[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you so much for pinging me to your sidebar!

Jesus came to make ALL religions obsolete... and DID.

I would say that Jesus didn't come to establish a religion but rather, a family in the new heaven and earth. (Revelation)

The "religion" was already established as the law, the Torah - as Jesus said:

For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. - Matt 5:18

And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. - Romans 11:17-18

IOW, it is one tree - not a new "religion" but a family.

[Mad Dawg]

I don't despair of much, but I do despair of being able to have a thoughtful conversation about the nature of the Church here. I will read what you all write, but I'm not going to participate.