tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10407988.post8570145325985478107..comments2023-08-05T21:48:58.831-04:00Comments on Philochristos: William Lane Craig against Calvinism, a response, Part 5 of 5Sam Harperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15884738370893218595noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10407988.post-11053269906341959782015-02-26T18:25:02.160-05:002015-02-26T18:25:02.160-05:00Divine determination is evident only in the Bible....Divine determination is evident only in the Bible. The Jews were picked by a God as his chosen people. They were expected to keep the Mosaic laws which would make them distinct from the Gentiles. God would convert his chosen people (the Jews) and they in turn would convert the Gentiles. Abraham established a covenant with God for all generations to come and the Jew to this day honour that covenant by performing circumcision.<br /><br />Christianity has turned divine decree into a farce. They hijacked Judaism and turned it into a state religion of Rome which in turn made it a universal religion. The character of jesus was exalted to a deity and a Christian doctrine emerged under the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church by conforming to the dictates of the Roman Emperor Constantine around 325AD. We now see the shift from divine determination to the human interpretation of the Bible mainly the Old Testament despite the protest by custodians of the covenant, the Jews.<br /><br />It is the politicization of Christianity and the rejection of Jesus by the Jews that turned a sectarian Jewish religion into a global religion. Divine determination had obviously failed and Christianity morphed into God's new covenant with the Gentiles after some considerable retrofitting to make Christianity palatable to a diverse mix of would be believers.<br /><br />Where the Jews found Jesus a liar and a lunatic and put him to death for blasphemy for claiming a carpenters son had fulfilled the prophesies of the prophets, Rome was in search of a religion to deal with the diversity of religions followed by the people they conquered and ruled over. Constantine seized the opportunity and made Christianity the state religion.<br /><br />Divine universal determination an expansion of the original theme is truly a farce. To think that a religion that was created out of political expediency could deny its convoluted past is quite remarkable. As much as it is unthinkable that God failed to achieve his goal. It is just as absurd to think the bible having gone universal would escape global scrutiny.<br /><br />From the Christian Apologetic Press.<br /><br />"More Americans are moving toward an interpretation of the Bible as a book of fables, history, and moral precepts. ...Attempts at demythologizing the Bible that have been ongoing in the academy for years seem to be moving more and more from the classroom to the pews.... As recently as 1963, two persons in three viewed the Bible as the actual word of God, to be taken literally, word for word. Today, only one person in three still holds to that interpretation (1999, p. 36)."Harikrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12275048571912676216noreply@blogger.com