How Are You Different?

[IntoTheCrimsonSky]

HI Everyone,

I figured that a good question to start off while I'm feeling my way around here would be this:

How are you, as a conservative Christian, different from others? What do you consider to be a big part of why you call yourself a CC? Do you find it hard in today's very liberal world..?

Blessings and Love,
Sarah

 

[Criada]

I am not necessarily typical of the membership here, but I'll give you my take on it.
As far as I am concerned, it comes down to accepting what the Bible says, and trying to live according to that, without compromising to fit in with the world around us.

However, I am English, and I think the US view is a little different... as I am sure some people will explain.

Hope that helps a little.

 

[IntoTheCrimsonSky]

I am not necessarily typical of the membership here, but I'll give you my take on it.
As far as I am concerned, it comes down to accepting what the Bible says, and trying to live according to that, without compromising to fit in with the world around us.

However, I am English, and I think the US view is a little different... as I am sure some people will explain.

Hope that helps a little.

Thanks for the responce. I completely agree with what you said.

Interested to see what others feel.

 

[Sunrise78]

As far as I am concerned, it comes down to accepting what the Bible says, and trying to live according to that, without compromising to fit in with the world around us.

I would definitely agree with that.

I think in the US the word "conservative" has more of a political connotation. I'm not sure if this is the same in the UK?

 

[BAFRIEND]

Being a conservative Christian to me means placing PC and popularity second place to concern over salvation and scandal.

There is not a god- It is THE GOD. He is the Lord over us all and He has rules.

 

[edie19]

I'm with Bafriend - I look at it as recognizing God as God, recognizing that His word is truth (and that truth is absolute - no gray areas).

God is sovereign over His creation

 

[Izdaari Eristikon]

I don't look upon being a conservative Christian as setting me apart. I just follow Christ, and I seem to fit the description of a conservative. But even though I'm an American, I would say I'm conservative in the English style, taking after the Christian writer who influenced me most, C.S. Lewis. And I'm a theological conservative only, not a social conservative or political conservative. Not being all three, as so many here are, I often fit better in the Moderate forum.

Is it hard fitting into today's world? Yes, as hard as it for any Christian, considering how much the secular progressives set the agenda and control the culture. Social moderate and political libertarian that I am, I'm still not one of them.

 

[Apollo Celestio]

I'm an extremely introverted left handed asexual gamer who is also a theologically conservative Christian with a distaste for sports.. I have a lot more if you want it. Hard in this liberal world, yeah, people get mad because you believe in a truth, and that it is a high truth, and also it's human to generalize, so often I'm put in with groups of people who I have no idea who they are or what they do. Not so much liberals either, just..the world. (Oh the hypocrisy..)

 

[IntoTheCrimsonSky]

Thanks for the responces, everyone. I can actually relate a lot to you. I find when it does come to politics and such, though, I'm often split. Agreeing with certain liberal concepts and certain conservative ones. Overall, though, I have a feeling I fit in here pretty nicely.

 

[SolomonVII]

I am conservative in the sense that I understand the principles of the Christian tradition as being the fundamentally sound foundaton for building a society upon and a future world upon.

To the extent that Christ's agenda is intself radical and liberating in its effects upon society, the irony is that being a conservative in Christ teaching leads to radical results, with the ways of the world constantly being turned on their head. With the kingdoms of this world being transformed into the Kingdom of God through following Christ teachings, the effect is revolutionary.

Additionally, my conservatism is a question of understanding Christ to have been building his church for the past two thousand years and placing myself within that tradition that really stretches back from the time of the Adam and Eve and the fall.

This is opposed to some progressive thought which sees the foundations of society, including the Judeo-Christian morality and religious foundations as being fundamentally flawed, or archaic in need of revolutionary change. Without Christ at the center of change, the danger of this approach is cynicism turning into nihilistic disbelief in anything at all.

It is also different from some other conservatives who see Christ and our societies as being fundamentally incompatible with each other.
to the extent though, that even these conservative Christians accept the teachings of Christ even just for the sake of belief in Christ, in effect we are on the same side of most debates.

 

[WarriorAngel]

It is not hard per say on myself, because no matter what happens, I am still going to keep trying to work out my own salvation with trembling.

Yet it does make me sad to see things that occur in this world. [extreme liberalism]

I keep thinking, so many souls, so many cannot see.
Lord have mercy on us all.

 

[SpiritualAntiseptic]

HI Everyone,

I figured that a good question to start off while I'm feeling my way around here would be this:

How are you, as a conservative Christian, different from others? What do you consider to be a big part of why you call yourself a CC? Do you find it hard in today's very liberal world..?

Blessings and Love,
Sarah

I think terms like conservative, moderate and liberal are needless and divisive really. "Conservative" typifies structured spirituality that comes at the expense of seeming piousness that separates your spirituality and faith from others- while liberal suggests a universal and inclusive spirituality that has no real principles. Afterall, the very question of this topic is how are you different from others as a conservative.

 

[rmw8855]

I am not necessarily typical of the membership here, but I'll give you my take on it.
As far as I am concerned, it comes down to accepting what the Bible says, and trying to live according to that, without compromising to fit in with the world around us.

I look at it as recognizing God as God, recognizing that His word is truth (and that truth is absolute - no gray areas).

God is sovereign over His creation

I agree with you both. God's word is truth

I don't find it hard per se. It is harder to be a political conservative in my family than a religious one . Thank God I live in a country where I am free to express my faith without fear.

 

[rmw8855]

Thanks for the responces, everyone. I can actually relate a lot to you. I find when it does come to politics and such, though, I'm often split. Agreeing with certain liberal concepts and certain conservative ones. Overall, though, I have a feeling I fit in here pretty nicely.

Welcome to CC

 

[JPPT1974]

It's hard but you got to
Accept the world for who and
What it is as you can't change the world.
Only God can do that.

 

[WannaWitness]

I am conservative when it comes to theology and Biblical principles although rather moderate politically. In fact, I'm a bit disappointed in politics as a whole (disregarding party), so I sometimes wonder whether I really belong here.

 

[ReformedChapin]

I am conservative when it comes to theology and Biblical principles although rather moderate politically. In fact, I'm a bit disappointed in politics as a whole (disregarding party), so I sometimes wonder whether I really belong here.

this is a theologically conservative forum

 

[Criada]

I am conservative when it comes to theology and Biblical principles although rather moderate politically. In fact, I'm a bit disappointed in politics as a whole (disregarding party), so I sometimes wonder whether I really belong here.

You are very welcome here.... and this forum has nothing to do with politics, the term conservative is used purely theologically!

 

[Anglian]

An interesting question, with many interesting answers.

My own Oriental Orthodox tradition is a conservative one. By that we mean that we hold to that which we inherited from our forefathers. We have not adapted it because it is the Faith once received and needs no adaptation. We know we are strangers in this world. Christ's message to this world was one of repentance and amendment of life, and a call to walk in His way; it was not a negotiation with this world on how best to adapt His message to our own sinful ways. He came to change us; it is our sin that makes us wish to change that message when it makes us uncomfortable.

Western society is, at the moment, in thrall to moral and other forms of relativism. This can make the Christian message seem unpalatable; but the sinner never likes to be told he or she is sinning.

But as Christians we are told to love our enemies, and to love the sinner even as we hate the sin. It sometimes seems as though Western Christianity gets hung up on Judgement; the Oriental Orthodox tradition emphasises more the process of theosis in this life and our spiritual development by making our will obedient to His.

Is that conservative or liberal - or just Christian?

In peace,

Anglian

 

[Izdaari Eristikon]

But as Christians we are told to love our enemies, and to love the sinner even as we hate the sin. It sometimes seems as though Western Christianity gets hung up on Judgement; the Oriental Orthodox tradition emphasises more the process of theosis in this life and our spiritual development by making our will obedient to His.

Is that conservative or liberal - or just Christian?

I would say it's mature Christian, as in my observation that description fits the wisest liberal, moderate and conservative Christians.