2006-07-11 17:11:12 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Not really....just means you don't choose Satan.
2006-07-11 17:15:14 · answer #1 · answered by Lilah 5 · 5⤊ 4⤋
Some Christians believe that Satan exists. Some Christians believe that those who follow Satan is demonic or evil. You have the option as a individual to believe in or follow whatever you want.
2006-07-12 00:20:09 · answer #2 · answered by Pashur 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. To be a Christian there are rules and things you must do to be one. Why would you follow Satan in the first place? Not that you have to follow God either, just wondered.
2006-07-12 00:20:14 · answer #3 · answered by EMILY S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot choose to NOT follow Satan, unless you choose to follow Christ.
For All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God
We are told several times in the new testament, that all who follow not Christ are the sons of satan
so If you want an answerbased on real biblical theology, then there you have it
ONLY ACCEPTING CHRIST MAKES YOU A CHRISTIAN
NOTHING ELSE!
let me put it another way:
If do not go to cal tech, does that make me a buckeye?
NO only going to ohio state makes you a buckeye!
2006-07-12 00:33:07 · answer #4 · answered by athorgarak 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it just means you have chosen to not follow Satan, I got to ask why you think that denying your enemy would qualify you to be a Christian? Because Christians do believe in Satan we just don't follow him. PS Believing in God doesn't save either, because even the demons believe in God, but faith in the one who God sent as a sacrifice is where you have to start.
2006-07-12 02:00:56 · answer #5 · answered by candi_k7 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No - we are born believing in and following Satan - our choice is to have to believe in and follow Christ in order to become a Christian.
2006-07-12 00:29:00 · answer #6 · answered by dph_40 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. You need to accept Jesus as your savior. "Who so ever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life".
If you believe in Christ as savior, you are a Christian, and have everlasting life in heaven.
Not following Satan is part of accepting Christ as Lord, go the next step and follow Christ all the way to heaven. He will save you from Satan, who is real.
2006-07-12 00:27:37 · answer #7 · answered by shepherd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No!
Mar 7:14 After He called the crowd to Him again, He began saying to them, "Listen to Me, all of you, and understand:
Mar 7:15 there is nothing outside the man which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.
Mar 7:16 ["If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."]
Mar 7:17 When he had left the crowd and entered the house, His disciples questioned Him about the parable.
Mar 7:18 And He *said to them, "Are you so lacking in understanding also? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the man from outside cannot defile him,
Mar 7:19 because it does not go into his heart, but into his stomach, and is eliminated?" (Thus He declared all foods clean.)
Mar 7:20 And He was saying, "That which proceeds out of the man, that is what defiles the man.
Mar 7:21 "For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the evil thoughts, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,
Mar 7:22 deeds of coveting and wickedness, as well as deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride and foolishness.
Mar 7:23 "All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man."
Mar 4:14 "The sower sows the word.
Mar 4:15 "These are the ones who are beside the road where the word is sown; and when they hear, immediately Satan comes and takes away the word which has been sown in them.
Mar 4:16 "In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;
Mar 4:17 and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, when affliction or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they fall away.
Mar 4:18 "And others are the ones on whom seed was sown among the thorns; these are the ones who have heard the word,
Mar 4:19 but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Mar 4:20 "And those are the ones on whom seed was sown on the good soil; and they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold."
Mar 4:21 And He was saying to them, "A lamp is not brought to be put under a basket, is it, or under a bed? Is it not brought to be put on the lampstand?
Mar 4:22 "For nothing is hidden, except to be revealed; nor has anything been secret, but that it would come to light.
Mar 4:23 "If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."
Mar 4:24 And He was saying to them, "Take care what you listen to. By your standard of measure it will be measured to you; and more will be given you besides.
Mar 4:25 "For whoever has, to him more shall be given; and whoever does not have, even what he has shall be taken away from him."
Mar 4:26 And He was saying, "The kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the soil;
Mar 4:27 and he goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts and grows--how, he himself does not know.
Mar 4:28 "The soil produces crops by itself; first the blade, then the head, then the mature grain in the head.
Mar 4:29 "But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."
2006-07-12 00:19:12 · answer #8 · answered by OhWell 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it does not. I am a degreed Theologian and studied the Bible both in the English language (the King James Version) and its original languages in which it was written (Hebrew, Arimaic and Greek). You are born into this world as a sinner because you are born with the "Old Sin Nature" which we automatically inherit from our parents at the time of conception. When you were therefore born into this world, this life, you were born a "sinner"...even though you haven't done any wrong...you were "born" with the old sin Nature. You are therefore born on your way to Hell the moment you were born. If you die very young however and haven't reached the "age of accountability", which is different with every person and of which God Himself determines...you will not go to Hell. But once that age is reached...when you know the difference between right and wrong and good from evil, you are positively destined to spend eternity in a literal Hell, unless you have received Jesus Christ as your Personal Saviour. He is called the "Saviour", because only He and He alone can "save" you from spending your eternity in the fires of Hell. All you have to do is "believe in Him" that He died on that Cross FOR YOU, suffered, died, was buried but then Rose from the dead on the third day, and is now in Heaven at the Right Hand of the Father until the appointed time of His return (which is very soon)...you have to ASK HIM TO SAVE YOU, otherwise you are already destined for Hell. He is CALLED the SAVIOUR because HE SAVES your soul from the eternity of Hell...which is as literal and as real as the ground upon which you walk and the air you breathe today. All you have to do, is believe in Him, and ASK HIM to Save your soul from being lost for eternity in Hell. It is as simple as that, IF, YOU TRULY BELIEVE IN HIM. Pick up a Bible, and read the BOOK OF JOHN...the 4th book in the New Testament. I hope that you find Him...because He is waiting for you to make a desicion.
2006-07-12 00:36:22 · answer #9 · answered by LARRY M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No...To be a true Christian a person must repent of their sin and then follow Christ Jesus.
It is as simple as that...Jesus said "I am the only way to the Father" and with that, Heaven too.
I hope you give your life to Christ...It is really the only way to live.
2006-07-12 00:15:43 · answer #10 · answered by camaulds 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Christian believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
2006-07-12 00:15:46 · answer #11 · answered by CatholicMOM 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋