Re: Personal Choices
anonymous
May 4 2007, 15:04:37 UTC
"Plus, an eerie coincidence, I find I actually agree with everything Jesus was written to have said. Like, all of it. Scary eh? I would think, if Jesus was just a guy smok'n the crack, I would disagree with *something.*"
Doesn't that mean he just had good ghost-writers? :)
The real difference between Christianity and the other Judeo-Christian faiths is that you believe in salvation via Christ. Where do you make the leap of faith that just because he was an awesome philosopher and teacher, that Jesus was the son of God? I mean, I've never really disagreed with anything I've ever read by Mark Twain, Martin Luther King Jr, Henry David Thoreau, Ghandi, or Buddhist teachings. Heck, I like the prophet Mohammed's style, he was like Jesus only cynical and funny! Doesn't mean I think they're the path to salvation. Christ was exceptional for his time - he was a true radical and had such an impact that even vehemently non-Christians would agree with his teachings, if you offered them in a secular context.
Do you agree with this: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:5) I refuse to accept that a just and loving God would damn all who fail to acknowledge Christ as savior, no matter what their faith or their works on Earth have shown. Which, at its core, is what makes a Christian a Christian. Not Sunday potlucks or hot-button political jockeying, but belief that Christ is necessary for salvation. Everything else is just details.
Doesn't that mean he just had good ghost-writers? :)
The real difference between Christianity and the other Judeo-Christian faiths is that you believe in salvation via Christ. Where do you make the leap of faith that just because he was an awesome philosopher and teacher, that Jesus was the son of God? I mean, I've never really disagreed with anything I've ever read by Mark Twain, Martin Luther King Jr, Henry David Thoreau, Ghandi, or Buddhist teachings. Heck, I like the prophet Mohammed's style, he was like Jesus only cynical and funny! Doesn't mean I think they're the path to salvation. Christ was exceptional for his time - he was a true radical and had such an impact that even vehemently non-Christians would agree with his teachings, if you offered them in a secular context.
Do you agree with this: "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:5) I refuse to accept that a just and loving God would damn all who fail to acknowledge Christ as savior, no matter what their faith or their works on Earth have shown. Which, at its core, is what makes a Christian a Christian. Not Sunday potlucks or hot-button political jockeying, but belief that Christ is necessary for salvation. Everything else is just details.
-darius
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