What is wrong with being Christian?
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Thread Topic: What is wrong with being Christian?
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Nothing. As long as you don't try to force your beliefs on others, then nothing's wrong with being a Christian.
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There is nothing wrong with being a follower of Christ. Whoever told you there was is incorrect. I, however [mostly addressed towards daughterofapollo] believe strongly in spreading Gods word. Especially with the bad things happening in todays day and age, we should be telling the world about Jesus, the Bible, and the fellowship. Think about it; if all of the Christians banded together and the whole world knew! I personally think that life would be better. By "keeping it in" and not telling people, we risk extinction of Christianity. Life would suck if ALL of us did that.
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I think we should let people decide for themselves on what they should and shouldn't believe instead of having people tell them that they're going to go to Hell if they don't believe in God.
Christians are never going to come together because every year there are more denominations of Christianity being formed because they all can't agree on certain things. And I think we'd be fine if Christianity wasn't here anymore because there are other religions that teach the same morals. It all just comes down to which religion you feel most comfortable with, if any. -
And I move the notion that you don't need a religion for people to have morals. We'd do just fine without any. As for Christianity banding together, the closest we've ever gotten to that was the Dark ages and we all saw how that turned out.
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Believing in an all-powerful sky being is not bad in and of itself, I suppose. But if you willing to hold one illogical belief, what else can you be led to believe? That's the true danger with any religion. Religion poisons the well, so to speak, because it leads people to destroy and subvert their rational capabilities. And the danger there is that people can be led to believe anything. And I'm speaking about ALL religion, not just Christianity.
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Don't start the "Christians force there beliefs on everyone else" thing again.
Christians don't force there beliefs on anyone and if they do, then it is far less than a majority of other cults do, besides, you can't really be angry about someone telling you what they believe and then trying to defend it after you tell them that it is wrong. That is ignorant. -
Of course it is for other people to decide what religion they want to be!! I never questioned or challenged that. As twin butterfly pointed out, Christians are far less forceful and violent than some other religions.
And Christianity is not about morals. You can go to heaven even if you have had zero. If you choose to believe in Jesus Christ really and truly even one second before death, you will still go to heaven. While morals make the world a better place, they are only a section of Christianity.
What Christianity is about is the relationship and fellowship between you and God. You are His child, no matter what. He loves you, no matter what (He doesn't always love what you DO, but He always loves YOU). He leaves it up to you whether or not you will believe in and love Him. He gave us free will, and Adam/Eve "got" us knowledge.
It is your decision. You WILL go to Hell if you don't believe in God and Jesus when you die, but that is not the purpose of the ministry. The purpose is not to scare people into believing. The purpose of the ministry is to project and explain (to the best of our ability) Gods love to others. Information such as where you will go to spend your afterlife is only a small part of the message. -
Come back paigequizzy
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^ no offense paige, but you are being exactly the kind of person there people are steriotyping Christians as.
Be an example of Christ's love but don't cast your pearls before swine girlfriend, I love you to death but just don't, I have had a lot of evangelistic experience, enough to know that trying to share Christ's love only isn't the best way to do it. -
KK. Hey, BTW not that it matters, but what branch of Christianity are you? I'm Lutheran, and I'm not the biggest expert on the differences between types of Christianity, and maybe its just my church, but we Lutherans seem extremely laid back. Your thoughts?
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I kinda like this internet-missionary thing. I can get super involved and really teach people, but at the same time, its all contained, like I can take a break from it at any time.
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Calvary chapel.
And if you fell like the Lord is calling you to serve in an evangelical branch then pursue it, just not here. -
I'm on my phone, so I'm not going to write out the full list of how just in America, Christians are pushing their beliefs on others. I'm just going to name the big 3 of gay marriage, abortion, and creationism in schools. All three of which are fought with Christianity as the figure head. Moving on.
I don't think you're going to appeal to anyone by telling them that if they don't agree with you that they'll burn forever because your god is a loving one. It just doesn't work that way. Especially when the follow up sentence is that horrible and amoral people who believe get in to heaven. That doesn't sound like a very wise deity to me. And definitely not one worth my love.
Furthermore, if you're under the illusion that people are going to be okay with you coming here to preach, and then "taking a break" inevitably when you start to catch flak, then you really don't realize how poorly that goes over here. -
Everyone pushes their beliefs on others lol
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