2006-08-01 13:32:58 · 19 answers · asked by Beorh House 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It isn't about "allegiance". It's about fidelity and love.
Best wishes and God bless.
2006-08-01 13:36:32 · answer #1 · answered by bobhayes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simply put it makes you not a real Christian. But your question is valid and gets right to the point of how most who call themselves Christians. Are they? By their actions the world will know. That should scare anyone who would claim faith in Jesus and not live by the faith in which they claim.
When one claims to be a Christian then they are suppose to model their lives after that of Jesus, right?? But reading many of the answers given by so called Christians, it kind of makes you wonder (or at least it does for me). See what I have learned is not to ask, What would Jesus do, but to look at what he did. By looking at what he did and learning what he teach it is completely different from what I have believed. Eye opening you might say.
But if you claim Jesus and others, you are really denying Jesus. There was no roots to your faith if something else could come along and make you jump ship. You have no foundation of your beliefs. I have more respect for Atheist because they at least stand by what they believe.
2006-08-01 14:13:08 · answer #2 · answered by Dead Man Walking 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus said in Matthew 12:30,
"He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters."
Considering "faithfulness" as a synonym for "allegiance," this verse could appear to make the assumption in the question true. But there is an inherent contradiction in that faithfulness to Jesus means trusting Him to vanquish our treacheries, even against Him. No human being can have continuously pure allegiance to anything alone, but we are credited with faithfulness by our trust that He covers our disloyalties.
Then again, it is God who is of primacy to Christians. Faith in Jesus is our Way.
2006-08-01 13:58:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suppose that would be the Protestant view, and why they were against Catholic "worshipping" of the Saints...but I think religion can be more fluid than that.
I follow many of Jesus' teachings, but I don't consider myself a Christian anymore, because I follow teachings of other religions, as well. You're not a traitor...just, maybe not a true "Christian"
2006-08-01 13:39:06 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As a Christian, why would my allegiance be to anything or anyone else but Jesus??
That doesn't mean I can't love anyone else, my family or my friends.
It doesn't mean I can't be loyal to my country, so long as my country does not ask me to be disloyal to Him.
I am a citizen of the Kingdom of God...but, it is also true, as Jesus pointed out to Pilate, that His Kingdom is not of this world.
2006-08-01 13:46:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
your allegiance shouldn't be to Jesus alone it should be to Jesus+God+Holy Spirit...
and if you pledge allegiance to something else, say your country, that doesn't make you a traitor....
the Bible states that you can have allegiance to your country, but your allegiance to your God should come first!
2006-08-01 13:38:36 · answer #6 · answered by the nothing 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're not making any sense. A true Christian's only allegiance would be to God. If they're worshipping somebody else obviously they're not Christian.
2006-08-01 13:37:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends my allegiance to Jesus does not conflict with my allegiance to anything else when it does I will of course choose Christ.
2006-08-01 13:43:42 · answer #8 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you have allegiances to parents, friends church, etc. It is just that your allegiance to God has to be more important than any human tie.
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Matthew 22:15-22 & 34-40 (NIV)
Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. "Teacher," they said, "we know you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren't swayed by men, because you pay no attention to who they are. Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"
But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, "You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? Show me the coin used for paying the tax." They brought him a denarius, and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?"
"Caesar's," they replied.
Then he said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."
When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away. ...
...Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question:
"Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied: " 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."
2006-08-01 13:43:22 · answer #9 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about Allegiance to his father, and the Holy Spirit?
How did you imagineer this crazy question?
2006-08-01 13:38:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your "allegiance" should be to Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. However, I'm not sure what you are referring to, otherwise. We all have certain "allegiances" to our families, friends, employer, etc.
2006-08-09 04:44:24 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋