In Reply to: Re: What I meant... posted by Farmer on June 16, 2010 at 01:38:55:
Take the mafia e.g....they have world-wide succes, but that is built on fear and suppression from the very beginning...built on Satan's lie/deceit, striving for earthly riches and power
Christian virtue and lifestyle was the opposite...
You cannot, IMHO argue from the much later stages of Christianity and the then orchestrated suppression by supposed Christians throughout history world-wide
That success of the Mafia is IMO a social phenomenon or not???
My thesis is:worldlings are successful in the world...although there were rich men of God, like Abraham and many richer Christians, but who used their riches to help
Again I find it "socially impossible/difficult" that a lie is appealing to man, in the idealistic sense...it's like building on sand in archetecture
or having and inbuilt flaw.
How would such a scheme be successful...again those critics know peanuts about the messianic prophecies....and if they did, they wouldn't come up with such a laughable scheme, to explain the success-story of Christianity...built on a "lie"...inspite of all the opposition and suppression