WOW, what a misquote and a misconception.
I didn't say that it was an insult to God to believe what Jesus taught. I'm saying that thinking of what Jesus taught as anything less than a lifestyle, mentality, and a thought process is insulting to God. I consider Christianity - more specifically the teachings of Jesus and his students along with the earlier teachings regarding the heart of the laws of God - to be more than mere religion. For instance, when the Children of Israel were challenged concerning their motives behind their 'religious fasting' (Isaiah 55), God didn't criticize fasting itself. What He convicted them of doing was corrupting the spiritual meaning behind the directed act. So when I run across a biblical scripture that says "be not hearers of the Word only, but doers," that says to me that we have to regard our faith as a lifestyle, mentality, and thought process, so that our actions naturally reflect what we believe.
You see, many people would rather see a sermon than to hear one. I know this. So my drive behind being a Christian is not being the sermon you hear, but the one you see. Why would I say that doing this is an insult to God when it is the challenge and opportunity that He is lovingly laying before me?
I hope this clears up the misunderstanding, because I know that not everyone reads things the same way.
The _religion_ of Christianity is a lifestyle, a mentality, and a thought process.
You are incorrect to associate the teachings of Jesus with Christianity.
Every word I have ever posted in the Christian Study Forum has involved me showing, with the red words in the bible, how Christianity demonstrably is opposed to the teachings of Christ. It is heretical that Christians have gotten away, for so long, with pretending to be followers of Jesus when they are, with few exceptions, anything but that.
The Way in which their indefensible misconceptions are protected here on Destee.com is a microcosm of how they are similarly protected by persons in positions of authority in the State. All of which was foretold in the last book of the bible. The Beast is the State. The Whore of Babylon is religion in general and Christianity in particular. The Beast and the Whore of Babylon work together to realize the will of the Dragon [the devil]. The Devil is not a sentient being but is allegory for the dark side of man itself [6-6-6, the number of man, the number of electrons-protons-neutrons in the carbon atoms from which carbon-based life is manifested].
The destiny of mortal man is to realize that the manifestation of flesh, his body, 6-6-6, is not the real Self.
The book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ is not about a physical war or about the Rapture as Christians teach it and portray it in books such as the Left Behind series. The last book of the bible is allegory about the ascension of man from mortality [son of Man] to Immortality [Son of God]. The war is not physical but spiritual. The rebuilding of the temple is not the physical rebuilding of a temple in the Holy Land but allegory for the rebuilding of the temple within --- about rebirth --- about seeking the kingdom of God within.
But, or course, Christianity does not teach this because Christianity is opposed to the teachings of Jesus about seeking the kingdom of God _within_.
Luke 17:20-21 "And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you."