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**Reph: “If Christianity is thus dying in the West, it cannot live and flourish in the East. Can it? It is for you Hindus to decide.” **Dicampakkan ke comberan paling hina dina di Barat, dijual ke Timur melalui MNC-Churches, di timur di pasarkan oleh pendeta-pendeta yang berkhotbah layaknya penjual obat di TV., selanjutnya barang comberan itu dipungut oleh para pengangguran macam Jusfiq dan Sato, yang memang hidup dari memasarkan barang rombengan itu. Dying In The West? Posted October 4, 2005 Organiser October 09, 2005 By M.S.N. Menon Christianity is dying in the West. But it is springtime for Christianity in Asia and elsewhere. A Paradox? No. The Pope himself says so. According to Pope Benedict, "there is no longer evidence in the western world for a need of God, even less of Christ." Dear Hindu reader, are you listening? Do you know the implications of what he says? Perhaps not. But you should know-Christianity is in decline in the West because the West is ashamed of the Christian God Yahweh, who used to drink human blood, and it is flourishing in Asia because Asians are still under the spell of religion. But how is one to account for the loss of faith in Jesus Christ? Because there is increasing evidence that he never existed, because it is now discovered that the life of Jesus was built on lies by St. Paul. What is more, Yahweh has remained a jealous God, a God who rewarded and punished. And he was too closely associated with the Jewish race to become a God of mankind. Today we have about 100,000 monographs on Jesus Christ. But we know almost nothing about the man! His life was deliberately kept a secret by the church. And St. Paul created a Jesus to suit his own objectives. But are there other records to go by? Very few. Most were destroyed by the church. Pliny, the younger, mentions a sect called Christians, but never of Jesus Christ. Jesus does not even appear in the book of the Jewish historian Josephus, called Jewish Antiquities (published in 93 a.d.). The Jewish writer Justus lived in Tiberias, where Jesus was supposed to have lived often. But, he, too, never mentions the name of Jesus. Philo of Alexandria, another contemporary of Jesus, was a specialist on Jewish sects. But he too never mentions the name of Jesus. It is clear from all these that perhaps Jesus never lived, and if he lived at all, he was an insignificant person. It was St. Paul who built up the Christ figure. But today very few are willing to accept the Jesus Christ of St. Paul. It is this lack of proper evidence of his life and work, which made Ian Wilson, author of Jesus: The Evidence conclude: "There is scarcely a crumb of information to compel a belief in Jesus' existence." Rudolf Bultmann, the greatest New Testament theologian of the 20th century, almost said the same thing. Ernest Kasemann, a specialist on the New Testament at the Tubingen University, says of the research on the life of Jesus: "One is overwhelmed by how little of the accounts about Jesus in the New Testament can be called authentic! So, what passes for "Christianity "is the work of St. Paul. William Nestle, a Church historian, writes: " Christianity is the religion founded by St. Paul. It replaced Christ's gospel with a gospel about Christ." Modern theologians and researchers in religious history believe that the Central tenet of salvation through the death and suffering of Jesus has been a deliberate misinterpretation by Paul. He is also the author of anti-feminism in Christianity. He says:" It is good for a man not to touch a woman." Which is why Mary Magdalene was made into a prostitute. Paul is also the author of the concepts of Original sin and Trinity. In short, Paul produced a totally distorted message of Jesus. The trouble with the Bible, says Professor, Whitehead, “has been its interpreters, who whittled down that sense of infinitude into finitude...and the first interpreter of the New Testament was the worst-Paul. True, Paul put Jesus on a pedestal and saved Christianity from being branded a minor Jewish sect. If one is not sure about the existence of Jesus, what about the various claims made by the church on behalf of Christ? There is no evidence that Jesus died on the cross. A commission of Bishops (of York and Canterbury), after 16 years of research, declared that the Bible story of the crucifixion and resurrection of Christ was incorrect. Similarly, a book based on a study by seven of Britain's foremost theologians said that Christ was neither divine nor an incarnate. Among the distinguished theologians, who authored the book was Prof. Canon Maurice Wiles, Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford. They said; "The historical Jesus never presented himself as incarnate." Then, what is left of Christ and Christianity? Very little. Which is why the West is in no need of Christ. What is more, Darwin had already demolished the foundation of the Biblical story of Adam and Eve (Genesis). The entire edifice of Christianity had thus fallen. But the empire of the church and its vested interests are so powerful they can withstand any adversity. "Pesudo-Christianity," says George Bernard Shaw, "was and will be fact-proof." If Christianity is thus dying in the West, it cannot live and flourish in the East. Can it? It is for you Hindus to decide. --------------------------------- Apakah Anda Yahoo!? Lelah menerima spam? Surat Yahoo! mempunyai perlindungan terbaik terhadap spam. http://id.mail.yahoo.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. 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