There are plenty of stupid male pastors, ministers and clergy around, so I’m sure some women can do better than them..
“In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will preach, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. On my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will speak.” (Joel 2:28-32)
Oxford Dictionary- “A Pharisee is a member of an ancient Jewish sect, distinguished by strict observance of the traditional and written law, and commonly held to have pretensions to superior sanctity.”
For what it’s worth, The Almighty Remains The Best of all judges.
And judgement starts as soon as one dies and goes into the life of the grave, so was never really meant to be taken into consideration during this present life.
But also, there’s a fault with that description that you provided and which involves the act of generalizing.
If anything, those who held them to have such pretensions may themselves be faulty of being affected by a form of inferiority complex maybe, who really knows?
For what it’s worth, Muslims do not believe that Jesus was ever crucified.
Moreover, Muslims believe that The Almighty Did Send Jesus before Muhammad was sent to mankind.
As such, many Prophets and Messengers were sent to mankind by The Almighty for Guidance away from the wrong path, and each in their due and respective time.
From what I know to be true, Adam himself was very tall, maybe around 40 meters tall, and therefore so were his children, and as such again, mankind has been declining in height ever since and many people have been born with different cultures and physionomies, and each and everyone of them was sent a Prophet or a Messenger so as to guide them back towards the straight path of righteousness…
It is said that since Adam, around 124,000 Prophets and Messengers altogether have been Sent By The Almighty to mankind.
God has existed since the beginning of time and is like a Force sweeping through the universe, and humans have tried locking onto that force since long before the birth of Jesus, but many failed..So God sent a string of prophets to help them lock on, but again many faiied, so God at last sent Jesus to help us, and that’s a bingo, Christianity became the biggest game on the park..
The Almighty Is Beyond time as we know it, and space for that matter, despite constantly Excercising His Power over both.
Regardless, what I am trying to tell you is that somebody born before Jesus was born, say during the time of Moses for instance, would not even have known Jesus, so how would s/he even count as a rejecter of Jesus?
The holy spirit has been around since the beginning of time, freely available to those who WANT to tap into it via the prophets (and later Jesus) but they rejected them and the holy spirit within them.
After she learned to communicate, deaf-blind woman Helen Keller was asked what it was like to be told of the existence of Jesus, and she replied “I always knew he was there”
Abd is trying to explain something but the language barrier is making it hard for him to articulate.
What about all the souls born before Jesus? If Jesus is the only way to heaven and Christianity is the perfect religion what about the folks that came before? All sent to hell? If all the souls that came before Jesus aren’t damned then reason has it everyone that came after him won’t be reliant on praying to Jesus to get to heaven. When Jesus said ‘he is the way’, he meant for us to emulate his example not pray to him instead of God almighty. Christians should be Christ like. I think this is an important lesson of what Jesus wanted from us. If we all lived like Jesus then the world would be heaven on earth. Instead we pray to Jesus the same as we do God. Humans have been able to pray to God since the beginning of the Bible. We never needed Jesus to help us pray. Rather Jesus tried to show us how to pray and how to treat our fellow man. We are using Jesus’ teachings all wrong.
I could on and on about how great Jesus is and how much the Christian religion is screwing things up but I will just stop my rant now.