Sentences with phrase «reading about christianity»

But at least you are reading about Christianity.

The more you research and read about Christianity the more it shows it's like all the other thousands of religions a myth.

Not exact matches

How am I supposed to honestly answer you about Christianity if I don't use at least the knowledge from having read the Bible in my answer?

Read Rodney Stark's «The Rise of Christianity» to get a realistic view of the radical changes Christianity brought about in the Roman Empire... many of which are * assumed * as rights in modern Western Civilization.

I just think some Christians are lazy and don't want to read more about the totality of scripture and delve deeper into interpretation... we prefer a grade 3 reading and comprehension level in many aspects of Christianity.

I read somewhere that Islam today is about where Christianity was in the middle ages.

So if one were to be convinced by Enlightenment arguments that Christianity is true, what would that say about the proper way to read the Bible?

I invite anyone with a curiosity about Christianity to read the first 5 books straight through and not just cherry picking as most Christians do.

I find it interesting that the apparent atheists who feel the need to make themselves feel better by criticizing the bible and Christianity with snide little comments would even waste their time reading a blog — about belief.

Dude, you are WAY out of your element, having read the bible, a couple of times I might add, I can assure you that I know probably about as much about your religion as you do and quite a bit more about the many religions out there apart from christianity.

Regarding Ryan's ruminations on S.M. Hutchens» review of E.O. Wilson's The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth (warning: I've read neither the book nor the review, just Ryan's post about them), I think Ryan has it right in concluding that in Wilson's account of Christianity «nature has become only a vehicle for supernature.»

If you do nt want to hear anything about Christianity, or any other religion, then maybe you should not read or comment about the subject at all.

All the skeptics out there reading this, you obviously like to read so why don't you go do some real research and read the Bible to get information about Christianity or ask The Creator, God Almighty Himself.

In spite of all the current talk about «social Christianity,» etc. an unbiased and unprejudiced reading of the Bible shows that converting men to their Lord is the work Christians are called to do.

Christianity is about 500 years older than Isam, and Judaism is much, much older than Christianity, and yet, with just a little reading one finds that though each religion has its own holy men, many of those who are revered as prophets or knowledgeable men are the same person.

If you've read Evolving in Monkey Town you know that some of my most serious doubts about Christianity were triggered by questions related to religious pluralism and the destiny of the un-evangelized.

Yeah, because Christianity is so kind to women... How about reading that book you base your faith on before spouting off crap.

If anyone here wishes to know about Christianity... READ THE HOLY BIBLE, with emphasis on the New Testament!!!! Read for yourself what Jesus said and dREAD THE HOLY BIBLE, with emphasis on the New Testament!!!! Read for yourself what Jesus said and dRead for yourself what Jesus said and did..

When I began reading the Bible, I had zero knowledge of anything about Christianity or any faith, because I was unchurched and never read a thing on any religion.

If people actually read the Bible and not pretend they know it, you would see that Christianity is all about love towards one another.

How can we read about this veneer - like faith and not shudder as we compare it to the broad, wide and often equally shallow thing that passes for Christianity in so much of our culture and in so many of our churches?

Jeremy, i have been reading your post for a long time now and i have been studying almost every day on my spare time about Christianity.

I have also read books about Christianity from the perspective of these other religions.

Note: After doing a lot of reading, research, and thinking on the topics in this post, I wrote a follow - up post about the pagan roots of Christianity here and some of my concluding thoughts about Zeitgeist the movie.

learning about Christianity, and after reading the Sermon on the Mount, he decided that Christianity was the most complete religion in the world.

Those of you who have read Mere Christianity know what I am talking about.

Is it proseletyzing if I were to walk into a church and request to speak with a pastor about christianity or is it proseletyzing if I'm sitting quietly in my house reading when people show up at my door demanding to tell me about their religion?

Christianity just didn't start in the 21 century if you want to know about it, read the entire Bible its about Christians and are fellow brethren the Jews we are related through Yeshua (Jesus).

But I've gotten so sick of reading articles about Christianity where all those outside of it bash those in it and lump everyone together.

Just like there are stupid people who've never actually read the bible and yet feel the need to post stupid and wrong statements about Christianity on the CNN news blog.

This article is a joke, obviously you haven't read the Bible if you believe these claims about Christianity and the way the various terms are explained here.

However, I am very interested in learning more and so which of the above books about Jesus or god that would be good for me to read as I am being introduced to Christianity?

Sometimes I think the church (read: the institution, «Christianity Incorporated») is afraid of what everyone else would think if they stripped themselves of the artificial crap, if they stopped — for all practical purposes — encouraging other to lie about their emotional state (which, by extension, means they're encouraging others to SIN).

Ever since the Black Plague swept through Europe, Western Christianity has had an unhealthy preoccupation with what happens to people after they die, and as a result, has often read the Bible through life - after - death colored glasses so that everything seems to be teaching about what happens to people after they die.

So is Christianity really following Jesus or the writers of these gospels... oh and the Hebrew chapters has not clue who and when was it written... my suggestion is to spend sometime to know what you believe and what you want to believe... also if you really like to know about what real Jesus was, please read Quran... more eighty times the name of Jesus is mentioned in this book... where there is a chapter with Jesus» mother name «Mary» chapter 19, there is another chapter name «ale imran'the grand father of Jesus, chapter 3... and then compare what Jesus really was dear brother in mankind...

The Story of Christianity Volumes 1 and 2 by Justo L. Gonzalez: My big summer reading project this year is to learn more about church history.

Frankly, that's why there is so much misinterpretation and misinformation out there about Christianity, bc nobody wants to study the Bible, they just want to read and think they are experts.

FR... if yr specifically talking about Jesus, IMO popular Christianity has him saying too much... it's doubtful that the Jesus of John's gospel is as historically accurate and authentic as the style we read in the synoptics.

so if you are basing your judgement on Christianity on the movies, try reading the books and reading about him too..

Are you sure it's not the way of Christianity and you're not just in denial of what the religion is truly about??? Something tells me you don't read your bible often enough..

For all of those who are saying that Christianity promotes slavery in any way, I encourage you to step away from the book of Leviticus (or any book in the OT that talks about laws outside of the 10 commandments) and instead, go read the book of Romans... you'll learn a lot more about the true meaning the of the Bible there.

When one reads about Roman pagan religion, particularly the Cybele / Attis cult, one of Rome's most prominent religions and Christianity's biggest competitor, then it's hard to extrapolate what seems to be a condemnation of paganism and apply it to gay people who are Christians.

This is new territory for me, doing a book - length study of Jesus and the origins of Christianity, but I have read everything I could get my hands on, weighed all the scholarly debates, and hope my book will be useful to the book - reading public in explaining what we can really know, historically, about Jesus.

When Oxford academic CS Lewis wrote about his adult conversion from atheism to Christianity in Surprised by Joy (HarperCollins) in 1955 it became an apologetics classic, one still read by Christians and seekers to this day.

It's not about «I'm better than you, so you should die» — it's about «I'm different and unique and so are you and I embrace that» — isn't that was Jesus» message really was??? Believe me, I have read myriad books on religion, and not just Christianity.

No offence but I doubt I could read any argument on your site about «moral issue» or «apparent contradiction» that I haven't read elsewhere and I am done with silly conversations that are about point scoring between atheism and Christianity.

If you want to understand what Mormons believe about Christ and Christianity read the following:

Hey Yoda, christianity is «making christianity a ridicule» — have you ever read that book they all rave about??

But as I read this interview, I had two thoughts: 1) Driscoll is absolutely wrong in the way that he characterizes emerging Christianity, and I hope he is absolutely wrong in the way that he characterizes Reformed theology, and 2) Driscoll is absolutely right about the fact that Reformed and emerging are the big trends.

It was about 1927, when Farrer was just a 22 - year - old Oxford student (Baillol College), that he indulged in a binge of reading about the gnostic socio - cultural milieu from which early Christianity emerged.