[QUOTE=Bluesummers;25889153]Stop responding to a troll thread you dolts.[/QUOTE]
I'm wondering how you came up with such a far fetched conclusion.
[QUOTE=IStanI;25889123]No I'm not, peter-pan has as much credibility; The bible only has the age thing going for it.
You would have to tell me what exactly you believe in from the bible.[/QUOTE]
The bible is written in a symbolic way, and is open for everyone to interpret in their own ways. This is why almost anyone can call themselves a christian. You seem to be thinking that every christian needs to take the bible word for word, which is only what extremists do.
[QUOTE=reltih floda;25888476]Cool another religion thread, thanks OP! fyi people are allowed to label themselves as christians as much as they like and there is literally no difference between spiritual and religious. Its not up to you.[/QUOTE]
No, it's up to the bible. Which nobody really follows.
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[QUOTE=archie200034;25889182]The bible is written in a symbolic way, and is open for everyone to interpret in their own ways. This is why almost anyone can call themselves a christian. You seem to be thinking that every christian needs to take the bible word for word, which is only what extremists do.[/QUOTE]
Gee, I always thought the bible was the infallible word of god and therefore the law. You can't misinterpret the law.
[QUOTE=Citheros;25888479]No one term has a single definition.
A Christian - a believer in the principles and values taught by Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ of the New Testament doesn't kill thy neighbours.[/QUOTE]
That definition would make me Christian then.
[QUOTE=Mr. Scorpio;25889099]isn't one of the signs of a false prophet them stating that they are more important than gods law[/QUOTE]
However, the signs of a false prophet were also to lead the people away to other gods, which Jesus did not do. He made new laws, but did not totally discard the old ones (the 10 commandments and all). If he were a false prophet, why would he lead people to God and do miracles in the name of God?
[QUOTE=Grotsky;25889223]However, the signs of a false prophet were also to lead the people away to other gods, which Jesus did not do. He made new laws, but did not totally discard the old ones (the 10 commandments and all). If he were a false prophet, why would he lead people to God and do miracles in the name of God?[/QUOTE]
Jesus also advanced modern medicine, then the damn Romans had to hang him.
[QUOTE=JustExtreme;25889130]
There could only have ever been one christian and he died on the cross (if he existed at all in the first place).[/QUOTE]
Oh he did, but the debate is whether all the miracles and things happened.
Flavius Josephus, a historian.
"Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was the Christ, and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men among us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians so named from him are not extinct at this day."
"Christus, the founder of the name [Christians], was put to death by Pontius Pilate, procurator of Judea in the reign of Tiberius." [I]Annals[/I] xv.44 Historian Cornelius Tacticus.
[QUOTE=IStanI;25889248]Jesus also advanced modern medicine, then the damn Romans had to hang him.[/QUOTE]
This is probably the funniest shit I've seen all day.
I think it went that he had to go and give mother mary his rod and staff to 'comfort her'.
Then he got speared by a bunch of jews lol
The argument the OP brought up is retarded to the core.
How come even, per se, the Catholic church (I'm Catholic) does things not according to the Bible to the last fucking sentence? There's a thing called adapting to the times. ABy your argument, there are no real Christians in the world at all, because, guess what? Everyone works on Sunday, if none else, they do the chores around the house. Oh, and they also don't do lots of other stuff, which is mainly wirtten in the [I]Old Testatement[/I]. Guess what? The Old testatement is pretty out of touch with anything inn the world these days. Even the church knows that. Every christian I know knows that. By your definition, not even the goddamn Catholic church is Christian, neither are protestant churches... I think you are thinking more along the lines of fundamentalism.
[QUOTE=Citheros;25888479]No one term has a single definition.
A Christian - a believer in the principles and values taught by Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ of the New Testament doesn't kill thy neighbours.[/QUOTE]
[quote]“But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay [them] before me.” – Luke 19:27[/quote]
[quote]”If any [man] come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.” – Luke 14:26[/quote]
[quote]“If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast [it] from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not [that] thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast [it] from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not [that] thy whole body should be cast into hell.” – Matthew 5:29[/quote]
[quote]“Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword” – Mathew 10:34[/quote]
There probably isn't a single person on this planet that follows the Bible to the letter. Indeed, owing to it's fairly contradictory nature and that a fair portion of what it advocates is illegal nowadays, it's quite impossible to. Thus, holding the definition of a Christian to some implausible standard is quite pointless, and deprives us of a fairly useful term.
What's easier to use: "Christian" or "that bloke kinda likes Jesus and God, but can't be arsed following the Bible right down to the last misspelled word"?
[QUOTE=Sgt Doom;25889501]There probably isn't a single person on this planet that follows the Bible to the letter. Indeed, owing to it's fairly contradictory nature and that a fair portion of what it advocates is illegal nowadays, it's quite impossible to. Thus, holding the definition of a Christian to some implausible standard is quite pointless, and deprives us of a fairly useful term.
What's easier to use: "Christian" or "that bloke kinda likes Jesus and God, but can't be arsed following the Bible right down to the last misspelled word"?[/QUOTE]
Wise words.
I explained this to my family and converted them all from Jewish to Atheists in like 10 minutes.
