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What is Christianity? How could someone say that he/she is a Christian?

These questions were already answered to me by pastor when I was beginning my path towards God. But then just a while ago in school, in our World Religions subject, our teacher asked on what do we think is the religion with the largest number of adherents. Then a flow of answers came up - Roman Catholic, Islam, Iglesia ni Cristo, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. Then our teacher stopped my classmates by saying that the Roman Catholic, Iglesia ni Cristo, Jehovah's Witnesses (and other more) are all same because they're all under Christianity.

John 1:12 was taught to me, explaining that those who believe, follow, have repented, and thus having a personal relationship with Christ are those that are called Christians. And that Christianity is not just "the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices".

I am not here to hate but to ask to all of you for your insights and that I may be enlightened. Thank you and God bless! :eek:
 
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i just saw this

im at work so i have to hurry


i posted this already so please forgive its a copy and paste


this is how i see it as of now

and maybe i can improve upon this


all of us deserve hell

but God was so merciful he sent Jesus to pay a price so high
it can cover any sin ever made by all men and women

when we have faith in him
its not dead faith

God sends a call to all and reveals to us that Jesus is the way
and those who accept this are given a new heart
after this
the things we once took pleasure in
now hurt us to do
and we feel conviction to turn from them

if we grow in the word and continue to follow Jesus and seek Gods will for us
this is practicing righteousness

we start to turn from sin

like swearing
vengence
masterbation
fornication
false idols

and it becomes not a burden
but a joy when we overcome sin through christ who strengthens us

i believe it is possible to walk holy as Job did

but this isnt what earns salvation
it shows our fruit


i think God preserved his Word
and the bible is meant to be taken literally

(unless its obvious hyperbole)
 
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NoNameMcgee

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all of what you named go against the bible
(catholics that pray to people and jehova witnesses that say Jesus is just a prophet ect..)
which is Gods preserved word


that means they arent truely christian


this explains how there will be false christians on judgement day who dont make it

they were given over to deception because the unwillingness they had to seek the truth and love for sin
 
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NoNameMcgee

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if youre not seeking God by reading his Word


and youre just going to some church
falling under these denominations
listening to men speak


you need to read Gods word

that way you can know what he wants for you
and from you


people who refuse to read scripture are spoken of in the bible

2 Timothy 4:3 - For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
 
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NoNameMcgee

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Revelation 22:18-19


18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:

19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.


this is for the people who teach with their feelings and opinions

and people who use stuff like "the watch tower" jehova witnesses


or some of the fake stuff in morman teachings



even if they have SOME truth

like catholics

adding lies to it corrupts the whole thing

like praying to saints or mary

when we are to put no idols before God
 
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NoNameMcgee

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Psalm 12:6-7

6 The words of the Lord are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

7 Thou shalt keep them, O Lord, thou shalt preserve them from this generation for ever.


Romans 3:4

4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.
 
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jej00n

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Thanks NoNameMcgee! :eek: 'Cause I really was thinking that my teacher was wrong but chose to be silent because I did not want to offend anybody. Especially because most people in the class are Roman Catholics.
 
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The term was first used as a term of derision in Acts......I for one like to use the verbiage...I am a believer in Christ.....the word Christian gets flung around like a wet mop in a Taco Bell at the end of the night......at the end of the day the term denotes being Christ Like or associated with Christ.....I wil let Jesus deterime If I am Christ like and deserving of the title.......

Just my view and not HAMMERING those who wish to identify themselves as such......
 
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jej00n

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Thanks for sharing dcontroversal :) I appreciate it.
 
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NoNameMcgee

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jej00n said:
Thanks NoNameMcgee! :eek: 'Cause I really was thinking that my teacher was wrong but chose to be silent because I did not want to offend anybody. Especially because most people in the class are Roman Catholics.
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no problem

:)

sorry if it was long winded

probably shoulda used more scripture and less opinion
 
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jej00n said:
What is Christianity? How could someone say that he/she is a Christian?

These questions were already answered to me by pastor when I was beginning my path towards God. But then just a while ago in school, in our World Religions subject, our teacher asked on what do we think is the religion with the largest number of adherents. Then a flow of answers came up - Roman Catholic, Islam, Iglesia ni Cristo, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. Then our teacher stopped my classmates by saying that the Roman Catholic, Iglesia ni Cristo, Jehovah's Witnesses (and other more) are all same because they're all under Christianity.

John 1:12 was taught to me, explaining that those who believe, follow, have repented, and thus having a personal relationship with Christ are those that are called Christians. And that Christianity is not just "the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices".

I am not here to hate but to ask to all of you for your insights and that I may be enlightened. Thank you and God bless! :eek:
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Christianity is a follower of Jesus Christ total dependency on God the father through Jesus Christ our Lord, not a dependency on our mind (Prov. 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.) and what we think but on him revealing himself and all his words to us. Come to him as a child and when you want to hear from him read the Bible but first ASK (Matt. 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you) As a child let him direct your steps in the word of God (Just read) Don't try to figure out anything for he knows exactly what you need. To search out God and find an answer to anything you will be leading yourself (Rom. 11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!) Just sit at the table of Life (Jesus) and let him feed you the bread of life (His words). When he gives his word to you you WILL understand it. This total dependency is in every area of your life. (Jesus trusted in the father in every area not one area was excluded) May God bless you in the reading of his words.
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jej00n said:
What is Christianity? How could someone say that he/she is a Christian?

These questions were already answered to me by pastor when I was beginning my path towards God. But then just a while ago in school, in our World Religions subject, our teacher asked on what do we think is the religion with the largest number of adherents. Then a flow of answers came up - Roman Catholic, Islam, Iglesia ni Cristo, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. Then our teacher stopped my classmates by saying that the Roman Catholic, Iglesia ni Cristo, Jehovah's Witnesses (and other more) are all same because they're all under Christianity.

John 1:12 was taught to me, explaining that those who believe, follow, have repented, and thus having a personal relationship with Christ are those that are called Christians. And that Christianity is not just "the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices".

I am not here to hate but to ask to all of you for your insights and that I may be enlightened. Thank you and God bless! :eek:
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I think Christianity is trying to obey the teachings of Jesus Christ.
 
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Christianity is a term used later, but what a real Christian is according to Scripture is: "A person who is Christ-like thru re-birth." Thus, a person who is a bondservant to righteousness therefore becomes an effective servant of God, whom is freed from the world and at liberty to love and live as Jesus Christ loved and lived.

Christianity is not consistency to conscience or to convictions; Christianity is being true to Jesus Christ. For both nations and individuals have tried Christianity and abandoned it, because it has been found too difficult; but no man has ever gone thru the crisis of deliberately making Jesus Lord and found Him to be a failure. We have relational theology in Jesus, or more simply put, our faith is based on the death to the right to ourselves, and a trust and dependency on God thru Jesus Christ. We have a Father/Child relationship.

The center of our life starts from Christ, it doesn't flow past Him picking up His beautiful aroma. For the past three hundred years men have been pointing out how similar Jesus Christ's teachings are to other good teachings. We have to remember that Christianity, if it is not a supernatural miracle, is a sham.

We are either believer's in Christ or believer's and followers of Christ Jesus. In the starting Church they called themselves "The Way" and that is indicative of Scripture's meaning that the body of Christ is simply those who follow the way, the truth, and the life - This is a person; the Person of Jesus Christ whom now is Christ Jesus to us in power and authority transforming our lives unto Himself.

Christianity is a hard life full of life and that even more abundantly. Whenever Christianity comes straight home to us, we ignore it; when it gets at others, we preach it for all we are worth. The general history of Christianity is that it has been tried and abandoned, again, because it is found to be difficult; but wherever it has been tried and honorably gone on with, it has NEVER failed. Thus, another name or consideration of what a believer and follower of Jesus would be in description: The one whom the world despises and hates.

We as Christians need to remember as to whom we belong and therefore what in lays our productivity. Emotions are no substitution for action; action are no substitution for productivity. Christian ethics done ahead of the Holy Spirit, or outside of Christ, is no different than emotions or action outside to whom productivity is applied to all of mankind. The essence of our title as one who has the disposition of Our Lord Jesus Christ is that we give the Son of God a chance to live and move and have His being in us, and the meaning of all spiritual growth is that He has an increasing opportunity to manifest Himself in our mortal body.

As a christian, I am a follower and a worker; a co-worker with Christ in righteousness, who is dependent on God thru Jesus and who yearns to say and do as Christ did, being empowered thru Him to do so in His timing and clear deployment in real time as it is His will for me.I am loyal to His Word, and I am able and purposeful in submitting to God and man in loving them undyingly thru Christ. This part isn't just a description it is my testimony. For if Christianity isn't real what good is it?
 
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Mangotree said:
Christianity is a follower of Jesus Christ total dependency on God the father through Jesus Christ our Lord, not a dependency on our mind (Prov. 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.) and what we think but on him revealing himself and all his words to us. Come to him as a child and when you want to hear from him read the Bible but first ASK (Matt. 7:7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you) As a child let him direct your steps in the word of God (Just read) Don't try to figure out anything for he knows exactly what you need. To search out God and find an answer to anything you will be leading yourself (Rom. 11:33 O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!) Just sit at the table of Life (Jesus) and let him feed you the bread of life (His words). When he gives his word to you you WILL understand it. This total dependency is in every area of your life. (Jesus trusted in the father in every area not one area was excluded) May God bless you in the reading of his words.
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I love it when I can AMEN someone in Christ! - AMEN!
 
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Christianity begins at the cross. It is recognizing the power of the blood of Christ that not only forgives our sins, but cleanses us from them. It is receiving salvation through the loving gift of grace purchased for us, thereby releasing us from the law.

It then means a total surrender of a life into the purposes and plans of Christ for that life - accepting both good and what appears to be bad as from his hand. It is a fellowship of an intimate nature with Christ, with a life lived so as He can be expressed through every word and action, knowing that we are only a vessel for Him to use.

Christianity has nothing to do with the name of a group.
 
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dcontroversal said:
The term was first used as a term of derision in Acts......I for one like to use the verbiage...I am a believer in Christ.....the word Christian gets flung around like a wet mop in a Taco Bell at the end of the night......at the end of the day the term denotes being Christ Like or associated with Christ.....I wil let Jesus deterime If I am Christ like and deserving of the title.......

Just my view and not HAMMERING those who wish to identify themselves as such......
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The difference between "Christ-like" and "association with Christ" is one is dead to themselves, and alive in Christ apart from themselves living as Christ lived, and found serving The Heavenly Fathers will. The Christ-like person people walk away saying, "I was touched by a loving God." The one associated with Christ, people walk away from saying, "That was quite a man of God."
 
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Joidevivre said:
Christianity begins at the cross. It is recognizing the power of the blood of Christ that not only forgives our sins, but cleanses us from them. It is receiving salvation through the loving gift of grace purchased for us, thereby releasing us from the law.

It then means a total surrender of a life into the purposes and plans of Christ for that life - accepting both good and what appears to be bad as from his hand. It is a fellowship of an intimate nature with Christ, with a life lived so as He can be expressed through every word and action, knowing that we are only a vessel for Him to use.

Christianity has nothing to do with the name of a group.
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.....AMEN! :).
 
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Being a Christian is not just reading the word, although that is important.
Being a Christians is being the word. If we are not the word to the world
then reading is all academic. We always need to remember that we may
be the only Gospel people ever hear. If we read the word and aren't the
word in life then we stand a good chance of becoming hypocritical. This
applies to all denominations because if we don't surrender to Christ and
become one with Him, no denomination will help. We are all sinners so
we can't say one denomination is better than the other. We need to center
all of our spirituality on Christ and Christ alone.
 
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NoNameMcgee said:
i just saw this

im at work so i have to hurry


i posted this already so please forgive its a copy and paste


this is how i see it as of now

and maybe i can improve upon this


all of us deserve hell

but God was so merciful he sent Jesus to pay a price so high
it can cover any sin ever made by all men and women

when we have faith in him
its not dead faith

God sends a call to all and reveals to us that Jesus is the way
and those who accept this are given a new heart
after this
the things we once took pleasure in
now hurt us to do
and we feel conviction to turn from them

if we grow in the word and continue to follow Jesus and seek Gods will for us
this is practicing righteousness

we start to turn from sin

like swearing
vengence
masterbation
fornication
false idols

and it becomes not a burden
but a joy when we overcome sin through christ who strengthens us

i believe it is possible to walk holy as Job did

but this isnt what earns salvation
it shows our fruit


i think God preserved his Word
and the bible is meant to be taken literally

(unless its obvious hyperbole)
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AMEN.....but guard your heart for what 2 Timothy says is "....all Scripture, is useful for..." We may not get the angle as we read it yet, but we must be careful when we say, "unless its obviously an exaggerated statement", leading a person, then, thru human reasoning to conclude that part of Scripture was not meant by God to be taken literally. There are principles thru illustrations of common life, otherwise known as parables which in and of themselves can be reflective of a principle we should live by in our culture and time versus theirs. But it all has relevance somehow to understanding God more, thus ourselves as well. Historically and literally.

We just can't leave any loopholes here for satan to gain ground, in the way of our minds is all. I would agree that anything God directs us in thru Scripture via the Holy Spirit is His way of guiding us in the Word, and properly using study in terms of historical context and grammatical content and context is something we should practice.... but dissecting the word aimed for the best version is something my spirit checks me in feeling it undermines the Word. I really don't think you mean this as to what I am saying, but the statement leaves an open door to that reasoning, to procure that idea in a weaker brethren or unsaved individual.. You know I love ya bro, and I know to whom you are dependent - God bless you for saying what is on your heart, that which God has commissioned you to say... it was edifying! So, AMEN to all the rest...
 
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jej00n said:
What is Christianity? How could someone say that he/she is a Christian?

These questions were already answered to me by pastor when I was beginning my path towards God. But then just a while ago in school, in our World Religions subject, our teacher asked on what do we think is the religion with the largest number of adherents. Then a flow of answers came up - Roman Catholic, Islam, Iglesia ni Cristo, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. Then our teacher stopped my classmates by saying that the Roman Catholic, Iglesia ni Cristo, Jehovah's Witnesses (and other more) are all same because they're all under Christianity.

John 1:12 was taught to me, explaining that those who believe, follow, have repented, and thus having a personal relationship with Christ are those that are called Christians. And that Christianity is not just "the religion based on the person and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, or its beliefs and practices".

I am not here to hate but to ask to all of you for your insights and that I may be enlightened. Thank you and God bless! :eek:
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World Religion teachers have an agenda. They want to prove people can believe anything they want, except for Christianity.

Big suggestion: Take good notes so you can pass his test. And take the time to search out real answers on your own. You won't learn much truth in that class, but you can still ace the tests. Given you want to know truth, search it on your own.

(I had the same manure served up when I was in school too. I learned the difference between getting good grades and learning the truth.)
 
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