit from the womb God loves them. God's loves people from infancy to adulthood. God loves people from the beginning of adulthood to the end of adulthood. God loves people...sinner or saint...from the cradle to the grave. God knew that the vast majority of people H

I find it somewhat ironical laughable when people believe, without any offense taken on their part to their pious sanctimonious self , that God showed up as a talking ASS... and a female ASS at that...but throw a panic fit at the suggestion of God could show up having human feminine qualities, even though it is the same Bible that records God showing up talking through a female ASS shows that God has feminine qualities!  Why is it the religionists have no issue with God taking on the form of a female ASS which He did not create in His image, but go absolutely berserk and call people a heretic teaching doctrines of demons, who suggest that God can take on the form of a human female...whom He did create in His image? Well...as one person told me and I quote..."I don't believe in 'common sense', I believe in 'bible sense.'" I question if the above thinking makes any Bible sense. God is not a BURNING bush, God is not a Fleece, God is not a bright light that He

 Religion claims that Jesus came to start a new Religion and is the founder of Christianity, which is no more than an extension of Judaism, an Old Testament religion.  Jesus was unlike any man the [then] religious world had ever seen. He lived a perfect life, faced temptation from religious people but never gave in, and even defeated death. It was not the people that the religious world called sinners that caused Jesus to speak harshly, it was the the scripture quoting, finger pointing, judgemental, high and mighty, holier-than-thou religious people who thought they had God all figured out.  The problem with many religious Christians today is the same problem that religious folk had in Jesus’ day. Their trust is in denominated preachers, preaching denominated doctrine in segregated-denominated buildings called churches where the Bible is interpreted in light of what the denomination believes, rather than interpreting the Bible through the life and work of Jesus in order to formulate wh