Who in their life has ever found a teacher of religion that can pass on the teaching of his church without impressing his own interests. We give a man a robe and put him at the front of the church and he stands there exhaulted by others. He gets the choice spot at dinner and everone puts on a polite and accepting face when he is around. We build him up and yet history tells us that men have used these positions to perpetuate their own power/evil. Is the flaw in relligion or man.
Christ didn't teach the leaders of the synogogue. They wouldn't listen and he intended to keep God's message from the learnered and wise so they wouldn't use it for themselves. We as people take this humble man's teaching and decide to exhault him and place him on the same plane as God. We equate him with God. We then take anyone who is the authority over this teaching (our priests) and equate them with God. We commercialize all that is religious. Easter and Christmas have nothing to do with religion.
2007-04-09 07:34:59 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think he makes a good point.
Some religions have made major corperations out of their beliefs. He/She may be a messenger but yet they are still human.
2007-04-09 07:43:32 · answer #1 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't celebrate Easter, celebrate the resurrection with a resurrection sunday, it doesn't have to be the same day as Easter or it could be, it doesn't matter. Don't celebrate Christmas, celebrate the miraculous incarnation of our Lord. Same thing, it doesn't matter if its on Dec 25 or some other day. It's about the now. Not some pagan thing in the past we don't have a connection to. Also, men who have studied the Word and have accomplished a level of degree should be
put on a higher level as a teacher or pastor. Someone who is a new Christian with little Bible knowledge shouldn't be teaching. Lots of wrong interpretation of scripture is being spread around by people who think they have the correct view of scripture when they do not. Above all read the Word for yourself and let the Holy Spirit direct you, not some unschooled "teacher" with pious superiority.
In Christ.
Tim
2007-04-10 01:19:30 · answer #2 · answered by Tim S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think this is much more of a problem among the independent non-denominational churchs and those with a formal overseer structure. I see a lot of men attracted to the pulpit in these churches that have a problem submitting to authority but no problem insisting on their apostleship to anyone who will listen. I encountered nothing like this in the Episcopal, Lutheran, Methodist or Catholic churches, where I have encountered a huge amount of servant-like humility with occasional exceptions, where among the fundies I've found a lot of authoritarians who aren't answerable to anyone. I've found that in nearly every independent evangelical church I've ever walked into. I think the fundamentalists attract the guys with personalities more like Jonah the angry prophet than like John the fatherly elder.
2007-04-09 14:49:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should be sick of it. The Bible warns of those "lording it over others" or ones "exhaulting themselves" The Jehovah's Witnesses have no such clergy class. Only a body of men who volunteer their time (they are not paid) to shepherd the flock according to God's arrangement. Just as in earlier times no elder is viewed as the principal one, the head of the congregation. That position has been given by God to his own Son, Jesus Christ. (Eph. 1:22, 23; Col. 1:18)
2007-04-09 14:59:35 · answer #4 · answered by Earthgirl1914 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Gee, had a bad experience or what?! Don't put your problems on everyone, the most devout holy man knows he is sinful and humbles himself. In your ramble I'm not sure if you are saying we take Jesus and exalt Him wrongly, but thats the problem. Your rambling is incoherent, don't applaus your own intellegence just yet, you have a lot to learn.
2007-04-09 14:42:09 · answer #5 · answered by Scott B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is one of the many reasons I follow Wicca. Although I do have a teacher he is not above me, we are all equals and we are friends. He is a man and can be wrong just as much as I can.
And Easter and Christmas are just variations on our Ostara and Yule, but we don't mind if you honor them in your way.
Bright Blessings )O(
2007-04-09 14:44:52 · answer #6 · answered by Stephen 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you truly must believe in another entity that created the infinite paradox that we live in, look to your heart. inside every person is the capability to determine what is right and what is wrong; it's called compassion.
religion, throughout history, has been nothing but a means to control. it has caused death and destruction, and it has seriously impeded scientific advancement.
the concept of religion may have good intentions, but humanity isn't advanced enough to reap the benefits of it. egotism is one of humanity's major flaws, as it contradicts compassion, and capitalism allows it to run rampant.
2007-04-09 14:53:59 · answer #7 · answered by gryphen 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋