I'll just address two points from posts in the past 24 hours here.

First, about the barbarism of Christianity.

Honestly egan, this is like saying a tree hugger has gone about chopping down trees.

The information you are getting (and I've responded to it from you in the past on this forum) is not Biblical. It sounds as if it is coming from the Discovery Channel or some other lying organization such as that. The television and mass media in general is horribly slanderous toward the Bible. They lie constantly—In fact in nearly every program I've ever seen. This includes the History Channel, Bibliography Channel, MTV, VH1, and others.

Christ's teaching and work were about redemption, forgiveness, removal of guilt, and most of all, love.

I will also point out, as I've done in previous posts (not in this thread, however) that the Catholic church is the "anti-Christian" church. It is an attempt to assimilate Christianity. It is not Christian in it's origin or nature. It only looks that way on the surface. I'm sorry if this offends anyone. I am not saying that Catholic members are bad. I'm simply saying that the "church" as a system is decidedly anti-Christian.

The catholic church has been used to create slander against Christianity for a long time, and this is by design. The truth is, slandering Christianity because of what the catholic church does is no different than slandering Christianity because of what the mormon church does.

This takes some study to find all of this out, but those who have the passion to do their homework will come to the same conclusions.

About the human soul...

Humans are often referred to as a souls. God refers to Himself as a Soul. The Holy Spirit is indeed a Spirit, and is the Spirit of God, just as humans have a spirit.

The essence of what I was trying to get across in my post above is that humans and God are three-part beings:

Soul, Body, and Spirit.

The soul of God is the Father. The soul of humans is the center of our emotions and passion.

The Body of God is Christ. The body of humans is self evident.

The Spirit of God is the Holy Spirit. The spirit of man is the center of intellect, creativity, and reasoning.

To paint a simple picture of mankind as a seagoing vessel:

(1) the soul is the engine,
(2) the body is the frame,
(3) and the spirit is the rudder.

The scripture about the war within our members makes sense when you understand this foundational information. The soul of mankind and the spirit are "at war" with one another, especially when we're young. As we train our emotions, they act more in harmony with our soul leading to a more peaceful existence.

I hope this helps those who read it.


[color:"brown"]"But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin."[/color]

—Romans 7:23-25