Is it not Christian to be religious and open-minded?

Question

I believe in Christ and I believe it's good to be moral and all but I also believe that being judgemental makes you such a bad person.
I have some friends that are into promiscuous activity, drugs, drinking, partying and all kinds of bad stuff but I don't see them as bad people. I just see them a little lost but liberated. Why can't other people just accept that?

Answer 1

I agree. We all know someone who's messing up their lives. And we're no better -I used to be into all that too but just cause I stopped doesn't mean I'm good now! Just that I've been forgiven for my "sins". But as Christians, we are called to be instruments to lead them down a better road. Ideally to Christ. Ultimately, doesn't it matter only where they spend eternity?

Answer 2

OF course not christians arent allowed to think with an open mind it questions faith because faith makes absolutely no sense at all. Hell yea man i do mad drugs And its got its ups and downs and i have sex. The thing about sex is though it can ruin a good relationship thats why i am not into getting laid by women that i truely love.

Answer 3

I don't know. I feel the same way. Although I have been mad and judged other people before, I realize that some of it is because I'm an imperfect human.

But in general, my heart just hurts when people HATE others because they don't conform to certain actions. It is so sad. Nothing can be solved with separation, hate and anger. Everything can be solved with love.

Answer 4

Well, God does not want us to be religious. Religion is the concept that if I legalistically keep the rules, that God will be pleased. That's works-based salvation, and is not faith. Faith is the means to please God.

Romans 9:31-32 - "Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law. Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works."

Secondly, if by "open-minded" you mean "accepting of things that God's word has established as wrong" then yes, it is wrong to be "open-minded." Christian closed-mindedness is not based on what we think, but on what God has clearly proclaimed.

Perhaps the greater rule is to love. God tells us, indeed commands us, to love others. This is what God did in hating man's sin, but loving man. We should do the same. It doesn't mean that we weren't "bad people."

Romans 3:10-12 -
“None is righteous, no, not one;
no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.”

Judge evil to be evil. Love everyone as loving.

Answer 5

Jesus & Paul were judgemental does that make them bad?

Brother, sin is sin would you not try and stop a child from running into the street because they were "a little lost but liberated"

You can not take Jesus without taking HIS words also. You reject HIS words you reject HIM also.

Open minded does not mean being blind!

Answer 6

I would like to point out that Jesus did not allow people to continue using the temple for their own selfish gains. If you recall He went into the temple and started driving people out and throwing around tables.
It's OK to accept your friends as Jesus would have done. However, accepting and partaking in that type of behavior would be wrong. Tolerance is one thing, but don't allow them to walk over your beliefs.

Answer 7

That's fine. They may be great people and they are probably the type of people that Jesus would hang out with. They're just lost. All Christians should have more friends like that.

Answer 8

Fear and closed-mindedness. It's good to see you are tolerant of others - I believe that was the true teaching of Christ. :)

There need to be many more Christians like you!

Answer 9

You should never sin to be open minded.

http://www.mechanicsburgnewchurch.org

Answer 10

Perhaps you aren't as orthodox a Christian as you thought?

Ezek. 33: 3-9
3 If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and awarn the people;
4 Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his ablood shall be upon his bown head.
5 He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul.
6 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not awarned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I brequire at the watchman’s hand.
7 So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a awatchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
8 When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
9 Nevertheless, if thou awarn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his biniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

Ezek. 3: 17-21
17 Son of man, I have made thee a awatchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them bwarning from me.
18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely adie; and thou givest him not bwarning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall cdie in his diniquity; but his blood will I erequire at thine hand.
19 Yet if thou awarn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.
20 Again, When a arighteous man doth bturn from his crighteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a dstumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is awarned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.