Do you believe christian know what being a christian and beliving in god really means?

Question

just seems to me that religion is supposed to make u a better person, I was born chritian catholic, been surrounder by people from the same religion all my life. I,ve never meet a single person who actually lived be the ten commandments or lived trying to make his world a better place or do a single good deed without expecting somethig in return or think that good deed has to be repaid by god. besides every good action that is done is done out of fear of not going to heaven not out of love.... Long story shot religion is supposed to help You live a life of consince, I dare u to look around U and see if u find a single person who truly lives with they're heath and consience as they're main guide. I didn't learn to love my self and others till i stoped tyring to belong to a religion

Answer 1

I believe that nobody can truly live a happy life, unless they follow their own morrals, beliefs, and whats in their hearts! Not in the hearts of others, or by what some dude standing up at an altar screaming to us how we should live our lives! I think it's best just to do what our hearts and minds tells us to do, and what we feel is good and what makes us happy!

Answer 2

no, not really. Christianity would be a different religion if people knew why they believed in the things that they do.

I wanted to adress one point you made though. "I dare u to look around U and see if u find a single person who truly lives with they're heath and consience as they're main guide."

I know plenty of pagans, particularly Recons who do just that. Not all of them obviously, but you begin to understand your religion better when you have done nothing but research the history context and meaning for years on end.

Answer 3

Being a Christian is living like Christ. Just follow the five steps to becoming a Christian and you really will see what it is to be a Christain and a follower of God.
1)Hear the Word of God 2)Believe what you hear and what you read from the Bible 3) Repent, or confess and be truly sorry for, the sinful life you have lived thus far 4)Be baptized in full emerssion, going all the way under, 5) living the life as Christ would live.

Answer 4

I am a converted Catholic Christian.

I saw with my own eyes, the community of people who so truly lived by the Ten Commandments. Not only did they lived by the Ten Commandments, they die by it. In fact they died a Matyr.

Perhaps you should visit Mother Theresa's Calcutta Center and spend some time there helping out.

You'll know what I mean. There is so much more out there than the people who surrounds you.

Answer 5

That is real sad.
Nobody can live a life without sin, Adam and Eve ruined that for us. We are human. But we try to set a good example and we try to be good and Christ-like. It sounds to me you had a bad experience and think all Christians are that way. They are not. You need to give it another chance but try a different religion. I don't know much about Catholics, but if that is how they are, I would have left too.
Good Luck, and don't judge everyone by a bad experience.

Answer 6

Being a Christian, for me, means living as one who always needs forgiveness because I can't live up to the standards of perfection. It means believing in the promise of God that he provides us with a life after death. It means acknowledging that while I have "gifts on loan from God", so do others. It means living in the midst of trying to figure out what I see as the right and wrongs in life, and the different way that others perceive biblical ethics. It means looking to the scriptures and our minds as resources, even though sometimes they seem in conflict.

Answer 7

People make up religions and since they are people they make mistakes. If they didn't they would be dead. I think we're here to be better people and to realize everyone has his/her own journey. People should keep to their own path and stop checking on our neighbors, it's none of our business what they do. We were each born alone, even twins, you come out of the birth canal alone and that's how you'll end up. God's not going to ask how your neighbor lived his life, He's going to ask you about how you lived your live. Keep to your own path and you'll have a much better time of it. **note...Latin isn't said at Mass anymore, it's in whatever language the congregants understand. Latin has been gone for over 35 years.

Answer 8

I could not say who believes exactly as you do about what God "really means".... no more than you can guess about why or what motivates other people.

It does seem to me that some people get Religion and God confused, as if one is the other.

Ultimately, God is all of "it"..... and the outcome is not in doubt, because doubt only exists "where" FEAR resides. And fear is not real.

Welcome to the conditional world of FREE WILL......
Choose whatever you like, or not.

Answer 9

Of course, Christians know what leading a Christian life entails. But living it exactly as it says in the Bible isn't easy.

However, if you want a true example of living a Christian life, my priest is one. I can see God in him and the love of God through him. He is one who truly practices what he preaches.

Another person who lived life as the Bible said to was my late maternal grandmother. I've never known a more Christian woman than she.

Answer 10

I highly doubt you were raised Catholic. If you attended an english service, that is not Catholic. Only the latin mass is Catholic. The Baltimore Catechism is Catholic. Meet a true Catholic priest and you will be blown away by their sanctity. :)