That is christianity to a T.
People claim the same for a multitude of different gods, and they are still religions.
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Religion is man doing prescribed works, which were devised by men, being told that by following the system one will please their God/gods.
Christianity is literally receiving an inward transformation that makes one able to perceive spiritual connection.
That is christianity to a T.
I pointed out your calling out of other people as stupid as hurtful. How does that reflect on my character?So... You complain about me getting personal and attacking your character?
LOOK WHAT YOU DID!
It reveals your character as you continue to do such a thing.
The evidence I have is the evidence you have. So, you got no evidence.I am sorry that you have no evidence. God can not be made to be a demonstrable chemistry experiment. So, you got no evidence.
Ask any person on the face of the earth that question.
I have many beliefs about many things. Your lack of being specific leads me to believe you think I must be a mind reader as to what you meant by that. Beliefs on what?
My belief of what? On the atonement? On soteriology? On premillennialism? Limited, or universal atonement? Angelology? Pneumatology? Christology? Hamartiology? Eschatology? Ecclesiology? Anthropology?
I probably still have a lot to learn. Me flawless? hardly. The more I learn something that I had no idea existed the more I realize never to be too sure of myself. But, when I do look in the mirror, I am sure I am not seeing another person.
When I see other Christians rejecting and neglecting sound teachings? I am sure that as flawed as I may be? I am still way ahead in understanding what they could also understand. But, not flawed? hardly.
They may be, but they are tentative. I do not hold on to a belief when there is superior evidence to the contrary. How about you?Now... You think your beliefs flawed?
In the absence of evidence to the contrary, I see no reason to think of gods as anything other than as characters in books. Movies, too. Maybe there is some sort of pantheistic god, but why would anyone care?Do you know without any uncertainty that there is no God?
Christianity is not religion? Should then all of those tax breaks that religion gets not be extended to Christians and their churches? Should that money be paid back?Christianity is not religion. Though what has become of Christianity in many cases has been saturated by a form of religion. I am non religious. Having grew up a Jew I was from the beginning exposed to religion. Religion in any form, to me, had always been seen intuitively as someone having a feeble right lobe.
Or imagine a spiritual connection. It is not like you can show that it is real.Religion is man doing prescribed works, which were devised by men, being told that by following the system one will please their God/gods.
Christianity is receiving a real inward transformation that makes one able to perceive a spiritual connection.
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Christianity is not religion? Should then all of those tax breaks that religion gets not be extended to Christians and their churches? Should that money be paid back?
Religion is man doing prescribed works, which were devised by men, being told that by following the system one will please their God/gods.
Its what is called Christianity has BECOME.
Or imagine a spiritual connection. It is not like you can show that it is real.
I pointed out your calling out of other people as stupid as hurtful. How does that reflect on my character?
Why do to take such offence at unbelievers pointing out the flaws in your beliefs, such as your lack of evidentiary support for them?
That is christianity. Baptism, communion, how to pray, who to pray for, etc.
History books would paint a different picture.Religion in general promotes good moral standards that is conducive to the well being of a healthy society. That much I will grant religion.
So, God needs money. Seems a shame that the church cannot stand on its own without government assistance.Christianity is not understood in general. Yet, it too promotes good moral behavior, so it should fall under the same reason why the government will benefit with Christianity under its umbrella of tax exemption.
As long as it is the religion of those signing the papers, correct?As found in the North West Ordinance:
Art. 3. Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged.
This is Christianity...
Having no indoctrination. Not knowing about any baptism requirement. Nothing about communion... and not knowing one can actually pray to God.
It was simply accepting what I was told about the Cross of Jesus Christ and after having my entire life turned upside down in a mysterious, supernatural way that you could not even explain to yourself. I did NOT know I had become a Christian! I could not figure out what had gotten hold of me. At one point I assumed I must have discovered I had psychic ability, for dreams of mine were frighteningly coming true.
That is what happened to this Jew after he stopped denying the fact that Jesus was once on a cross dying for mankind's sins. I knew damn well I was sinner at that point of my life, and with no way out except possibly religion... which I found offensive and empty. Or, psychiatry. Which ended up in just as many sects as Christian denominations did.
In my very limited understanding (no indoctrination from childhood) I simply believed Jesus was a good man. A good man who loved God, so much, that he refused to sin. That he died for us who do sin, so that men could know the love of God as he did.
That was all I did! I still continued to have a disdain for the emptiness of religion. But, I was no longer the same person. It was as if I had new eyes and new senses. The supernatural became pertinent to me. Never before had it seemed like a reality. I still did not know I had become a Christian. I did not even know if God was real, but knew that what had happened to me was very real.
Are you really that closed minded and self righteous? Or, do you only act that way? You sound just like a closed minded fundy.
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