From: rpitts@emperor.gatech.edu (Richard Pitts)
Newsgroups: talk.religion.misc
Subject: Re: CHRISTIANS ARE BEING DUPED!
Date: 30 Sep 92 17:30:16 GMT
Organization: CERL-EE, Georgia Institue of Technology

In article <1992Sep27.152421.1389@cnsvax.uwec.edu> mcelwre@cnsvax.uwec.edu writes:
>                         CHRISTIANS ARE BEING DUPED! 
>      
>               Therefore, all those Christians who worship Jesus, and 
>          pray to Jesus, and expect Jesus to return and save them from 
>          their sins, are only KIDDING THEMSELVES, and have allowed 
>          themselves to be DUPED by a religion that was mostly 
>          MANUFACTURED by the Romans. 

Well, I ask you "how come the Romans said Paul was teaching things 
unlawful for them the accept or practice??????????"

   Acts 16:20   They brought them before the magistrates and said, "These men
      are Jews, and are throwing our city into an uproar
   Acts 16:21   by advocating customs unlawful for us Romans to accept or
      practice."

   
Here is what Paul advocated:

   2 Cor 4:5   For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and
      ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.

Paul even said he worshipped the God of our (the Jews) fathers:

   Acts 24:12   My accusers did not find me arguing with anyone at the temple,
      or stirring up a crowd in the synagogues or anywhere else in the city.
   Acts 24:13   And they cannot prove to you the charges they are now making
      against me.
   Acts 24:14   However, I admit that I worship the God of our fathers as a
      follower of the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that
      agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophets,


Paul as called to go to the Gentiles:

   Rom 1:1   Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set
      apart for the gospel of God--
   Rom 1:2   the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the
      Holy Scriptures
   Rom 1:3   regarding his Son, who as to his human nature was a descendant of
      David,
   Rom 1:4   and who through the Spirit of holiness was declared with power to
      be the Son of God by his resurrection from the dead: Jesus Christ our
      Lord.

Paul even rejected the attempts at making him a god:

   Acts 14:11   When the crowd saw what Paul had done, they shouted in the
      Lycaonian language, "The gods have come down to us in human form!"
   Acts 14:12   Barnabas they called Zeus, and Paul they called Hermes because
      he was the chief speaker.
   Acts 14:13   The priest of Zeus, whose temple was just outside the city,
      brought bulls and wreaths to the city gates because he and the crowd
      wanted to offer sacrifices to them.
   Acts 14:14   But when the apostles Barnabas and Paul heard of this, they
      tore their clothes and rushed out into the crowd, shouting:
   Acts 14:15   "Men, why are you doing this? We too are only men, human like
      you. We are bringing you good news, telling you to turn from these
      worthless things to the living God, who made heaven and earth and sea
      and everything in them.

For Christ and His Kingdom,
Richard Pitts
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