Comparative religion Arguments are for people who don't know what they are comparing with, to, or from without this understanding of source.
Actual comparitive religion will discover similarities leading to ultimate truths they share but don't own. I've done it my whole life. I don't suggest it lightly.
Until the true source is found, It becomes 'wise men in the dark' trying to describe an elephant.
Or as the sufic sage might say, "Like spittle from the mouths of fish on dry land."
Creation is made from Ideation first. All things.
Symbols are ideation.
To mistake the symbol for the ideation behind is 'looking at the finger pointing at the moon.'
You know what an argument between the true gnostics of every religion would sound like? Me either because there would be nothing to argue about. There would be a glorious silence instead.
Many paths, one source/destination. Many boats, one shoreline.
Once the shore is reached, one needs to get out of the boat.
See Christ calming The Storm while disciples ride it out in a boat.
Only Divine Inspiration can explain one's attempt to find the highest truths and the proof is in the pudding itself. Not its symbol.
The body of Christ consists of those who understand the concept.
'Christianity' is currently different in each head of the 99.
I provided a source. I knew nobody would even look, let alone read, let alone understand. It isn't about a book.
Yes Christianity is a cult religion, who could legitimately deny that? It's only esoteric in the highest of the hierachy. The higher the position, the more that one knows about the esoteric which means knowledge that is 'hidden' in the open from 'the profane'. A term used for the agnostic 'believer'.
The SOURCE of ALL languages.....all numbers/mathematics.....all names of things...Showing the blueprint map of creation aka 'the way/mind of god'. You're right, why should you, of all people, want to see and know and understand that and raise up from the 99?
I asked you to read the book before getting back to avoid the boring back-and-forth. I'm here to show things, not get into lower level arguments. See Elisha/Elijah as the principle of upbraiding the 'Church' by Divine Inspiration (Q/17/The Star).
If you avoid knowledge, it will become your enemy.
Being the seed of your forebearers (anna/annu as grandmother : See 'nanna/nanny') and naki (grandfather/forebearer).
The Plan is to create the perception of a super-race based off mis and dis-translations, many originating from the fraud named Sitchin.
Part of the Alien Invasion scheme.
I was in a Popeye's Chicken once. When I started eating my chicken with a fork, the p.a. music suddenly stopped, causing an eerie silence and everyone turned and stared at me, pointed and whispered. I put my fork down and licked my fingers before holding it in two hands and took a big bite, smiling as I got up and backed out of the door trying hard not to look like I was moon-walking.
Just like that, the p.a. music was back on, and the customers turned their attention back to their own tables. That was a close one.
I take it back. That wasn't a total fail at all.
Actually having 2 eyes, each representing 'sides' of perception of One, I chose the name to show how each 'side' needs to come to the One, without misleading with some misread 'Third Eye' nomer.
You stress this by showing the 'ass' of each word that exists.
You admit the One as non-dual, yet use dualism to duel with words.
Again....a needed medicine to some poisons that exist.
I'm curious. Do you have a way to express a connection to/desire for/appreciation of the One, once words fail?
Regurgitating All In the Family which was a retake of The Honeymooners.
They find a formula and beat it to death.
Now watch old Betty Boop cartoons with fresh eyes.
Especially these two:
Even adrenochrome is there in one. (A ghoul chases Betty Boop in the lab in 'Penthouse' aka how to raise up the pansies.
The "Old Man of the Mountain"... is Hassan i Sabbagh (Google)
Watch for the symbols.
. It continues to be practiced practically unchanged for 2000 years.
Disproof:
First men, then animals, then God/Jesus, then doves, now tithes and 'the eucharist'.
CHANGE
You said: "Using Christ's words to contradict His Church's practices, which He personally instantiated and later sent the Holy Spirit to guide the Church and the apostles is ignorant."
Mistaking man's constantly changing interpretation for God's WORD (truth) is what leads to error.
You probably don't realize how each book of the old testament is testament to the failure of the time's religion to come to ultimate truth and so was doomed to CHANGE.
Ignorant. One of us understands what the other is saying. One does not and ignores.
Read the source of what you believe you believe and find the error.
You know......that link you will definitely ignore.
Here it is again:
Truths can't be disproven. And only Truth is eternally unchangeable.
Christ is what is left after the sacrifice is made.
And you have no lock on quotes or interpretation, know that.
Good luck on your reading.
Christ didn't sacrifice himself. Now you aren't showing continuity. He was sacrificed by God's plan in literal interpretation, and then man blamed. If you don't offer your SELF to the God of All for its own Reason, magic and its motives won't matter.
If the Christos becomes the Christ and then Jesus Christ who absolves you from both sacrifice of self and sin, the original concept of the Christos and the Chrism are forsaken. During the time of modern Christianity's conception in Rome (Tarsus), gnostic christians called literalists "Seekers after smooth things." Meaning they miss the point by over-simplification.
They had a saying: "If you think heaven is in the sky, the birds in the sky will get there before you."
I've read that book many times over, gaining deeper understanding each time. Now read the one I sent the link to. I predict you won't. That would be a lot simpler.
There is very little 'level of continuity' in the bible when read literally and refusing to SEE the continuity....how sacrifice in the time of Leviticus or anyone else was a lesser understanding of old by primitive people and must be discarded and understood for the symbolic analogy it is. Until sacrifice of self is understood and accomplished, ritual is needed to assimilate.
There is no 'true UNCHANGED Church tradition except for the common source of all religion.
What book shows continuity by showing this common source?
Throw down your snake by reading this book and try to critique it.
Are you up to the challenge?
This book doesn't negate a thing. It leaves that to others.
He supposedly offered imperfect animals, but it's an analogy of how the hunter/gatherer stage of civilization practiced human/animal sacrifice in the past. Wine as blood and bread as flesh of a god is sacrifice-by-proxy as is the sacrifice by God of his son to the literalist who needs such analogy. To understand and raise above the ritual would do away with its need. Some need signs, signals, and commandments (the 99), and some don't. It's nothing to brag on.
One is 'real', one is imitation of the same act.
It's the temptor/self that is to be sacrificed.
The ritual fails to convey the actual message, that's why it was stopped.
Forgive them, for they know not what they do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqvNmSz9W04
Watch the Water
You don't accomplish the goals you state by revealing the trick, creating a backlash that has removed and/or imprisoned many officials so far, with thousands of proven indictments, giving proofs and setting an event clock that works. You quite obviously don't appreciate the sheer genius it took (See Cicada 3301) and faculties utilized (See Looking Glass) to create the scope of the plan. It isn't a checker game for people who can't decode a commode.
There were 'two thieves' on either side of the 'cross/crucifix' of 'christ'.
I attempt to bring Manna to both. Here's a sop:
A circumstance brought me to a discussion about Cognition with a top Cognitive Behavior Psychologist and by relation, with his 'team' of metaphysicists. They had a new theory called String Theory. I asked him to explain. When he'd finished, to make a long story short, I had shown lacking in the theory and offered something to allow it to work. I introduced the concept of spirit into the equation, inserted between 'that which is seen, and that which sees it' the word 'Magic'. Why magic? An invisible middle between all forces exist and that spirit is invisible yet constantly proven/inferred by the two. (thieves).
Micro to macro, one finds the two thieves as science and religion. They are enemies currently and always until the spirit is known, not guessed at or given a number of measurement or a 'name'.
This idea was excitedly accepted and introduced as their own of course. I let them do that, because I knew its fault and wanted no credit had they offered. lol
I was personally thanked, but you know what? They are currently trying now to remove the M (magic/spirit) from the equation, because they and science can't actually define it as a thing, and they don't believe in spirit.
What is known to the gnostic is magic to the agnostic 'believer'.
I fight thieves on both sides of the invisible middle (silence) from which is born the Logos/light, who's 'mantle' is to be worn, Until then, one could only hope to touch the hem of the garment. Let he who has ears hear.
How's the book coming? Read one page.