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Questions on this Faith to the clergy

What's really the mechanisms used by such a minority group that reshaped the perception of a deity so central to the spiritual frameworks of others
The timing, combined with the fact that the masses were rather easily deceived, as they held no high level of spiritual advancement, unlike priests. Masses had no telepathic communication or microchip technology as a substitute for telepathy back then. Altruism and compassion were used as weak points. Subversion occured over centuries, centuries turned to a millennia, and so on.
𝐀𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐝𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞/𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫
You can be the Supreme Lord, but when your followers do not follow you any longer, what is there to be done? Free will and the consequences thereof are a thing.
Divine favour/Human agency,what's truly superior and in need of more attention.
Bot together, really.
What purpose do the gods rituals serve other than worship or reverence in comparison to old JOS rituals on survival and warfare which I still fail to see how are they so outdated by the current primal realities of existence.
Blessings so that we might grow and overcome this pestilence we are suffering from.
 
 
To answer your question simply: The Gods can help, but ultimately, the affairs of our domain are up to us. And, because they are up to us, it would make sense that we work on our own spiritual state and personal quality, so that any problems become naturally resolved and bypassed.

The rituals of the Gods are much better for personal growth than simply removing enemy curses. You are connecting with the highest entities in the universe to accelerate your own growth and that of others, improving your odds at preventing any damage caused by the enemy.

Therefore, it the opposite of your suggestion that we are being overly passive or reliant on the Gods. Instead, we are growing more self-sufficient than ever before, improving our odds at detecting and winning any self-defense scenarios.
Thank you for the clarification
 
Such as one time I asked the Gods to save my dying grandmother who was pronounced dead in the hospital, and she was literally given new life in front of my eyes. Not a normal healing of giving vitality and life, but a literal change of fate, allowing for 1 more year of life, in comfort, beyond what was her natural fated lifespan. That is real manifestation, speaks for itself. Real power, and an image I will never forget. It was just a taste of what is possible, and a mercy shown to my grandmother because I desperately wanted her to have a more dignified end to her life, rather than what she was given that time. With knowledge from the Gods, and with their power they can easily give someone hundreds of years of life, but this is something which must be earned first, and not many will actually receive such a Blessing in their life, but these are extremely possible.
And an aunt of mine was apparently healed completely from cancer by a xian saint. I find these stories hard to believe, honestly.

Stories by xians of people being healed or brought back to life by this saint or jeebus himself or whatever are as common as mushrooms in forests.

"God" or Gods choosing to heal this person or that person, mainly for personal emotional reasons from the askers or even for no reason sometimes, while millions die senselessly of all sorts of things.

I'm highly sceptical of any "healing" story. You believe it was the Gods, a xian would say it was jeebus, and I'd say it was likely just the body being more resilient than it appeared to be.

People pray all the time and get no answers, but only remember the times they "get answers", and "answers" seem to arrive regardless of the person's religion.

Or perhaps the enemy can do healings as well?

Even then, these things are always done in an unverifiable fashion, at least for those who weren't personally there during the event.
 
And an aunt of mine was apparently healed completely from cancer by a xian saint. I find these stories hard to believe, honestly.

Stories by xians of people being healed or brought back to life by this saint or jeebus himself or whatever are as common as mushrooms in forests.

"God" or Gods choosing to heal this person or that person, mainly for personal emotional reasons from the askers or even for no reason sometimes, while millions die senselessly of all sorts of things.

I'm highly sceptical of any "healing" story. You believe it was the Gods, a xian would say it was jeebus, and I'd say it was likely just the body being more resilient than it appeared to be.

People pray all the time and get no answers, but only remember the times they "get answers", and "answers" seem to arrive regardless of the person's religion.

Or perhaps the enemy can do healings as well?

Even then, these things are always done in an unverifiable fashion, at least for those who weren't personally there during the event.
I don't think Christianity would lack actual cases of healing,either by the enemy as breadcrumbs to keep the faith going,or actual psychic healing by the congregation itself.
One Christian would lack power but I doubt that's the case with a handful of them,
 

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