Acts 9:1-20: Saul, after persecuting followers of Jesus in and stoning Stephen to death, heads to Damascus to persecute there. On the way he had his conversion experience and pretty much launches the Christian movement on the world..... I think that this was a mental health reaction to his stoning of Stephen. I've always thought that most religions are started due to people not being able to personally process their situation or the situation of the world at the time. Joseph Smith and the golden plates, Martin Luther and his inability to handle his inner guilt, Mohammed and his visions, Moses and the burning bush. But why do crowds of people indulge them? Why can't people just do their own thing as far as religion goes? Maybe people have their own crises and it's easier to latch on to someone else's explanation than work through things on their own. But when you have these large groups of people who fervently believe certain things, there is a lot of friction and a lot of people get hurt.
Revelation 5:11-14: Thousands of angels sing praises to God and Jesus.
John 21:1-19: Disciples are still reeling after Jesus death and resurrection. Peter says, I'm going fishing. Jesus appears to them and cooks breakfast by the Sea of Galilee. Then Jesus puts Peter in charge. I like this story as most people are like Peter; faced with unexplainable stuff, they revert back to familiar things.....maybe Peter just kept fishing. Maybe he's been fishing all along. Maybe our whole existence is just like Whoville in the Grinch, our whole Universe just a snowflake in another time continuum. I'm kind of reverting to that now. Following daily baseball games. We all need something we feel is on solid ground to get through the day to day turmoil of life.
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