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Intelligently Designed
Originally posted by Lord Urizen
You will never find a correct answer, Adam Poe, since no Christian will come to a mutual agreement on this.
You could say, that being a Christian is: Believing that Jesus of Nazareth was God in the flesh, believing that he was crucified for the purpose of cleansing the sins of humanity, receiving that salvation and his presence (through the Holy Spirit) into your soul, and accepting his teachings and instructions as the basis for living your life.
The different Christian denominations are (mostly) concerned with how one interprets and follows his words.
And I agree, you will probably never get a consensus on that, as people are flawed and see things through their own eyes as they want them to be.
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Unitarians are a nontrinitarian group that deny the doctrine that God is three distinct persons in one. They believe that God is one being who consists of one "person"—the Father. Jesus is not the Son of God, but merely a good and wise man who taught others how to lead a better life.
Just as a side note, I've always found this line of thinking to be terribly contradictory and foolish.
Whether from Unitarians, or just the common man who says: "Yeah, Jesus was real, a Jewish teacher that was crucified, and he had alot of good ideas about people. He wasn't the son of God, but he's still a good man worth listening to."
HA!
He says flat-out that he is the son of God: "I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man comes to the Father but by Me." and that he will return to heaven with his father God: "In my father's house there are many mansions, if it were not so, I would have told you." "I go to prepare a place for you."
Now for a normal rational person to say that he was a good teacher to listen to is nonsense.
That's like listening to a college professor who claims that he is the illegitimate heir of Bugs Bunny, and that he has the power to shit gold bricks and piss gold coins.
We wouldn't, we'd lock him away for being the raging looney that he is, and we certainly wouldn't give credence to anything that he says.
So you must take Jesus at his word, ALL of it:
Either he is the Son of Man, God in the flesh come to save humanity
or
he's the craziest person who ever lived.
But this "good teacher" crap is a complete cop-out by those people who can't deny his existence but don't want to acknowledge his divinity.
The only other option for people who think that way is to say that he was insane.
Lastly, I don't believe in a religion per se.
I don't have a "religion"..... I have a relationship with the very real God.
And hey, when I pray to him, in the name of his Son who saved me, using his Holy Spirit inside of me as my way of connection....
good things happen.
Jobs are given, blessings bestowed.
Family members are cured of Hepatitis, church members toddler children fall from 2nd story windows and rupture their spleens, yet receive healing that doctors at UC Davis cannot explain. (PM if you want to hear about that last one, it was only a month ago.)
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