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Visit http://www.garcabranca.com for details/booking/confirmation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello Albert, Christianity as a religion has existed for around 2000 years. All the prophets sent prior to coming of Jesus, came only for the Jews, Jesus too came to the Jews hence called King of the Jews. It was only thru Jesus, that the Gentiles came to know God. And thru Paul the person as Saul who prosecuted the than followers of Jesus, himself became a staunch Christian, and went on teaching about Jesus to all places he went making disciples all around. During those days there were no bibles, and hence people believed what was taught to them and accepted the faith, and so till that time when rebellion started creeping amongst some for their own benefits. As far as I know, the protestant faith came only because one king protested cause he was not allowed to get married the second time, and the people who were under the king followed the king. Then there are many other sects of Christianity, like Lutherans, thru Martin Luther of Germany who too had rebelled, Methodists, etc etc, how they came about is unknown to me, Coming to Goa amchea ganv gara, it the Portuguese who brought the Christianity and too, Catholicism, Since than, people have believed the pulpit, as there was no way of checking what is taught is right or wrong as there were no Bibles than. And people respected and followed the teachings. People of then used to respect the priests, and I have myself witnessed this when Holy communion was given as the last sacrament, the priest would go with sacristian, with an umbrella covering the blessed sacrament, and people kneeling when they passed. (which is a rarity now). But what the church said was the truth for the people and it still is. Just this year the bible in konkani version has been released, earlier to that, it was only the New Testament, and hence the Ten commandments that you talk of or about Genisis, and Exodus, is what people learnt thru the preaching's of the priest, and followed them without questions, who you now say as to say your exact words " men might say anything, the listener should use his common sense and find out who is doing the talking..." well Albert how can one find out when there was no bible in the language people could read? And what about those who are illiterate? Our fore fathers only learnt what was taught to them, and obeyed it, until now. As for Genisis and Exodus, The Ten Commandments were taught in the catechism class. I wonder how many even knew of the existence of Bible than. And how many even had the opportunity to hold it in their hands. What do you think about all the practices that people practiced all these 450 years plus, were they right or wrong? Someone had written that Indian Christians do Idol worship because of their ancient Hindu culture, but what about other countries, like Mexico, Most European countries and also latin American countrie, and south American countries? I don't think they were Hindus before they were converted? I have heard that there are some Christian denominations, pay money for the people to join their groups. Mind you its not conversion, but just switching camp. I am not sure how correct it is. Can you shed some light on it? I liked what you said about prayer in your previous mail, but than what is wrong to say prayers written by others? In this modern generation, with so many books published about self help, imagine, even cooking books, one follows some one else's advices, if not fully but at least partly. Every day new books are published on self help. Imagine books on HOW TO COMMUNICATE, MEN ARE FROM MARS AND WOMAN FROM VENUS, HOW TO TALK TO ANYONE, do you think that is necessary? But still its done. Cheers Jerry Fernandes Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:36:27 +0000 From: "Albert Desouza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Goanet] Catholic religion Albert writes In Christianity there are certain things that have come from God.The Bible gives proper account of the same. Though there were certain things which appeared in the old testament and these things were confirmed by Jesus Christ when he was on earth.That Jesus Christ really came into this world died on the cross and rose again was proved long ago.The Genesis, the ten commandments,John's gospel speak volume of what God is and how He has tied us to him.While John's gospel, Luke's and Mathew or Mark tells us clearly who Jesus Christ really was. Even the Koran speaks about the ten commandments I think and they also believe that Jesus Christ really existed except that they do not believe that He rose from the dead. That Jesus Christ rose from the dead there has been eye witnesses to prove the same. All the demoniations of Christianity should stick to the Bible and have faith in the same.Men might say anything, the listener should use his common sense and find out who is doing the talking and whether he can prove what he says.There are certain things that are man made but people have been royally forced to believe it through made up stories.Pray to God and He will reveal the truth . I am writing this as one Jerry Fernandes has written that I am confusing him through my writings and this confusion is caused as we ourselves are blind and cannot lead another blind albert _________________________________________________________________ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. 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