Religion Questions? in Help Me Please
Revised: 10/17/2022 9:50 a.m.
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The first question I have is what is the point of praying when whatever you want you have to do yourself? Or someone helps you get what you want? Isn’t hard work and money the only way you get what you want? I don’t know anyone who has ever had what they wanted drop from the sky and I have never heard any religious figure who has died or I can see answer any of my wants and needs. I have always had to get this myself.
When I was a child and I was following “the day of atoment” I couldn’t understand that I was that horrible as a child and did things really wrong that I had to ask for forgiveness. But when I did I never did get an answer so I don’t even know if I was heard. Then after some years I just stoped asking for forgiveness and for the things I wanted. But the starnge thing is I always got what I needed so that makes no sense to me.
And do you really know all the why of what you do ? Like why do you have to do 40 days of lent? Why not just one day?
And did you know that some of these Christian holidays are derived from the Pagens? So why celebrate them?
This is what I found....
https://lifehopeandtruth.com/life/plan-of-salvation/holy-days-vs-holidays/
And this is the whys of the Jewish holidays....
https://www.jewfaq.org/gentiles_guide_to_holidays
I think there is more understanding of the why of the Jewish holidays then there is of the Christan holidays and you can actually understand why each holiday is celebrated because there is the story of each one.
I think no matter what your religion is there is always a lot to learn and sometimes when you want ansers to your questions not many people really know the true answer all they know is what they have been told.
The other thing I have noticed over the years is that all the pictures of jesus being hanged on the cross there are no nails in his wrists or his ankles. Why do people think he was nailed to the cross when he wasn’t?
Do you see nails here?
https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/jesus-christ-hanging-on-cross.html
And this is what he did to get hanged…
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0040571X8508800204?journalCode=tjxa#:~:text=He%20is%20arrested%20in%20Gethsemane,his%20threat%20against%20the%20temple.
I am so glad that when we do someting illeagal or wrong we at least get to try to defend ourselves and tell our side of what happeend before judgment is passed.
Oh and I have another question? If jesus was Jewish then where did Christianity come from? I still can’t understand that.
Okay onto something else....
Today hubby and I are staying in and just chilling and not doing much. And I am noit sure what to have for dinner but whatever it is I know it will be good.
Well it looks like it will be a nice day, but we seem to have a lot of smoke in the air from the fires that are near the mountin. But still it will be a good day.
I need to stop here…
Do have a great day…
Be Kind, Be Calm, Be Safe and Behave.
Last updated October 17, 2022
crystal butterfly ⋅ October 17, 2022
As far as I know Christians only have two holidays. Christmas and Easter. And those are easy to understand. I have gone and researched the why's behind some of the Jewish holidays. We hear the most about hanukkah but Yom Kipper is the biggie. And Christians are called Christians because one of the roman emperors called the followers of Christ Christians. This is not a name they gave themselves. Easter is always on the same day following Passover because the Bible says that is when Christ died and was resurrected. All the pagan nonsense was added by others. They do not have an true date on when Jesus was born so what I studied was that early believers wanted a date to celebrate and chose a date to complete with pagan days of celebration. And lot of extras have been added to that holiday now. As the secular and commercialism had been added to all holidays some are no longer even celebrating the reasons the original holidays were established. Basically in modern times they are simply days to have a day off work. My opinion only in the last sentence.
Jodie crystal butterfly ⋅ October 17, 2022
Even though I am jewish I always felt that there is really no proof of the holidays and the trials and tribulations because there has been no one who has actually experianced these. Like Hannakka is the festival of lights because they walked threw the desert and the oil lasted for 8 days but I am mot sure about that.
Question? Do you pray for things you want or do you work for what you want?
crystal butterfly Jodie ⋅ October 18, 2022
If you do not believe in the writings of the Torah then there are many, many other history books that you cannot believe in. Because those writers are also long dead and there is no one alive who actually experienced those things.
And I do pray for what I would want to work for me, but I also tell Him that it is His Will that I will accept. If what I am praying for is not the best for me I know that the Lord will not grant it. It is like praying for healing of a seriously ill or injured person. You need to make sure you will accept the healing that God grants. Whether complete healing if they enter the gates of heaven or earthly healing so they are still on earth. And some healing does not mean a complete return to the way things were. I know some people whose healing has kept them alive but they are wheelchair bound. I have had some prayers answered in mighty ways. I got my doublewide moved about 450 miles so I could live in it here. When I popped a bottle of tranquilizers I only took a long, long nap but am still alive. (one of the stupidest things I have ever done) I see people I know walk when they were told they would never walk again.
I guess I believe by faith and not by sight. Just because I was not there to witness things I do not doubt they happened. The things that happened in the part of my country have not been experienced by people in other parts of the country. And things you have experienced and history you have lived thru is not the same as where I live now. But that does not mean it isn't true. They have been many archeology finds that have confirmed many of the stories in the Old Testament. Many scientific finds that uphold things in the Bible.
I guess I just have faith in my God, the one and only God.
Jodie crystal butterfly ⋅ October 18, 2022
It;s not that I don't believe the holy book it's just trying to figure out if it's true.
crystal butterfly Jodie ⋅ October 18, 2022
It is true.
Jodie crystal butterfly ⋅ October 18, 2022
Question? What religious book do you think is really true and the facts are right?
crystal butterfly Jodie ⋅ October 18, 2022
I believe in the Bible. I have not read the Torah, but I know the Old Testament was written before my savior was born and it is Jewish scripture so I would probably believe it is true and the facts are right.
theKat crystal butterfly ⋅ October 18, 2022
they have Good Friday, Ash Wednesday too
crystal butterfly theKat ⋅ October 19, 2022
I guess I never thought of Ash Wednesday as a holiday since I have never attended a church that did anything with it. Nor one that did a celebration for Good Friday. I actually never know when Ash Wed is.
theKat ⋅ October 18, 2022
I always feel you do not pray for things you WANT... you pray for guidance, people's health and such. I call the other prayers greedy prayers... quite sure God does not answer those. you pray to get strength to cope, and to maybe feel better
Jodie theKat ⋅ October 19, 2022
I think whatever you want you need to work hard for them and when it comes to peoples health the only ones who can do something about that is the person who has the issue. All we can do is be their friend and that is about it and maybe be with them.