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In fact I see someone who is agnostic as NOT a Christian to begin with.
For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law. Romans 3:28
In other words, I believe the promises of God and am thus saved.
Since it is God who adds to the church, those who leave were never truly saved. There are lots of tares amongst the wheat.
Agnostics don't believe in Christianity to begin with, they don't believe in God and consider God unknowable when in fact the premise of Christianity is that Jesus IS knowable and IS God.Why not? They believe in christianity but don't believe that it is knowable. Faith and knowledge aren't the same anyways.
Agnostics don't believe in Christianity to begin with, they don't believe in God and consider God unknowable when in fact the premise of Christianity is that Jesus IS knowable and IS God.
Ok it is not letting me quote now..... I fail to see the definition of agnostic would be anything related or associated with being a Christian. In fact I see someone who is agnostic as NOT a Christian to begin with.
Well, I'm a Baha'i and I do not believe it is possible to "prove" God exists or that any religion is "true" in the usual stringent sort of way one "proves" things in fields like, say, science.
So yes, that would make me an agnostic.
I choose to be a theist, but it's a matter of faith, not empiricial proof or iron clad reasoning.
Metaphysics is just a messy thing, eh?
Anyway, would anyone like to actually read the article and discuss the contents?
Anyway, would anyone like to actually read the article and discuss the contents?
Please save "Who is and is not a REAL Christian" for a thread where the OP actually cares to discuss it.
Thanks.
What article?
So if someone believed those promises and then stopped believing those promises, they were saved and then they weren't, right?
Even as their numbers decline, American Christians – like the U.S. population as a whole – are becoming more racially and ethnically diverse.
At best you can say that those who identify themselves as Christians is declining.
However, generational replacement is by no means the only reason that religious “nones” are growing and Christians are declining. In addition, people in older generations are increasingly disavowing association with organized religion. About a third of older Millennials (adults currently in their late 20s and early 30s) now say they have no religion, up nine percentage points among this cohort since 2007, when the same group was between ages 18 and 26. Nearly a quarter of Generation Xers now say they have no particular religion or describe themselves as atheists or agnostics, up four points in seven years. Baby Boomers also have become slightly but noticeably more likely to identify as religious “nones” in recent years.
They won't.
Those that walk away were never saved
This seems like a movement in a good direction?
I can't help but think if "in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek", surely there shouldn't be black, white, Latino, Asian, or whatever other divisions humans have created amongst themselves.
Well thats a convenient way to cover all the holes in a heretical OSAS theology.What it is is what the Bible says. But, just out of curiosity, doesn't the person leaving question their salvation? If they question it and decide it doesn't exist, then why should we not do the same.
That is not to say that they truly aren't saved, but since nothing can separate us from God, then if they are separated, either they were never God's, or they are struggling, in which case, they will return.
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