Not exact matches
The two are based on the
belief of «
Jesus» and a single god then two religions start to divide in their little rules
for being a «good little Catholic» vs a «good little Christian», people have
died because of this, example the Crusades.
However, would you say that, each one of the 11 martyred men, who really had stolen the body of
Jesus in the first place, would be willing to
die for a
belief they themselves knew to be false?
As Christians, our most «deeply held religious
belief» is that
Jesus Christ
died on the cross
for sinful people, and that in imitation of that, we are called to love God, to love our neighbors, and to love even our enemies to the point of death.
Jesus came to rid the world of ritual so
belief in
Jesus dying for your sins as a way to salvation is anti Christian doctrine.
Those who believed in
Jesus when he walked the Earth often
died for their
beliefs.
The eyewitnesses of the Resurrection of
Jesus — those who ate, drank, spoke with, and listened to the Lord
Jesus Christ after His Resurrection — were so convinced of the Good News of God's Love, Forgiveness, Peace, and Healing Power
for all humanity revealed by the Risen
Jesus Christ that these eyewitnesses were willing to
die as martyrs
for their
belief in the Risen Christ as fully God and fully man when it was illegal to do so under Roman authority (where Cesar was considered a deity in the state cult religion).
Peter, Paul, Steven and a slew of others went on to
die for their
beliefs after
Jesus» death.
The most important message you'll ever read:
For us to get to go to heaven (and be made right with God), we must simply place our faith (belief / trust) in that Jesus Christ died for our sins (wrongs against God), was buried, and came back to life the third day after His crucifixion, thus making Jesus our Savior (the One Who paid for our sins) and Lord (equal to God because He was sinles
For us to get to go to heaven (and be made right with God), we must simply place our faith (
belief / trust) in that
Jesus Christ
died for our sins (wrongs against God), was buried, and came back to life the third day after His crucifixion, thus making Jesus our Savior (the One Who paid for our sins) and Lord (equal to God because He was sinles
for our sins (wrongs against God), was buried, and came back to life the third day after His crucifixion, thus making
Jesus our Savior (the One Who paid
for our sins) and Lord (equal to God because He was sinles
for our sins) and Lord (equal to God because He was sinless).
If you believe there is no hell, that
Jesus suffered and
died for everyone regardless of
belief, I could understand the atheist living a good and meaningful life, but
Jesus said none are good, not one.
It goes something like this: since some people do believe
Jesus is God, that He
died for sins, and that He rose again, and yet remain unsaved, it must follow that
belief in these truths is not essential
for salvation.