In this chapter we look at the Roman-Greco influence of philosophers and at the 19th century terms henotheism and kathenotheism that were used to refer to the exalting of a particular god as exclusively the highest within the framework of a particular hymn or ritual—e.g., in the hymns of the Vedas (the ancient sacred texts of India).
Category: World of Present age
Religion and believers #4 Order of Nature and Polytheism on the way to monotheism
We look at how personifications of truth, justice, and the cosmic order came to result in a search for one highest being.
Religion and believers #3 From father and mother gods to land and local gods
We have a look at the father gods and mother gods or rulers of all the gods that people choose to worship.
Religion and believers #2 Different forms of Truth
Observation of nature; closer attention to its contrasts of life and death, or light and darkness, or male and female brought people to worship elements of nature.
Religion and believers #1 Lots of groups and forms of belief to be taken interest in
In Christendom there are groups who find themselves exclusive, believing they are the holders of the absolute truth, while all others are heretics or even the work of the devil himself.
Rome still rules the shadowy old world order
At the beginning of our contemporary age a son of man was hailed, by some triumphantly praised as a king entering Jerusalem, by others regarded as a dangerous person undermining their power. About 2 000 years later it are still religious leaders who do not want people to come to know that Nazarene man or to accept him as the son of God and future King of this world.
Only once and with consequences
Jesus told his disciples that he will return only once and that when he does, after a time of great tribulation, it will be visible to everyone and be followed by immediate and dire consequences for those unprepared and for those who were adversaries of God.
Evangelizing in the “Time of the End”
All Christians are commissioned and obligated to be evangelizers wherever they are, in that they preach the good news to all sorts of men.
Preaching Christ not done to isolate him in the minds of their listeners
In Scriptures people are asked to teach their children diligently and to go out to tell everybody and to reason about the importance of faith in Christ, Jeshua or Jesus Christ being the sent one from and son of God bringing people to God and to salvation..
The Most Appropriate teacher and Scoffers in our contemporary age
2000 years ago Jesus spoke about such teachers who think they are the only ones who can explain the Bible. Today people should be aware that it is the Scriptures itself that can explain everything and that it is Jeshua, Jesus Christ, whom we should follow as the most perfect teacher.
Already in the time of Jesus excluding real followers of Christ
It is not just of this present day that real followers of God and of Christ were not liked so much and that church leaders wanted people to have in control and being considered as important persons to be spoken to by their tittle.
When a day of darkness and of gloominess shall come
Coming closer to the Latter days we should know about the necessity to proclaim the Gospel or to go out to preach the Good News of the coming Kingdom of God, even when we may encounter many who would like to do everything to discourage us and to put us in a bad light.
A Look at some Watchtower publications about baptism
A look at the bible Students and different Jehovah's Witnesses regulations or prescriptions and rules for undergoing baptism.
From those preaching the Gospel and Baptism in Jesus name
Always there have been real followers of Jesus who only worshipped his One God, the God of Israel. Many centuries they worked and preached behind closed doors, avoiding persecution and death on the balefire. In fear of the stake for centuries the real followers of God baptised people in their faith, not demanding to be part of one or another church but being part of the Body of Christ.
For those who are attacked and left the Jehovah’s Witnesses Organisation
An invitation to Jehovah's Witnesses who want or did leave the Jehovah's Witnesses organisation. for them there are many other non-trinitarian groups willing to welcome them as brothers and sisters in Christ.