Do the dead now know the truth ?

Originally posted by wafflehead: ↑

I'm not too clear on your point here.
Be that as it may, the Advocate, Comforter . . . . is the founder of a new religion. He has been called the return of Christ. It is not directly God, or His active force, the Holy Spirit. It is a Teacher like Christ empowered with the Holy Spirit as Christ was.

As for a common link, well yes, all Christian religions have a common link, that being Christ.

I don't think any plan of action was developed to counter the CC, it came as a kind of natural revulsion of the excesses of the CC. Yes, there have been major breaks with the CC because of their corruption and in the case of the Church of England it was corruption seeking its own will against the prevailing church because of a despotic Henry.

I think the truth is that religion is a hotbed for the development of rampant egos and exploitation and many of the religions that splintered off from Christianity were as a result of egomaniacs determining that they knew the truth better than others.

Many passages in the Bible have multiple meanings because religious belief flows from 100% abstraction, God. So scripture uses a language of poetry, allegory, metaphor, symbolism, etc, to convey a sense of meaning rather than an absolute meaning. There can not be absolute meaning in religion, it will always be a relative truth, never an absolute truth.

Also Jewish tradition has its own cultural style one example being Midrash in which the past and the present are blended. That's why parts of the OT come into the NT. Parts of Gilgamesh end up in the OT. A lot of Jesus back story is lifted from parts of the OT. Midrash also goes beyond the text, it goes behind the text, goes back to root words, etc. So today it's all but impossible to know exactly what the Bible scribes truely meant because it was their age, their time and words had a meaning pertaining to their time.

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"Be that as it may, the Advocate, Comforter . . . . is the founder of a new religion."

NO -> The Advocate is the Holy Spirit = the God and Father, the Door to Eden so to speak, was reopened to him on the taring of the curtain at Jesus's death.

John 6:45 - It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.
Isa 54:13 - Then all your sons will be taught by Yehowah, and great will be their prosperity.
Jer 31:34 - No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, 'Know Yehowah,' because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares Yehowah. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.

From what I gather, it would seem rather apparent and logical, that to get the above, you at least need to know the key core basic TRUTHS of who and what God and Jesus are.
But this truth was tossed by the CC's, beginning in around the 100's and nearly all the break aways, come away with these corrupted roots = the common denominator.

Based on the above quotes, the numerous numbers of Christian faiths that you mention, should be impossible, if they were on the truth trail and the world as we know it, would not be recognizable.
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