Category: Comparative Religion
But, hey, Christians tell us Jesus had to die for our sins. A typical conversation might go something like this: Monotheist: Oh. So you believe God died? Trinitarian: No, no, perish the...
Of all the Christian mysteries, none rank as highly as the concept of Christ’s crucifixion and atoning sacrifice. In fact, Christians base their salvation on this one tenet of faith. And if it...
In the midst of the growing 19th and 20th century awareness of the differences between Trinitarian doctrine and the period of origins, a person might be surprised to find one group who claim to...
The concept of original sin is completely foreign to Judaism and Eastern Christianity, having achieved acceptance in only the Western Church. Furthermore, Christian and Islamic concepts of sin are virtual opposites with respect...
(Recollections of a convert to Islam) When I was a child, growing up in the sixties and seventies just a few blocks away from the notorious Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, I...
Christian clergy openly acknowledge that Jesus never called himself “son of God,” however they claim that others did. This too has an answer. Investigating the manuscripts that make up the New Testament, one...
“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.” —Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar Son of God,...
Some associate Jesus with divinity because he performed miracles. Many Unitarian Christians and all Muslims point out that Jesus did indeed perform miracles, but by the will of God and not through any...
Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in...
Idolatry It is a strange irony that those who reverence stones live in glass ideologies. —L. Brown Idolatry—every monotheist abhors the thought, and yet many commit the crime themselves. Few today fully grasp...
