In the Scriptures, taking your shoes off had a very special meaning. When Moses had his first confrontation with God at the burning bush, God told him to take off his shoes because he was standing on holy ground. Jesus walked barefoot to Calvary. In the culture of that time, being unshod was the sign that you were a slave. A slave had no rights. Jesus gave us the supreme example of giving up everything for a great goal. Loren Cunningham“Making Jesus Lord" / Marc 8:34,35
It's very usual for atheists and the like to charge Christianity as a man-made religion. They say the apostles invented our faith to gain power, either political or monetary. They just ignore that nothing like that is true. They never gained any power whatsoever. Actually, almost all of them died horrible deaths.
The cartoon below is a great analogy of what could had happened if this “conspiracy theory” were true. And is also really funny.
