Thread 17939552

Teach me what the true religion is and how and why. Explain in detail and don't hold back, write as much as you can. I love to read that stuff. Thanks.

>insinuating there’s a true religion
>posts an unrelated jpg
Retard

>>17939595
There is one. Definitely. There are two in fact, depending which human age you live in.

Metal is the trve religion, but it's blasphemous so you go to hek

>>17939552 (OP)
>Teach me what the true religion is
Christianity
>and how and why
By fulfilling the one promise all religions implicitly give: that you'll become fully human, fully alive. Which is only possible by communion with the Lord in whose image you're created.
>Explain in detail and don't hold back
No truth worth knowing is explainable in words. I'm not being a smartass here, words are really insufficient for topics like this, which is why some theologians outright told novices to not polemize about theological concepts they haven't experienced first hand. Words are good enough to say "He is risen." or to explain why "true religion" is misleading since religions aren't primarily systems of propositions... but they can only point towards the truth, not contain it. Christ is Lord.

>>17939606
Teach me more, this is the first interesting post.

>>17939620
Teach me more. Who is Christ?

>>17939622
There is a beautiful quote by John Chrysostom - if you cannot find Christ in the beggar on the street, you will not find him in the chalice [of eucharist].
I could tell you a hundred things about who Christ is theologically/mystically/narratively: the healer of souls, the forgiver of all sins, the man walking in perfect love and the God walking in perfect humility. But if you take an extra second during almsgiving and look the beggar in the eyes, you will see Christ for yourself.

>>17939552 (OP)
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>>17939640
Samefagging

>>17939640
I did have a share of a poor beggar's eyes. The question is do you trust your bible translators? How do you know modern translations are true? What if the trinity isn't in the original text, the Greek texts?

>>17939649
>The question is do you trust your bible translators?
That is a great question. One I set out to circumvent by actually learning Koine Greek and Biblical Hebrew. The results were pretty surprising: learning Koine adds virtually no insight whatsoever, since the flow of the text is pretty much the same as in English and many of the confusing sections are either exactly the same or they have novel words that first appear in the Bible (so you can't cross-reference their meaning philologically). And learning Hebrew is a waste of time because the language is so primitive that reading a translation in a language that has past/present/future tenses is an act of mercy. Distrusting translations and "edits" is mostly a meme that serves as an excuse to not engage with the text. The most severe "edit" I have ever found were "sons of Israel" replaced by "sons of God" in a Deuteronomic fragment, which wouldn't really make a difference to 99% of readers anyway. As far as my understanding goes, this is a non-issue.

> What if the trinity isn't in the original text, the Greek texts?
It's in the Tradition. Christ didn't leave us a book, he left us a Church where teachings, mindset, practices and a living communion with God were preserved. The Bible came later as a product of this Tradition. It makes no sense to distrust the Tradition in its central thesis (Trinity) while accepting its product (the Bible).
Granted, the Church has fragmented since the times of Christ, but Catholic and Orthodox seem to be pretty safe bets. It's not about the institution, but about being pure at heart.

>>17939662
You learned through the channel of already falsified info. I do not believe you can learn true koine Greek or Hebrew by studying the books we have today. This goes into schizo territory but I believe the ancient original forms of these two languages are now lost to time. You learned the book versions, not the actual ones.

>>17939681
Might very well be, I don't think I spent more than 18 months on it in total. One thing I know for sure is that whenever something spiritually unclean attacks me in my dreams, it ceases in an instant the moment I call out to Jesus Christ. Doesn't have to be Yeshua, doesn't have to be Khristos, the translated name works just fine. I have heard it said that Greek lends itself better to metaphysics than Old Slavonic, but other than that I don't have a reason to believe any of the teachings are contingent on linguistics. Language was always just a medium of expressing the living connection with God, which the Church keeps to this day. Pharisees knew the Bible inside out in Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic and they missed their Messiah and their God walking right past them.

>>17939552 (OP)
Baptist.

>true religion
Here it is

>>17939552 (OP)
>DEUS VULT

christianity is jewish nonsense lmao. it's disproven by science, history and even its own internal logic.

TRUTH does not need to be indoctrinated. Observe the world and figure out what is true.

religions that say the creator is deranged or indifferent is on the right track because this is plainly obvious.

>>17939552 (OP)
All religions are flawed because if humans could explain everything, God wouldn't be needed. That's actually the whole point of religion, to gesture at things that are beyond mere experience. All religions agree that God has dominion over the whole world, so it doesn't really matter what path you take: God/the world is so much greater than you, most sins have to do with petty human activity. That includes sins of screwed up worship -- social contract stuff. The only real theological impossibility is believing yourself equal to God. Believing you have true knowledge equal to the whole. That is illogical, since you're a mortal human born only recently. Accept the whole truth as represented imperfectly in scripture (the gape between mythology and reality) is much greater than you and much wiser, the only difference is how completely your own experience is prepared to interface with the concepts being communicated. That's why most people read scripture from their own culture with familiar concepts, to have a higher level understanding.