"as they retain the outer form of religion but deny its power. Stay away from these people! " 2 Timothy 3:5
Religion
Temple Mount, Jerusalem - Muslims on top and Jews at the western wall of the platform upon which the Temples stood.
While we have noted that God wants to have a relationship with men and women, mankind has tended to turn that into religion - or religions. Mankind has developed Gods created in man's image and imagination. Some religions have nothing to do with the one true God who created the universe. Other religions are systems developed from the faith that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob revealed, into systems and hierarchies that get in the way of the kind of relationship God wants with men and women.
Theology
From the Greek words for words and God, Theology is how we think and talk about God. So every person is a theologian and has a theology.. However, the theology that many hold is not as God intended. Theology does not have to be complicated, but it needs to be formed with the help of God's Holy Spirit opening his scriptures to our understanding.
Cross-exchange The exchange Jesus made with us
Beginner's Guide to Christian faith
Beginner's Guide to Messianic faith
Rabbi Jesus (Yeshua from Nazareth)
The deal - getting saved through Jesus
The world and the Christian
The cross - why is it a problem to the Jews?
The Trinity - God in three persons
Threads running through the Bible
Bad theologies - especially Replacement Theology
Under law ? - Do Christians really understand when they talk about THE LAW?
Grace and Law - discussed
Faith - Matters of faith sub directory ?
Follower To become a follower of Jesus
Greek or Hebrew The need to understand the Bible as a Hebrew book - Hebrew
Praying - Communicating with our Heavenly Father
Prayer - Jewish perspective on prayer
Healing - reconnecting with Healing in the Gospels
Sacrifice - all the different sacrifices
Kingdom - the Kingdom of God /Kingdom of Heaven
Bless / curse - Cursed? - Blessing
Big words in Christian terminology
Christendom ? - Christian myths - Christian dates
Halloween - harmless fun or evil?
Holy week for Yeshua
Names in the Bible - their significance
Olive tree - the reason for wildolive
Olive parable - the reason for wildolive
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem - how and why.
Rapture - when to expect it ?
Revelation - book of
Revival - what is it ?
Signs in the Heavens - eg Blood Moons
Temple of Ezekiel - planned but not yet built - when will it be built.
Until as a Biblical concept
Where was God? / Where is God?
Why so hard ? - Why are the Jews so resistant to the Gospel of Jesus?
Whither the church ? and Is the problem fundamental ?
Unbelief - Important truths that have fallen by the wayside in the Church.
Social Gospel - is it compatible with the Gospel of Jesus?
Wealth and the Bible
Poverty biblical or socialist perspective
Violence and the Bible
Philosophy and Christian belief
Persecution and the believer
Different Religions
Briefly, there are several religions that may be called polytheistic - believe in many or varied gods and spirits that have to be appeased to ensure success and even survival.
We all worship the same god - Right?
Judaism and Christianity
God called a man out of polytheism and through him, established the religion of the Jews, known as Judaism. Judaism developed and diversified and, at the right time produced the promised Messiah (anointed one) The coming of the Jewish Messiah (Christ in Greek) started off Christianity, that has become predominantly Gentile - and at various times in history, Jewish followers of the Jewish Messiah, mostly known today as Messianic Jews. The Jews and their rabbis who did not accept Yeshua from Nazareth as the expected Messiah restructured Judaism to cope with the new situation of exile and the lack of a Temple and sacrifices. Modern Judaism is not the same as Judaism in the time of Jesus.
Jews & Christians - sub directory
Being there pro Israel events
Calendars - Jewish and Christian
Church History - England history
Olive tree - the reason for wildolive
Olive parable - the reason for wildolive
Rabbi Jesus (Yeshua from Nazareth)
Ruth as a parable of Israel and the Church
Saul / Paul - did he change his name?
Strategy - God's purposes for Israel
What can I do ? - ideas
Where was God? / Where is God?
Islam - Mohammed
Islam claims to be the third monotheistic religion and claims to have superseded all religions that went before. Islam claims prophets from the Hebrew scriptures as Muslims and also Jesus (who it credits as being the Messiah) Early writings in Islam's scriptures are friendly and respectful to Jews and Christians, but these were abrogated by later writings and traditions from Mohammed. Islam maintains that Christians and Jews corrupted their scriptures but that Mohammed received a corrected version. Islam is currently in head-on conflict with all other religions and Israel is on the front line, as Islam claims it to be Islamic territory for ever, having once been conquered (by the sword)
Islam - Is what we are told about Islam true?
Islam's "Tiny Few Violent Extremists" - a myth?
Islamic State attacks France - 16 November 2015 - background
Who is God?
Are all Gods the same God ? - or Do we all worship the same God?
We all worship the same god - Right?
What is God's name and what does that mean to us?
Christian opposition to Israel
While Christian support of Paul's view of being grafted into God's olive tree that was once entirely Jewish / Israel is generally known as Christian Zionism, there is a majority position within the church that is known as Replacement Theology. Replacement theology holds that God rejected Israel when the leaders rejected Jesus, and that all the Bible's promises now belong to the (predominantly Gentile) Church. The most extreme manifestation of this view is known as Christian Palesinianism - almost a mirror image of Christian Zionism.
Baptist Times - "Peacemakers" article
CATC (Christ at the Checkpoint conference)
Replacement Geography - Lies about geography of Israel and surroundings
Replacement History - distortions of History - against Israel
Replacement Theology - "God rejected Israel"
Individual Christians against Israel
My denomination - Baptist Missionary Society against Israel
Sizer - anti-Israel article by Steven Sizer published in in Baptist Times
W.C.C. - World Council of Churches
Is the problem with the church fundamental ?
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