I personally find all this prophecy thing really pointless to the message of the Bible, which is that God loves us and Jesus died for us.

So many branches of religions are so caught up with trivial things that surely can't be of any significance to an infinite being like God who they paint to be an egomaniac. I mean, why in the world would a super-intelligent being want people to prepare foods certain ways, to have things on their heads, to do rituals, to circumcise children (which I agree with Carla is a horrible thing to do to any baby). It's illogical to my mind, and I believe that was part of Jesus's message, to "correct" misrepresentations of God that required all these things. To me, Jesus seemed to be saying we serve God best by serving our fellow human beings.

I really don't have much time for "organized" religion, the rituals, the arguments over theology, the looking for meanings in things that we could give any meaning too that can breed prejudice and hatred and oppression.

I believe a wise person will, as Jesus said, build his home on a rock - i.e. will listen to the moral guidelines of the Bible and live by them. They will love God, their fellow human beings, the animals and the natural world.

That to me is what being a Christian is about. All this other stuff it totally unimportant to me.

Just my opinion.