Which means this Methodist minister, John M Swomley, is a huckster who doesn't believe in the Ten Commandments. The Bible, God or even Heaven & Hell. Yet he is firmly committed to the concept of Original Sin? How convenient.
It's truly amazing how much religion has allowed itself to be so perverted in one generation. Perhaps I am just seeing it that way. Maybe the truth is, religion has been slowly perverting itself all along.
I think I have always been somewhat suspicious of all religions, and waffled in and out of belief in God (especially in my younger years, and at my convenience of course) until I looked around and decided that this all could not have happened by coincidence. There indeed had to be a creator. The fact that it is still in existence, proves to me that our creator still exists as well.
>> Perhaps I am just seeing it that way. Maybe the truth is, religion has been slowly perverting itself all along.
The perversion is ongoing, and the extent of it is cyclical. Less than fifty years after Jesus did his redeeming work, St. Paul was correcting the religious perversions of the Christian churches in various places (Galatia, for one). And so on and so forth, ever since. But the word of GOD has endured through all of it — and GOD’s word will endure forever.
>> The fact that it is still in existence, proves to me that our creator still exists as well.
Yes He does. I’m happy that you thought it through and came to that (IMO inescapable) conclusion.
The fallen angel called satan still exists as well, and it’s that liar, destroyer and thief that is responsible for perverting GOD’s creation in so many ways (including the one that is the topic of this post).
FRegards, and GOD’s blessings on you and yours