Originally Posted by Ken Howell
Originally Posted by Blaine
� Evangelical Christians despise "religion," considering it nothing more than a human effort full of ritual and fluff that means little. �

If I may be so bold, let me elucidate a little for anybody who might be interested in knowing:

� The word religion is a combination of the prefix re-, meaning "back" or "again," and the Latin word ligare, meaning simply "tie" (it's the root of the words ligation, ligature, and ligament).

� The concept religion, as some evangelicals understand it, refers to Man's attempts to retie the bond between God and Man that Adam severed by disobeying Him.

The distinction is that religion is one thing, God's retying program is another � different.

The original texts of Galatians 1:6 and 1:7 make an interesting and useful distinction between two disparate meanings of the word another. Galatians 1:6 refers to "another gospel" of a different kind that Galatians 1:7 says "is not another" of the same kind. "Religions" are meant to be ways to God � Jesus's true Christianity is another way to God � designed and established by God, not a religion designed and established by Man.


Ken,

Well said sir!!!