does anyone even know christ?

Question

because most people are in love with their own denomonations.

denomonation or without denomonation, every individual group have no understanding in the word and do what the world does. wear make up, pierce their bodies, women wearing pants when the word says that women should not wear clothing that is similar to mans. then, they call them selves christian. the denomonated christians are blinded and they only care about there creeds and TBN networks. what sin, what a shame. thats going round the world but its kiling the souls in their denomonation. their denomonation is like the pharisees. they dont teach no word, they teach make believe, unbelief.

Answer 1

An interesting question, and since this is the history category, I'll avoid any religious ranting.

It appears that what we know of Christ is based on second and third-hand knowledge written decades after he had lived on earth. The earliest writings of the Christian scriptures were several of the epistles of Paul of Tarsus, who admitted that he did not meet Christ until after the Resurrection, and even then it was in something of a non-corporeal state.

The Gospels came about later, with Mark's likely being the first, written perhaps just before the Great Revolt of 70 CE. Mark's gospel was probably a compilation of oral stories from the early church. Later, the Gospels of Matthew and Luke took Mark's gospel and added sayings of Christ from what scholars call the Q source. John's gospel is entirely different and comes near the end of the 1st century CE.

To answer the question, what we know of Christ historically is generally not directly given. However, that does not stop believers from knowing him in their own way.

Answer 2

Today, you know him if you ask him to come in your heart. Every time you get alone and read the quotes of Jesus from the 4 gospels, you're getting to know him personally more and more. Historically, the Bible and its four gospels are the only documented writings of anyone who knew him personally (except for the gospel of St. Thomas which was ejected at some point because some thought it was too chovanist, and the gospel of Judas which has recently come in the light).

Answer 3

Who?

Answer 4

I have no denomination. Jesus lives in my heart. That's where I know him from.

Answer 5

I am a Christian, and have been for over a decade now. I am an avid student of prophecy, and understand Biblical Hebrew and Greek. Let me explain my point of view.

"All things are legal to me, but not all things are good for me or glorify God" - condensed version of 1 Cor 6:12 and 10:23

"Whatever you do, do it to glorify God" - condensed 1 Cor 10:31.

If a man wears a T-shirt, am I, as a woman, forbidden to do so as well? What if that man wears a blouse-like shirt, am I forbidden to wear a blouse as well? No, but I am to retain my womanly features in doing so. Consider the possibility of a Christian who lives in a very hot climate, where it is custom for both man and woman to wear dress-like or robe-like apparel. Should the woman wear something different because the man wears similiar clothing? No, but in wearing what she does, she is to distinguish herself from the man.

To say, "A woman is forbidden to wear pants, because man wears pants" is legalistic. What do you say about the very clothing Jesus wore, a robe. Robes are very similiar in appearance to a dress. Shall I not wear a dress because Jesus wore what could be mistaken for a dress, or modern Arabs wear robes? Shall I not wear a skirt, because my Celtic male ancestors wore kilts? Shall I not wear pants because my husband wears pants? What shall I wear, to avoid Pharisiacal legalism?

No, the line is drawn at when a woman's appearance is mistaken for a man's appearance, and vice versa.

As to piercings, in Ezekiel 16, God speaks, comparing Jerusalem to a bride, and giving her a nose ring, a crown, and earrings. If God considers those things as worthy to give a bride, things to make her beautiful, what harm is there in modern times to do so? The only times when such things were stripped (figuratively or literally) from people in the Bible, is when the people were being arrogant, self-righteous, and idol-worshipping. I'm not worshipping a golden calf, and I do my best to give to God what is God's, and try to keep myself humble. What right have you to complain 'bout what I wear that God has called a thing of beauty?

As to tattoos, we are not forbidden from it (as are piercings), as long as they aren't in worshipping the dead. And even then, there is no New Testament prohibition forbidding even that.

What are we forbidden from? Failing to love God with all our heart, minds, and strength, failing to give Jesus Christ due glory as Son of God and God on earth, failing to love our neighbors as we love ourselves, and the eating of blood.

All other things, we are free to do, if it is to glorify God.

Now, can you, as a Christian, go into a biker bar, or in Compton, CA, dressed in uber-rich, clean, white, pure clothes, plain as Jane, with such a holier-than-thou attitude and effectively witness to said bikers or gangsters? No. You run the risk of putting them off, since you are not as they are, and they will not listen to someone who can't understand them. "I am all things to all people, in effort that I might save some" - condensed 1 Cor 9:22

Yet, I with my piercings and tattoos, understand that not all people know about God. I can speak to those bikers and they'll know I have a commonality with them: I am like them, yet, I do not act as they do. I can speak to the gangsters as they see my piercings, and share something with them that is natural, and can lead into speaking about the supernatural. And those are whom Christ came for, not the holier-than-thou, rich, the already righteous, the healthy, those without disorders, and so on. But rather, the depths of depravity, the low, the needy and helpless, and the sin loving.

Paul became a Nazirite to show the Jews, "Look, I do what you do, I respect the laws and customs as you do, yet, through my faith in Christ, I am not like you". He was not of the world, but respected the customs of those he tried to reach. If I were to preach to a Muslim Arab, I would wear a veil. If I were to preach to "middle America", I would cover up my tattoo (for sake of their conscience) remove my piercings, wear a nice blouse and a decent pair of pants or a dress, and wear my purse. If I were to preach to a gamer, I would play an MMORPG. And if I were to preach to many of today's subcultures, I would wear every earring and every ear-chain I had, my old dog-tag-esque necklace, as well as my wallet chain, and boots, and various combinations thereof.

"I am all things to all people, so that I might save some". If you don't know who you're talking to, you'll never reach them.

If salvation was about not doing the things the world does, then I pray to God wholeheartedly that you don't drive a car, have a job, have your kids go to public school, eat anything other than bread, fish, water, and wine, use the internet, use a computer, live in a wooden, brick, or stone house, regularly give 100% of everything you own to your local church, and so on ad nauseaum, lest you give offense to God, Jesus, yourself, or someone else.

But it's not. Salvation comes from loving God above all else, and loving your neighbor as much as yourself. It's about giving your neighbor enough money to make it through the month when hard times hits. It's about taking in the homeless guy who knocked on your door, and giving him a good meal. It's about teaching the guy who kidnapped and threatening to kill you about Jesus by exhibiting the kindness Jesus showed His captors. It's about raising your kids right. And it's about preaching about Jesus to those who need it, not preaching to the choir.

It's not about picking and choosing what to wear and what not to, or what to eat and what not to. Otherwise, you better invest in barley, oats, sackcloth, and ashes, instead of Frosted Flakes, Honey Nut Clusters, JC Penney clothes, and Laz-i-Boy furniture.

And start with yourself, instead of everyone else. Pull the rafter of legalism and hypocracy from your own eye, before you attempt to pull the sliver of enjoying the rights God gave me to do with my body from my eye.

And for your knowledge, my ear is helix pierced to remind me of Exodus 21:6, that I am a servant of God forever, my tongue is pierced to remind me of Psalm 39:1, in that I do not sin with my tongue, for it has a 'literal' bridle upon it, so I speak when it is appropriate, and remain silent when it is not, and my tattoo is that of my husband's name written on a scroll and placed upon a heart, as a sign to all of my lifelong love for him, through thick and thin, he will be there for me, and I for him, as long as we both shall live, as permanent as that tattoo is.

I am in the world, not of it. I eat Capt'n Crunch as they do, yet I do not steal the box of Capt'n Crunch as they do. I wear earrings as they do, but for the glory of God, not the glory of self.

Good for you, that you choose not to have piercings, tattoos, or wear makeup, but do not judge your brethren and sisters for doing so. There is no sin against living the lives we lead, just as there is no sin in living the life you do. Sin comes in when you legalistally judge. There are far worse things out there than piercings, tattoos, and makeup. Concern yourself with saving backslidden Christians from alcoholism, addictions, spousal abuse, hatred, and other things of a far worse nature. Or better yet, go and save those who have not heard the word of God.

Righteousness does not come from what you wear, but what's in your heart as you do so. Now go and prove such righteousness.

Answer 6

jesus???!!!!