For the first eighteen years of their lives they lived a life where they were completely sheltered from the harsh truths of the outside world by their parents; usually. However once they turn eighteen and attend college, they are no longer protected by their parents as to today's culture see this transition as to one of the steps to adulthood. College students are completely ignorant to the many truths of the world. That it is not so nice and amusing as they may have assumed it to have been.
The most common decision a student may face is the entire basis of religion. For the first eighteen years of their lives they may have been attending church or some other place of worship whenever it was appropriate. They only attended such a place because of their parents and only continued to attend because either they assumed it was something they had to do or they were forced to go as I was during my childhood.
Once they enter college they have been developing their minds further and further into a state of better understanding of the world so they may be able to adapt and be able to live in today's society. Now that they are in college or maybe even before that they come to question their religion as just about everyone has done at least once somewhere along their lives. Questions pop into their minds wondering why the world is the way it is now.
-If God was an all knowing, all powerful being, why did he create us the way we are as to question his very existence and not make it so that we will believe him unconditionally?
-If there is only one God then why is it that there are so many different sects to how they may worship the Lord?
-If God was a loving being who passes on the concept of endless forgiveness why do such entities as demons, apocalypses as the end of days, and ethereal locations as hell exist?
-If we were created in the image of God, why is taboo for us to attempt what God does as we were created to be like him.
-If God loved us so much, why is it that he must test us by forcing us to live in a mortal world?
The more questions a student may ask themselves the more and more reasoning of how they come to question religion more and more and see how it isn't consistent. Even with the convenient answer as it being entirely on "faith", in today's society logic rules the world and "faith" completely defies the very existence of logic. It is commonly explained that logic can not be used for such matters as religion because it is based on the belief of something without any proof, fact or sense.
I find it cruel that they come up with convenient answers as "faith" and base all their answers to circular reasoning when nothing in their basis was even proved to be even remotely true and yet they use this false logic to respond to true logic.
"Until the martyrdom of Jesus, Judaism was the uncontested religion of Jerusalem. But what began as a Jewish sect quickly spiraled into a worldwide phenomenon, with repercussions that have resounded from thousands of years ago to this day. The rise of Christianity marks an event in history that would forever change the face of religion in the Holy City and the world.
In the latter days of the Second Temple, when Roman occupation was a constant shadow on the streets of Jerusalem, there arose the man who was destined to inspire one of the most popular religions on earth. The crucifixion of Jesus is an event that has been universally told and retold for centuries.
The first Christians were Jews, and in fact did not yet refer to their belief system as Christianity. The first Jews to follow the teachings of Jesus were adherents to Jewish law and still revered the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. In that age, the practice of Judaism had splintered into several sects that often clashed, so the presence of yet another sect did not immediately present itself as a threat to the Jewish religion. Jewish Christians believed that Jesus had been the Messiah and would someday return to earth.
The first Christian leaders are known as the “Pillars"; three men who formed the bedrock of the faith. Foremost among them was James the Tzaddik (i.e., “righteous man"), Jesus’ brother. James was not initially a follower of Jesus, but experienced a vision of Jesus following his brother’s crucifixion. James was a highly respected figure throughout the city, who kept the laws of ritual purity so stringently that he was even permitted in parts of the Holy Temple usually reserved for priests. The other two of the “Pillars" were Peter and John, and all three men led the mother church that was located in Jerusalem.
Other churches sprung up in other towns in Judea. But it was Paul, a Jewish convert to Christianity, who spearheaded the transformation of Christianity from a sect of Judaism to a universal religion. With the consent of James, Paul led missions to convert gentiles to Christianity. James acquiesced on condition that the new converts would donate money to the mother church, as fulfillment of the prophecy of the End of Days which foretold that gentiles would bear gifts to Jerusalem.
Paul’s universalization of Christianity cut the religion from its moorings in Jerusalem. From that time on, Christianity was a religion that had no place, no fixed physical dwelling. Its location was in the belief in Jesus, which could be found anywhere.
This would not always be true: in later centuries the Christian identification with Jerusalem was so strong that some Christians were even willing to die for the capture of Jerusalem. The Crusades of the Middle Ages signified a time when the physical location of Jerusalem was regarded as vital to the wellbeing of Christendom. Popes and kings throughout Europe issued the battle cry, plunging the Holy City into hundreds of years of sporadic war."
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