Too many Christians, and also those who are not Chirstians, don't understand what it really means to be one. The very word itself means to be "christ-like", to follow Christ in his footprints and understand Him as fully as our powerless, wicked brains can. We are so screwed up in our thinking that we start making up what a our own "Christian" ways and then live like that without even consulting the One who started it all. What ever happened to discipleship, frendship, and fellowship? Love and meekness? Does anyone really know what it's like to give up there life for another? Christians are just as screwed up as the rest of the world, we've just found the One and only Way. We've found the one who wants such a deep and intimate relationship with us that nothing else matters. Focus your eyes on Jesus and He will tear your life apart in so many different ways. You will be face down on the ground crying out, yet falling more in love with Him every second that you spend in His presents. No one said life was easy, and no one said you should try to make it easier--No! it's hard, it it should be hard. Through the struggles and hardships we find comfort in the one who created this world--this terriblely beautiful and beautifully terrible world.
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"powerless, wicked brains can"
Ah, what self-esteem. :idk:
"What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!"
H. P. Lovecraft
Uh, I love my brain and it hurts to call it wicked, and powerless. Also that's good and all but that is your God, the God of the Qu'ran and Torah are also the One and only God's. So the Christian God is none to special.
--Josh
"Lets talk about spaceships."
The God of Islam and Judaism share the same God as Christianity. Although christians don't believe they share the same God with the other two Abrahamic faiths due to how they view Jesus. However, they're all the same God.
Uh you'd be wrong. Islam claims their God is anything but the God of the Christians. And the Jews don't claim anything that I can think of. But then we have the Hindu God which is older than the abrahamic Gods so why isn't that the right one? Because I book tells you is a stupid reason to believe something that has no proof.
I AM a muslim and I know for a fact that Islam claims to share the same God as Christianity and Judaism. I didn't imply that Islam, Judaism and Christianity share a god with a non-Abrahamic faith. I also did not imply anything in reference into who's God was the "right/real" god. You're reaching.
Ok. I know muslims who claim that the Gods aren't the same. Even radical muslims claim that the Gods are different. I'm not reaching, I'm putting out all religions and saying that none of them can claim a right to being the one religion.
Okay, you threw in the "radical" muslims, so your theory is invalid. I attend a mosque in which all of the Imams preach that they are the same god. Yes, you are reaching. I never stated anything about who was right or wrong in terms of God. That's beating a dead horse.
I am not reaching and I didn't just throw in radical muslims. I said muslims i know are taught that the God of Mohammad and the God of Abraham are two entirely different entites because they have two entirely different personalities. My theory is valid even if I throw them in there because they are a part of your religion just like WBC is part of the Christian religion, a blight on the religion that comes from the religion allows the argument to be valid. There are two beliefs in every single Abrahamic religion. You have the one group who believes that their God is special, and you have the other group that believes the religions of Abraham have the same God. Focusing on only one aspect of a religion takes away from a discussion.
I know Percivale, but I'm going off of friends who's Imman teach that the Gods are not the same. The question becomes, which sect of each religion is right.
REACHING. When you try and point out something irrelevant to the discussion such as "who's god is right/wrong" to try and make an argument, you are reaching. And this would be because you want to beat a dead horse.
I don't see how it is irrelevant. All I said was you must take into account the different beliefs on who's right or wrong and gave examples. It just shows that we can't know who is right or wrong. That might be beating a dead horse, but only because everyone decides not to look at it because they think they're right.
Because I made no implication as to who's god was right/wrong in my original post. You are the one that brought it up in response to me. Therefore, it was irrelevant to bring up a dead horse to me and ask me to beat it to life.
...Judaism, Christianity and Islam are all derived from the same theological source, which is to say that they refer back to the "god of Abraham."
percivale
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Thanks for the encouragment. If Christians would be what they are called to be, they would set this world on fire for love of Jesus Christ!
Why set it on fire early?
Burn yourselves. Leave me out of it.
"What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!"
H. P. Lovecraft
I like your post. In all honestly, I do not consider my self a christian, but I respect those who do and do it with out judgement. I like your post because it is not condemning, only encouraging. I see no reason why people can not believe in the truth of different gods without argueing over it. I say to each his own. We all enjoy words of encouragement here and there, even if they are not linear to that of our own beliefs. Good job.
~"nonviolence is the highest of ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other beings, we are still savages" -Thomas Edison
People don't have to be religious to devote their lives to others. I am agnostic and am devoting my life to helping others. Nothing to do with religion.