It is encouraging to be reminded that Christianity is the only faith that's not a religion. From the promise made to the serpent all those years ago..
GENESIS 3 .KJV . look up
15 [God speaking] I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
through the years of Jesus
’ ministry, torture, death, resurrection and ascension into Heaven..
ACTS 7 .KJV . look up
55 But he [Stephen] being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
56 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.
our Faith is based on historical events. Based on reality and not on rituals or indoctrination. The animals named by Adam really do exist. Those birds really do chirp. And none of them have ever proved suitable as helpers. When I see the Romish heretics or Lutherans or Quakers in their diminished status the "lessening" agent must be religion, intruding to various degrees. Such a contaminant reduces The Truth by superstition, rituals and dogma
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.all the trappings of religion
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.in many cases to such an extent, cannibals for example or goddess cults, that no Truth remains at all.