I have family who would rather right off family members due to a political stand regarding moral social issues than to think for just a moment that
the Christian God I believe in is similar to the Jesus depicted in the New Testament.
Lennon might have believed in god but it is more likely that it was not
the christian god he believed in.
What if you have been wrong all the time and the god you meet is not
the christian god you believed in all your life, but one of the other 5000 gods that humans have created?
Not exact matches
a) Pascal's Wager assumes that there are only two options —
believe in the Judeo -
Christian god or nothing.
the strange think is that many clergy and
christians don't even
believe in God they only do what they do for for the comfortable lifestyle and power over people.
If you
believe at all that Christ was the son of
God and came to save the world, you are a
Christian, even if you don't pray a specifically worded and ho ll ow prayer that affirms publicly that you are «born - again»
in Jesus» blood — which
in itself is sad is tic and doesn't ensure that the person doing the public profession of faith actually
believes or will suddenly become so changed that they will lead a better life.
But I reached a point where I could no longer
believe in the
christian god and became a deist.
As
Christians living
in a culture that tends to present opportunities counter to our identities
in Christ — children of
God, as we're referred to time and again — the danger is that we may be influenced into
believing the lie that the decisions we make are without the burden of consequence we could expect when we were younger.
If you
believe in god, as you have stated, and you live
in the west, which you likely do given your good command of english, then you are almost surely
christian.
Surely those who
believe, and those who are Jews, and the
Christians, and the Sabians - whoever
believes in God and the Last Day and does good, they shall have their reward from their Lord.
I'm a
Christian, non-denominational, and the fact that people don't
believe in God because of that shooter is sickening.
And honestly saying you
believe in God and self - identify as
Christian doesn't mean you actually Lean on
God for anything so they say they're
Christian but living as an Atheist.
A.W. Tozer offers a broader perspective, saying many
Christians find much solace
in believing in God's creation of the beginning and
in His preplanned dramatic grand finale at the end, but that not much thought is given to the present.
No one would say they're not religious who
believes in the
Christian version of
god.
The flying Spaghetti monster is more benevolent then the
Christian god, you have everything to gain by
believing in him!
Do you know the mathematical impossibility that even one of these could randomly come into existance?Let alone all of the building blocks required for just a single simple cell to come together to form any type of living thing?There sure should be some blobs of fossilized transitions if evolution could happen.You people are real smart why don't you quit bashing
Christians and quit
believing the garbage you have been fed, and look up the evidence put forth by the Creation Research people.They have
in fact proven creation down to a cellular level.Unlike evolution scientists who have no answers, but cleverly devised fables.Evolution is not even a very good fairy tale.Even if I didn't
believe in God, Evolution is such a fools explanation of the origin of man that it takes just that to even consider it true.I understand though that you athiests will
believe anything that allows you to love your sin and hatred of the one true
God.
If he truly
believes his religious text as a
Christian or Jew would their own then he is doing the right thing
in the eyes of
god.
Christians, on the other hand,
believe that we will be
in the presence of
God the Father and Jesus Christ solely by our faith
in Christ and what He alone did by dying on the cross and rising again on the third day, so we
believe it is a free gift of
God and it doesn't just come after all we can do as Mormons
believe.
Glen Beck is a
Christian if you
believe that saved means that we get to live
in the afterlife with a chance to have eternal life
in the mansion where
God the Father and Jesus Christ are if we are worthy enough by doing good works to progress to be there and that
God's grace comes after all we can do.
Second: The Creation tale is simply a way for early humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from
God's predetermined path... The old testament is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «
Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a
christian...
In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and u
In Contrast to those stuck
in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and u
in «the old ways» regarding faith (not
believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and u
in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth is only 6000 years old), I
believe God created the universe on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms was the first step
in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and u
in the billionyear long recipe
in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and u
in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets, life itself and us.
I'm not saying there aren't some
Christians in there, but just because some people
believe in a creator
god doesn't mean it's the Christian G
god doesn't mean it's the
Christian GodGod.
The New Testament verse is held up by
Christians around the globe because it neatly summarizes some key points of Christianity: «For
God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that whosoever
believes in him would not perish but have eternal life.»
The
Christian faith and the other faiths that
believe in a loving, peaceful
God (including much of the Islamic world) have reached out into our communities to help people — helping first and preaching
God's love by example.
Being raised
Christian I
believed in God but I also knew evolution was correct.
Christians believe that a faith
in Jesus, his sacrifice and proof of life after death is a complete «remission / cure» to the fate of «separation from
God» which is the horriblest thing that can happen to the «core» you.
Forget that
Christians believe that children will inherit the kingdom of
God, and yet when a child is
in a hospital declared brain dead, those same
Christians want the dead body to stay there being kept «alive» by machines..
If you
believe that
Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression
in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about
God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.
I will give you «irrefutable proof» when you give me «irrefutable proof» that the
God Christians believe in is real.
I'll leave that to people with horrible morals like
Christians who
believe in might makes right and subjective morality that allows
god to do what they would otherwise NEVER consider to be moral for another being.
If you carry your proposal forward, that you can
believe the Bible to be flawed and yet somehow still consider yourself to be a
Christian, you will find that eventually your faith
in God unravels, and is replaced by faith
in man or self, and your relationship with
God will be broken.
I don't know how many people here are from Aurora — Co, but some comments are not helping
in any way the survivors and families.I respect all religions
in the world and I also respect the opinion of those who don't
believe in God or anything.But, instead of blasphemy the name of
God, send your positive thoughts and energy to those who survived this tragedy.Even though some of you show no signs of good
Christians you should show at least signs of good neighbors.You still can be an Atheist and have compassion for others!Don't let the evil be inside you, Aurora — CO needs to heal
in peace!!!
In order for things to change, pastors and
Christian leaders who
believe that acceptance, fidelity, and monogamy are a better alternative to shame and promiscuity have got to speak up and speak out against the teaching that states * all * homosexual expression is sinful... and proclaim that message as misinformed, damaging to
God's children, and unchristian.
Im a
Christian, i
believe in love & understanding, i
believe in the love of
God & his son Jesus.
To
believe in the
christian god is to
believe in pure immorality.
For those who identify as
Christian and
believe you've got to be willing to cram it down someone's throat
in order to be «
in God's favor».
Regarding what the results tell us as
Christians he replied: «I think it's part of a general trend
in a number of surveys about ignorance of the
Christian faith and perhaps ignorance about the implications of, if you
believe in the
Christian God, what that means.»
You really
believe that
god exists
in the way traditional
Christians believe it??? C'm on.
HarryGP I can remember when I posted on a
Christian site that I didn't
believe in God.
I'm just tired of people who say there is no
God saying I am stupid for my beliefs when they act
in moronic things and do things just as bad as
Christians do
in the name of what they
believe.
more than 02 billions of
christians are belive
in Jesus the human
god, more than 900 millions of Hidus are
believe in Krishna the human
god more than 300 millions of Buddahs are belive
in Buda the human
god, and many others are belive
in the human
god who will come
in the end of days to save the human kind.
all things were created by nothing with nothing and for nothing... that takes more faith than i have... i prefer to
believe in Jesus Christ — the one and only who rose from the dead — the most astounding historical fact ever recorded;
Christians don't have all the answers but as the author Don Miller noted: «I can no more understand the complexity of
God than the pancakes I made for breakfast can understand the complexity of me»
Now one sixth of mankind only are supposed to be
Christians: the other five sixths then, who do not
believe in the Jewish and
Christian revelation, are without a knolege of the existence of a
god!
i don't know of any thoughtful
Christian who
believes in God simply because the Bible says.
And the other thing that never gets mentioned: the majority of this planet does not
believe in the
Christian god, so I guess they are all wrong?
He said: «You only had to have half an hours conversation with him to realise that he was a man of passionate
Christian belief and conviction and what is more he
believed entirely
in the incarnation, that
God comes among us fully
in the person of Jesus, and he
believed entirely
in the resurrection.»
@Don, yes I understand that they can not hate
God if they don't
believe he exists
in the first place, but I
believe they do and use being an «atheist» as a sort of cover to push there ant -
Christian agenda.
By choosing to
believe in one thing and not another and still call yourself an X type of
christian (whether it be catholic or protestant) aren't you just defining
god in your own head and not the way the bible is clearly telling you?
If I
believed in the Great Pumpkin with such conviction that I proclaimed «I can not be anything other than convinced» to a
Christian who was trying to tell me about his or her
God, they would probably accuse me of being close minded.
But no matter what the commercialized idea of Easter is, to
Christians it is still regarded as a holy day to remember the salvation
God extends to all who
believe in and accept Him.
Hawaiiguest — Jews and
Christians believe in the same
God and I
believe that
God has a plan to save them, His chosen.