[TheRealThing]

It still started as a small cult following. It wasn’t a major world religion in those days. And it didn’t really get going until about 50 years after Jesus’ death when it was written about in the Gospels. If anyone is to be given credit for the spread of Christianity it is Paul and his writings, which require a leap of faith because it’s second hand observation. Paul himself didn’t see any of the last days of Jesus.
And what really gave it the boost it needed was it’s acceptance by the Roman Empire. Without that happening it would probably would have been one of many different cults that sprang up in the region in those times and withered away to be replaced by others. Christianity happened to occur at just the right time in history for survival. And the rest is history.

No now that's not right at all.
Definition: cult •a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing:

Admiration for Christ is neither misplaced or excessive on the part of His people. After all, He is Creator of all, and He is the Giver of Life eternal, for all whom "by grace through faith" accept Him as Lord and Savior. And even the early Church was not really small. The Book of Acts recounts the fact that 3,000 souls were added to the Church in one day, but throughout the Acts of the Apostles, The Lord added to His Church daily. And one more thing, The God, Who had to but speak this universe into existence, didn't need Rome or anybody else to give Christianity (His Church) a boost. No power could have stopped It.


I have always found it ironic that men, rather than accepting the Lordship of God, would ascribe their existence instead to something as incredibly unlikely as an exploding space rock. I mean, think of it. Supposedly according to Stephen Hawking's latest revelation, before the big bang there was absolutely nothing. Not one speck of space dust, no light of any kind, no time, not so much as one degree's worth of heat or energy lurking within the vastly infinite icy black vacuum of nothingness. So okay fine, there was nothing and where did the rock come from then?

The irony is that whether one truly believes God, or whether he rejects God for the foolishness of evolutionism, which according to the way I understand it is supposed to be the result of a 'Big Bang' that never happened, he either believes in the Rock of Ages that is the person of God, or the rock of space. But which ever a man chooses, he must still take it on faith. The Christian has the edge here because other than the fact that Creation is real, God has declared in His Word (and recorded history bears out God's Word and the life of Christ BTW) that for the soul who seeketh Him, it is He Who will provide that man with the faith to believe. But for the poor sucker who decides he's investing his personhood on the existence of the space rock, he has to come up with that faith on his own. Which of course is just a disguise for his own rebellion.

2 Samuel 22:47 (KJV)
47 The LORD liveth; and blessed be my rock; and exalted be the God of the rock of my salvation.

2 Samuel 23:2-3 (KJV)
2 The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.
3 The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.

1 Corinthians 10:4 (KJV)
4 And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

[SIZE="3"]Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
let me hide myself in thee;[/SIZE]


For all men who do not believe however, there looms quite the unfortunate alternative to be faced. Judgment.

Hebrews 9:27-28(KJV)
27 And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.