What is your belief?

wil · 04-26-2006, 04:18 PM

This is the Christian Board, what is the diversity of those that consider themselves christians, ie followers of the teachings of Jesus?

Including those that don't feel they fit under christian-ity?

While we all have a commonality...our elder brother and wayshower, we have a variety of understanding, some of which makes it difficult to discuss intracies of our faith without blood boiling.

lunamoth · 04-26-2006, 04:53 PM

The Bible is our sacred history, a record of the earliest Christians' experience of God among us, and a thin place where God still speaks to us through sacrament and prayer.

Jesus Christ came to reconcile us to God through His life, death, and resurrection. He changed our relationship to the law and opened our relationship with the Father.

Christians are followers of Christ who die to their self, are born again in Christ, and carry out His mission of reconciliation in the world. IMO this means spreading His love through healing words and compassionate actions, as well as proclaiming the good news "Fear not! God is with us."

My 2 c.

peace,
luna

Faithfulservant · 04-26-2006, 08:10 PM

most of us ARE aware of the disagreement you are having with Brian.. Why dont you let him run HIS board the way he sees fit? conform to the rules like everyone else has and if you are unhappy about it... realize that this is not a democracy and you dont get a vote on it. lol

truthseeker · 04-26-2006, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Faithfulservant

most of us ARE aware of the disagreement you are having with Brian.. Why dont you let him run HIS board the way he sees fit? conform to the rules like everyone else has and if you are unhappy about it... realize that this is not a democracy and you dont get a vote on it. lol

What a terrible thing to say! Don't you think that is between the two of them?

wil · 04-26-2006, 09:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Faithfulservant

most of us ARE aware of the disagreement you are having with Brian.. Why dont you let him run HIS board the way he sees fit? conform to the rules like everyone else has and if you are unhappy about it... realize that this is not a democracy and you dont get a vote on it. lol

notta problem my brother...is there some reason we don't wish to find the scope, the breadth of those that call themselves Christian? And the nature of the Christian Board? In a thread I didn't start we find that this site has a disproportionate number of some religions compared to the world and western averages...

I wondered the same regarding the Christian Board....as to what denomination and how conventional, unconventional thought was.

Thank you TS for the support, however FS does have a point that I have made my voice overly public, hence this thread got lumped into the fray. My timing was inappropriate to be valuable to the results.

edit and interesting note....someone italicized particular questions in the poll...it twas not I, what does it mean when someone decides something should be italicized?? Note, this is an observation, not a complaint...please leave as it was changed....hmmm editorial modifications to text...how appropriate for the discussion!

wil · 04-26-2006, 10:39 PM

lol Many pardons....twas me that italicized things by answering the poll...I stand corrected...

I did do that to myself...once again my ignorance stands out!

Whose quote was that, "Better to keep mouth shut and be thought a fool, than open it and remove all doubt" ?? or something to that effect...

Quahom1 · 04-27-2006, 12:51 AM

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Originally Posted by wil

lol Many pardons....twas me that italicized things by answering the poll...I stand corrected...

I did do that to myself...once again my ignorance stands out!

Whose quote was that, "Better to keep mouth shut and be thought a fool, than open it and remove all doubt" ?? or something to that effect...

"chuckle"

no one modified your original post withought prior notice...that wouldn't be right.

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edit: Wil it appears that you posted a "duplicate thread", that is why one was removed. IF that is in-correct, then please contact Brian with your concerns.

path_of_one · 04-30-2006, 07:22 PM

See the denominations thread- didn't want to repeat! Basically, I'm with Lunamoth. And I think the saving grace of Christ is both in His teachings and in His death and resurrection. Indeed, I don't really see a difference between the two. His death and resurrection were the evidence of the validity of His teachings- if He had merely said to turn the other cheek, for example, but had never been tested to see if He would live His teachings, we would not have had evidence of His perfection and divinity. If He had merely promised His followers eternal life, but never shown them that God would indeed grant it, we would have no real evidence that He was any different from any number of other prophets/sages. His life, death, and resurrection were the embodiment of the Truth of His teachings.

Quahom1 · 04-30-2006, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by path_of_one

See the denominations thread- didn't want to repeat! Basically, I'm with Lunamoth. And I think the saving grace of Christ is both in His teachings and in His death and resurrection. Indeed, I don't really see a difference between the two. His death and resurrection were the evidence of the validity of His teachings- if He had merely said to turn the other cheek, for example, but had never been tested to see if He would live His teachings, we would not have had evidence of His perfection and divinity. If He had merely promised His followers eternal life, but never shown them that God would indeed grant it, we would have no real evidence that He was any different from any number of other prophets/sages. His life, death, and resurrection were the embodiment of the Truth of His teachings.

He lived as He taught. And He won. So can we all, if we choose to follow His ways.

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wil · 05-04-2006, 08:51 PM

Only 9 responses however at this juncture...

We know the quotes about facts and statistics....

But the current poll presents interesting demographics among our christians...

YNOT · 05-04-2006, 09:27 PM

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Originally Posted by wil

Only 9 responses however at this juncture...

We know the quotes about facts and statistics....

But the current poll presents interesting demographics among our christians...

What interesting results for this poll. Thank you for directing me to it wil.

Namaste

NoName · 05-04-2006, 09:53 PM

Although I belive in alot that the bible has to say I think tacking to littarly can be dangers sometimes. It has bin tranlated so many times and there are even hints that Jesus him self is useing a medafore, like for example when he said "I will destory the tempal and rebuild it three days latter" the people who herd this thoght he was talking about the jewish tempal. We can now see he was talking about him self and his death on the cross and coming back to life three days latter. when he said destory tempal he was talking about his body. the bible calls the body a tempal.

Dondi · 05-04-2006, 09:53 PM

I had problems selecting the last one for the reason a lack of clarity. I believe we can become one with God when we become connected with Him through Christ (both in His teachings and in His vicarious sacrifice). It is not a given.

I agree with the historical aspect of the bible, but there are allegorical components as well. For example, Babylon can be a literal place in certain passages, but can be a ideological state in some other passages.

Jesus was always the Christ, even before coming to earth as a human.

Dor · 05-04-2006, 11:20 PM

There were a couple these hard to answer cause the way they were worded....such as 2nd one I can see some metaphor but no myth.

Quahom1 · 05-04-2006, 11:29 PM

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Originally Posted by wil

Only 9 responses however at this juncture...

We know the quotes about facts and statistics....

But the current poll presents interesting demographics among our christians...

I thought the survey only allowed one response (e.g. one question to answer of all the questions). If that was wrong, then I am not the only one who thought so. Therefore your statistics are skewed.

my thoughts

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