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I know that after speaking about love in Corinthians, Paul says that knowledge will pass away...because we all only know in part...
But I got to wonder about so much that people profess to know, and are wrong.
For example, to try to understand mormons and to see someone I wanted to help out of it, I once attended a mormon service. Now, I must confess that I think they are wrong about 75% of the time at least....but they do profess that "Jesus is Lord" and even claim to be "the church of Jesus Christ of the latter day Saints"--which if you take that literally all churchs should believe themselves churches of Jesus Christ and have saints of this age in them...
I really do not believe that mormons can be Christians just because their doctrines are so extremely strange...but that brings up an interesting point? If you know that Jesus is Lord, but you also believe/don't believe x than can you be a Christian?
I do not want too much argument, just personal convictions on what beliefs either a Christian cannot hold or which ones they must in order to be Christian.
For example, I do not speak in tongues yet as the pentecostals believe in, and I think perhaps? that the church I go to believes that speaking in tongues is the only way to know that someone is born of the Spirit and thus Christian.
Also, after heavy theological studies, I have come to take the 7 days of creation to not mean 7 24 hour days, I know I may be wrong about this and I am still trying to understand what I believe as I know God is Almighty and He could have made it precisely 7 24 hour days, but right now I do not see it that way....Is that enough to qualify me as not truly Christian by some of you?
I have been to churches that believe anywhere from the Bible is the Word of God to believing the Bible is just a text to help us live more moral lives, and both confessing Jesus as Lord...is not believing that God spoke every word in the Bible enough to qualify someone as not Christian? Is believing Jesus is your Savior by believing that 'he was the most moral man that ever lived' and not confessing that He is the Son of God enough to not be Christian?
For me, most of this stuff is a red flag that someone doesn't TRULY believe in God and Jesus as his Son...but as I said I do not take the 7 days exactly literally right now--because of Einstein too perhaps saying that "time is relative"--so what is a day to God?
I do not want your church's dogma on what they believe in, but personally what you feel are the essentials in order to be Christian...
I personally DO NOT believe you can be wrong about EVERYTHING besides Jesus is LORD and be saved. To confess Jesus is Lord with your heart means more to me--it means you live that truth versus just saying or knowing the syllables.
I should post my list now. But I am going to pray and think about it.
The Lord be with all of you.
Tony
But I got to wonder about so much that people profess to know, and are wrong.
For example, to try to understand mormons and to see someone I wanted to help out of it, I once attended a mormon service. Now, I must confess that I think they are wrong about 75% of the time at least....but they do profess that "Jesus is Lord" and even claim to be "the church of Jesus Christ of the latter day Saints"--which if you take that literally all churchs should believe themselves churches of Jesus Christ and have saints of this age in them...
I really do not believe that mormons can be Christians just because their doctrines are so extremely strange...but that brings up an interesting point? If you know that Jesus is Lord, but you also believe/don't believe x than can you be a Christian?
I do not want too much argument, just personal convictions on what beliefs either a Christian cannot hold or which ones they must in order to be Christian.
For example, I do not speak in tongues yet as the pentecostals believe in, and I think perhaps? that the church I go to believes that speaking in tongues is the only way to know that someone is born of the Spirit and thus Christian.
Also, after heavy theological studies, I have come to take the 7 days of creation to not mean 7 24 hour days, I know I may be wrong about this and I am still trying to understand what I believe as I know God is Almighty and He could have made it precisely 7 24 hour days, but right now I do not see it that way....Is that enough to qualify me as not truly Christian by some of you?
I have been to churches that believe anywhere from the Bible is the Word of God to believing the Bible is just a text to help us live more moral lives, and both confessing Jesus as Lord...is not believing that God spoke every word in the Bible enough to qualify someone as not Christian? Is believing Jesus is your Savior by believing that 'he was the most moral man that ever lived' and not confessing that He is the Son of God enough to not be Christian?
For me, most of this stuff is a red flag that someone doesn't TRULY believe in God and Jesus as his Son...but as I said I do not take the 7 days exactly literally right now--because of Einstein too perhaps saying that "time is relative"--so what is a day to God?
I do not want your church's dogma on what they believe in, but personally what you feel are the essentials in order to be Christian...
I personally DO NOT believe you can be wrong about EVERYTHING besides Jesus is LORD and be saved. To confess Jesus is Lord with your heart means more to me--it means you live that truth versus just saying or knowing the syllables.
I should post my list now. But I am going to pray and think about it.
The Lord be with all of you.
Tony