God is not a Christian.

[TheJust]

You can run from the truth for as long as you desire. That is the purpose of purgatory, a place for those who wish to continue running.

If I believe that grass is orange and the sun is made out of skittles, does that make it true?

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 2 Timothy 4:3-4

 

[Sketcher]

Since a Christian is a human being who belongs to God rather than God himself, I find it silly to state or imply that Christians believe otherwise.

Christian = "Little Christ." There's nothing little about God.

 

[ViaCrucis]

More specifically Christianos (singular) or Christianoi (plural) are "those of Christ". There's a good chance that if the term had originally been applied to the early followers of Jesus by non-Christians in Antioch, that for them Christianoi was something like "oily ones" as christos in Greek indicates "smeared by oil" a translation of the Hebrew meshiach meaning roughly the same; as smearing by oil--anointing--was an act of consecrating a person in Israelite society and the one promised by God was a more "ultimate" consecrated person, Jesus was called the Christ. A concept that may have been a little bit foreign to pagan Greeks who would have seen "the oily one" and "the oily ones" as funny sounding.

At any rate the concept of the word refers to a person or people belonging to or of "the Christ", rather than "little Christ".

That said, it would still remain rather silly to imagine God--or even Jesus Himself--as being a Christian. The word really can only be applied to followers of Jesus, since only a follower of Jesus can be called a follower of Jesus (sorta-kinda duh there), which necessitates a subordinate category, those belonging to Jesus as Jesus Himself is the Leader, Master, or Lord of those who follow Him.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[lesliedellow]

God is not a Christian.

Since a necessary qualification for being a Christian is to be one of God's human creatures, that statement is somewhat tautological, isn't it?

 

[hankroberts]

"God is not a Christian"
Has someone suggested that God is a Christian? Typically "Christian" is defined as someone who believes the divinity and the teachings of Jesus Christ ('believe' in the sense one incorporates that truth into their life). While most folks limit that to humans (which would automatically exclude God), some would open it to include any personal being, and then God would indeed be a Christian since He knows the truth of the divinity and teachings of Jesus.

 

[francus]

TRUTH IS! as Mahatma Gandhi testified, "GOD has no religion"!

And "Whoever believes religion has nothing to do with politics, does not know what religion is".......

Yet Thankfully Our FATHER(CREATOR) and GOD, HE does have Family!

"A Household of Faith" indeed and TRUTH.......

And Mahatma Gandhi REALized such in his latter years, in a common union with Spiritual brothers and sisters who called nothing their own, as they evermore sought and desired The Fruit(Peace, Love, Joy, Hope, Long-suffering,,,,,,, ALL that is Truly GOOD) bore in a simple and Spiritual Life!

Family, not religion.......

Faith! not a doctrinal or legislated form of righteousness!

FATHER Help!

HE DID! and HE does.......

 

[WirSindBettler]

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 2 Timothy 4:3-4

God is not a Christian.
*Uses Christian text to back up point.*

Yep, makes sense to me.

 

[Masihi]

"Aspire to be Christ-like" was directed towards humans.

 

[FutureAndAHope]

Hi not sure what you mean by this post it is a little confusing. But as for the statment:

That is the purpose of purgatory, a place for those who wish to continue running.

There is no such place as purgatory ... the bible does not mention it. This earth is the only place we have the chance to make a change. There is only heaven (eternally) or hell (eternally), no other option.

 

[Trichakra]

GOD has no religion. God is neither christian nor other.

 

[ToBeLoved]

My reply is not needed. The above saints covered it well.

 

[Just_a_Joe]

You can run from the truth for as long as you desire. That is the purpose of purgatory, a place for those who wish to continue running.

If I believe that grass is orange and the sun is made out of skittles, does that make it true?

For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 2 Timothy 4:3-4

Good job, you stated who God is not.

Now, please, can you spend as much time and say who God is, then?

That's the next logical step, isn't it?

I'm all ears! Seriously.

 

[AservantofGodandthelordJC]

Good job, you stated who God is not.

Now, please, can you spend as much time and say who God is, then?

That's the next logical step, isn't it?

I'm all ears! Seriously.

God is the eternal state of reality which governs the universe and beyond. God is not a who, it simply is.

 

[AservantofGodandthelordJC]

Hi not sure what you mean by this post it is a little confusing. But as for the statment:



There is no such place as purgatory ... the bible does not mention it. This earth is the only place we have the chance to make a change. There is only heaven (eternally) or hell (eternally), no other option.

Hell is purgatory, it is where you go after death to undo your sins if you fail to do so before death. Hell is not eternal, God did not create anything negative it is merely a feeble construct of human consciousness. Everyone will return to God, however the time it takes is up to the individual. Belief alone will not relieve you of this personal responsibility. In purgatory this is also a construct of heaven created by mass human belief. The universe is large it encompasses billions of other life forms aside from humanity, it is entirely illogical to think you will remain in human form floating on a cloud somewhere for all eternity unless you also believe there are billions of other heavens for each of the other self aware life forms.

 

[AservantofGodandthelordJC]

God is not a Christian.
*Uses Christian text to back up point.*

Yep, makes sense to me.

Would Jesus walk around with the device used to execute him around his neck?

 

[fat wee robin]

TRUTH IS! as Mahatma Gandhi testified, "GOD has no religion"!

And "Whoever believes religion has nothing to do with politics, does not know what religion is".......

Yet Thankfully Our FATHER(CREATOR) and GOD, HE does have Family!

"A Household of Faith" indeed and TRUTH.......

And Mahatma Gandhi REALized such in his latter years, in a common union with Spiritual brothers and sisters who called nothing their own, as they evermore sought and desired The Fruit(Peace, Love, Joy, Hope, Long-suffering,,,,,,, ALL that is Truly GOOD) bore in a simple and Spiritual Life!

Family, not religion.......

Faith! not a doctrinal or legislated form of righteousness!

FATHER Help!

HE DID! and HE does.......

Ghandi was at least originally a Hindu ,which originally was a Mono -theistic religion where God was represented in' three parts', three characters .
I too, am not sure that the christian Church understands ,or describes well, the three aspects of God which are needed to be absorbed by us in order to ensure our Salvation , but THREE 'parts ' there are, most definitely .

 

[fat wee robin]

Hell is purgatory, it is where you go after death to undo your sins if you fail to do so before death. Hell is not eternal, God did not create anything negative it is merely a feeble construct of human consciousness. Everyone will return to God, however the time it takes is up to the individual. Belief alone will not relieve you of this personal responsibility. In purgatory this is also a construct of heaven created by mass human belief. The universe is large it encompasses billions of other life forms aside from humanity, it is entirely illogical to think you will remain in human form floating on a cloud somewhere for all eternity unless you also believe there are billions of other heavens for each of the other self aware life forms.

This is where " a little knowledge , is a dangerous thing " .

 

[fat wee robin]

God is the eternal state of reality which governs the universe and beyond. God is not a who, it simply is.

Since you have written so little ,but seem to know so much That is you come on a christian web site to deny our knowledge and beliefs , so perhaps you could explain to us ,how you come to this decision , being so sure of yourself , that God is Not a WHO .
Is not a Creator . If you cannot explain ,it shows that you are without knowledge, and are here to cause strife .

 

[Geralt]

God is not his creation, God is not a creature, God therefore is not a christian nor anyone else.

 

[ToBeLoved]

God is the eternal state of reality which governs the universe and beyond. God is not a who, it simply is.

Since you list your beliefs as 'another religion' can you put that in context that a Christian would understand. For us, God is not universal, but very specific in that the only way to the Father is by Jesus Christ.

That connection specifically to Jesus Christ is what I'm looking for.