Tuesday, September 27, 2011
What were Judaism ideas and Christian ideas that contributed to the development to democracy?
How does the Judeo-Christian view of reason and faith, and the duties of the community contributed to the development of democratic thought?|||I think it's the belief that there's only one true god, and in front of god everyone is equal. Christianity did make the way to democracy much easier.
What are the benefits of going to a christian university over a regular one?
I am a christian and a sophomore in high school. I would like to know the advantages and disadvantages of going to a christian college over a regular one. Can anybody help me?|||You can have your brain washed at no additional charge.|||At a Christian school, you will likely be surrounded by people who share your faith in God and your religion.
At a Christian school, you will most likely be required to take religious classes or take part in some sort of school-wide religious activity.
At a secular school, there are many, many different people from different religions that you can learn about and from.
At a secular school, there will likely be some adversity towards you and your religion. Depending on the school, this could be a vocal or nonvocal minority (but people are generally tolerant).
Remember: you are attending college to receive an education. If you think the education you will receive is better at one school than another, go for the better one, regardless of religious affiliation.
Also, sophomore? Just make yourself a huge list of colleges you might want to research. You're fine for now.|||It really depends on your career goals. If your goal after college is to work within a Christian institution like a Christian radio station, journal, or church, then you'll want to go to a Christian university. If you want to work in the regular commercial world, then the advantages depend on which companies recruit at the Christian versus the secular colleges you have in mind.|||Well, I've been to both Christian and public high schools, and my best friend is in a Christian college at the mo while I'm at a public one....so I can help you out. I wont talk about cost since I don't know which one you're looking at. Some state colleges have higher tuition than private ones if you're coming from out of state.
GOING TO CHRISTIAN COLLEGE:
Disadvantages: Depending on the college, they may have stricter rules than a public one. My friend has a 10pm curfew. Also, since she is at a very conservative one, there is a lot of gender bias that drives her nuts. For example, girl's rooms are checked once a week for cleanliness and fined if the room isn't clean enough...while boy's rooms are inspected when they leave for the summer. And when you go to a school that isn't in the state system, your classes may not count if you choose to transfer. My friend wanted to transfer to UGA until she found out she'd loose 30 credit hours.
If you are going into a science field, I'd be careful to choose only well-known, reputable Christian schools. For example, getting a science degree at Bob Jones won't help your career much.
Advantages: The schools are often smaller, which means you get more one-on-one help. Classes also tend to be smaller and you're less likely to get student-teachers for your freshmen classes (or teachers who barely speak English). You also are in a place where most people will agree with your beliefs. Alcohol, sex, and drugs still are present, but aren't as openly obvious.
GOING TO PUBLIC COLLEGE
Disadvantages: It's big, so nobody cares. you're all on your own. It's chaotic too- I chose Health Behavior as a major and got advised for it aannnddd found out later they'd canceled it 6 years ago!
Freshmen classes are large (300+), and freshmen often get the crappy teachers. get used to seeing sex, drugs, and drinking cause its everywhere.
Advantages: You can transfer anywhere in state without loosing hours. You have more freedom and responsibility. Your classes are big so you can even play video games in class!!! (lol) You get to meet people with lots of different beliefs and hopefully learn from them. No curfew. And of course, you can always join a Christian sorority/fraternity or a Christian group if you want.
Good luck|||Well, you get to learn just about everything that you would learn at a secular school only everything has been skewed to favor God.
Unless you take theology and then you can learn about the actual history of the Bible and how it has been edited over time by man.
Also, they will teach you evolution, and then ask you to forget everything you just learned as the Bible is meant to be literally interpreted.
Also, they cost more.|||I go to a Lutheran private school, and I'm an atheist (I got a free ride). Religious schools are generally private schools, and private schools have smaller class sizes, maximizing attention to a particular student.
Also, most Christian schools are not "brainwashing"; the school I go to, Capital U, teaches evolutionary biology, Big Bang, modern science, etc. And you wouldn't even know it was a religious school if there wasn't a giant cross on the campus.|||There are none. Go to a state university instead. You'll get a far better education. And thus a far better job.|||There are some great Christian Universities. Georgetown, Loyola, Gonzaga, Boston College....
see a pattern here?|||An advantage is you'll be around other christians like you
a disadvantage is that you'll be held to a higher standard than others|||Nothing, there's no benefits, you'll just be brainwashed into believing nonsense|||I hear you can get a degree in 3 months in some christian colleges.|||Be sure to watch The Cosby Show!|||i hear science class is really easy.
At a Christian school, you will most likely be required to take religious classes or take part in some sort of school-wide religious activity.
At a secular school, there are many, many different people from different religions that you can learn about and from.
At a secular school, there will likely be some adversity towards you and your religion. Depending on the school, this could be a vocal or nonvocal minority (but people are generally tolerant).
Remember: you are attending college to receive an education. If you think the education you will receive is better at one school than another, go for the better one, regardless of religious affiliation.
Also, sophomore? Just make yourself a huge list of colleges you might want to research. You're fine for now.|||It really depends on your career goals. If your goal after college is to work within a Christian institution like a Christian radio station, journal, or church, then you'll want to go to a Christian university. If you want to work in the regular commercial world, then the advantages depend on which companies recruit at the Christian versus the secular colleges you have in mind.|||Well, I've been to both Christian and public high schools, and my best friend is in a Christian college at the mo while I'm at a public one....so I can help you out. I wont talk about cost since I don't know which one you're looking at. Some state colleges have higher tuition than private ones if you're coming from out of state.
GOING TO CHRISTIAN COLLEGE:
Disadvantages: Depending on the college, they may have stricter rules than a public one. My friend has a 10pm curfew. Also, since she is at a very conservative one, there is a lot of gender bias that drives her nuts. For example, girl's rooms are checked once a week for cleanliness and fined if the room isn't clean enough...while boy's rooms are inspected when they leave for the summer. And when you go to a school that isn't in the state system, your classes may not count if you choose to transfer. My friend wanted to transfer to UGA until she found out she'd loose 30 credit hours.
If you are going into a science field, I'd be careful to choose only well-known, reputable Christian schools. For example, getting a science degree at Bob Jones won't help your career much.
Advantages: The schools are often smaller, which means you get more one-on-one help. Classes also tend to be smaller and you're less likely to get student-teachers for your freshmen classes (or teachers who barely speak English). You also are in a place where most people will agree with your beliefs. Alcohol, sex, and drugs still are present, but aren't as openly obvious.
GOING TO PUBLIC COLLEGE
Disadvantages: It's big, so nobody cares. you're all on your own. It's chaotic too- I chose Health Behavior as a major and got advised for it aannnddd found out later they'd canceled it 6 years ago!
Freshmen classes are large (300+), and freshmen often get the crappy teachers. get used to seeing sex, drugs, and drinking cause its everywhere.
Advantages: You can transfer anywhere in state without loosing hours. You have more freedom and responsibility. Your classes are big so you can even play video games in class!!! (lol) You get to meet people with lots of different beliefs and hopefully learn from them. No curfew. And of course, you can always join a Christian sorority/fraternity or a Christian group if you want.
Good luck|||Well, you get to learn just about everything that you would learn at a secular school only everything has been skewed to favor God.
Unless you take theology and then you can learn about the actual history of the Bible and how it has been edited over time by man.
Also, they will teach you evolution, and then ask you to forget everything you just learned as the Bible is meant to be literally interpreted.
Also, they cost more.|||I go to a Lutheran private school, and I'm an atheist (I got a free ride). Religious schools are generally private schools, and private schools have smaller class sizes, maximizing attention to a particular student.
Also, most Christian schools are not "brainwashing"; the school I go to, Capital U, teaches evolutionary biology, Big Bang, modern science, etc. And you wouldn't even know it was a religious school if there wasn't a giant cross on the campus.|||There are none. Go to a state university instead. You'll get a far better education. And thus a far better job.|||There are some great Christian Universities. Georgetown, Loyola, Gonzaga, Boston College....
see a pattern here?|||An advantage is you'll be around other christians like you
a disadvantage is that you'll be held to a higher standard than others|||Nothing, there's no benefits, you'll just be brainwashed into believing nonsense|||I hear you can get a degree in 3 months in some christian colleges.|||Be sure to watch The Cosby Show!|||i hear science class is really easy.
What are some ways the Christian gospel is perceived in our culture?
I have to have several peoples opinions to these questions for a class. If you have a second please answer the following questions in your point of view.
2.)What are some ways the Christian gospel is perceived in our culture?
3.)What are some specific reasons (moral, emotional and intellectual) that people reject the Christian gospel?
4.)What can Christians do to address these objections and better communicate the Christian gospel?|||Well since the Christian gospels are books about Jesus' life I think it just teaches morals for modern day people to live by. If you mean the bible itself, much of the US law system was basically formed by principles taught in the book of Romans, until much of it began changing in the early 1900's.|||You didn't specify which "our" culture you mean. US? Mexico? Israel? Iraq?
2) ridiculous, wasteful, non-sense, damning
3) reject, because there isn't a single shred of evidence to indicate the buy-bull is authoritative in any way
4) nothing, they should read their buy-bull without preconceived ideas on what it says and in no special order, front to back like any other novel.
1 and 2 appear to be identical so I answered 2-4.|||ef hutton seems to be incapable of objective reasoning.
2.)What are some ways the Christian gospel is perceived in our culture?
3.)What are some specific reasons (moral, emotional and intellectual) that people reject the Christian gospel?
4.)What can Christians do to address these objections and better communicate the Christian gospel?|||Well since the Christian gospels are books about Jesus' life I think it just teaches morals for modern day people to live by. If you mean the bible itself, much of the US law system was basically formed by principles taught in the book of Romans, until much of it began changing in the early 1900's.|||You didn't specify which "our" culture you mean. US? Mexico? Israel? Iraq?
2) ridiculous, wasteful, non-sense, damning
3) reject, because there isn't a single shred of evidence to indicate the buy-bull is authoritative in any way
4) nothing, they should read their buy-bull without preconceived ideas on what it says and in no special order, front to back like any other novel.
1 and 2 appear to be identical so I answered 2-4.|||ef hutton seems to be incapable of objective reasoning.
Any christian songs that deal with vulnerability and knowing who you are?
Can i get two different lists of christian songs. Some that deal with vulnerabilty and being vuolnerable with other people and especially God...About not having it all together. Around those lines or that would fit that criteria. Also another list of christian songs that works with knowing who you are in Christ, Plans thay he may have, Him showing himself and giving you identity etc...
Please help me out by giving me two different lists of songs that fit those two criterias! Thank you so much!|||I would say that Reliant K answers both of those. check out their albums mmhhmm, 5 score and 7 years ago and Forget and not slow down. For your first set about vulnerability I would say the song I So Hate Consequences hits it spot on.
Please help me out by giving me two different lists of songs that fit those two criterias! Thank you so much!|||I would say that Reliant K answers both of those. check out their albums mmhhmm, 5 score and 7 years ago and Forget and not slow down. For your first set about vulnerability I would say the song I So Hate Consequences hits it spot on.
What are some good modern songs that can have a christian meaning?
Im starting out with a new band and they are a Christian rock band. I dont know many Christian rock songs, but i song modern songs quite well. Fast or slow works, just something with a christian meaning to it. No heavy metal/screamo please. Any suggestions?|||Pretty much anything by U2, also "All these things that I've done" by the killers|||Third day - born again
Need to breathe- washed by the water|||Tonight -- FM Static
Lose my Soul -- tobyMac
Bands:
Five Iron Frenzy
Relient K|||I'll be the example of no black metal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFn26ntmS鈥?/a>|||Skillet's "Looking For Angels" is one of my favorites, and the song "The River" by Good Charlotte is awesome!|||With Arms Wide Open by Creed.|||Chris Tomlin
David Crowder Band
Phil Wickham
Tenth Avenue North
Evanescence
Hillsong
Lincoln Brewster
Collective Soul
Third Day
Jeremy Camp
Casting Crowns
Jeremy Riddle
MercyMe
Chris and Conrad
Philips, Craig, and Dean
Mark Schultz
Newsboys
Lifehouse
Steven Curtis Chapman
Sanctus Real
Pocket Full of Rocks
Addison Road
Matthew West
Big Daddy Weave
Needtobreathe
Matt Maher
Phil Stacey
The Fray
Chasen
Kutless
Switchfoot
Matt Redman
Matt Nathanson
Matt Kearney
Jimmy Needham
Fireflight
Paul Baloche
Need to breathe- washed by the water|||Tonight -- FM Static
Lose my Soul -- tobyMac
Bands:
Five Iron Frenzy
Relient K|||I'll be the example of no black metal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFn26ntmS鈥?/a>|||Skillet's "Looking For Angels" is one of my favorites, and the song "The River" by Good Charlotte is awesome!|||With Arms Wide Open by Creed.|||Chris Tomlin
David Crowder Band
Phil Wickham
Tenth Avenue North
Evanescence
Hillsong
Lincoln Brewster
Collective Soul
Third Day
Jeremy Camp
Casting Crowns
Jeremy Riddle
MercyMe
Chris and Conrad
Philips, Craig, and Dean
Mark Schultz
Newsboys
Lifehouse
Steven Curtis Chapman
Sanctus Real
Pocket Full of Rocks
Addison Road
Matthew West
Big Daddy Weave
Needtobreathe
Matt Maher
Phil Stacey
The Fray
Chasen
Kutless
Switchfoot
Matt Redman
Matt Nathanson
Matt Kearney
Jimmy Needham
Fireflight
Paul Baloche
Where can I find information on grants for Christian businesses?
I am wanting to open a Christian book store. In order to do this I will need a grant to help with the inventory. Does anyone have any information on obtaining a grant for this. It will be a purely Christian store and will be ran by only women.|||You'll have to talk to the churches in your neighborhood, or the state or regional offices of whatever church you belong to.
The word "grant" is typically used to refer to money from the government, but the US government does not give any money to any religious organization.|||Not from government. Unlike the myths that some perpetuate, federal government and even private foundations hardly give grant money for starting a for-profit business.
For private grants, you may want to check the Foundation Center's Foundation Grants for Individuals Online http://gtionline.fdncenter.org . It's a subscription based website ($9.95 per month) but their opening blurb only says that the database is ideal for "students, artists, academic researchers, libraries and financial aid offices." Entrepreneurs are apparently not one of them, so I take it they also don't have listings of private foundations who give grants to would-be entrepreneurs.
Your best bet actually will be from the states if they offer grant programs for women (or any other special interest groups -- minorities, women, disabled, veterans, etc). Or check with non profit organizations, particularly women organizations if they offer grants. Examples include
Iowa Women's Foundation http://www.iawf.org/
New Mexico Women's Foundation http://www.nmwf.org/guidelines.html
Even SBA does NOT give out grants. From the SBA website http://www.sba.gov/mostrequesteditems/CO鈥?/a>
"The U.S. Small Business Administration does not offer grants to start or expand small businesses, although it does offer a wide variety of loan programs. (See http://www.sba.gov/financing for more information) While SBA does offer some grant programs, these are generally designed to expand and enhance organizations that provide small business management, technical, or financial assistance. These grants generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments."
Nonetheless, you can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support a for-profit venture.|||I Agreee!!!
The word "grant" is typically used to refer to money from the government, but the US government does not give any money to any religious organization.|||Not from government. Unlike the myths that some perpetuate, federal government and even private foundations hardly give grant money for starting a for-profit business.
For private grants, you may want to check the Foundation Center's Foundation Grants for Individuals Online http://gtionline.fdncenter.org . It's a subscription based website ($9.95 per month) but their opening blurb only says that the database is ideal for "students, artists, academic researchers, libraries and financial aid offices." Entrepreneurs are apparently not one of them, so I take it they also don't have listings of private foundations who give grants to would-be entrepreneurs.
Your best bet actually will be from the states if they offer grant programs for women (or any other special interest groups -- minorities, women, disabled, veterans, etc). Or check with non profit organizations, particularly women organizations if they offer grants. Examples include
Iowa Women's Foundation http://www.iawf.org/
New Mexico Women's Foundation http://www.nmwf.org/guidelines.html
Even SBA does NOT give out grants. From the SBA website http://www.sba.gov/mostrequesteditems/CO鈥?/a>
"The U.S. Small Business Administration does not offer grants to start or expand small businesses, although it does offer a wide variety of loan programs. (See http://www.sba.gov/financing for more information) While SBA does offer some grant programs, these are generally designed to expand and enhance organizations that provide small business management, technical, or financial assistance. These grants generally support non-profit organizations, intermediary lending institutions, and state and local governments."
Nonetheless, you can go to the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) http://www.cfda.gov and Grants.gov http://www.grants.gov - these are two sites created by the federal government to provide transparency and information on grants. Browse through the listings and see if you can find any grant that would support a for-profit venture.|||I Agreee!!!
What is a good christian radio station in chicago?
My girlfriend is a christian and she likes christian radio. I live near chicago. She is coming to visit me this weekend. I want to play christian radio for her in the car when we go to places and stuff. I've tried googling but I'm overwhelmed by the options so I wonder if anybody knows of any that they like. She likes christian music not talk.|||It is good you mention "no talk" because the majority of Christian stations that cover that area talk based (more talk than music).
I know the 2 most popular stations are Moody Radio and WYLL
There is a really good station based in Chicagoland WBGL .. not sure if reception would cover to where you are at .. I know when I have visited Chicago I have tuned in 104.7 .. and have picked up good reception, however there are many dead spots where it fades out or disappears into static land.
Personally though when I enter the main city, I end up playing CD's or my ipod (which personally is better than any radio station because its music I know I love)
Best of luck with your search .. it's not an easy one.. I hope you can get WBGL though .. they have some fun music :) and less talk|||%26gt;%26gt;I've tried googling
So you left Google to see what its mighty competitor, Yahoo, had to say. Good choice.
Try seeing which stations you can actually TUNE IN. Just because something is broadcast in your state doesn't mean it will necessarily come through where you live.
http://www.christianradio.com/stations.a鈥?/a>|||Familyradio is a worldwide ministry that is very faithful to Scripture. They offer traditional hymn songs and teachings, bible studies, and scripture readings throughout the day.
You might be able to get some of these fequencies.
WJCH Joliet 91.9 FM Local Station
WJCH LaPorte 109.9 FM Translator
WJCH Rockford 94.5 FM Translator|||Christian girl friend coming to visit you? Just so you know, you aren't going to get any.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;鈥?/a>|||No such thing anywhere .
All Christian radio stations are evil.|||I don't see how radio stations can believe in god.
I know the 2 most popular stations are Moody Radio and WYLL
There is a really good station based in Chicagoland WBGL .. not sure if reception would cover to where you are at .. I know when I have visited Chicago I have tuned in 104.7 .. and have picked up good reception, however there are many dead spots where it fades out or disappears into static land.
Personally though when I enter the main city, I end up playing CD's or my ipod (which personally is better than any radio station because its music I know I love)
Best of luck with your search .. it's not an easy one.. I hope you can get WBGL though .. they have some fun music :) and less talk|||%26gt;%26gt;I've tried googling
So you left Google to see what its mighty competitor, Yahoo, had to say. Good choice.
Try seeing which stations you can actually TUNE IN. Just because something is broadcast in your state doesn't mean it will necessarily come through where you live.
http://www.christianradio.com/stations.a鈥?/a>|||Familyradio is a worldwide ministry that is very faithful to Scripture. They offer traditional hymn songs and teachings, bible studies, and scripture readings throughout the day.
You might be able to get some of these fequencies.
WJCH Joliet 91.9 FM Local Station
WJCH LaPorte 109.9 FM Translator
WJCH Rockford 94.5 FM Translator|||Christian girl friend coming to visit you? Just so you know, you aren't going to get any.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;鈥?/a>|||No such thing anywhere .
All Christian radio stations are evil.|||I don't see how radio stations can believe in god.
How can I get Christian organizations to review and promote my ebook?
I wrote a book in 2005 that is now out of print, but it just became an e-book on Amazon. How can I get churches and Christian organizations to review it and promote it if they like it?|||Start with churches and organizations where you know one or more of the leaders. Ask them to do a review as a favor to you and post it in their site. Some will be too busy. Some will have a policy against this but some may do it. Move on to churches and groups in your own area. Introduce yourself to the pastors by email or in person and ask them to take a look at the book. Refer them to the reviews that are now up on your friend's sites. Think or the logical connections to these groups, or example going from a local church to larger churches of same denomination to district or regional sites within the church to organizations affiliated with the church. Go to Facebook and do a page for your book. Do a search for organizations with related topics. Consider a blog, word press is good. Twitter can build a presence too. In many cases an author or publisher will offer a small donation or fee to reviewers for each click or each sale that comes from a link on their site.
If you have speaking skills also ask local churches and ones w/in 100 miles or so for opportunities to speak on the topic of your book.
Send press releases to local and denominational publications and radio and TV stations especially Christian stations about the release of the e book. The more you and your book become familiar names to people the more you are seen as an authority the betetr reception you will get
If you have speaking skills also ask local churches and ones w/in 100 miles or so for opportunities to speak on the topic of your book.
Send press releases to local and denominational publications and radio and TV stations especially Christian stations about the release of the e book. The more you and your book become familiar names to people the more you are seen as an authority the betetr reception you will get
Christians: is it possible for a Christian to hold to liberal theology and still be considered saved?
For example, let us say that the person rejects the inspiration of Scripture, the deity of Christ, the resurrection of the dead, and the Virgin Birth. Can one still be a true Christian?|||You just took out Christianity.|||Anybody who rejects the deity of Christ could only be Christian in name.
Liberal Christians don't reject the Deity of Christ, though, or any of those other things, necessarily. I'm as Liberal a Christian as you will ever meet, and I believe in everything you listed in your question.|||Absolutely. There is, unfortunately, a difference between the religion OF Jesus Christ and the religion ABOUT Jesus Christ. Jesus taught certain basic principles of living, and rarely --- is ever --- inquired about the doctrinal beliefs of his followers. A clear, succinct outline of the religion he taught and lived is in the Sermon on the Mount, as recorded (among other places) in chapters 5 - 7 of the Gospel of Matthew. Suggestions for application of those principles are made in the very short Letter of James, which was written by one whom many scholars believe was the brother of Jesus.
The word "salvation" is from the same Greek word for "health"; "salvation" implies, to me, spiritual health. SO, to the degree that I am spiritually mature and healthy, I experience "salvation." It was in Roman Catholic theology and tradition that "salvation" came to mean something about the afterlife. By the middle of the 19th century, when Protestant fundamentalism came to the fore, that the idea took on added life and strength. Many Protestant Americans seem to think that their religious beliefs and practices have been the norm throughout Christian history, but that just simply is not true; they would do well to spend a little more time exploring what Jesus actually said and did and taught, as opposed to what later followers (especially, Paul) said he taught.
Incidentally, Jesus never taught that he was God. He stated, in fact, that "My Father is greater than I." I find it strange that some of the most ardently anti-Catholic people in Christendom are fundamentalist Protestants, some of whose most closely-held beliefs come not from Scripture but from Roman Catholic tradition.
For his day, Jesus was most emphatically a religious liberal!|||YOU DON'T HAVE TO LET SOMEONE ELSE DEFINE CHRISTIANITY FOR YOU.
According to the book of James, "true and pure religion is helping the widow and the orphan". All the hot air in the world about hyperbolic, stratospheric, Trinitarian transcendence doesn't make up for the smug complacency and Laodecian laziness that certain belief-is-enough Christians have toward the trouble and tribulation of their less fortunate fellows.
If Christianity was just about what you believed and not about what you do, why did they include in the New Testament the gospel parable about the two sons? One son said he would do something and didn't; the other said he wouldn't do it and did. Which son was the most righteous? Nothing you preach in terms of orthodox doctrine can make up for the fact that you ignored a cry for help from a suffering friend.
Faith without works is dead. All the yak-yak about the preexistent, metaphysical magnitude of Jesus' mystical, celestial status doesn't obscure the fact that it's not about what Jesus was metaphorically, but about what Jesus TAUGHT. Those who downplay the necessity of helping others are NOT Christians, whatever other "perfect" doctrines they espouse.
The supernatural aspects of the Bible are inflated flamboyancy. "Firstborn of creation, preexistant with God before time began, etc." is a lot of airy-fairy, hyperbolic, advanced-Christological cant. These superlatives may sound impressive and imperial, but it really boils down to what you are doing right here in real-time to improve reality, to repair the real world, and to rescue and redeem the broken.|||You could well be the rare true Christian. No one really knows whether the teaching of Jesus was corrupted by Paul or not, but it was more likely than not.
Romans chapter 13 was specifically written to tell believers to submit to all forms of authority and government (for they are servants of god), and such passages extolling the sanctity of all governing authorities are incongruous in the contexts of a holy book.|||It depends on how conservative or liberal of a Christian belief system the answerer of this question is coming from.
I consider myself a Christian, but many other people wouldn't. Personally, I don't care what others think of my beliefs, for I do not base, or alter my beliefs, because of others' beliefs.
As to your first example of accepting or rejecting the inspiration of scripture. Again, it depends. This time on which particular parts of the scriptures are truly inspired, and which parts "come from" the cultures of the time they were written in. Some of the verses in the Bible are quite inspired. Some, not so much. The parts about stoning people to death because of adultery, or talking back to your parents, and the parts about how slaves should obey their masters, and the parts about how God supposedly commanded the Israelites to massacre their neighbors, because of the neighbors supposed wickedness, and many other examples, are all simply the reflection of the then culture, plain and simple. The parts of the scriptures that talk about how your faith makes you whole, or "pray believing you have your desires, and you shall have them", or the part that says "Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have, is thine", are very inspired, and inspirational.
I do not subscribe to the "you must accept it all, or reject it all" mentality. One does not throw the baby out with the dirty bath water.
As to the deity of Christ. I affirm the deity of Christ. I also affirm the inherent and essential deity of all of us, of everyone. In my interpretation of the Bible, Christ came here as a "way-shower", to show us the way, back to God. To show us how to live. He came here to be the example for us all to follow, not to be the exception for us to worship.
As to the resurrection of the dead. In my interpretation, Life is inherently eternal. Death in this world is merely birth into the next expression of Life. There is no death, in the sense that one ceases to exist. Your life continues to express on a different plane of existence, after you are done expressing your life here.
As to the virgin birth, I believe that story is an allegory, attempting to convey an idea. In my opinion, it was attempting to show that Jesus came from a "pure" source. That Jesus was not "corrupted" by humanity's sinfulness, upon his egress from his human mother. Personally, I don't believe that humanity is inherently sinful, and I don't think that that story is meant to really convey that idea, literally. I believe my interpretation of this story is supported by the findings that the story of the virgin birth was written many years after Jesus' life here on Earth, to support and explain how Jesus could be divine, even though he came into this world the same way as we all did. Had the people at the time not believed in the atrocious idea of humanity's sinfulness, the virgin birth story would never have had to been created.
Now as to why I believe I'm a Christian, even though more traditional Christians wouldn't, is because I attempt to follow what Jesus taught. To love God with all of my heart, soul, mind, and body, and to love my neighbor as myself. To treat well the "least of these" as the divine expressions of God, that we all are. To understand that that which defiles is not necessarily what we eat, and drink, but in our negative thoughts and beliefs. That when I mistake myself to be who I think I am, I lose my life, but when I understand who I really Am, an essential expression of God, then I "gain" my life. That that which "depresses" my expression of life, is "sinful", but that which expands, and accentuates life, is of God. That I should bless, and curse not. There is not time enough, or space enough here, to continue to give these examples. All of these things, and so many more, are the reasons why I consider myself a Christian, in the truest sense of that word.
Thanks for the question.
Peace and Namaste!|||Only the "deity of Christ" seems to be central enough to the definition of Christian. And then it'd be arguable, since many of the early Christians also didn't accept the divinity of Jesus. Those other things, sure they could reject them and still be a Christian.|||1 Corinthians 15:3
For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance : that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
John 8:24
I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be, you will indeed die in your sins.|||There is no universal definition of Christianl. Web pages that discuss religious tolerance usually explain the details of this phenomena. Christian (and hence saved) are terms without meaning sufficient to communicate anything worth communicating.|||If you reject the deity of Christ, then you are NOT saved. Jesus said you will die in your sins if you don't believe "he is who he is"|||Not likely given those parameters. They are kinda fundamental (in the GOOD sense of the word).|||If you reject those things, you're not a Christian in the first place.|||you can't be a CHRISTian and believe in the Bible but not believe that Jesus is the Son of God. That's called Judiasm|||No way.|||1 Corinthians chapter 15 says that denying the resurrection of Jesus means no salvation.
There are certain beliefs that are required for getting into heaven. Required for salvation is believing that JESUS is God, that the Trinity is true, and that salvation is only by believing in JESUS for His free gift of eternal life in heaven, without adding any of your own works. Jesus died on the cross for our sins, and then Jesus rose from the dead!
Adding any works, means no salvation.
The other issues, while they obviously should be believed, are not required for salvation.|||By their own beliefs then, they would not then BE a Christian?
My life as a Christian is lived by following the Bible and letting God/Holy Spirit/Jesus Christ guide my life. I don't know how one could not believe any of the following and still consider themselves to align with Christianity.
God is very clear about His holiness and cannot excuse sins because He is almighty. He loved us so much that He DID provide a way through Christ Jesus, but in order to engage with that, one must acknowledge the authority of Scripture, believe Christ was 100% God AND man, and believe that because of His perfect sacrifice He rose again, thus defeating eternal damnation for His children.
Interesting question!!|||How can you love Christ if you are calling Him a Liar ?
(1 Corinthians 16:22 KJV) If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
Is that crystal clear ?
(John 14:6 KJV) Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
(John 14:7 KJV) If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.|||No difference as the belief it self is adulterated by Poulose.|||((Pulls up a chair and waits for the fireworks to begin.))|||yes GOD HAS NO LIMITS....WAIT NO NOT THE DIVINITY...IT IS UP TO GOD BUT WHO would do that?? grr
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Liberal Christians don't reject the Deity of Christ, though, or any of those other things, necessarily. I'm as Liberal a Christian as you will ever meet, and I believe in everything you listed in your question.|||Absolutely. There is, unfortunately, a difference between the religion OF Jesus Christ and the religion ABOUT Jesus Christ. Jesus taught certain basic principles of living, and rarely --- is ever --- inquired about the doctrinal beliefs of his followers. A clear, succinct outline of the religion he taught and lived is in the Sermon on the Mount, as recorded (among other places) in chapters 5 - 7 of the Gospel of Matthew. Suggestions for application of those principles are made in the very short Letter of James, which was written by one whom many scholars believe was the brother of Jesus.
The word "salvation" is from the same Greek word for "health"; "salvation" implies, to me, spiritual health. SO, to the degree that I am spiritually mature and healthy, I experience "salvation." It was in Roman Catholic theology and tradition that "salvation" came to mean something about the afterlife. By the middle of the 19th century, when Protestant fundamentalism came to the fore, that the idea took on added life and strength. Many Protestant Americans seem to think that their religious beliefs and practices have been the norm throughout Christian history, but that just simply is not true; they would do well to spend a little more time exploring what Jesus actually said and did and taught, as opposed to what later followers (especially, Paul) said he taught.
Incidentally, Jesus never taught that he was God. He stated, in fact, that "My Father is greater than I." I find it strange that some of the most ardently anti-Catholic people in Christendom are fundamentalist Protestants, some of whose most closely-held beliefs come not from Scripture but from Roman Catholic tradition.
For his day, Jesus was most emphatically a religious liberal!|||YOU DON'T HAVE TO LET SOMEONE ELSE DEFINE CHRISTIANITY FOR YOU.
According to the book of James, "true and pure religion is helping the widow and the orphan". All the hot air in the world about hyperbolic, stratospheric, Trinitarian transcendence doesn't make up for the smug complacency and Laodecian laziness that certain belief-is-enough Christians have toward the trouble and tribulation of their less fortunate fellows.
If Christianity was just about what you believed and not about what you do, why did they include in the New Testament the gospel parable about the two sons? One son said he would do something and didn't; the other said he wouldn't do it and did. Which son was the most righteous? Nothing you preach in terms of orthodox doctrine can make up for the fact that you ignored a cry for help from a suffering friend.
Faith without works is dead. All the yak-yak about the preexistent, metaphysical magnitude of Jesus' mystical, celestial status doesn't obscure the fact that it's not about what Jesus was metaphorically, but about what Jesus TAUGHT. Those who downplay the necessity of helping others are NOT Christians, whatever other "perfect" doctrines they espouse.
The supernatural aspects of the Bible are inflated flamboyancy. "Firstborn of creation, preexistant with God before time began, etc." is a lot of airy-fairy, hyperbolic, advanced-Christological cant. These superlatives may sound impressive and imperial, but it really boils down to what you are doing right here in real-time to improve reality, to repair the real world, and to rescue and redeem the broken.|||You could well be the rare true Christian. No one really knows whether the teaching of Jesus was corrupted by Paul or not, but it was more likely than not.
Romans chapter 13 was specifically written to tell believers to submit to all forms of authority and government (for they are servants of god), and such passages extolling the sanctity of all governing authorities are incongruous in the contexts of a holy book.|||It depends on how conservative or liberal of a Christian belief system the answerer of this question is coming from.
I consider myself a Christian, but many other people wouldn't. Personally, I don't care what others think of my beliefs, for I do not base, or alter my beliefs, because of others' beliefs.
As to your first example of accepting or rejecting the inspiration of scripture. Again, it depends. This time on which particular parts of the scriptures are truly inspired, and which parts "come from" the cultures of the time they were written in. Some of the verses in the Bible are quite inspired. Some, not so much. The parts about stoning people to death because of adultery, or talking back to your parents, and the parts about how slaves should obey their masters, and the parts about how God supposedly commanded the Israelites to massacre their neighbors, because of the neighbors supposed wickedness, and many other examples, are all simply the reflection of the then culture, plain and simple. The parts of the scriptures that talk about how your faith makes you whole, or "pray believing you have your desires, and you shall have them", or the part that says "Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have, is thine", are very inspired, and inspirational.
I do not subscribe to the "you must accept it all, or reject it all" mentality. One does not throw the baby out with the dirty bath water.
As to the deity of Christ. I affirm the deity of Christ. I also affirm the inherent and essential deity of all of us, of everyone. In my interpretation of the Bible, Christ came here as a "way-shower", to show us the way, back to God. To show us how to live. He came here to be the example for us all to follow, not to be the exception for us to worship.
As to the resurrection of the dead. In my interpretation, Life is inherently eternal. Death in this world is merely birth into the next expression of Life. There is no death, in the sense that one ceases to exist. Your life continues to express on a different plane of existence, after you are done expressing your life here.
As to the virgin birth, I believe that story is an allegory, attempting to convey an idea. In my opinion, it was attempting to show that Jesus came from a "pure" source. That Jesus was not "corrupted" by humanity's sinfulness, upon his egress from his human mother. Personally, I don't believe that humanity is inherently sinful, and I don't think that that story is meant to really convey that idea, literally. I believe my interpretation of this story is supported by the findings that the story of the virgin birth was written many years after Jesus' life here on Earth, to support and explain how Jesus could be divine, even though he came into this world the same way as we all did. Had the people at the time not believed in the atrocious idea of humanity's sinfulness, the virgin birth story would never have had to been created.
Now as to why I believe I'm a Christian, even though more traditional Christians wouldn't, is because I attempt to follow what Jesus taught. To love God with all of my heart, soul, mind, and body, and to love my neighbor as myself. To treat well the "least of these" as the divine expressions of God, that we all are. To understand that that which defiles is not necessarily what we eat, and drink, but in our negative thoughts and beliefs. That when I mistake myself to be who I think I am, I lose my life, but when I understand who I really Am, an essential expression of God, then I "gain" my life. That that which "depresses" my expression of life, is "sinful", but that which expands, and accentuates life, is of God. That I should bless, and curse not. There is not time enough, or space enough here, to continue to give these examples. All of these things, and so many more, are the reasons why I consider myself a Christian, in the truest sense of that word.
Thanks for the question.
Peace and Namaste!|||Only the "deity of Christ" seems to be central enough to the definition of Christian. And then it'd be arguable, since many of the early Christians also didn't accept the divinity of Jesus. Those other things, sure they could reject them and still be a Christian.|||1 Corinthians 15:3
For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance : that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,
John 8:24
I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be, you will indeed die in your sins.|||There is no universal definition of Christianl. Web pages that discuss religious tolerance usually explain the details of this phenomena. Christian (and hence saved) are terms without meaning sufficient to communicate anything worth communicating.|||If you reject the deity of Christ, then you are NOT saved. Jesus said you will die in your sins if you don't believe "he is who he is"|||Not likely given those parameters. They are kinda fundamental (in the GOOD sense of the word).|||If you reject those things, you're not a Christian in the first place.|||you can't be a CHRISTian and believe in the Bible but not believe that Jesus is the Son of God. That's called Judiasm|||No way.|||1 Corinthians chapter 15 says that denying the resurrection of Jesus means no salvation.
There are certain beliefs that are required for getting into heaven. Required for salvation is believing that JESUS is God, that the Trinity is true, and that salvation is only by believing in JESUS for His free gift of eternal life in heaven, without adding any of your own works. Jesus died on the cross for our sins, and then Jesus rose from the dead!
Adding any works, means no salvation.
The other issues, while they obviously should be believed, are not required for salvation.|||By their own beliefs then, they would not then BE a Christian?
My life as a Christian is lived by following the Bible and letting God/Holy Spirit/Jesus Christ guide my life. I don't know how one could not believe any of the following and still consider themselves to align with Christianity.
God is very clear about His holiness and cannot excuse sins because He is almighty. He loved us so much that He DID provide a way through Christ Jesus, but in order to engage with that, one must acknowledge the authority of Scripture, believe Christ was 100% God AND man, and believe that because of His perfect sacrifice He rose again, thus defeating eternal damnation for His children.
Interesting question!!|||How can you love Christ if you are calling Him a Liar ?
(1 Corinthians 16:22 KJV) If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
Is that crystal clear ?
(John 14:6 KJV) Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
(John 14:7 KJV) If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.|||No difference as the belief it self is adulterated by Poulose.|||((Pulls up a chair and waits for the fireworks to begin.))|||yes GOD HAS NO LIMITS....WAIT NO NOT THE DIVINITY...IT IS UP TO GOD BUT WHO would do that?? grr
brb
Christians: How come secular countries thrive while Christian countries are poor?
Secular, pro-gay countries like Canada, Sweden, Australia, and Denmark are prosperous and stable even though they have "turned their backs on God" according to you. However, extremely religious Christian countries like Jamaica, the Congo, and Nigeria are poor, violent, and dirty. Shouldn't it be the other way around?|||i agree with you on this one... that is why missionaries take advantage of the situation. poor people are easy to fool when that have nothing. They want to believe that they are "loved", and good things will happen if you believe.|||Wow, how far do have to stretch the truth to make your point? You must be unaware that 7 out of the top 10 richest nations of the world also happen to have the largest Christian populations.
Ignorance aside, has it occurred to you that people in dire straits tend to need the hope that religion provides while those who are comfortable tend to think they don't need any guidance? Regardless, prosperity has more to with access to resources and a resistance to corruption far more than any religious factor, so whatever you're driving at is just plain wrong.|||Those countries you mentioned aren't christian. They are a mixture of several religions including catholicism %26amp; witchcraft.
Before America became so secular we were the richest. For all her debt she's still among the richest. For years Canadian coins were treated like slugs %26amp; a lot of stores wouldn't take them because they were worth less. Just a few years ago I bought a large amount of exotic wood for my husband's scroll saw in Canada. The exchange rate was so great that I not only bought the wood but also had it shipped to Ky. for a total that was still $7. less than I could buy it in town and we're only talking less than $50. worth of wood.
People just don't get it. There is no such thing as a christian nation. It can be founded on religious principles and the legal code in line with a particular religion. But that doesn't mean the nation is christian. Using your so called secular, pro-gay nations as an example - is there a law? Can you go to prison? What determines those laws and their penalty? Is it a moral code? Ethical? Why does anyone follow it or think it's fair? If they think it's unfair isn't it just a matter of opinion? If it's just a matter of opinion then no one is guilty %26amp; all should go free.
A secular nation making rules is like the parent who tells his child not to do something because he said so - it just doesn't work. There has to be a foundation to build on or you have chaos. The other nations you mentioned that are secular have a lot of other problems that money can't help. They are stable because for the most part they don't get involved with taking care of the rest of the world's needs. That can be both bad %26amp; good.
As for wealth %26amp; poverty it's all in how you look at it. I've been hungry %26amp; felt wealthy, had more than enough %26amp; had my gut grind.|||Nowhere in the Bible are those that choose to follow Christ promised earthly riches.
In many verses, Jesus tells would be followers sell everything you have, give to the poor, and you will store up treasure in heaven, and follow me. In yet others, he tells would be followers to deny themselves, take up the cross and follow him.|||When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the Land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible. - Jomo Kenyatta, former President of Kenya.|||Advancement of knowledge is accomplished with the WAY we opt to go about discovering truth. The WAY we opt to discover truth about our material universe is the scientific method. Which is frequently in opposition to other methods including believing in "revealed truth" systems of belief.
With the advancement of knowledge comes the advancement of technology, etc. and thus our standard of living.
This is NOT to say that philosophical (or religious truth) has no place in our society. But to defer to "revealed truth" when it conflicts with both scientific truth or even worse when it hinders the METHOD of discovering scientific truth, then this inhibits our search for knowledge.
It is only the advancement of secular societies which has allowed us to remove ourselves from the irrational and illogical dogma's of "revealed truth' religions and to make real advancement inm our search for scientific truth.
With advanced knowledge comes advances in education and with more education the irrationalities and ignorances of many "dogmatic and moralistic" positions of revealed truth religions are recognized for what they are -- ignorances of past generations.
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As I read other responses I wonder just why so many people believe that poverty, suffering, and ignorance are things to be prised?
And SYALLYLOU. . . you have it backwards. Morality is independent of religious belief. Moral code FOLLOWS the heart and mores of society, NOT the other way around.
The goodness of people is independent of religion. Those notions of love your neighbor etc found in religions followes from the goodness of men at their best. NOT the other way round.
It is the evolution of our understanding of moral code which influences people to "be good and avoid evil." And as our understanding of humanity and the human condition increases, changes in our understanding of morality evolves and improves. (Just one particular example for centuries man believed that the institution of slavery was MORAL. Thus slavery was never condemned by all major religions until the past couple centuries. This includes those religions of the Judeo-Christian heritage.)
Our better understanding of morality in turn influences changes in our religious belief. What WE today understand in the embodiment of the Ten Commandments is VERY different today then when these codes were written thousands of years ago.
SYALLYLOU. . .,YOU have it all backwards.|||Those that are rich are poor.
Those that are poor are rich.
For what have you received if the whole world is yours
But your eternity is damnation
Matthew 5:3
“God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
Jesus is PRO LOVE
Matthew 19:24
I’ll say it again—it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!”|||Jam 2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?|||Ok..you name a few countries out of hundreds, give no corroborating evidence that economic strength is related to religious views..
Your question is just ridiculous and totally without merit|||Thanks to the 'economic turnaround' most coutries you just listed as rich are actually struggling.
Usaully the more people have hardships the more they need to believe something (eg developing nations).|||Its simply because more people are thinking of what is actually best for their country then worrying about what some outdated text says, or what god says|||Fortunately the US has people like me to keep it chugging. ;)
Your analysis, though, falls a part a bit when you hit the mideast.|||it is because the countries are doing well people lose their need to seek God nut muslims countries are generally poorer .|||You really should read more.
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Lol, I always laugh at your comments. I think they are quite funny :D Especially that cat avatar :)|||the US with christianic anti-gay laws seems prosperous though
Ignorance aside, has it occurred to you that people in dire straits tend to need the hope that religion provides while those who are comfortable tend to think they don't need any guidance? Regardless, prosperity has more to with access to resources and a resistance to corruption far more than any religious factor, so whatever you're driving at is just plain wrong.|||Those countries you mentioned aren't christian. They are a mixture of several religions including catholicism %26amp; witchcraft.
Before America became so secular we were the richest. For all her debt she's still among the richest. For years Canadian coins were treated like slugs %26amp; a lot of stores wouldn't take them because they were worth less. Just a few years ago I bought a large amount of exotic wood for my husband's scroll saw in Canada. The exchange rate was so great that I not only bought the wood but also had it shipped to Ky. for a total that was still $7. less than I could buy it in town and we're only talking less than $50. worth of wood.
People just don't get it. There is no such thing as a christian nation. It can be founded on religious principles and the legal code in line with a particular religion. But that doesn't mean the nation is christian. Using your so called secular, pro-gay nations as an example - is there a law? Can you go to prison? What determines those laws and their penalty? Is it a moral code? Ethical? Why does anyone follow it or think it's fair? If they think it's unfair isn't it just a matter of opinion? If it's just a matter of opinion then no one is guilty %26amp; all should go free.
A secular nation making rules is like the parent who tells his child not to do something because he said so - it just doesn't work. There has to be a foundation to build on or you have chaos. The other nations you mentioned that are secular have a lot of other problems that money can't help. They are stable because for the most part they don't get involved with taking care of the rest of the world's needs. That can be both bad %26amp; good.
As for wealth %26amp; poverty it's all in how you look at it. I've been hungry %26amp; felt wealthy, had more than enough %26amp; had my gut grind.|||Nowhere in the Bible are those that choose to follow Christ promised earthly riches.
In many verses, Jesus tells would be followers sell everything you have, give to the poor, and you will store up treasure in heaven, and follow me. In yet others, he tells would be followers to deny themselves, take up the cross and follow him.|||When the Missionaries arrived, the Africans had the Land and the Missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened them, they had the land and we had the Bible. - Jomo Kenyatta, former President of Kenya.|||Advancement of knowledge is accomplished with the WAY we opt to go about discovering truth. The WAY we opt to discover truth about our material universe is the scientific method. Which is frequently in opposition to other methods including believing in "revealed truth" systems of belief.
With the advancement of knowledge comes the advancement of technology, etc. and thus our standard of living.
This is NOT to say that philosophical (or religious truth) has no place in our society. But to defer to "revealed truth" when it conflicts with both scientific truth or even worse when it hinders the METHOD of discovering scientific truth, then this inhibits our search for knowledge.
It is only the advancement of secular societies which has allowed us to remove ourselves from the irrational and illogical dogma's of "revealed truth' religions and to make real advancement inm our search for scientific truth.
With advanced knowledge comes advances in education and with more education the irrationalities and ignorances of many "dogmatic and moralistic" positions of revealed truth religions are recognized for what they are -- ignorances of past generations.
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As I read other responses I wonder just why so many people believe that poverty, suffering, and ignorance are things to be prised?
And SYALLYLOU. . . you have it backwards. Morality is independent of religious belief. Moral code FOLLOWS the heart and mores of society, NOT the other way around.
The goodness of people is independent of religion. Those notions of love your neighbor etc found in religions followes from the goodness of men at their best. NOT the other way round.
It is the evolution of our understanding of moral code which influences people to "be good and avoid evil." And as our understanding of humanity and the human condition increases, changes in our understanding of morality evolves and improves. (Just one particular example for centuries man believed that the institution of slavery was MORAL. Thus slavery was never condemned by all major religions until the past couple centuries. This includes those religions of the Judeo-Christian heritage.)
Our better understanding of morality in turn influences changes in our religious belief. What WE today understand in the embodiment of the Ten Commandments is VERY different today then when these codes were written thousands of years ago.
SYALLYLOU. . .,YOU have it all backwards.|||Those that are rich are poor.
Those that are poor are rich.
For what have you received if the whole world is yours
But your eternity is damnation
Matthew 5:3
“God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him, for the Kingdom of Heaven is theirs.
Jesus is PRO LOVE
Matthew 19:24
I’ll say it again—it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!”|||Jam 2:5 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?|||Ok..you name a few countries out of hundreds, give no corroborating evidence that economic strength is related to religious views..
Your question is just ridiculous and totally without merit|||Thanks to the 'economic turnaround' most coutries you just listed as rich are actually struggling.
Usaully the more people have hardships the more they need to believe something (eg developing nations).|||Its simply because more people are thinking of what is actually best for their country then worrying about what some outdated text says, or what god says|||Fortunately the US has people like me to keep it chugging. ;)
Your analysis, though, falls a part a bit when you hit the mideast.|||it is because the countries are doing well people lose their need to seek God nut muslims countries are generally poorer .|||You really should read more.
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Lol, I always laugh at your comments. I think they are quite funny :D Especially that cat avatar :)|||the US with christianic anti-gay laws seems prosperous though
What is the difference between a mormon and a Christian?
My bestfriend is a Mormon and I am Christian and I wanted to know what she believes. She said that it's pretty much the same thing as a christian, but why not just be Christian if its the same thing? There must be a difference. So can you tell me what it is?|||The Book of Mormon is the biggest difference. Nominal Christians do not accept that as valid or inspired, whereas Mormons honor it above the Bible, which they feel is incorrectly translated.
Mormons hold a lot of other strange beliefs that are alien to traditional Christianity. For one thing, they believe that their members will become gods and goddesses in the hereafter, if they are married in a Mormon temple. This is called "celestial marriage", and is supposed to be for all eternity. Also in the Mormon temple you may have other people sealed to you for eternity, usually family members. Talk about keeping the family together! Then there is the "baptism for the dead" issue, which no other Christian denomination accepts as far as I know.
Many Mormon groups, or offshoots at least, still adhere to polygamy, "plural marriage", sometimes including incestuous ones. The main branch has long since repudiated this doctrine at least officially. Some "may" still practice it in secret, so I have heard.
There are many other doctrines and practices that conflict with traditional Christianity. They do use the name Jesus Christ, so they consider themselves Christians, in fact the only true Christians. They are not the only group to say that though. Mainline Christians, of course, consider them to be a cult. To be fair, Christianity was orginally considered to be a cult, by the Romans.
LDS believe that God was once a man, and that he sired numoerous spirit children in a pre-mortal existence. Many of these, perhaps most eventually became humans when God created the physical earth. So we are all brothers and sisters. God later took on a physical body and mated with the virgin Mary, one of his spirit daughters, to father Jesus, one of his spirit sons, which is a very weird sounding doctrine, to most anyway.|||why would someone who was ONCE a mormon be more informed than someone who IS a mormon?
Would a former christian who's now a muslim be a better source for evangelical christianity than a practicing evangelical?
Sorry but your comments disgust me in your best answer choice. Disgusting.
|||Perhaps they are not intentionally "lying" but are just giving their opinion to the best of their knowledge. I do not claim to me an absolute authority on the subject of Mormonism. I was only an active member for a few months, and after a year asked to have my name removed from their records, but.
|||but... I have done a LOT of reading a research on the subject over the years since then. Like you, I have no desire to offend anyone. I only wanted to answer the question to the best of my ability, and I could have wrote a lot more on the subject. I think Mormons, and everyone else, should be fre
|||free to think and believe anything they so choose. That goes for atheists, gays, and all other people. Someone once said, "may not believe what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".
|||You heard huh? Well, if it's in a rumor, then it must be true! (sarcasm)
I love how the phrase "no offence" is usually either followed or preceded by something insanely offensive.
|||Sierra if you can read this I want you know that harridan5 did not answer your question completely. He unfortunately has done what most do and focused on beliefs that take a detailed discusion to understand correctly. I would love to explain our biggest difference! bigears1987@yahoo.com email me
|||Mormons dont see their books and doctrine over the bible they actually teach it much like Doctrine and Covenants teaches, the holy bible. I am a member of the LDS church in the book of Romans it says that if you know the doctrine you shall not be ashamed. BTW we hate polygamy.
|||i cant believe that this was the best answer. it is biased and not an accurate representation of the LDS church. I was raised in it, and have since left, but it is very close to my heart. obviously someone who was only associated with the church for a few months is not the best authority on it.
|||Mormons are 100% Christian, since they believe that Jesus was the Son of God. There is only one "branch" of the LDS church, and polygamy is completely forbidden in it, anyone found practicing it is excommunicated. If you dont have your facts straight, dont infect other people with your ignorance.
|||mormons are definately not christians. if you would please read the last few verses in revelation it will give you all your answers. revelation 22:18-19. it's very clear. many many are deceived...i pray you won't be. There is ONE God.
|||christians are people who beleive in jesus christ. We beleive in jesus christ. that makes us christian.
|||The Book of Mormon is the biggest difference. Nominal Christians do not accept that as valid or inspired, whereas Mormons honor it above the Bible, which they feel is incorrectly translated. no its not above the Bible its like a companion to the Bible
|||This was an excellent pick for best answer.
I was in a dead end relationship with a mormon and did my research. I am a practicing Christian.
Biggest difference: Mormons don't acknowledge that Christ is the Messiah, our Saviour and the Son of God. They consider him another prophet.
|||I was disturbed by LDS beliefs. Stating that God was of flesh and had physical relations with the Virgin Mary is sad. Believing that devout mormons will become gods of their own planets is equally pathetic. They use the name of our Lord to deceive converts. This is the devil at work, folks.
|||wow hahahaha that answer was way off just saying...
hahah its funny how people ACT like they know everything but they DONT
peter griffin "mormons dont acknowledge that chirst is the messiah, our savior and the son of god. they consider him another prophet"
HAHAH THATS a whole bunch of crap!!
|||oh and the bible thing that whoever got the best answer got.. we do not look at the book of mormon over the bible who told you that.. wow you need to do ALOT more research did you leave it when your were 2? cause it seems like you dont know what your talking about. Peter griffin you too you dont kno
|||How did a a former Mormon's answer end up on top? That is the worst possible source for getting information about the Mormon church. Not only is he so biased against it that he is willing to lie about it, he is informed enough that he can mix his lies with truth, making it hard to separate them.
|||Ok this bugs me. First, "Mormons" believe in the bible just as much as the BOM. (Book of Mormon). Mormons believe in both God, making them a christian religon, and the BOM, meaning that they believe other stuff too. And baptism for the dead, makes it so other people can come into their kingdom. You
|||You don't have to accept. And, NO NO NO! Mormons DO NOT-freakin- do polygramy! I've got to say, it's kind of sad that you chose someone who USED to to Mormon, over somwone who is currently Mormon. Who knows hoe long ago they left the church!
|||You make me sick! Don't go around answering questions to things you have no clue about. Some of my best friends are Lds and you do not have the slightest clue about the church. The best advice i can give an ignorant idiot like yourself is to let the people who faithfully attend the Lds church answer
|||These comments left by the LDS members are disgusting. Know your doctrine, and the words of your first "prophets". They wanted no association with Christianity because it was of the devil. It became a false religion. No crosses on the church why? Because the cross symbolizes Christianity.
|||Want to talk about polygamy? Brigham Young - "Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned." "The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy." Can a Mormon please explain this for the masses?
|||You claim to have picked an answer because the answerer claims to have been a mormon in the past. So if I want to know about some guy, would the best source be his ex-wife? Probably not.
|||Dont listen to someone who was once Mormon, listen to a person who IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE a Mormon.
|||As A Member of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints the correct name for Mormons And a former member of the a christian church is see it as. Latter da Saints believe in Jesus Christ, Holy Ghost %26amp; Heavenly Father as 3 separate entities most Christian's believe they are all the same person
|||As A Member of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints the correct name for Mormons And a former member of the a christian church is see it as. Latter da Saints believe in Jesus Christ, Holy Ghost %26amp; Heavenly Father as 3 separate entities most Christian's believe they are all the same person
|||I love the mormons lies. All you do is have to look online to see what the truth is. I trust the internet way more then someone who is just srpouting what the church claims. The funny thing is most dopn't even know what their church claims to believe which is why you get the confusion.
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http://www.lifeafter.org/jsmit… http://www.av1611.org/jmelton/…
|||If you define a Christian as someone who believes exactly what you do, then you are the only Christian. If you define a Christian as someone who believes that Jesus was the Son of God, then Mormons are definately Christian, as that is core to their beliefs.
In fact, many other churches say they believe that Jesus was the Son of God, but water down the belief with the 4th century creed known as the Trinity. Some interprete the Trinity to mean that Jesus and his father are the same person. Others interprete the Trinity to mean that God the Father and Jesus are made of a non-material essence; this also waters down the belief that Jesus was literally God's son. It could be argued that Mormons believe a purer form of Christianity, as they literally believe that Jesus was God's son.
Perhaps the main difference between modern Christianity and Mormonism, is that modern Christianity rejects modern prophets while Mormonism embraces them. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints or LDS church was started or restored through the occurance of several supernatural events including visions, revelations, dreams, and the administration of angels. Joseph Smith was the first prophet although he was not the only one to witness these spiritual events. At least four other people saw the angel Moroni; at least 11 other people saw and handled the golden plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated.
The Catholic position is that the Catholic church is the only church with authority from God.
The Protestant position is that the Catholic church has gone astray.
The Mormon position is that both the Catholic and Protestant churches are corrupt and have lost the priesthood authority as well as many plain and precious parts of the gospel. This has not endeared them to Catholics or Protestants. The resultant animosity has led to great persecutions of the Mormon church, and the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith.|||You're question is like asking:
"What's the difference between a Honda Accord and an Automobile"??? Aren't they the same thing?
There are many different denominations of Christians.
-Baptists
-Methodists
-Catholics
-Jehovah's Witnesses
-Seventh Day Adventists
-Lutherins
-..........................and of course Mormons
The name of the church is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
So, which denomination are you comparing the LDS church to?
The most unique beliefs are:
-There was an apostasy after the death of the apostles and Christ's church disappeared from the earth
-Jesus Christ called a prophet in modern times. His name was Joseph Smith. Since Smith, there have been living prophets on the earth. The prophet today is Thomas S. Monson.
-Christ restored his church and the priesthood to the earth through Joseph Smith. He was also led to a book of ancient scripture and given the power to translate it. It is known as The Book Of Mormon
-Mormons are non-trinitarians
-There are also 12 apostles on the earth today.|||Mormons are Christians. We're just a sect of Christianity. Just like Protestants, Catholics, etc.
I don't really know what gives other people the right to tell US what we believe...
Most of the arguements they pose have nothing to do with us being considered Christian anyways. They're just looking for way to slam us.
By official definition, we are Christians.|||A Mormon is a Christian. To ask it that way, is like asking what is the difference between a carrot and a vegatable....
Here are the basic beliefs of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
1. We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.
2. We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression.
3. We believe that through the atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
4. We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
5. We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.
6. We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.
7. We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.
8. We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.
9. We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
10. We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.
11. We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.
12. We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
13. We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul--We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.|||Mormons are Christians because they believe in Jesus Christ, His teachings, and in the Bible.
To illustrate how they differ from traditional Christianity it's important to understand what happened after Christ and His Apostles were killed. This is best explained at http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/basic-beliefs/the-restoration-of-truth/the-great-apostasy
Basically, Catholicism claims that the authority from God to lead His Church has been passed down in its purity from the time of Christ and the Apostles to the present day.
Christianity, in general, claims that reforms were need in the Catholic Church because it had moved away from the original teachings of Christ and His Apostle's. Over the centuries there have been many who have broken off and formed their own churches.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) was organized in 1830 after Joseph Smith had been confused about all the different churches and prayed to Heavenly Father to know which of all the churches was His. Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith in answer to his prayer and told him that none of the churches were His. The authority to lead Christ's Church and to teach His Gospel had died with the Apostles and therefore a complete restoration was needed. God restored His Church on earth and Joseph Smith was given the authority from God to lead it here on earth. That authority continues and the Church continues to be led by a living prophet of God. The following explains best the restoration http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/basic-beliefs/the-restoration-of-truth/the-restoration-of-the-gospel
and the following video explains that God speaks today http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/basic-beliefs/the-restoration-of-truth/the-restoration-of-truth|||A Latter-Day Saint (Mormon) is Christian. The LDS church is a Christian denomination.
If you want to know what she believes, she believes that Jesus Christ is the divine son of God, the only begotten, and that he died for our sins. She uses the Bible just like you do.
http://mormon.org
PS- some things people will tell you on here are not true. Just ask your friend.|||That all depends on what your definition of Christianity is. We believe in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, according to The Book of Mormon. We believe that he is the son of God, and that he is our Savior -- we cannot obtain salvation on our own.
We just happen to believe that the authority to minister in Jesus' name has been restored to earth again, and that the promise in Revelation that an angel would bring the everlasting gospel back to earth in the last days has already come true.
Those are the most important differences, I think. Maybe some of them are similarities. Again, it depends on the church you're comparing us to.|||besides believing the bible and that Jesus died for our sins and that through his grace we can become like him and live eternally, we believe that the things of old have returned, more scripture is coming forth again, apostles and prophets are again on the earth, temples are being built just like in ancient times and things that have been forgotten are being revealed again through the holy ghost. That's the doctrinal differences. Otherwise, we're pretty similar.|||My boyfriend of three years is mormon, and i am not.
if you have any questions, or need help or advise youre more than welcome to email me.|||They are both Christian. The Mormons have some odd beliefs and not everything they believe can be verified in the Bible, they believe in Jesus and accept him. So therefore they are Christians.|||Mormonism is a denomination of Christianity. Just like Methodism and Baptist.|||What is the difference between a sun and a star?
That is just the same question. Answer: NONE|||Mormons will say they are basically Christians, only that they are the "true" church. But that is wrong.
There are a lot of false teachings mixed in with that, unnecessary religious acts.
It is true that there are a lot of myths about Mormons.
And if you hear about them from Mormons, it all sounds pretty good.
You have to believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet.
They will believe the Bible to some extent---as long as it doesn't contradict the book of Mormon.
Their rules are always being revised (changing).
But don't buy into cults/religions that are a cheap knock-off of the real thing.|||Mormons believe the following about God: He has not always been the Supreme Being of the universe, but attained that status through righteous living and persistent effort. They believe God the Father has a “body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s.”
Mormon leaders have taught that Jesus’ incarnation was the result of a physical relationship between God the Father and Mary. Mormons believe Jesus is a god, but that any human can also become a god.|||The short answer is Mormons believe they have the truth and are actually the only true Christians. A typical Christian would reject most of Mormon beliefs and say Mormons are not true Christians.
Mormons believe, among many other things most Christians do not, is that God is a flesh and blood man, and that if you are a good male Mormon and your skin is white that you can go to another planet and become a "god" to that planet. (Oh, I just remembered.;-). Mormons are getting away from teaching you have to be white and if your skin is dark and you become a good Mormon, God will turn your skin white as a blessing to you.) They still teach that Jesus was "exceedingly fair and white," as was Mary, the mother of Jesus. There are a pretty significant number of other beliefs most non-Mormon Christians would not accept as well.
To give you a complete answer would be beyond the scope allowed in this forum, but Joseph Smith was the first Mormon "Prophet," and according to him, there was no true Christian church and he was to restore the "true" church. He claimed to have been visited in person by God Himself, as well as Jesus and others. I very likely have read more Mormon books than have many Mormons, To me, the Book of Mormon reads more like bad fiction than anything else, but that is just my opinion. If you wish to read it and other Mormon texts, you can get them for free in Baha'i Ocean. Baha'i Ocean is a free study aid that includes material one nine different religions. The Mormon material is under Christianity. I will include the link for Ocean below.|||Saying mormonism and christianity are basically the same thing is the mormon's favorite lie.
They believe that God is not the only God but one of an infinite number of Gods living in a big family.
They believe that Jesus was not God, but the litteral son of God. (because god had a physical sexual relationship with Mary)
They believe that after you die, if you're good, you get to be a God yourself and populate your own planet with spirit babies.
They believe that after Jesus ascended, he went to the Americas and spoke to the indians.
They believe Joseph Smith used "seer stones" to look into a hat and discipher golden tablets an angel gave to him.
They believe the bible is true TO AN EXTENT. They accept it as long as it does not contradict the book of mormon. (Which it does extremely often)
They believe black people are black because they sided with satan when he disagreed with Jesus on how to raise the humans.
The list goes on...|||Mormons are NOT Christians. They believe that God was once a man, but then became God, and that all people will become Gods and have their own universes. That is just one of the many differences.
Learn extensively about Mormonism and Christianity and you will see the numerous differences.
Here are some websites:
http://www.carm.org/religious-movements/…
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-acb/ac…|||Mormons believe that Jesus (during the years that weren't written about) came over to North America to teach American Indians Christianity.
They also believe that a man names Joseph Smith found some magic golden leaves that held the message that God wanted people to have, that only he could read, and so he put them in a top hat so that he could read them, and his friend wrote it down.
Basically, watch the South Park episode where they talk about Mormonism... Its ALL TRUE|||There are huge differences. Far too many to go into here. Google what the LDS church believes. You will be surprised.
Alissa above me, failed to tell you that she believes that Jesus and Satan are brothers.|||One bombs abortion clinics and the other bombs office buildings. Pretty much the same thing..
Edit: Sorry, i read your question as christians vs Muslims. Mormons ARE christians. They worship the jesus guy.|||Go to Wikipedia and enter Mormonism in the search bar.|||Mormons have magic underwear.
Seriously...|||The mormons in my opinion are more like a cult.|||Further study of Mormon doctrines reveals plenty of reasons why it would be a big mistake to grant the group its claim of belonging to mainstream Christianity. Mormons subscribe to the idea of an anthropomorphic God with physical, material dimensions. He is a procreating father, all humans were preexistent spirits that he begat, with a divine mother-wife. It is this conviction that under-girds the Mormon emphasis on marriage and parenthood in this life and the next. Some Mormons believe Jesus was married to both Mary and Martha and that he bore children on earth. Good Mormons enter secret temples and don white garments to indulge in esoteric, Masonic-like rituals that seal their marriage for eternity.
The most famous of all Mormon aphorisms declares, "As man now is, God once was; as God now is; man may become." God himself was once procreated in another world, and now humans may aspire to the status of pro-creator that he has obtained. Adam did right by eating of the forbidden fruit because it made him capable of fathering the human race. In other words, "Adam fell that men might be." The right to godhead is not earned by the grace of Jesus but by being a good Mormon. Followers of Joesph Smith prove their faithfulness by being baptized and married in the temple, being a member of the priesthood, and tracing genealogies. As potential father and mother gods, Mormons will ultimately have their own planets to populate. All those born in prior to Mormonism's founding in 1830 cannot enter the celestial state without a little help from present-day adherents.
The church has blasted a tunnel out of Utah granite, capable of withstanding a nuclear explosion, to house the ancestral records of devout Mormons. Once departed kin have been identified, posthumous proxy baptism are performed. Mormons spend $10 million a year to maintain the facilities, but for them it is well worth it. Some go through the three-hour ceremony on behalf of a non-relative they have never known. Mormons are universalists and believe that everyone will eventually have immortality, with only baptized Mormons attaining godhead. Article of Faith Number Three states, "We believe that through the atonement of Christ all mankind may be saved."
The priesthood concept, a belief in a resorted priesthood of Aaron and Melchizedek, represents one of Mormonism's most distinctive departures from Christian tradition. All Mormon males over fourteen years of age are eligible for the Aaronic priesthood. At twenty years of age they may enter the higher office of Melchizedek and be designated an elder. Until 1978 those with black skins are forbidden this stature. Mormonism's temples, there are now more than one hundred around the world, were off-limits to blacks because Joseph Smith taught that they were decedents of Cain and therefore cursed.
Like its views on polygamy, Mormon views on race were also overturned when church leaders determined the time was right. The church rejects the doctrine of original sin and believes that sinners are punished on earth for failure in their past spirit lives. Blacks were thus guilty of the preexistent sin of rebelling with Lucifer and barred from the priesthood until Mormon leader, First President Spencer Kimball, received a revelation abrogating this injunction.
Most aspects of church structure are seldom known to outsiders. The first president is considered to be a prophetic successor to Smith and thus is a prophet and revelator who speaks in God's name. From there authority descends in a nondemocratic fashion to the president's advisers, the twelve apostles, the presiding quorum of seventy, and the presiding bishopric. Individual members are organized into wards of five hundred to one thousand. Wards are consolidated into stakes. Space does not permit a detailed discussion of all Mormon practices. Some of them are as follows: De-emphasis of Easter and the Cross; speaking in tongues and spiritual healing; the ability of individuals to receive private revelations from God; emphasis on Monday as family night; storing of food supplies for times of famine; insistence that the U.S. Constitution is divinely inspired; believeing that the state of women is inferior to that of men; opposition to the use of birth control; opposition to interracial marriages; binding temple oaths, breaking them could jeopardize one's hope for eternal life; and belief in the brotherhood of Jesus and Lucifer.
Mormons also believe in a three-tiered heaven with separate sections for heathen, non-Mormon Christians, and those with sealed marriages whose earthly matrimonial unions will endure forever. Some may wonder how such exotic ideas could be compatible with the seeming love and care exhibited by most Mormons.
The evangelical Christian questions how such unorthodox theology could produce such pleasant people who knock on doors and warmly present their case. This irony is not so hard to understand when one comprehends why a individu
Mormons hold a lot of other strange beliefs that are alien to traditional Christianity. For one thing, they believe that their members will become gods and goddesses in the hereafter, if they are married in a Mormon temple. This is called "celestial marriage", and is supposed to be for all eternity. Also in the Mormon temple you may have other people sealed to you for eternity, usually family members. Talk about keeping the family together! Then there is the "baptism for the dead" issue, which no other Christian denomination accepts as far as I know.
Many Mormon groups, or offshoots at least, still adhere to polygamy, "plural marriage", sometimes including incestuous ones. The main branch has long since repudiated this doctrine at least officially. Some "may" still practice it in secret, so I have heard.
There are many other doctrines and practices that conflict with traditional Christianity. They do use the name Jesus Christ, so they consider themselves Christians, in fact the only true Christians. They are not the only group to say that though. Mainline Christians, of course, consider them to be a cult. To be fair, Christianity was orginally considered to be a cult, by the Romans.
LDS believe that God was once a man, and that he sired numoerous spirit children in a pre-mortal existence. Many of these, perhaps most eventually became humans when God created the physical earth. So we are all brothers and sisters. God later took on a physical body and mated with the virgin Mary, one of his spirit daughters, to father Jesus, one of his spirit sons, which is a very weird sounding doctrine, to most anyway.|||why would someone who was ONCE a mormon be more informed than someone who IS a mormon?
Would a former christian who's now a muslim be a better source for evangelical christianity than a practicing evangelical?
Sorry but your comments disgust me in your best answer choice. Disgusting.
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|||Perhaps they are not intentionally "lying" but are just giving their opinion to the best of their knowledge. I do not claim to me an absolute authority on the subject of Mormonism. I was only an active member for a few months, and after a year asked to have my name removed from their records, but.
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|||but... I have done a LOT of reading a research on the subject over the years since then. Like you, I have no desire to offend anyone. I only wanted to answer the question to the best of my ability, and I could have wrote a lot more on the subject. I think Mormons, and everyone else, should be fre
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|||free to think and believe anything they so choose. That goes for atheists, gays, and all other people. Someone once said, "may not believe what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".
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|||You heard huh? Well, if it's in a rumor, then it must be true! (sarcasm)
I love how the phrase "no offence" is usually either followed or preceded by something insanely offensive.
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|||Sierra if you can read this I want you know that harridan5 did not answer your question completely. He unfortunately has done what most do and focused on beliefs that take a detailed discusion to understand correctly. I would love to explain our biggest difference! bigears1987@yahoo.com email me
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|||Mormons dont see their books and doctrine over the bible they actually teach it much like Doctrine and Covenants teaches, the holy bible. I am a member of the LDS church in the book of Romans it says that if you know the doctrine you shall not be ashamed. BTW we hate polygamy.
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|||i cant believe that this was the best answer. it is biased and not an accurate representation of the LDS church. I was raised in it, and have since left, but it is very close to my heart. obviously someone who was only associated with the church for a few months is not the best authority on it.
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|||Mormons are 100% Christian, since they believe that Jesus was the Son of God. There is only one "branch" of the LDS church, and polygamy is completely forbidden in it, anyone found practicing it is excommunicated. If you dont have your facts straight, dont infect other people with your ignorance.
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|||mormons are definately not christians. if you would please read the last few verses in revelation it will give you all your answers. revelation 22:18-19. it's very clear. many many are deceived...i pray you won't be. There is ONE God.
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|||christians are people who beleive in jesus christ. We beleive in jesus christ. that makes us christian.
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|||The Book of Mormon is the biggest difference. Nominal Christians do not accept that as valid or inspired, whereas Mormons honor it above the Bible, which they feel is incorrectly translated. no its not above the Bible its like a companion to the Bible
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|||This was an excellent pick for best answer.
I was in a dead end relationship with a mormon and did my research. I am a practicing Christian.
Biggest difference: Mormons don't acknowledge that Christ is the Messiah, our Saviour and the Son of God. They consider him another prophet.
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|||I was disturbed by LDS beliefs. Stating that God was of flesh and had physical relations with the Virgin Mary is sad. Believing that devout mormons will become gods of their own planets is equally pathetic. They use the name of our Lord to deceive converts. This is the devil at work, folks.
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|||wow hahahaha that answer was way off just saying...
hahah its funny how people ACT like they know everything but they DONT
peter griffin "mormons dont acknowledge that chirst is the messiah, our savior and the son of god. they consider him another prophet"
HAHAH THATS a whole bunch of crap!!
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|||oh and the bible thing that whoever got the best answer got.. we do not look at the book of mormon over the bible who told you that.. wow you need to do ALOT more research did you leave it when your were 2? cause it seems like you dont know what your talking about. Peter griffin you too you dont kno
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|||How did a a former Mormon's answer end up on top? That is the worst possible source for getting information about the Mormon church. Not only is he so biased against it that he is willing to lie about it, he is informed enough that he can mix his lies with truth, making it hard to separate them.
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|||Ok this bugs me. First, "Mormons" believe in the bible just as much as the BOM. (Book of Mormon). Mormons believe in both God, making them a christian religon, and the BOM, meaning that they believe other stuff too. And baptism for the dead, makes it so other people can come into their kingdom. You
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|||You don't have to accept. And, NO NO NO! Mormons DO NOT-freakin- do polygramy! I've got to say, it's kind of sad that you chose someone who USED to to Mormon, over somwone who is currently Mormon. Who knows hoe long ago they left the church!
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|||You make me sick! Don't go around answering questions to things you have no clue about. Some of my best friends are Lds and you do not have the slightest clue about the church. The best advice i can give an ignorant idiot like yourself is to let the people who faithfully attend the Lds church answer
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|||These comments left by the LDS members are disgusting. Know your doctrine, and the words of your first "prophets". They wanted no association with Christianity because it was of the devil. It became a false religion. No crosses on the church why? Because the cross symbolizes Christianity.
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|||Want to talk about polygamy? Brigham Young - "Now if any of you will deny the plurality of wives, and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned." "The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy." Can a Mormon please explain this for the masses?
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|||You claim to have picked an answer because the answerer claims to have been a mormon in the past. So if I want to know about some guy, would the best source be his ex-wife? Probably not.
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|||Dont listen to someone who was once Mormon, listen to a person who IS AND ALWAYS WILL BE a Mormon.
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|||As A Member of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints the correct name for Mormons And a former member of the a christian church is see it as. Latter da Saints believe in Jesus Christ, Holy Ghost %26amp; Heavenly Father as 3 separate entities most Christian's believe they are all the same person
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|||As A Member of the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints the correct name for Mormons And a former member of the a christian church is see it as. Latter da Saints believe in Jesus Christ, Holy Ghost %26amp; Heavenly Father as 3 separate entities most Christian's believe they are all the same person
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|||I love the mormons lies. All you do is have to look online to see what the truth is. I trust the internet way more then someone who is just srpouting what the church claims. The funny thing is most dopn't even know what their church claims to believe which is why you get the confusion.
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|||http://www.exmormon.org/tract2… http://mmoutreachinc.com/mormo…
http://www.lifeafter.org/jsmit… http://www.av1611.org/jmelton/…
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|||If you define a Christian as someone who believes exactly what you do, then you are the only Christian. If you define a Christian as someone who believes that Jesus was the Son of God, then Mormons are definately Christian, as that is core to their beliefs.
In fact, many other churches say they believe that Jesus was the Son of God, but water down the belief with the 4th century creed known as the Trinity. Some interprete the Trinity to mean that Jesus and his father are the same person. Others interprete the Trinity to mean that God the Father and Jesus are made of a non-material essence; this also waters down the belief that Jesus was literally God's son. It could be argued that Mormons believe a purer form of Christianity, as they literally believe that Jesus was God's son.
Perhaps the main difference between modern Christianity and Mormonism, is that modern Christianity rejects modern prophets while Mormonism embraces them. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints or LDS church was started or restored through the occurance of several supernatural events including visions, revelations, dreams, and the administration of angels. Joseph Smith was the first prophet although he was not the only one to witness these spiritual events. At least four other people saw the angel Moroni; at least 11 other people saw and handled the golden plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated.
The Catholic position is that the Catholic church is the only church with authority from God.
The Protestant position is that the Catholic church has gone astray.
The Mormon position is that both the Catholic and Protestant churches are corrupt and have lost the priesthood authority as well as many plain and precious parts of the gospel. This has not endeared them to Catholics or Protestants. The resultant animosity has led to great persecutions of the Mormon church, and the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith.|||You're question is like asking:
"What's the difference between a Honda Accord and an Automobile"??? Aren't they the same thing?
There are many different denominations of Christians.
-Baptists
-Methodists
-Catholics
-Jehovah's Witnesses
-Seventh Day Adventists
-Lutherins
-..........................and of course Mormons
The name of the church is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
So, which denomination are you comparing the LDS church to?
The most unique beliefs are:
-There was an apostasy after the death of the apostles and Christ's church disappeared from the earth
-Jesus Christ called a prophet in modern times. His name was Joseph Smith. Since Smith, there have been living prophets on the earth. The prophet today is Thomas S. Monson.
-Christ restored his church and the priesthood to the earth through Joseph Smith. He was also led to a book of ancient scripture and given the power to translate it. It is known as The Book Of Mormon
-Mormons are non-trinitarians
-There are also 12 apostles on the earth today.|||Mormons are Christians. We're just a sect of Christianity. Just like Protestants, Catholics, etc.
I don't really know what gives other people the right to tell US what we believe...
Most of the arguements they pose have nothing to do with us being considered Christian anyways. They're just looking for way to slam us.
By official definition, we are Christians.|||A Mormon is a Christian. To ask it that way, is like asking what is the difference between a carrot and a vegatable....
Here are the basic beliefs of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints:
1. We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.
2. We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression.
3. We believe that through the atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
4. We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
5. We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.
6. We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.
7. We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.
8. We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.
9. We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
10. We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.
11. We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.
12. We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
13. We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul--We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.|||Mormons are Christians because they believe in Jesus Christ, His teachings, and in the Bible.
To illustrate how they differ from traditional Christianity it's important to understand what happened after Christ and His Apostles were killed. This is best explained at http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/basic-beliefs/the-restoration-of-truth/the-great-apostasy
Basically, Catholicism claims that the authority from God to lead His Church has been passed down in its purity from the time of Christ and the Apostles to the present day.
Christianity, in general, claims that reforms were need in the Catholic Church because it had moved away from the original teachings of Christ and His Apostle's. Over the centuries there have been many who have broken off and formed their own churches.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) was organized in 1830 after Joseph Smith had been confused about all the different churches and prayed to Heavenly Father to know which of all the churches was His. Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith in answer to his prayer and told him that none of the churches were His. The authority to lead Christ's Church and to teach His Gospel had died with the Apostles and therefore a complete restoration was needed. God restored His Church on earth and Joseph Smith was given the authority from God to lead it here on earth. That authority continues and the Church continues to be led by a living prophet of God. The following explains best the restoration http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/basic-beliefs/the-restoration-of-truth/the-restoration-of-the-gospel
and the following video explains that God speaks today http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/basic-beliefs/the-restoration-of-truth/the-restoration-of-truth|||A Latter-Day Saint (Mormon) is Christian. The LDS church is a Christian denomination.
If you want to know what she believes, she believes that Jesus Christ is the divine son of God, the only begotten, and that he died for our sins. She uses the Bible just like you do.
http://mormon.org
PS- some things people will tell you on here are not true. Just ask your friend.|||That all depends on what your definition of Christianity is. We believe in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, according to The Book of Mormon. We believe that he is the son of God, and that he is our Savior -- we cannot obtain salvation on our own.
We just happen to believe that the authority to minister in Jesus' name has been restored to earth again, and that the promise in Revelation that an angel would bring the everlasting gospel back to earth in the last days has already come true.
Those are the most important differences, I think. Maybe some of them are similarities. Again, it depends on the church you're comparing us to.|||besides believing the bible and that Jesus died for our sins and that through his grace we can become like him and live eternally, we believe that the things of old have returned, more scripture is coming forth again, apostles and prophets are again on the earth, temples are being built just like in ancient times and things that have been forgotten are being revealed again through the holy ghost. That's the doctrinal differences. Otherwise, we're pretty similar.|||My boyfriend of three years is mormon, and i am not.
if you have any questions, or need help or advise youre more than welcome to email me.|||They are both Christian. The Mormons have some odd beliefs and not everything they believe can be verified in the Bible, they believe in Jesus and accept him. So therefore they are Christians.|||Mormonism is a denomination of Christianity. Just like Methodism and Baptist.|||What is the difference between a sun and a star?
That is just the same question. Answer: NONE|||Mormons will say they are basically Christians, only that they are the "true" church. But that is wrong.
There are a lot of false teachings mixed in with that, unnecessary religious acts.
It is true that there are a lot of myths about Mormons.
And if you hear about them from Mormons, it all sounds pretty good.
You have to believe that Joseph Smith was a prophet.
They will believe the Bible to some extent---as long as it doesn't contradict the book of Mormon.
Their rules are always being revised (changing).
But don't buy into cults/religions that are a cheap knock-off of the real thing.|||Mormons believe the following about God: He has not always been the Supreme Being of the universe, but attained that status through righteous living and persistent effort. They believe God the Father has a “body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s.”
Mormon leaders have taught that Jesus’ incarnation was the result of a physical relationship between God the Father and Mary. Mormons believe Jesus is a god, but that any human can also become a god.|||The short answer is Mormons believe they have the truth and are actually the only true Christians. A typical Christian would reject most of Mormon beliefs and say Mormons are not true Christians.
Mormons believe, among many other things most Christians do not, is that God is a flesh and blood man, and that if you are a good male Mormon and your skin is white that you can go to another planet and become a "god" to that planet. (Oh, I just remembered.;-). Mormons are getting away from teaching you have to be white and if your skin is dark and you become a good Mormon, God will turn your skin white as a blessing to you.) They still teach that Jesus was "exceedingly fair and white," as was Mary, the mother of Jesus. There are a pretty significant number of other beliefs most non-Mormon Christians would not accept as well.
To give you a complete answer would be beyond the scope allowed in this forum, but Joseph Smith was the first Mormon "Prophet," and according to him, there was no true Christian church and he was to restore the "true" church. He claimed to have been visited in person by God Himself, as well as Jesus and others. I very likely have read more Mormon books than have many Mormons, To me, the Book of Mormon reads more like bad fiction than anything else, but that is just my opinion. If you wish to read it and other Mormon texts, you can get them for free in Baha'i Ocean. Baha'i Ocean is a free study aid that includes material one nine different religions. The Mormon material is under Christianity. I will include the link for Ocean below.|||Saying mormonism and christianity are basically the same thing is the mormon's favorite lie.
They believe that God is not the only God but one of an infinite number of Gods living in a big family.
They believe that Jesus was not God, but the litteral son of God. (because god had a physical sexual relationship with Mary)
They believe that after you die, if you're good, you get to be a God yourself and populate your own planet with spirit babies.
They believe that after Jesus ascended, he went to the Americas and spoke to the indians.
They believe Joseph Smith used "seer stones" to look into a hat and discipher golden tablets an angel gave to him.
They believe the bible is true TO AN EXTENT. They accept it as long as it does not contradict the book of mormon. (Which it does extremely often)
They believe black people are black because they sided with satan when he disagreed with Jesus on how to raise the humans.
The list goes on...|||Mormons are NOT Christians. They believe that God was once a man, but then became God, and that all people will become Gods and have their own universes. That is just one of the many differences.
Learn extensively about Mormonism and Christianity and you will see the numerous differences.
Here are some websites:
http://www.carm.org/religious-movements/…
http://www.christiananswers.net/q-acb/ac…|||Mormons believe that Jesus (during the years that weren't written about) came over to North America to teach American Indians Christianity.
They also believe that a man names Joseph Smith found some magic golden leaves that held the message that God wanted people to have, that only he could read, and so he put them in a top hat so that he could read them, and his friend wrote it down.
Basically, watch the South Park episode where they talk about Mormonism... Its ALL TRUE|||There are huge differences. Far too many to go into here. Google what the LDS church believes. You will be surprised.
Alissa above me, failed to tell you that she believes that Jesus and Satan are brothers.|||One bombs abortion clinics and the other bombs office buildings. Pretty much the same thing..
Edit: Sorry, i read your question as christians vs Muslims. Mormons ARE christians. They worship the jesus guy.|||Go to Wikipedia and enter Mormonism in the search bar.|||Mormons have magic underwear.
Seriously...|||The mormons in my opinion are more like a cult.|||Further study of Mormon doctrines reveals plenty of reasons why it would be a big mistake to grant the group its claim of belonging to mainstream Christianity. Mormons subscribe to the idea of an anthropomorphic God with physical, material dimensions. He is a procreating father, all humans were preexistent spirits that he begat, with a divine mother-wife. It is this conviction that under-girds the Mormon emphasis on marriage and parenthood in this life and the next. Some Mormons believe Jesus was married to both Mary and Martha and that he bore children on earth. Good Mormons enter secret temples and don white garments to indulge in esoteric, Masonic-like rituals that seal their marriage for eternity.
The most famous of all Mormon aphorisms declares, "As man now is, God once was; as God now is; man may become." God himself was once procreated in another world, and now humans may aspire to the status of pro-creator that he has obtained. Adam did right by eating of the forbidden fruit because it made him capable of fathering the human race. In other words, "Adam fell that men might be." The right to godhead is not earned by the grace of Jesus but by being a good Mormon. Followers of Joesph Smith prove their faithfulness by being baptized and married in the temple, being a member of the priesthood, and tracing genealogies. As potential father and mother gods, Mormons will ultimately have their own planets to populate. All those born in prior to Mormonism's founding in 1830 cannot enter the celestial state without a little help from present-day adherents.
The church has blasted a tunnel out of Utah granite, capable of withstanding a nuclear explosion, to house the ancestral records of devout Mormons. Once departed kin have been identified, posthumous proxy baptism are performed. Mormons spend $10 million a year to maintain the facilities, but for them it is well worth it. Some go through the three-hour ceremony on behalf of a non-relative they have never known. Mormons are universalists and believe that everyone will eventually have immortality, with only baptized Mormons attaining godhead. Article of Faith Number Three states, "We believe that through the atonement of Christ all mankind may be saved."
The priesthood concept, a belief in a resorted priesthood of Aaron and Melchizedek, represents one of Mormonism's most distinctive departures from Christian tradition. All Mormon males over fourteen years of age are eligible for the Aaronic priesthood. At twenty years of age they may enter the higher office of Melchizedek and be designated an elder. Until 1978 those with black skins are forbidden this stature. Mormonism's temples, there are now more than one hundred around the world, were off-limits to blacks because Joseph Smith taught that they were decedents of Cain and therefore cursed.
Like its views on polygamy, Mormon views on race were also overturned when church leaders determined the time was right. The church rejects the doctrine of original sin and believes that sinners are punished on earth for failure in their past spirit lives. Blacks were thus guilty of the preexistent sin of rebelling with Lucifer and barred from the priesthood until Mormon leader, First President Spencer Kimball, received a revelation abrogating this injunction.
Most aspects of church structure are seldom known to outsiders. The first president is considered to be a prophetic successor to Smith and thus is a prophet and revelator who speaks in God's name. From there authority descends in a nondemocratic fashion to the president's advisers, the twelve apostles, the presiding quorum of seventy, and the presiding bishopric. Individual members are organized into wards of five hundred to one thousand. Wards are consolidated into stakes. Space does not permit a detailed discussion of all Mormon practices. Some of them are as follows: De-emphasis of Easter and the Cross; speaking in tongues and spiritual healing; the ability of individuals to receive private revelations from God; emphasis on Monday as family night; storing of food supplies for times of famine; insistence that the U.S. Constitution is divinely inspired; believeing that the state of women is inferior to that of men; opposition to the use of birth control; opposition to interracial marriages; binding temple oaths, breaking them could jeopardize one's hope for eternal life; and belief in the brotherhood of Jesus and Lucifer.
Mormons also believe in a three-tiered heaven with separate sections for heathen, non-Mormon Christians, and those with sealed marriages whose earthly matrimonial unions will endure forever. Some may wonder how such exotic ideas could be compatible with the seeming love and care exhibited by most Mormons.
The evangelical Christian questions how such unorthodox theology could produce such pleasant people who knock on doors and warmly present their case. This irony is not so hard to understand when one comprehends why a individu
As a sprit filled christian is it right to have worldly plans like marriage, education, work excetra?
I think a sprit filled christian must listen the direction of the holysprit inside of him rather than planning by his own will. Because his plan may be out of God's plan in his life.
Is that true?|||Marriage, education, work is all good in God's eyes...but who to marry, what we do in life regarding education, etc is somethings that we NEED and should pray to God through Jesus about in order to be directed by Him. We should want to do the will of God and follow the plans He has for us. IF we do our own will, there WILL be consequences.|||My parents felt the same way.
They've lived in poverty and raised their kids on welfare, as undereducated brainwashed parasites on society.
Fortunately, I managed to break free of that mold..my siblings weren't so lucky. Life takes pro activity. If you sit idly by and wait for a spirit to make your life happen, you will realize on your deathbed what a waste it was.|||Regardless of religion, we all have our commitments and obligations to work and family and stuff. If you sit around at home saying that you're waiting on God, you're just wasting your time. If there's a God, He helps those who help themselves, and labour is the form or prayer that nature answers.|||Psalm 37:4
Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.
It isn't wrong to have goals, plans etc...
But you should pray for his will not yours. We may not get exactly why we want, but God knows better then we what we actually need.|||Our course your life will have worldly plans but in order to find out these plans you must be lead by Holy Spirit through your time in prayer and study of the Word of God. Always put the leading and direction of the Holy Spirit first.|||YOUR "spirit-filled" denomination is being condemned by many other christians as heretic and demonic.
Probably you would be going to hell.|||If every Christian waited for God to tell them what to do in life, we would have a lot of homeless, unemployed Christians.
Oh wait.....|||We are not disembodied spirits. We live this life in the flesh yet are called to do all things in "the Spirit".
Gal 5:22|||Yes - seek God first in all things; God does according to His will and not man's :]
Is that true?|||Marriage, education, work is all good in God's eyes...but who to marry, what we do in life regarding education, etc is somethings that we NEED and should pray to God through Jesus about in order to be directed by Him. We should want to do the will of God and follow the plans He has for us. IF we do our own will, there WILL be consequences.|||My parents felt the same way.
They've lived in poverty and raised their kids on welfare, as undereducated brainwashed parasites on society.
Fortunately, I managed to break free of that mold..my siblings weren't so lucky. Life takes pro activity. If you sit idly by and wait for a spirit to make your life happen, you will realize on your deathbed what a waste it was.|||Regardless of religion, we all have our commitments and obligations to work and family and stuff. If you sit around at home saying that you're waiting on God, you're just wasting your time. If there's a God, He helps those who help themselves, and labour is the form or prayer that nature answers.|||Psalm 37:4
Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.
It isn't wrong to have goals, plans etc...
But you should pray for his will not yours. We may not get exactly why we want, but God knows better then we what we actually need.|||Our course your life will have worldly plans but in order to find out these plans you must be lead by Holy Spirit through your time in prayer and study of the Word of God. Always put the leading and direction of the Holy Spirit first.|||YOUR "spirit-filled" denomination is being condemned by many other christians as heretic and demonic.
Probably you would be going to hell.|||If every Christian waited for God to tell them what to do in life, we would have a lot of homeless, unemployed Christians.
Oh wait.....|||We are not disembodied spirits. We live this life in the flesh yet are called to do all things in "the Spirit".
Gal 5:22|||Yes - seek God first in all things; God does according to His will and not man's :]
What does it mean if a perfect Christian is a liar and master manipulator?
There is a girl who seems to be a perfect Christian. She's born again meaning she didn't used to be Christian, but now she always volunteers at her church and believes in a 6,000 year old earth and gets all emotional when she's listening to a sermon. She also is a masterful liar and manipulator. She repeatedly lies with no hesitation or second thought, even about extremely small things.|||It means that she knows Jesus will forgive her even if she commits a 1000 sins in one hour.
Too many Christians slap God in the face by 'sinning' on Saturday and 'asking and accepting forgiveness' on Sunday, all in the name of Jesus Christ.
So you have what I termed 'Slave-Saved-Sinners' who are worst than 'sinners' themselves.
This is why I defy Christian and put it in the pile with the other 'dead religions' that has done more harm then good...in the Name of God. -Brewster, a Black Jew|||Every person is here for a reason. This girl is here to aggravate you until you realize that your job is not to stand back and criticize others whose lives are not known to you, so you have no idea what her situation is.
Your mission is to grow spiritually by learning at last that you must strive to see Christ in all persons, and to seek out that spark of Christ in everyone, and love everyone as if they were Christ Himself.
When you can love this girl as a child of God, you will have begun your journey of spiritual growth. Until you do that task, you will continue to be spiritually barren.|||There are religiously minded people who are not saved. I do not know this person so I would have no idea. No Christian is perfect though. All people are sinners, however, sin does not sit right in the soul of a person who loves the Lord. If that person seems to be without a conscience, then that person is probably just religious. There are many.|||That is a spirit of Jezebel and someone needs to tell the Pastor so they will handle the situation.
go to these links for help dealing with it:
http://heavenawaits.wordpress.com/identi鈥?/a>
http://www.jonasclark.com/christian-book鈥?/a>
She may have a "religious spirit " as well you need to be praying for someone to deal with those demons and get rid of them because they can bring down a church.
God bless I know how awful it can be I worked with a woman who had that Jezebel spirit and she was so nuts and she was saved but she thought she was Jesus in the flesh.|||Praise God,
Is your question judgmental? Perhaps the thorn that has been placed before you is for your growth. Is there a way you can grow from this woman's actions? God places trials and thorns for us to learn to grow in God. She is on her own journey. God will use her as He will. Don't let her journey cause you to lose your way on your journey. And when your paths cross, remember you can grow and help her grow. If she is too irritating, keep on your path to glory!!!!
Respectfully,|||The Father of all lies is Satan. She may be born again to Him and not Jesus Christ. The Spirit of God that is within all the true saints will know the difference. Whether there are any in the church that she attends, they will be aware of and also be studying that spirit that is within her. Some will not go near while others will trample on her as in, the spirit that is lying within her. This will be done spiritually, that is, if the spirit inside her is truly discerned to be of Satan rather than her human nature.|||It just means that she is as perfect a Christian as any one else....we all have our faults, for none of us are saints....If we were, we wouldn't be needing saving or anything, would we.?
How she believes is up to her.... she sets her own limits, boundaries, and will not go past them, or at least not easily. For instance, a person might not swear, thinking that it is damning, so they will refrain from it...unless something makes them go past that boundary.
There are not two people on this Earth, that believe 100% exactly alike, down to the last letter.... it isn't possible....so to say that one person was 100% perfect, would mean that the rest of the world would not be...and so, if the 100% person went to Heaven for being right...sadly, the rest would...you know...
So you see, no one can be perfect in their belief... there has to be some leeway.
And I doubt very much that a merciful God would keep someone out of Heaven for lying, since that person does so thinking she is within her boundaries...|||to be a "perfect christian" means -
we struggle
we question
we doubt
we journey
we wonder
we forgive
we live by grace
in all that, a "perfect christian" is a person filled with flaws who seeks to live in grace and love - and struggles with what that means.|||If I understand your question it means that her bust size is not the issue. If she truly believes in non-scientific theories then she is a liar. Especially, if she is intelligent enough to understand the scientific evidence to the contrary.|||No such thing as perfect Andd if she lies like that she still has things to work on but don't we all? Don't judge her because she could be tring hard to get her life together and is holding on to a few sins it's coool. One day we all will get there|||There is no such thing as a perfect Christian. But becoming a Christian will make you turn your life around. Possibly she isn't lying...maybe she really truly believes that. Do you find her guilty before being proven innocent?|||You must have meant adolf hitlers reincarnation. Said the same thing as well.|||It means either she is lying and manipulating that she is a Christian.
Or she still has to learn not to lie and manipulate.|||It means she's been brainwashed thoroughly and effectively.|||Aren't you manipulating the answers with your Q
by pointing at Christians ?
Peace|||It means she is a liar and a master manipulator.|||No one is perfect except Jesus Himself. Just because someone beleives does not mean they will not sin. She is sinful just like everyone else.|||Yes, that sounds very accurately christian style perfect.|||If a person is a Christian, they do not practice lying.|||Problem?|||that's Christianity for you.|||It means she is a sinner just like all if us. Thank goodness jesus forgives.
Too many Christians slap God in the face by 'sinning' on Saturday and 'asking and accepting forgiveness' on Sunday, all in the name of Jesus Christ.
So you have what I termed 'Slave-Saved-Sinners' who are worst than 'sinners' themselves.
This is why I defy Christian and put it in the pile with the other 'dead religions' that has done more harm then good...in the Name of God. -Brewster, a Black Jew|||Every person is here for a reason. This girl is here to aggravate you until you realize that your job is not to stand back and criticize others whose lives are not known to you, so you have no idea what her situation is.
Your mission is to grow spiritually by learning at last that you must strive to see Christ in all persons, and to seek out that spark of Christ in everyone, and love everyone as if they were Christ Himself.
When you can love this girl as a child of God, you will have begun your journey of spiritual growth. Until you do that task, you will continue to be spiritually barren.|||There are religiously minded people who are not saved. I do not know this person so I would have no idea. No Christian is perfect though. All people are sinners, however, sin does not sit right in the soul of a person who loves the Lord. If that person seems to be without a conscience, then that person is probably just religious. There are many.|||That is a spirit of Jezebel and someone needs to tell the Pastor so they will handle the situation.
go to these links for help dealing with it:
http://heavenawaits.wordpress.com/identi鈥?/a>
http://www.jonasclark.com/christian-book鈥?/a>
She may have a "religious spirit " as well you need to be praying for someone to deal with those demons and get rid of them because they can bring down a church.
God bless I know how awful it can be I worked with a woman who had that Jezebel spirit and she was so nuts and she was saved but she thought she was Jesus in the flesh.|||Praise God,
Is your question judgmental? Perhaps the thorn that has been placed before you is for your growth. Is there a way you can grow from this woman's actions? God places trials and thorns for us to learn to grow in God. She is on her own journey. God will use her as He will. Don't let her journey cause you to lose your way on your journey. And when your paths cross, remember you can grow and help her grow. If she is too irritating, keep on your path to glory!!!!
Respectfully,|||The Father of all lies is Satan. She may be born again to Him and not Jesus Christ. The Spirit of God that is within all the true saints will know the difference. Whether there are any in the church that she attends, they will be aware of and also be studying that spirit that is within her. Some will not go near while others will trample on her as in, the spirit that is lying within her. This will be done spiritually, that is, if the spirit inside her is truly discerned to be of Satan rather than her human nature.|||It just means that she is as perfect a Christian as any one else....we all have our faults, for none of us are saints....If we were, we wouldn't be needing saving or anything, would we.?
How she believes is up to her.... she sets her own limits, boundaries, and will not go past them, or at least not easily. For instance, a person might not swear, thinking that it is damning, so they will refrain from it...unless something makes them go past that boundary.
There are not two people on this Earth, that believe 100% exactly alike, down to the last letter.... it isn't possible....so to say that one person was 100% perfect, would mean that the rest of the world would not be...and so, if the 100% person went to Heaven for being right...sadly, the rest would...you know...
So you see, no one can be perfect in their belief... there has to be some leeway.
And I doubt very much that a merciful God would keep someone out of Heaven for lying, since that person does so thinking she is within her boundaries...|||to be a "perfect christian" means -
we struggle
we question
we doubt
we journey
we wonder
we forgive
we live by grace
in all that, a "perfect christian" is a person filled with flaws who seeks to live in grace and love - and struggles with what that means.|||If I understand your question it means that her bust size is not the issue. If she truly believes in non-scientific theories then she is a liar. Especially, if she is intelligent enough to understand the scientific evidence to the contrary.|||No such thing as perfect Andd if she lies like that she still has things to work on but don't we all? Don't judge her because she could be tring hard to get her life together and is holding on to a few sins it's coool. One day we all will get there|||There is no such thing as a perfect Christian. But becoming a Christian will make you turn your life around. Possibly she isn't lying...maybe she really truly believes that. Do you find her guilty before being proven innocent?|||You must have meant adolf hitlers reincarnation. Said the same thing as well.|||It means either she is lying and manipulating that she is a Christian.
Or she still has to learn not to lie and manipulate.|||It means she's been brainwashed thoroughly and effectively.|||Aren't you manipulating the answers with your Q
by pointing at Christians ?
Peace|||It means she is a liar and a master manipulator.|||No one is perfect except Jesus Himself. Just because someone beleives does not mean they will not sin. She is sinful just like everyone else.|||Yes, that sounds very accurately christian style perfect.|||If a person is a Christian, they do not practice lying.|||Problem?|||that's Christianity for you.|||It means she is a sinner just like all if us. Thank goodness jesus forgives.
What is the correct Christian way to pray?
What is the correct way for a Christian to pray, i mean like before they go to bed and at a dinner table. What are some things to say. How should i say it? |||Is there a correct way to talk to your father?
Is there a correct way to talk to a friend?
How you talk to these will depend on the situation and other circumstances at the time. It is the same with prayer.
God is your Father. Speak to Him as such. Not with a list of rules or a formula, just dad! That's what Jesus said. I was at the local swimming pool last year and heard a small Jewish child call "Adda" to his daddy. It made me think of that verse when Jesus said we can talk to the Father like that.|||Pour out your heart to him, in everything. Show your thanks, express your heart. The Father loves nothing more than to be with His children.
|||You can pray in anyway you want. You don't have to kneel beside your bed or make the sign of the cross before you pray. Just make sure that when you pray, you pray from your own mind and your own heart, especially if you're using a prayer made by someone else (i.e. the Lord's Prayer or the Hail Mary). If you don't, it's like going up to a friend from school and reading everything you want to say to them from a piece of paper. No, you want to pray so that whatever you say, you mean it in your own words.
Hope this advice helps!|||Use Mathew 6:9-11 as a model as Jesus said.
You can pray at anytime and for anything that is in line with your heavenly fathers will.
Praying for things such as a nice boyfriend or girlfriend, a high paying job,or a brand new car and the like would not fall into god's will. Those prayers would be heard by him but would he be listening to the prayer, meaning would he give attention to the prayer. Most likely not. Take in knowledge of his word the bible as jesus said in John 17:3, and you will be on your way to truly getting a listening ear from the hearer of prayer.
|||there is no correct way to pray. we should be in constant Communion with God. that ia be in prayer at all times. but it is Good to have a quiet time were you stop to read the bible I think either early morning or just before sleep.thanking God at meal times is an extra and should be automatic,|||(Matthew 6:5-13) . . .Also, when YOU pray, YOU must not be as the hypocrites; because they like to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the broad ways to be visible to men. Truly I say to YOU, They are having their reward in full. 6 You, however, when you pray, go into your private room and, after shutting your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; then your Father who looks on in secret will repay you. 7 But when praying, do not say the same things over and over again, just as the people of the nations do, for they imagine they will get a hearing for their use of many words. 8 So, do not make yourselves like them, for God YOUR Father knows what things YOU are needing before ever YOU ask him. 9 “YOU must pray, then, this way: “‘Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified. 10 Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth. 11 Give us today our bread for this day; 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the wicked one.’
|||This is a Prayer Outline that my pastor gave to me.
Confession of sins and cleansing of unrighteousness
Praise Him for who He is to you personally
Your righteousness – (tsidkenu) sanctification – (m’kaddesh) peace – (shalom)
He’s Christ in you – Emmanuel (shammah) healer – (rophe) provider – (jireh)
Good Shepherd – (rohi) banner – (nissi)
Declare His kingdom come and His will be done in:
• Your life first
• Your family’s life – spouse, children, siblings, parents, other family
• Your church – pastor, elders, teachers, body, North-South-East-West
• Your nation – President, Vice-President, Congress, Supreme Court, State Government, local government
Seek Daily Sustenance
• Ask the Holy Spirit to help you develop a consistent, daily personal prayer life.
• Pray for the Holy Spirit to use you to build up the body of Christ using His gifts.
• Specify needs in your life and speak God’s Word over your need.
• Search your heart for areas un-surrendered that may block His provision.
• Thank the Lord for being your provider.
Decide to Walk in Forgiveness
• Humble yourself before the Lord and ask Him to reveal any un-forgiveness in your heart.
• Set in your heart to grant forgiveness to those who sin against you today
Put on the Armor of God
• Put on a clear Breastplate of Righteousness – transparent before God
• Put on the Belt of Truth – Lord, lead me in the truth
• Slip on the Shoes of Preparation of the Gospel of peace – Lord make me ready to answer
• Helmet of Salvation – Lord, give me victory in every battle in my mind
• Take your Shield of Faith – quench every fiery dart of the enemy
• Grasp the Sword of the Spirit – Attack the enemy with God’s Word
Build a Hedge of Protection
• Pray Psalms 91 over your life, “As I dwell in Your secret place O Lord, I shall abide under Your shadow. I will say, You are my refuge and fortress, in You will I trust.”
Close in Prayer Giving Jesus Christ all the Glory
• Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, Amen.
|||There is no correct way... you just say whatever is in your heart!!!!!
Don't forget to say "IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST", because Jesus said that if you ask my father for something in my name then you shall receive it!!!!
Please Visit
www.Heaven-Above.info|||I have a question myself, what is the point in praying for no answer?? You think he answered it when it comes true 30% of the time, but you would get the same result if you didn't pray|||Hi. I understand your dilemma. I want to start by saying you already have the MOST important and MOST crucial principle being applied - you WANT to pray correctly and have God hear you. The fact that YOU have come here asking this question shows your strong desire that you want the best answer to how to pray my friend! Congratulations! I commend you for that!
Secondly, I will agree, in part, with the person who quoted from Matthew Chapter 6 where Jesus taught his disciples to how to pray. Yes. Jesus did start by telling them how they should "not" pray (like the hypocrites do) But he did go to give an exemplary prayer to follow. You can find Bible study resources online for free probably but you could easily run into some bad things too. Let me give you a couple resources that will be valuable as you search to do this:
1) http://www.store.embracingtruth.org/content/search/product/view_item.php?dcn=47475%26amp;sm= This is a book you will want to read. It is not a huge book. It reads quick and answers questions you will want answered.
2) http://www.amazon.com/Long-Wandering-Prayer-Invitation-Walk/dp/0830822836 This book is about what the author calls, "long wandering prayer" - great book that will relieve you about formal prayer.
The truth is God wants you to understand that if you have a desire to come to Him for everything in your life then only one thing remains...for you to SIMPLY PRAY! You know how to talk to your best friend(s). Talk to God the same way. He loves you and created you for one purpose...to have an enjoyable relationship with you and you with Him and one of those ways is talking with Him. Praying is talking. It's just a different word that means the same thing!
However, Christian prayer will not mean anything if you are not truly a Christian!
One must define what a Christian is first.
Here's a good place to go to find out:
http://www.billygraham.org/SH_HowtobecomeaChristian.asp
If you should have any further questions please visit my site:
http://www.embracingtruth.org and click on contact us. I will personally respond. :)
Have a wonderful day in the Lord!|||If you would like more answers, consider asking around this site as well...
http://christianforums.com/|||dont let any one tell you how to pray. it should come from your heart, no where else. just say whatever you like, and your god will understand.
Is there a correct way to talk to a friend?
How you talk to these will depend on the situation and other circumstances at the time. It is the same with prayer.
God is your Father. Speak to Him as such. Not with a list of rules or a formula, just dad! That's what Jesus said. I was at the local swimming pool last year and heard a small Jewish child call "Adda" to his daddy. It made me think of that verse when Jesus said we can talk to the Father like that.|||Pour out your heart to him, in everything. Show your thanks, express your heart. The Father loves nothing more than to be with His children.
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Hope this advice helps!|||Use Mathew 6:9-11 as a model as Jesus said.
You can pray at anytime and for anything that is in line with your heavenly fathers will.
Praying for things such as a nice boyfriend or girlfriend, a high paying job,or a brand new car and the like would not fall into god's will. Those prayers would be heard by him but would he be listening to the prayer, meaning would he give attention to the prayer. Most likely not. Take in knowledge of his word the bible as jesus said in John 17:3, and you will be on your way to truly getting a listening ear from the hearer of prayer.
|||there is no correct way to pray. we should be in constant Communion with God. that ia be in prayer at all times. but it is Good to have a quiet time were you stop to read the bible I think either early morning or just before sleep.thanking God at meal times is an extra and should be automatic,|||(Matthew 6:5-13) . . .Also, when YOU pray, YOU must not be as the hypocrites; because they like to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the broad ways to be visible to men. Truly I say to YOU, They are having their reward in full. 6 You, however, when you pray, go into your private room and, after shutting your door, pray to your Father who is in secret; then your Father who looks on in secret will repay you. 7 But when praying, do not say the same things over and over again, just as the people of the nations do, for they imagine they will get a hearing for their use of many words. 8 So, do not make yourselves like them, for God YOUR Father knows what things YOU are needing before ever YOU ask him. 9 “YOU must pray, then, this way: “‘Our Father in the heavens, let your name be sanctified. 10 Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth. 11 Give us today our bread for this day; 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And do not bring us into temptation, but deliver us from the wicked one.’
|||This is a Prayer Outline that my pastor gave to me.
Confession of sins and cleansing of unrighteousness
Praise Him for who He is to you personally
Your righteousness – (tsidkenu) sanctification – (m’kaddesh) peace – (shalom)
He’s Christ in you – Emmanuel (shammah) healer – (rophe) provider – (jireh)
Good Shepherd – (rohi) banner – (nissi)
Declare His kingdom come and His will be done in:
• Your life first
• Your family’s life – spouse, children, siblings, parents, other family
• Your church – pastor, elders, teachers, body, North-South-East-West
• Your nation – President, Vice-President, Congress, Supreme Court, State Government, local government
Seek Daily Sustenance
• Ask the Holy Spirit to help you develop a consistent, daily personal prayer life.
• Pray for the Holy Spirit to use you to build up the body of Christ using His gifts.
• Specify needs in your life and speak God’s Word over your need.
• Search your heart for areas un-surrendered that may block His provision.
• Thank the Lord for being your provider.
Decide to Walk in Forgiveness
• Humble yourself before the Lord and ask Him to reveal any un-forgiveness in your heart.
• Set in your heart to grant forgiveness to those who sin against you today
Put on the Armor of God
• Put on a clear Breastplate of Righteousness – transparent before God
• Put on the Belt of Truth – Lord, lead me in the truth
• Slip on the Shoes of Preparation of the Gospel of peace – Lord make me ready to answer
• Helmet of Salvation – Lord, give me victory in every battle in my mind
• Take your Shield of Faith – quench every fiery dart of the enemy
• Grasp the Sword of the Spirit – Attack the enemy with God’s Word
Build a Hedge of Protection
• Pray Psalms 91 over your life, “As I dwell in Your secret place O Lord, I shall abide under Your shadow. I will say, You are my refuge and fortress, in You will I trust.”
Close in Prayer Giving Jesus Christ all the Glory
• Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, Amen.
|||There is no correct way... you just say whatever is in your heart!!!!!
Don't forget to say "IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST", because Jesus said that if you ask my father for something in my name then you shall receive it!!!!
Please Visit
www.Heaven-Above.info|||I have a question myself, what is the point in praying for no answer?? You think he answered it when it comes true 30% of the time, but you would get the same result if you didn't pray|||Hi. I understand your dilemma. I want to start by saying you already have the MOST important and MOST crucial principle being applied - you WANT to pray correctly and have God hear you. The fact that YOU have come here asking this question shows your strong desire that you want the best answer to how to pray my friend! Congratulations! I commend you for that!
Secondly, I will agree, in part, with the person who quoted from Matthew Chapter 6 where Jesus taught his disciples to how to pray. Yes. Jesus did start by telling them how they should "not" pray (like the hypocrites do) But he did go to give an exemplary prayer to follow. You can find Bible study resources online for free probably but you could easily run into some bad things too. Let me give you a couple resources that will be valuable as you search to do this:
1) http://www.store.embracingtruth.org/content/search/product/view_item.php?dcn=47475%26amp;sm= This is a book you will want to read. It is not a huge book. It reads quick and answers questions you will want answered.
2) http://www.amazon.com/Long-Wandering-Prayer-Invitation-Walk/dp/0830822836 This book is about what the author calls, "long wandering prayer" - great book that will relieve you about formal prayer.
The truth is God wants you to understand that if you have a desire to come to Him for everything in your life then only one thing remains...for you to SIMPLY PRAY! You know how to talk to your best friend(s). Talk to God the same way. He loves you and created you for one purpose...to have an enjoyable relationship with you and you with Him and one of those ways is talking with Him. Praying is talking. It's just a different word that means the same thing!
However, Christian prayer will not mean anything if you are not truly a Christian!
One must define what a Christian is first.
Here's a good place to go to find out:
http://www.billygraham.org/SH_HowtobecomeaChristian.asp
If you should have any further questions please visit my site:
http://www.embracingtruth.org and click on contact us. I will personally respond. :)
Have a wonderful day in the Lord!|||If you would like more answers, consider asking around this site as well...
http://christianforums.com/|||dont let any one tell you how to pray. it should come from your heart, no where else. just say whatever you like, and your god will understand.
How did the Judo-Christian view of reason and faith contribute to democracy?
How does the Judeo-Christian view of reason and faith, and the duties of the community contributed to the development of democratic thought?|||Society has been around longer than religion. Evidence of communities are found in ancient artifacts that pre-date written language.
Community is democratic by definition. I'm not talking about Democrats in Congress.
...
Community is democratic by definition. I'm not talking about Democrats in Congress.
...
What is the difference between a Christian and a Protestant?
Some people don't think we Catholics are Christian and we're always seeing the question, "what is the difference between a Christian and a Catholic?".
Shouldn't the people that post such a question be more explicit and say, 'what is the difference between a __________ and a Born Again Christian, or a Fundamental Christian or a Evangelicals?
It's kind of like saying "what is the difference between Americans and U.S. citizens?
We're all Christians.|||Well, I'm a Protestant, and I know we disagree on some issues. But I can truly say that I believe they're FAMILY disagreements!
Because this passage of Scripture right here:
Ephesians 4:4-6: There is ONE body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all."
says to me that we are UNITED in one body as long as we've put our faith in Jesus Christ for our salvation. That's TRUE Christian unity, and it crosses ALL denominational lines, sister!|||Christians are patient and kind and don't envy others. Christians aren't boastful or puffed up with pride. Christians are well-behaved and aren't self-centered or easily provoked. They don't think evil thoughts, and they don't get mad easily. They don't like sin and are happy when truth reigns. They are strong, faithful to God's teachings, full of hope, and able to withstand all that life throws at them.
That's the definition of a Christian. Everything else is just details.|||What is the difference between Evangelicals and Christians?
What is the difference between Baptist and Christians?
What is the difference between Lutherans and Christians?
What is the difference between Presbyterians and Christians?
What is the difference between Methodist and Christians?
Then some say, What is the difference between Catholics and Christians?
They are all Dumb questions.
We are all CHRISTIANS.
Thanks for your question. You are so right. Instead : say what is the difference between _____ and a ( what ever subgroup they want to call themselves). CHRISTIAN IS THE LARGER GROUP not the subgroup|||Denominationalism is the division of one religion into separate groups, sects, schools of thought or denominations.
Denominationalism as an ideology which views some or all Christian groups as being, in some sense, versions of the same thing regardless of their distinguishing labels, is not accepted by all Christian churches.
The Catholic and Orthodox Churches do not use this term as its implication of interchangeability does not agree with their theological teachings. Denominatinalism is a largely Protestant concept among Christians.|||Christianity is divided into 3 groupr: Catholic ,Orthodox and Protestant( with some 30,000 Bible Alone denominations and independent groups)
There is controversy among Protestants as to who among them is Christian
Are Non Trinitarian Protestants Christian?
Are Protestant groups considered heretical or not 'born again" by other Protestant groups Christian?
There was Christianity for 1500 years before the Protestant forms came forth
Catholics, Orthodox and Trinitarian Protestants have more in common (such as the tenets of the Nicene Creed) than they have that divides
Many Portestant groups ,such as Lutheran, have more in common with Catholicism than they have with many other Protestant groups|||Protestants are Christians.
Catholics are Christians, even though many will tell you they are not.
So Christians are Protestants and Catholics.
People shouldn't ask questions any particular way. They should just be able to ask their question, just as it is.
We're all Christians? We are? Do you mean all Americans? I hope not.|||The difference is night or day. Dark or light. Up or down.
Truly those who deny even "one word, one tittle or jot" of the
teaching of Christ through His Church cannot honestly call
themselves Christians. It is wishful at best.
The difference is everything. Even among the True Christians--
the Roman-Catholics-Of -The-20-Councils-Verifying-Scripture--
there will always be those who "protest" something, putting
themselves silently outside the Church. Their unknown heresies
are as immense as any Protestant's denials. But the Church
looks upon them in the same light--heretics. To die in that
unrepented state is to lose salvation.
The Mission of the Roman Catholic Church has always been
to gather the heretic waywards and bring them into the salvific
flock of the Divine Shepherd. Nothing on earth is more
important! It is the reason Christ was born.
TraditionalMass.org
HuttonGibson.org
GerryMatatics.org|||Kudos and a star for turning the tables on the foolish question contrasting Catholics and Christians.
A Protestant is a Christian--unless he or she has thrown aside the moral teachings of Christianity to promote homosexuality, degrade marriage, and advocate prenatal homicide. Anyone pushing for grave sin has no relationship with God, whatever his or her religious organization.
A mild disagreement with my good friend James: The major groups of Christians are Catholics and Orthodox, with apostolic authority from Jesus, mainline Protestants, with good theology but an increasing tendency to reject Christian morality, and evangelicals, with good morality but an increasing tendency to reject orthodox theology in favor of imaginative and anti-historic biblical readings.
Cheers,
Bruce|||Once upon a time there was the Roman Catholic church. At this point is was very corrupt and it angered some people. Martin Luther, a priest, decided to challenge the church. Eventually this led to a separate sect of belief of "salvation through faith." This started the protestant divide from the Catholic belief.
Christianity does contain both Catholic and Protestant belief systems in it.|||Protestants reject some of the beliefs and teachings of the early Apostolic, Christian Church and some of the teachings and beliefs of the first 1500 or so years of Christianity. They also reject the authority of the Church Jesus founded and choose to self-interpret the Bible (which scripture itself condemns). However many of them do accept enough Christian beliefs to be classed as 'Christian', but even so some of their beliefs could be considered heretical.|||In general Christian is the broad umbrella of religious beliefs founded in the teachings of Jesus Christ and his apostles. These agree in what are called the ecumenical creeds. Whether Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic or Protestant, they all agree in these ancient documents stating basic beliefs. Roman Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Protestants (which are groups like Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists) are all Christian sects (sub-groups). Several of these groups use the word Christian to refer to themselves exclusively. So the word means something different depending on who is using it. That is why the word now is further described like, Born Again Christian, which normally identifies one as a Evangelical Christian (who believe the Bible is without error and that salvation is available by grace through faith alone).|||A protestant is a Christian not of the Catholic or eastern church who deny authority of the Pope and believe in justification by faith alone. There are Baptists, Methodists, Episcopalians, all different types, but they are called protestants.|||Catholics and Protestants are Christian.
If you are a Mennonite, your church began in Switzerland, by Grebel Mantz, and Blaurock, in the year 1525
If you belong to the Church of England ( Anglican ) , your religion was founded by King Henery VIII in 1534. He founded
this new religion as he was unable to get an annulment from the Pope to re-marry.
If you are a Presbyterian, your religion was founded by John Knox, in Scotland, in the year 1560.
If you are a congregationalist, your religion was founded by Robert Brown, in Holland, 1583.
If you are a Baptist, your religion was founded by John Smyth, in Amsterdam, in the year 1606.
If you are a Unitarian, your religion was founded in London, by John Biddle, in the year 1645.
If you are an Episcopalian, your religion is an offshoot of the Church of England, founded by, Samuel Seaburry in the
American Colonies in the 17th century.
If you are a Quaker, your religion was founded by George Fox, in England in 1647.
If you are a Methodist, your religion was founded by John and Charles Wesley, in England, in the year 1739.
If you are a universalist, your religon was founded by John Murray, in New Jersey in 1770.
If you are an Evangelican , your religion was founded by Jacob Albright, in Pennsylvania, in 1803.
If you are a Mormon, a " Latter Day Saint", then Joseph Smith founded your religion in Palmyra, New York, in 1829.
If you are a Seventh Day Aventist, your religion was founded by William Miller, in New York in the year 1831.
If you are a Jehovah Witness, then your Church was founded by Charles Taze Russell, in 1872, as the " Millennial
Dawnist" . In 1931 , Judge Rutherford, his successor, decided that henceforth they would be called, " Witnesses of
Jehovah, or Jehovah Witness.
If you are a Christian Scientist, then Mary Baker Eddy founded your religion in Massachusetts, in 1879.
If you belong to the Assembly of God, then your religion was founded by a General Assembly in Arkansas, in the year
1914.
If you belong to the Church of the Nazarene, then it was launched by the union at General Assembly, in the year 1919.
If you are an Evangelical Reformed, then Union at General Assembly, created it in 1934.
If you belong to the " Pentecostal Gospel" , your religion is one of the 100's of new sects founded by man in the last
100 years.
If you are a Roman Catholic, you know that your religion was founded in the year 33 by
OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST , the one true faith, " Outside of which no one at all can be saved."|||Yes, you are all Christians. You can't convince some people of that, though. If Jesus himself came down and vouched for all of you, they still wouldn't believe it. They would accuse him of being a demon or a false teacher or some such nonsense.|||What is the difference between a protestant and a Christian?
What is the difference between a catholic and a Christian?
You will get the same answer from me, NOTHING. We are STILL all Christians.|||You have made me realize that Christians naturally encompass both Protestants and Catholics whereas the term Protestants means Christian non-catholic. But all in all the meaning of the terms in standard usage is the same as lawyer to attorney. Cheers, g|||Catholicss believe in some different stuff like they pray to marry who speaks to jesus. While Christians prey directly to him. Many people believe when God comes back he is going to destroy the Catholic church which is not true in all cases.|||all americans are not u.s. citizens. ever hear of north and south america? canada? mexico?
very few protestants are the born-again, fundamentalist, evangelicals you mention. ever hear of lutherans? presbytarians? methodists?|||Actually, there are millions of Brazilians, Peruvians, Uruguayans, Argentinians, Paraguayans, Mexicans etc. etc. who are Americans and they are not US citizens. Thats like saying Africans are Ugandan citizens.|||Protestants are a subgroup of Christianity, just like Catholics, Lutherans, Jesuits etc.|||Protestants (mainline) are Christians. Catholics and Orthodox are Christians. Fundies are false christians. A lot of the fundies are also nutjobs.|||The simplest answer is A Christian is a Catholic, and a Protestant is a Heretic.|||Some sects of Christianity claim the term Christian because they ignorantly think they are the only Christians. And so Catholics and Protestants aren't?
What kind of mentality does that show you?...........stupidity !|||only when a person come to Jesus by faith in his finished work at the cross Jesus raises them to life this is being saved from their spiritual death to spiritual life, or they remain dead and no dead people will be in heaven.|||Christians are those who believe in Christ. SO any religion that believes in Jesus is a Christian. Catholics worship Mary and Jesus. Its very confusing.|||anyone who is a follower of Christ is a Christian. Protestants are people who are not with the true church.|||All Protestants are Christian but not all Christians are Protestant.|||not all Protestants are of The True Church(all those of The True Christian Faith)... not all who think they are Christians are... as a matter of fact if they "think" they are they are not..... a True Christian KNOWS there is only One True Church... and KNOWS The Truth
Those who know only the dogma and "tradition" of the papists are not Christians... some who remain among the papists do manage to learn The Truth... but not from the leadership... no priest is permitted to teach The Truth of The Salvation Message and could be kicked out for doing so... none of the leadership of the "Catholic" papists is of The True Church.|||Christians are people who are relying on Christ ALONE for salvation. Their belief in Him is a response to the faith that God put in them. If you are a Christian, it's not faith + baptism/sacraments/catechism or any other thing whatsoever.
Secondly, all Christians MUST be born again. Apart from being born again, the gospel doesn't give you any real hope. It may for a season, but something will assuredly uproot it if it was not planted by God in a born again believer. Check out John 3.
You may think that we are all Christians but when we appear before Jesus, my hope is that He doesn't say "I never knew you" which is what we know He is going to say to some professing Christians according to Matthew 7. Not everybody who says they believe really believes.|||There is virtually no difference between Catholics and Protestants.
One happens to be The Whore and the other the daughter.
Revelation 17:1
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: (KJV)|||why don't people remember their european history from high school? a long time ago, being christians meant being catholics. some people didnt like how the church was run, so they broke away into their own sects. every sect that broke away from catholicism are protestants, cause they're protesting the catholic church.
and no, all americans and u.s. citizens are not christians.
Shouldn't the people that post such a question be more explicit and say, 'what is the difference between a __________ and a Born Again Christian, or a Fundamental Christian or a Evangelicals?
It's kind of like saying "what is the difference between Americans and U.S. citizens?
We're all Christians.|||Well, I'm a Protestant, and I know we disagree on some issues. But I can truly say that I believe they're FAMILY disagreements!
Because this passage of Scripture right here:
Ephesians 4:4-6: There is ONE body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all who is over all and through all and in all."
says to me that we are UNITED in one body as long as we've put our faith in Jesus Christ for our salvation. That's TRUE Christian unity, and it crosses ALL denominational lines, sister!|||Christians are patient and kind and don't envy others. Christians aren't boastful or puffed up with pride. Christians are well-behaved and aren't self-centered or easily provoked. They don't think evil thoughts, and they don't get mad easily. They don't like sin and are happy when truth reigns. They are strong, faithful to God's teachings, full of hope, and able to withstand all that life throws at them.
That's the definition of a Christian. Everything else is just details.|||What is the difference between Evangelicals and Christians?
What is the difference between Baptist and Christians?
What is the difference between Lutherans and Christians?
What is the difference between Presbyterians and Christians?
What is the difference between Methodist and Christians?
Then some say, What is the difference between Catholics and Christians?
They are all Dumb questions.
We are all CHRISTIANS.
Thanks for your question. You are so right. Instead : say what is the difference between _____ and a ( what ever subgroup they want to call themselves). CHRISTIAN IS THE LARGER GROUP not the subgroup|||Denominationalism is the division of one religion into separate groups, sects, schools of thought or denominations.
Denominationalism as an ideology which views some or all Christian groups as being, in some sense, versions of the same thing regardless of their distinguishing labels, is not accepted by all Christian churches.
The Catholic and Orthodox Churches do not use this term as its implication of interchangeability does not agree with their theological teachings. Denominatinalism is a largely Protestant concept among Christians.|||Christianity is divided into 3 groupr: Catholic ,Orthodox and Protestant( with some 30,000 Bible Alone denominations and independent groups)
There is controversy among Protestants as to who among them is Christian
Are Non Trinitarian Protestants Christian?
Are Protestant groups considered heretical or not 'born again" by other Protestant groups Christian?
There was Christianity for 1500 years before the Protestant forms came forth
Catholics, Orthodox and Trinitarian Protestants have more in common (such as the tenets of the Nicene Creed) than they have that divides
Many Portestant groups ,such as Lutheran, have more in common with Catholicism than they have with many other Protestant groups|||Protestants are Christians.
Catholics are Christians, even though many will tell you they are not.
So Christians are Protestants and Catholics.
People shouldn't ask questions any particular way. They should just be able to ask their question, just as it is.
We're all Christians? We are? Do you mean all Americans? I hope not.|||The difference is night or day. Dark or light. Up or down.
Truly those who deny even "one word, one tittle or jot" of the
teaching of Christ through His Church cannot honestly call
themselves Christians. It is wishful at best.
The difference is everything. Even among the True Christians--
the Roman-Catholics-Of -The-20-Councils-Verifying-Scripture--
there will always be those who "protest" something, putting
themselves silently outside the Church. Their unknown heresies
are as immense as any Protestant's denials. But the Church
looks upon them in the same light--heretics. To die in that
unrepented state is to lose salvation.
The Mission of the Roman Catholic Church has always been
to gather the heretic waywards and bring them into the salvific
flock of the Divine Shepherd. Nothing on earth is more
important! It is the reason Christ was born.
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GerryMatatics.org|||Kudos and a star for turning the tables on the foolish question contrasting Catholics and Christians.
A Protestant is a Christian--unless he or she has thrown aside the moral teachings of Christianity to promote homosexuality, degrade marriage, and advocate prenatal homicide. Anyone pushing for grave sin has no relationship with God, whatever his or her religious organization.
A mild disagreement with my good friend James: The major groups of Christians are Catholics and Orthodox, with apostolic authority from Jesus, mainline Protestants, with good theology but an increasing tendency to reject Christian morality, and evangelicals, with good morality but an increasing tendency to reject orthodox theology in favor of imaginative and anti-historic biblical readings.
Cheers,
Bruce|||Once upon a time there was the Roman Catholic church. At this point is was very corrupt and it angered some people. Martin Luther, a priest, decided to challenge the church. Eventually this led to a separate sect of belief of "salvation through faith." This started the protestant divide from the Catholic belief.
Christianity does contain both Catholic and Protestant belief systems in it.|||Protestants reject some of the beliefs and teachings of the early Apostolic, Christian Church and some of the teachings and beliefs of the first 1500 or so years of Christianity. They also reject the authority of the Church Jesus founded and choose to self-interpret the Bible (which scripture itself condemns). However many of them do accept enough Christian beliefs to be classed as 'Christian', but even so some of their beliefs could be considered heretical.|||In general Christian is the broad umbrella of religious beliefs founded in the teachings of Jesus Christ and his apostles. These agree in what are called the ecumenical creeds. Whether Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic or Protestant, they all agree in these ancient documents stating basic beliefs. Roman Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Protestants (which are groups like Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists) are all Christian sects (sub-groups). Several of these groups use the word Christian to refer to themselves exclusively. So the word means something different depending on who is using it. That is why the word now is further described like, Born Again Christian, which normally identifies one as a Evangelical Christian (who believe the Bible is without error and that salvation is available by grace through faith alone).|||A protestant is a Christian not of the Catholic or eastern church who deny authority of the Pope and believe in justification by faith alone. There are Baptists, Methodists, Episcopalians, all different types, but they are called protestants.|||Catholics and Protestants are Christian.
If you are a Mennonite, your church began in Switzerland, by Grebel Mantz, and Blaurock, in the year 1525
If you belong to the Church of England ( Anglican ) , your religion was founded by King Henery VIII in 1534. He founded
this new religion as he was unable to get an annulment from the Pope to re-marry.
If you are a Presbyterian, your religion was founded by John Knox, in Scotland, in the year 1560.
If you are a congregationalist, your religion was founded by Robert Brown, in Holland, 1583.
If you are a Baptist, your religion was founded by John Smyth, in Amsterdam, in the year 1606.
If you are a Unitarian, your religion was founded in London, by John Biddle, in the year 1645.
If you are an Episcopalian, your religion is an offshoot of the Church of England, founded by, Samuel Seaburry in the
American Colonies in the 17th century.
If you are a Quaker, your religion was founded by George Fox, in England in 1647.
If you are a Methodist, your religion was founded by John and Charles Wesley, in England, in the year 1739.
If you are a universalist, your religon was founded by John Murray, in New Jersey in 1770.
If you are an Evangelican , your religion was founded by Jacob Albright, in Pennsylvania, in 1803.
If you are a Mormon, a " Latter Day Saint", then Joseph Smith founded your religion in Palmyra, New York, in 1829.
If you are a Seventh Day Aventist, your religion was founded by William Miller, in New York in the year 1831.
If you are a Jehovah Witness, then your Church was founded by Charles Taze Russell, in 1872, as the " Millennial
Dawnist" . In 1931 , Judge Rutherford, his successor, decided that henceforth they would be called, " Witnesses of
Jehovah, or Jehovah Witness.
If you are a Christian Scientist, then Mary Baker Eddy founded your religion in Massachusetts, in 1879.
If you belong to the Assembly of God, then your religion was founded by a General Assembly in Arkansas, in the year
1914.
If you belong to the Church of the Nazarene, then it was launched by the union at General Assembly, in the year 1919.
If you are an Evangelical Reformed, then Union at General Assembly, created it in 1934.
If you belong to the " Pentecostal Gospel" , your religion is one of the 100's of new sects founded by man in the last
100 years.
If you are a Roman Catholic, you know that your religion was founded in the year 33 by
OUR LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST , the one true faith, " Outside of which no one at all can be saved."|||Yes, you are all Christians. You can't convince some people of that, though. If Jesus himself came down and vouched for all of you, they still wouldn't believe it. They would accuse him of being a demon or a false teacher or some such nonsense.|||What is the difference between a protestant and a Christian?
What is the difference between a catholic and a Christian?
You will get the same answer from me, NOTHING. We are STILL all Christians.|||You have made me realize that Christians naturally encompass both Protestants and Catholics whereas the term Protestants means Christian non-catholic. But all in all the meaning of the terms in standard usage is the same as lawyer to attorney. Cheers, g|||Catholicss believe in some different stuff like they pray to marry who speaks to jesus. While Christians prey directly to him. Many people believe when God comes back he is going to destroy the Catholic church which is not true in all cases.|||all americans are not u.s. citizens. ever hear of north and south america? canada? mexico?
very few protestants are the born-again, fundamentalist, evangelicals you mention. ever hear of lutherans? presbytarians? methodists?|||Actually, there are millions of Brazilians, Peruvians, Uruguayans, Argentinians, Paraguayans, Mexicans etc. etc. who are Americans and they are not US citizens. Thats like saying Africans are Ugandan citizens.|||Protestants are a subgroup of Christianity, just like Catholics, Lutherans, Jesuits etc.|||Protestants (mainline) are Christians. Catholics and Orthodox are Christians. Fundies are false christians. A lot of the fundies are also nutjobs.|||The simplest answer is A Christian is a Catholic, and a Protestant is a Heretic.|||Some sects of Christianity claim the term Christian because they ignorantly think they are the only Christians. And so Catholics and Protestants aren't?
What kind of mentality does that show you?...........stupidity !|||only when a person come to Jesus by faith in his finished work at the cross Jesus raises them to life this is being saved from their spiritual death to spiritual life, or they remain dead and no dead people will be in heaven.|||Christians are those who believe in Christ. SO any religion that believes in Jesus is a Christian. Catholics worship Mary and Jesus. Its very confusing.|||anyone who is a follower of Christ is a Christian. Protestants are people who are not with the true church.|||All Protestants are Christian but not all Christians are Protestant.|||not all Protestants are of The True Church(all those of The True Christian Faith)... not all who think they are Christians are... as a matter of fact if they "think" they are they are not..... a True Christian KNOWS there is only One True Church... and KNOWS The Truth
Those who know only the dogma and "tradition" of the papists are not Christians... some who remain among the papists do manage to learn The Truth... but not from the leadership... no priest is permitted to teach The Truth of The Salvation Message and could be kicked out for doing so... none of the leadership of the "Catholic" papists is of The True Church.|||Christians are people who are relying on Christ ALONE for salvation. Their belief in Him is a response to the faith that God put in them. If you are a Christian, it's not faith + baptism/sacraments/catechism or any other thing whatsoever.
Secondly, all Christians MUST be born again. Apart from being born again, the gospel doesn't give you any real hope. It may for a season, but something will assuredly uproot it if it was not planted by God in a born again believer. Check out John 3.
You may think that we are all Christians but when we appear before Jesus, my hope is that He doesn't say "I never knew you" which is what we know He is going to say to some professing Christians according to Matthew 7. Not everybody who says they believe really believes.|||There is virtually no difference between Catholics and Protestants.
One happens to be The Whore and the other the daughter.
Revelation 17:1
And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters: (KJV)|||why don't people remember their european history from high school? a long time ago, being christians meant being catholics. some people didnt like how the church was run, so they broke away into their own sects. every sect that broke away from catholicism are protestants, cause they're protesting the catholic church.
and no, all americans and u.s. citizens are not christians.
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