can I follow Christianity without following Christ? can I follow Christ without following a religion?
could the word religion be a misnomer today?Jesus gave us the perfect religion. That some people fail to live it as they should doesn't take away from what the word religion means.
do they have community?The church stopped following Jesus when it re-aligned itself with State, shunning the Kingdom in favour of the world of man. Many people happily live their lives following the two commandments of Jesus without ever setting foot in a church.
Any word which is misused is can be a misnomer.could the word religion be a misnomer today?
Well, for us liturgy, prayers and Bible should be important.Certainly the liturgy, rules, requirements, Scriptural interpretations that billions of people have adopted or made up in order to be the Church as they see it is a religion. No way to get around that.
But if you strip away all the buildings, pomp and ceremony, liturgy, rules, requirements, Scriptural interpretations etc. etc. etc. out of the equation, we are left with just ourselves and God who loves us enough to live among us, suffer, and die for us to point us to the eternal life that he offers us. Once we do that we have not a religion, but a relationship. Which is what ultimately separates Christianity from all other religions.
I don't know why was the exact reason the Son became a man and not a woman. I'm still learning.If Jesus came as a woman would his teachings and Kingdom have been more accepted or would He have just been idolized like WW?
With a heavily gentile leaning.
Removing new age influence. A lot of them are motivated by their dislike of the word "religion". Plus, a lot of that is based on faulty interpretation of Christianity.What do you believe we gain by saying that Christianity is a religion?
Jesus established a Church and he said that whoever doesn't listen to her is to be considered a pagan and a tax collector.can they be separated? can I follow Christianity without following Christ? can I follow Christ without following a religion?
The Emperors became Christians, wanted Christianity to prosper, is there something wrong with that?The church stopped following Jesus when it re-aligned itself with State, shunning the Kingdom in favour of the world of man. Many people happily live their lives following the two commandments of Jesus without ever setting foot in a church. The religion lost it's strangle hold once the scriptures became available to common man.
The Emperors became Christians, wanted Christianity to prosper, is there something wrong with that?
did he mean the religious organized church? or did he mean the ekklesia, literally the called out ones? is there even a difference between these things?Jesus established a Church and he said that whoever doesn't listen to her is to be considered a pagan and a tax collector.
The religion/following Christ distinction has never seemed all that meaningful to me. It's a contrived issue to make one sound spiritually superior and above the concerns of ritual, community and other earthly matters.
Any word which is misused is can be a misnomer.
Apparently what is 'religion' we can feel ok about needed some clarification even in the early church --It should not be a controversy in the first place.
The name Jesus is derived from the Latin Iesus, a transliteration of the Greek Ἰησοῦς(Iesous).[50] The Greek form is a rendering of the Hebrew ישוע (Yeshua)"Yahshua is one proposed transliterationof the original Hebrew or Aramaic name of Yeshua"
This says Yahshua is a transliteration, which it is...but where does it say that Jesus is a transliteration...how do you get Jesus from Yeshua?
*Hint...through your church's tradition, hence: "I think it's more like the religion gave you Jesus since the Mashiach is Yahshua."
The name Jesus is derived from the Latin Iesus, a transliteration of the Greek Ἰησοῦς(Iesous).[50] The Greek form is a rendering of the Hebrew ישוע (Yeshua)
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