....for with God all things are possibleWell if we go by Biblical prophecy, I can't find any scripture that suggests that he'll come back as a Chinese woman who is the mistress to some powerful entity.
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....for with God all things are possibleWell if we go by Biblical prophecy, I can't find any scripture that suggests that he'll come back as a Chinese woman who is the mistress to some powerful entity.
Yes. . But I still am not buying that the 'possibility' in this case is that Jesus has returned as a Chinese woman who is mistress to the actual figurehead of the Church of Almighty God.....for with God all things are possible
I don't want to derail the thread by getting into a discussion on religion. This isn't about religion but about information on an organization that calls itself "Church of Almighty God" that may or may not be legit. I have all sorts of red flags warning me that it is not.
"Legit" in this context means just another weird religion that has no hidden self-serving agenda and that intends no harm to anybody.Well, you'd have to define "legit"
a very subjective term
That's debatable."Legit" in this context means just another weird religion that has no hidden agenda that would be destructive and that intends no harm to anybody.
As I said in the second sentence of that post.That's debatable.
It's all far out stuff. Why is virgin birth "legit" but a Chinese Jesus is not?As I said in the second sentence of that post.
Whether myth or real, the virgin birth is fulfillment of prophecy. A Chinese Jesus who is a mistress is not.It's all far out stuff. Why is virgin birth "legit" but a Chinese Jesus is not?
Laius ignored the warning, but after the child was born he gave him to shepherds to expose on Mount Cithaeron. The child was found and raised among the keepers of the horses of Polybus. As a grown man, Oedipus did indeed kill his father, not realizing who he was, and then married his mother. When he discovered the truth he blinded himself. In this story, he is clearly considered to be the son of Laius and Jocasta. This is also obvious in Sophocles' "Oedipus the King".[26] According to Boslooper, "The two passages indicate that in the Greek mind the thoughts of divine and human paternal participation in conception were not mutually exclusive."[4] (p. 178)King of Thebes for horses famed! seek not to beget children against the will of heaven; for if thou beget a son, that child will slay thee, and all thy house shall wade in blood.[This quote needs a citation]
The hope for a savior was expressed in Virgil’s “Fourth Eclogue". The Church fathers later claimed this was a reference to Jesus Christ, however, the poem was dedicated to Pollio, one of the great influential men at the time of the civil wars and Virgil's patron and friend. The hero of the poem is a child born or to be born in 40 B.C., at the time of Pollio's consulate. A new era was expected, in fulfillment of an older oracle.When Atia had come in the middle of the night to the solemn service of Apollo, she had her litter set down in the temple and fell asleep, while the rest of the matrons also slept. On a sudden a serpent glided up to her and shortly went away. When she awoke, she purified herself, as if after the embraces of her husband, and at once there appeared on her body a mark in colors like a serpent, and she could never get rid of it; so that presently she ceased ever to go to the public baths. In the tenth month after that Augustus was born and was therefore regarded as the son of Apollo. Atia too, before she gave him birth, dreamed that her vitals were borne up to the stars and spread over the whole extent of land and sea, while Octavius dreamed that the sun rose from Atia's womb.[4]: 180
... Now the last age by Cumae's Sibyl sung
Has come and gone, and the majestic roll
Of circling centuries begins anew:
Justice returns, returns old Saturn's reign,
With a new breed of men sent down from heaven.
Only do thou, at the boy's birth in whom
The iron shall cease, the golden race arise,
Befriend him, chaste Lucina; 'tis thine own
Apollo reigns ...
For thee, O boy,
First shall the earth, untilled, pour freely forth
Her childish gifts, the gadding ivy-spray
With foxglove and Egyptian bean-flower mixed,
And laughing-eyed acanthus. Of themselves,
Untended, will the she-goats then bring home
Their udders swollen with milk, while flocks afield
Shall of the monstrous lion have no fear...[30]
According to this text, the Vipassī Buddha was the first of six incarnations to precede Gautama. The others listed are Sikhī, Vessabhū, Kakusandha, Koṇāgamana, and Kassapa. The most popular legendary account of the birth of Buddha is in the Nidanakatha Jataka (see, Jataka tales) which accounted for the lives of Buddha in previous incarnations. In this account, the “Great Being” chose the time and place of his birth, the tribe into which he would be born, and who his mother would be. In the time chosen by him, Maya, his mother, fell asleep and dreamed that four archangels carried her to the Himalayan Mountains where their queens bathed and dressed her. In her dream the Great Being soon entered her womb from her side, in the form of a white elephant. When she woke, she told her dream to the Raja, who summoned sixty-four eminent Brahmans to interpret it.Now Vipassi, brethren, when, as Bodhisat, he ceased to belong to the hosts of the heaven of Delight, descended into his mother’s womb mindful and self-possessed.[This quote needs a citation]
The Lord of Secrets (gSang-ba'i-bdag-po) instructed the Holders of Wisdom (Rig-'dsin) in Dhanakośa in Uḍḍiyāna the contemporary Swat valley. There was a large temple, called bDe-byed-brtsegs-pa; it was surrounded by 1608 smaller chapels. King Uparāja, and Queen sNang-ba-gsal-ba'i-od-ldan-ma resided there. They had a daughter called Sudharmā; she took the novice vows, and soon afterwards the full monastic vows. Sudharmā, together with her maidens, stayed on an island and meditated about the Yoga Tantra (rnal-'byor-gyi rgyud). One night the Bhikṣuṇī Sudharmā dreamed that a white man had come, who was utterly pure and beautiful. He held a crystal vessel in his hand which had the letters oṃ ā hūṃ svāhā engraved upon it. Three times he set the vessel upon the crown of her head, and light then shone from it. While this happened, she beheld the threefold world perfectly and clearly. Not long after this dream the Bhikṣuṇī gave birth to a true son of the gods.[43]
But other sites seem to describe the group as persecuted by the CCP and maybe is weird in their beliefs but are basically harmless.
I don't know what to think.
Do any of you?
It's just I am too old, too experienced, and hopefully too wise to just accept whatever propaganda about anything or anybody is put out there as fact. So I guess my purpose with this thread is to get as much information on this so-called 'church' as I can so I will be armed with accurate information should I need it. Also, my old investigative reporter nosiness and curiosity never left me.I think everyone has to make their own decisions about God and religion/spirituality. But I do have a problem with any person or group that uses force or violence to further their beliefs. It sounds like your friend? has made her choice; so be it. And frankly I do have an issue with anything coming out of China being truthful. I wouldn't put anything past them, even beating a woman to death for political reasons.