What is a Christian?
What is it that makes one a Christian? I understand that one is to undertake specific beliefs such as Jesus Christ being the son of God, but there are a lot of unanswered questions that I'm looking to solve.First off, let us look at the first 5 chapters of the Old Testament, which are holy to the Jews, Christians and Muslims. These books are included in the Bible, Torah, and Koran (Qur'an). The first book, Genesis, tells of God (aka Yahweh or Jehovah) creating the world in 6 days, and resting on the 7th.
Is this why we have a 7 day week?
Also in this book is the story of the first two humans, Adam and then Eve. It is said that Adam was brought to life from the Earth and Eve from the rib of Adam. This is why females have one more set of ribs than males.
Science is, in essence, the enemy of Christianity since much of the ideas of Divine Creation are countered with evolution and the Big Bang Theory (anti-matter vs matter).
The first sin was Eve taking fruit from the Tree of Conscience. The tree contained fruit that would provide awareness of Good and Evil, however, would result in eventual death. The punishment for eating from this forbidden tree was mortality to humans and childbirth for woman.
Does this mean that both Adam and Eve were hermaphrodites at one point until God tipped the scale?
The Earth became full of wicked (not the kind of "wicked" that I use) people. God spoke to Noah, a truly righteous man and told him to build an ark that could house his family and 2 of every bird, mammal and reptile. Rain poured down for 40 days and 40 nights (Lent) and the only survivors were those on the ark. God promised never to flood the Earth again after Noah and his 3 sons repopulated the Earth.
This would explain why some people are so frigin' retarded, we are all children of incest?!?
At one point man began to build the Tower of Babel to prove mankind's power. In order to prevent this, God gave man different languages.
Did God spearhead the building of a human accomplishment? Does this mean God is responsible for wars that are the cause of cultural difference? Touch situation eh?
Abram is the next prominent figure in this book. Abram, soon to become known as Abraham (meaning "Father of Nations") fathered children with his wife Sarai (now Sarah meaning "Princess"). The first child was Isaac (meaning "He Laughs") and Isaac was asked to be sacrificed to God. Abraham agreed but before he killed his son, God stopped the sacrifice and allowed Abraham to sacrifice a ram.
So we used to sacrifice humans and animals when we were in dialogue with God, now we don't. Does that mean we are no longer in God's favor since he does not "speak" to us and tell us to sacrifice living creatures? Even scarier a thought is do some believe the act of murdering the unwise and unknowing to be an act of sacrifice to God? YIKES!
Now, if we continue down this road to the other remaining books (Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy [loose translation meaning "Second Law"]) we will never get to the point. Currently we have walked through the major points of the First Holy Book for three Major Religions, Jeudaism, Christianity, Islaam. We find that the roots are the same.
Ever wonder why the Catholic Pope wears a Yamakah?
Well I sure do wonder.
To be continued...
posted by David Malloy @ 10:25 AM
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