Why is the religion that you practice superior to all other religions?

[nobody]

I have a risen savior. My standing with G-d is defined by G-d. My G-d and savior CANNOT lie. My G-d created and accomplishes what HE wants in the Heavenlies and on Earth. My faith is not in myself but what HE has done which is what He wants for all mankind. He is PEACE.

 

[eduardo89]

Most people who follow the bible live by a different set of rules because they have different interpretations of the bible. Also, I've met plenty of people who put on this show of how deeply religious they are and know everything about the bible, but they end up being the biggest scumbags you'll ever meet...just like Santorum.

There have been plenty of wars in the name of religion. I don't think this is positive.

If we had a clear and concise guideline to live by, people would just live their lives and wouldn't have to worry about studying the bible and figuring it out. Christians, Jews, and Muslims basically follow the same religion, but have been fighting since the beginning of time because of some bs differences in their complex documents. If they all had a simple document that everyone could live by, there wouldn't be this fighting over religion.

No, we don't. I'd venture as far as to say we don't even worship the same god. Christians believe that God the Father sent His only begotten son to die for our Sins. We believe Jesus Christ is our Savior. He is an integral, central part of our faith. Faith in Jesus Christ is what defines Christianity. Neither Judaiam nor Islam believe in Christ as the Son of God. They are completely different religions worshipping a different god.

 

[tttppp]

No, we don't. I'd venture as far as to say we don't even worship the same god. Christians believe that God the Father sent His only begotten son to die for our Sins. We believe Jesus Christ is our Savior. He is an integral, central part of our faith. Faith in Jesus Christ is what defines Christianity. Neither Judaiam nor Islam believe in Christ as the Son of God. They are completely different religions worshipping a different god.

This is why we have so many problems. Billions of people follow basically the same religion, yet kill each other because of some pointless differences.

 

[Yieu]

No, we don't. I'd venture as far as to say we don't even worship the same god. Christians believe that God the Father sent His only begotten son to die for our Sins. We believe Jesus Christ is our Savior. He is an integral, central part of our faith. Faith in Jesus Christ is what defines Christianity. Neither Judaiam nor Islam believe in Christ as the Son of God. They are completely different religions worshipping a different god.

Well, I believe that God is the Father of Jesus, and that all the religions you mentioned including Hinduism just believe in approaching the same God in a different manner.

Christians approach God through Jesus, and people of other religions may have other ways of approaching God, but they are approaching the same God.

This is why we have so many problems. Billions of people follow basically the same religion, yet kill each other because of some pointless differences.

Good point. We should be getting along here, we worship the same God, just slightly differently.

 

[tttppp]

Well, I believe that God is the Father of Jesus, and that all the religions you mentioned including Hinduism just believe in approaching the same God in a different manner.

Christians approach God through Jesus, and people of other religions may have other ways of approaching God, but they are approaching the same God.



Good point. We should be getting along here, we worship the same God, just slightly differently.

Just to be clear, I know these religions are not exact. But the basics of each of them are very similar.

I'm a big concepts kind of person. I really don't care about pointless details. When people trying to explain the petty differences between most religions, I just want to fall asleep.

 

[Yieu]

Just to be clear, I know these religions are not exact. But the basics of each of them are very similar.

I'm a big concepts kind of person. I really don't care about pointless details. When people trying to explain the petty differences between most religions, I just want to fall asleep.

I agree on that point. The smaller differences do not matter so much, what matters is that we are worshiping the same God. The manner in which we do so is less important, so long as we are following His instruction, whether it be from the Bible, the Gita, or otherwise.

 

[Austrian Econ Disciple]

Doesn't explain how something tangible was here for an infinity which random things happened to and it spontaneously combusted creating the universe we have today. I understand the principle of infinity, but it doesn't explain the cause.

I just find it fascinating that if you replace the word God with Universe in most atheists explanation you have essentially what religious people say, yet one in the head of an atheist is absolutely absurd while the other is patently genius. Then they call themselves "rationalists". In any case as I've said before, God is above scientific concepts, God is impossible in Science.

If I create a compiler for a computer programming language that will interpret my jumble of code into an executable program; am I, as the creator of this compiler, then bound to it's rules and logic? Of course not. Similarly, the creator of our science and logic is not bound to them. I believe the science created for us, is self sustaining obviously, but divine intervention did occur, and of course without the creator of our "compiler" i.e., science it wouldn't exist in the first place.

Is God possible in science?
Answer: No

But most religious people don't dispute that, something atheists argue, when we're not disagreeing.

How do you jump from a Deistic perspective to a personified deified one? I think it's highly absurd to assume that what I call God (the Clockmaker), you believe is some humanoid or personified deity that interferes in the affairs of man, and in the vastness of the Universe has limited creation to one planet and one species. Did it not ever cross your mind that God is an abstract concept that we refer to as the creator of the Universe, but beyond that we have no rational basis for any other presumptions?

Everything has a beginning. Everything has an end. Perhaps the human brain is incapable of understanding anything else.

I do like your computer programmer analogy as it is a common one Deists use. It completely refutes any revealed / supernatural mumbo-jumbo. You don't see the laws of physics changing constantly, or the table of elements changing, or chemistry, or the base interaction of the Universe. I will believe in supernatural when I see gravity disappear, or hydrogen disappear, or any other observation which contradicts the Natural Laws. So.....I'll probably be waiting for something that will never happen.

Curious in any event, in your thoughts on Deism.

 

[eduardo89]

This is why we have so many problems. Billions of people follow basically the same religion, yet kill each other because of some pointless differences.

It's not "basically the same religion" at all. We worship different gods. Judaism and Islam do not worship the Christian God.

Just to be clear, I know these religions are not exact. But the basics of each of them are very similar.

I'm a big concepts kind of person. I really don't care about pointless details. When people trying to explain the petty differences between most religions, I just want to fall asleep.

This "pointless detail" to Christians is Christ. Those who reject Christ are worshiping a different (and false) god than us Christians.

 

[Muwahid]

No, we don't. I'd venture as far as to say we don't even worship the same god. Christians believe that God the Father sent His only begotten son to die for our Sins. We believe Jesus Christ is our Savior. He is an integral, central part of our faith. Faith in Jesus Christ is what defines Christianity. Neither Judaiam nor Islam believe in Christ as the Son of God. They are completely different religions worshipping a different god.

The same monotheistic god is followed in Judaism, and Christianity, and Islam, and even in extinct polytheistic religions like the Meccans who were haneefs (monotheists) first but worshiped other foreign "gods" later, but their central God was Allah (lit. The God), this is because the people of Mecca were followers of Abraham and Ismael. Judaism is an easier religion to prove as Jesus himself was essentially a Jew:

Mathew 5:17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.

This is proof of the link between Christianity and the religions of all the previous prophets in the Abrahamic line and beyond. Islam came and did not more than to teach a non-trinitarian view of Christianity. Which many of the early Christians didn't even subscribe to themselves until the Council of Nicaea.

Faith in Jesus Christ is what defines Christianity

I can't be a Muslim without affirming the miracles and prophethood of Jesus عليه السلام, but I do not accept the anthropomorphism that God and divine unhuman-like deity who is perfect in every way SIRED a son. If you take that disagreement out, are we monotheists? Do we accept Jesus, Moses, Abraham, Isac, Ismael, Ezekiel, John, etc? Do we affirm Hell and Heaven, it becomes abundantly clear many religions were divine even if they lose their way today, but most religions came from divine inspiration of a God.

And it's better that way what God would only reveal a message to people once and never again no matter how much they strayed.

 

[eduardo89]

I'm not denying that we share common roots.

I'm saying that we do not worship the same god. Islam does not accept the Holy Trinity, so how can you say we worship the same god? Islam does not accept that Jesus Christ is God, so we are obviously not worshiping the same god.

 

[Muwahid]

Yes you're right if you worship Jesus Christ; we do not worship him, but who you take to believe he is (God) then we worship that all powerful God, believing in roughly the same tenets and morals.

 

[tttppp]

I'm not denying that we share common roots.

I'm saying that we do not worship the same god. Islam does not accept the Holy Trinity, so how can you say we worship the same god? Islam does not accept that Jesus Christ is God, so we are obviously not worshiping the same god.

Does Christianity believe Christ is God? I thought there is only one God.

 

[tttppp]

It's not "basically the same religion" at all. We worship different gods. Judaism and Islam do not worship the Christian God.



This "pointless detail" to Christians is Christ. Those who reject Christ are worshiping a different (and false) god than us Christians.

Just because someone doesn't believe Jesus was the son of God, doesn't mean they can't believe in that same God.

 

[eduardo89]

Does Christianity believe Christ is God? I thought there is only one God.

There is only one God. The concept is called the Holy Trinity.

This is what every Christian believes:

We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty
maker of heaven and earth,
of all that is, seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father.

Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven:
by the power of the Holy Spirit
he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary, and was made man.
For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.
On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of Life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son.
With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified.
He has spoken through the Prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.
We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come.

 

[tttppp]

There is only one God. The concept is called the Holy Trinity.

This is what every Christian believes:

By the way, who are Adam and Eve? Didn't God make them? Doesn't that make them his children as well? Aren't we all descendants of God. What makes Jesus so special?

 

[eduardo89]

By the way, who are Adam and Eve? Didn't God make them? Doesn't that make them his children as well? Aren't we all descendants of God. What makes Jesus so special?

Adam and Eve were the first two humans, God made them (and us) in His image.

Jesus is the Son of God. He is God incarnate, born to the Virgin Mary by act of the Holy Spirit. He came down from Heaven to die for our sins.

 

[tttppp]

Adam and Eve were the first two humans, God made them (and us) in His image.

Jesus is the Son of God. He is God incarnate, born to the Virgin Mary by act of the Holy Spirit. He came down from Heaven to die for our sins.

Why is it that Jesus gets special powers, and Adam and Eve don't? Also, what can Jesus do that humans in theory cannot do?

 

[PierzStyx]

There is only one God. The concept is called the Holy Trinity.

This is what every Christian believes:

Not at all. There are a whole host of Christian Churches that reject the doctrine of the Trinity. Here are a list of a few: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontrinitarianism#Groups


And obviously not all Trinitarian Christian even believe the Creed you quote as I am positive Baptists would reject the "We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church" line. Its kinda the basis for Protestantism.

 

[eduardo89]

Not at all. There are a whole host of Christian Churches that reject the doctrine of the Trinity. And obviously not all Christian even believe the Creed you quote as I am positive Baptists would reject the "We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church" line. Its kinda the basis for Protestantism.

That last part is fundamental to Christianity. It means that you believe in the Church Jesus Christ founded on Earth. There are very few churches that reject the Nicene Creed, most notably Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses. Catholics, Anglicans, Orthodox, Lutherans, Presbyterians, Calvinists, and many evangelical churches believe in it. The word "catholic" in the creed does not mean the Roman Catholic Church necessarily, catholic means universal.

And no, you cannot be a Christian if you reject the Holy Trinity.

 

[eduardo89]

Why is it that Jesus gets special powers, and Adam and Eve don't? Also, what can Jesus do that humans in theory cannot do?

Jesus doesn't "get special powers". Jesus is God. He is consubstantial with the Father. He was not made, but begotten. Adam and Ever were made, Jesus wasn't.