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Originally Posted by }SOC{Spector17  You can't be both; you are either Christian or don't believe in the Bible/Jesus/God. If you are a true Christian you must believe in the Bible. | This is an over-generalisation, and incorrect. In respect to Christianity, yes, beliving in both god and Christ are required for one to be a Christian, but beliving in the Bible is an entirely different matter. More specifically, one doesn't have to believe in a literal, Inspired, "Inerrant Word of God" to be a Christian. All it takes it acknowledgment in the "literal truth" of the scritures and of course acknowledgement of the god as creator, and Jesus as god/saviour.
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...It appears that I am not christian. Sorry for the confusion. This person who still holds to the delusion of free will as fact has labeled me such
| Youre right about that.
And "Faith" is one of the least Christ-like Christian's I've ever met-on the internet.
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And on we walked. Suddenly we heard a voice crying, "This is the sea. This is the deep sea. This is the vast and mighty sea." And when we reached the voice it was a man whose back was turned to the sea, and at his ear he held a shell, listening to its murmur.
And my soul said, "Let us pass on. He is the realist, who turns his back on the whole he cannot grasp, and busies himself with a fragment."
—Gibran Khalil Gibran, “The Greater Sea.” |