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Im a believe in the Son of God, who was sent and died on the cross for my sins. I am interested to hear and read what people think about Christians? Who we are? What we believe? and other general subjects.

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We Christians are the ones who have truly surrendered our hearts to God. Being a Christian isn't "Doing your good deed" or "Going to church every Sunday", being a Christian is about having a personal connection with God; not a social connection with religion. We can't get to heaven by being good enough, or being all knowing, or being religiously active. We can only get to heaven by having a physical, spiritual, and mental connection with God. After all, why wouldn't you?
The fact alone that there is a divine being who loves you unconditionally is amazing, especially when there's no one there to love you. Gods love reflects on his grace: That it is unconditional, everlasting, and amazing. God's grace is the only thing that saves us from eternal damnation with sin. Grace is the light that casts away the shadows. Grace is a blessing from god. Grace is an unmerited, undeserved favor. God didn't have to give us his only son. He WANTED to though, because his love was so strong for us that he blessed us with grace. That is what I believe and have faith in.

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i THRUST iSLAM

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I was taught that christians are people who believe that the son of god died for our sins, & they go to church regularly, there is a lot more to it I believe but thats the short version of what I was told.

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The problem with the answer is that there is ALOT that goes into it. It is really hard to capture the essence of what God does to a person once they develop a true relationship with him. I was taught the same as you, as most Christians are taught. Jesus died for you ok, you owe him your life ok, so ask him into your heart and you have the promise of eternal life alright?... As the basic outreach program goes. ok cool. So now we go to church not every Sunday, but still quite a bit and that's great! But the whole of society is starting to develop this idea, that the best way to deal with christians is to argue and shout them down with intellectual arguments that are really hard for us to answer. And there are not many people who know how to handle that, and so they are left with the response "Well Jesus said!". Listen, most people in his day didn't believe in him either, but he used amazing parables that rocked and shocked their thinking. In my mind a christian is a person who can do that, and I believe that is part of the change you go through to become a christian throughout your life after you except him yeah?

Here is a little brain teaser to try this out:
Evolution is sweeping the minds of good people away. Using statements like "Evolution proves that everything you need to create a universe resides WITHIN the universe! We can see the elements and natural laws that develop the stuff that we are made of. Therefore nothing resides outside this box."

How would Christ respond to something like this that stumps most believers? What do you say? Usually if you practice Churchianity and read from the NGB (Nice Guy Bible) you would start talking about how God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten son and so on. But they have heard that before, it doesn't rock'n'shock the way Christ did! Memorize scripture to keep YOU yourself strong in the faith and pass that knowledge to other CHRISTIANS. But I say use the strength of the renewing of your mind in Christ, to answer these arguments. And then you will be one serious Rock'n'Shockin real live Christian. That is every bit as magnetic as Christ is! What say you?

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Originally Posted by Nathan P. Pelletier:
Im a believe in the Son of God

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Originally Posted by Nathan P. Pelletier:
Im a believe in the Son of God, who was sent and died on the cross for my sins. I am interested to hear and read what people think about Christians? Who we are? What we believe? and other general subjects.

my honest answers to these questions... are not friendly.

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Since you ask...

I'm not Christian. I was brought up in a family were I learned to question Christianity and other religions instead, which I think is good because that gave me the choice to choose for myself, instead of have some religion shoved down my throat

My mom always say; "If God exist and can help people for the most trivial things like winning a contest or help someone in a hers career - I mean I am rather tired of witness how successful people prays and thank God for their success (1?) - why lets him children  suffer?

I consider that God (if he exist, which i doubt) should focus to help the little ones in our society instead of helping greedy people to become richer.

I know that there are many driving forces within the church. wonderful people who are doing a fantastic job but I think though that their personality is more due to WHO they are as a person more than that they happened to be religious.

Just take a look at the all the scandals with all the sexual abuse within the Catholic Church - it seems not to be no end of it. I mean, these people are priests - God's envoy on Earth - but worst is all those who knew but kept quiet and covered up for the bastards instead.

"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it."

- Albert Einstein -

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Originally Posted by Josh Vanderloop:

Originally Posted by Nathan P. Pelletier:
Im a believe in the Son of God, who was sent and died on the cross for my sins. I am interested to hear and read what people think about Christians? Who we are? What we believe? and other general subjects.

my honest answers to these questions... are not friendly.

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The term Christian is a misused word by people of a religious orientation with faith in Jesus , christianity is the identity of crystalization  which doesnot exist in the Earth today , socalled christianity is a religious format with marginal substance .

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That was rather parenthetical...

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Originally Posted by Coffee Kev:
The problem with the answer is that there is ALOT that goes into it. It is really hard to capture the essence of what God does to a person once they develop a true relationship with him. I was taught the same as you, as most Christians are taught. Jesus died for you ok, you owe him your life ok, so ask him into your heart and you have the promise of eternal life alright?... As the basic outreach program goes. ok cool. So now we go to church not every Sunday, but still quite a bit and that's great! But the whole of society is starting to develop this idea, that the best way to deal with christians is to argue and shout them down with intellectual arguments that are really hard for us to answer. And there are not many people who know how to handle that, and so they are left with the response "Well Jesus said!". Listen, most people in his day didn't believe in him either, but he used amazing parables that rocked and shocked their thinking. In my mind a christian is a person who can do that, and I believe that is part of the change you go through to become a christian throughout your life after you except him yeah?

Here is a little brain teaser to try this out:
Evolution is sweeping the minds of good people away. Using statements like "Evolution proves that everything you need to create a universe resides WITHIN the universe! We can see the elements and natural laws that develop the stuff that we are made of. Therefore nothing resides outside this box."

How would Christ respond to something like this that stumps most believers? What do you say? Usually if you practice Churchianity and read from the NGB (Nice Guy Bible) you would start talking about how God so loved the world that he gave His only begotten son and so on. But they have heard that before, it doesn't rock'n'shock the way Christ did! Memorize scripture to keep YOU yourself strong in the faith and pass that knowledge to other CHRISTIANS. But I say use the strength of the renewing of your mind in Christ, to answer these arguments. And then you will be one serious Rock'n'Shockin real live Christian. That is every bit as magnetic as Christ is! What say you?

It is so true, Jesus wasn't popular in that regard, also I would point out to other Christians, when there confronted with stuff like evolution, there is nothing wrong with saying I'm not a scientist, but here is a web site were you can find a Christian scientist, and leave it at that, really the other thing to remember just because you don't have an answer doesn't mean your belief is wrong it just means you have something new to learn, meaning now you know what to research and see what does the bible say, or what do the christian creationist say, and there is nothing wrong in the words I don't know, we are not all expected to know all of every thing, and I believe that is way it says in the epistles  1Cr 2:2     For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.

Cause ultimately that it what is the most important, if ppl arn't seeking God, you wont win them over unless there open to it, also unless you have a gift in that subject like knowledge of creation, the other thing I love to point out is that just because some one makes a statement that does not make them right, I like to point that one out when ever ppl say something like, your just weak  minded and scared that why you believe, its good to point out opinion, so many ppl think its fact