Cults: A Handy Reference Guide - real handy

LOL. I've been teaching compartive religions and history of religious thought for a long, long, time D, and that is the very first time anybody has come up with that one. May I use it?

A religion or religious sect generally considered to be extremist or false, with its followers often living in an unconventional manner under the guidance of an authoritarian, charismatic leader.
The followers of such a religion or sect.
A system or community of religious worship and ritual.
The formal means of expressing religious reverence; religious ceremony and ritual.
A usually nonscientific method or regimen claimed by its originator to have exclusive or exceptional power in curing a particular disease.

Obsessive, especially faddish, devotion to or veneration for a person, principle, or thing.
The object of such devotion.
An exclusive group of persons sharing an esoteric, usually artistic or intellectual interest.
[Latin cultus, worship, from past participle of colere, to cultivate.]

A core of the Christian doctrine is that God, in the form of Christ had to become a Man-- that is to live as a human-- in order to act as a sacrifice for the sin of humans. His death as experienced as a human was a big part of it.

Aliens on another planet would not be humans.

Clearly Jesus would have to experience life and death as a Yachxra in order to act as a sacrifice for the sins of Yachxras. And as a Kjraynoon for the sins of the Kjraynoons.

A core of the Christian doctrine is that God, in the form of Christ had to become a Man-- that is to live as a human-- in order to act as a sacrifice for the sin of humans. His death as experienced as a human was a big part of it.

Aliens on another planet would not be humans.

Clearly Jesus would have to experience life and death as a Yachxra in order to act as a sacrifice for the sins of Yachxras. And as a Kjraynoon for the sins of the Kjraynoons.

Gee, you even spelled them right Tico. Way to go.

Tell, me Tico and Fox, do you actually, really, believe in Adam and Eve?

ebrown_p wrote:

A core of the Christian doctrine is that God, in the form of Christ had to become a Man-- that is to live as a human-- in order to act as a sacrifice for the sin of humans. His death as experienced as a human was a big part of it.

Aliens on another planet would not be humans.

Clearly Jesus would have to experience life and death as a Yachxra in order to act as a sacrifice for the sins of Yachxras. And as a Kjraynoon for the sins of the Kjraynoons.

Suppose those Yachxras and Kjraynoons might have a different history with God? Perhaps their Adam & Eve didn't sin? Point being, the redemption of Christ need not apply across the Universe. At least that's my lay opinion.

I already posited they needed "saving" for some reason. Th ealiens who do not need it are excluded from our sample.

Still say we can't have a super kingsize multigalactic redemption?


Bearing in mind that each lot can have it at a different time, cos the lightwaves will take so long to reach them.

Unless there is a miracle.

Tico, are you kidding me, or are you actually saying you believe in the Bible story of Adam and Eve?


Don't mess with me! Please!

Tell, me Tico and Fox, do you actually, really, believe in Adam and Eve?

dlowan wrote:

I already posited they needed "saving" for some reason. Th ealiens who do not need it are excluded from our sample.

Still say we can't have a super kingsize multigalactic redemption?


Bearing in mind that each lot can have it at a different time, cos the lightwaves will take so long to reach them.

Unless there is a miracle.

As I said, God works in mysterious ways. Who are you to suggest God's plan of redemption isn't appropriate in some way, or you have a better solution?

Of course you don't, but are merely projecting your doubt in God and Christ.

dlowan wrote:

Tico, are you kidding me, or are you actually saying you believe in the Bible story of Adam and Eve?


Don't mess with me! Please!

I am a born again Christian, Debra. I understand you to be an atheist or agnostic, or whatever. Don't try and bring me down with you.

Dlowan writes

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Tell, me Tico and Fox, do you actually, really, believe in Adam and Eve?

Certainly. Humankind had to start somewhereand somehow, and at some point it had to learn the difference between doing it right and sin. I call that origin and human progress Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve require 10 letters to write or say. The other way takes 134 letters. I go for efficiency.