I am a unitarian and i believe that a person can still be religious without being biblical...I believe in some views of the bible but i done take them so literally.....more of a philosophy of life I say...
Now lets try to be mature about our opinions,,,,we can agree to disagree u know.......Thanks
2006-09-29 06:31:07 · 23 answers · asked by coopchic 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
yes i speak of the christian bible...Durh what other bible did u think i was talking about??????????????????????????????????????????????????????
2006-09-29 06:40:34 · update #1
Sure you can. As many have already pointed out most of the worlds religions are not Christian so therefore do not use the bible. I am pagan myself, but a former Christian minister. I chose Wicca.
I think more than 90 per cent of Christians are not biblical. for example Mark 16:16 freely says that he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved and he that believeth not shall be damned. there are many, many more scriptures that demand a Christian to be baptized in order to be savede, but over 90 per cent of Christians deny this, so therefore they are unbiblical but religious.
Even those who claim they are not religious but have a deep personal relationship with Jesus are unbiblical. No where in the bible will you find a commandment or phrase like having a personal relationship with God or Jesus.
Christians put their whole Christian life based on the sinners prayer, and nowhere in the bible can you find the sinners prayer and it is not even hinted at. However you will find the term born again and the examples in the bible of being born again involve baptism as the process of being born again, but over 90 per cent of Christians deny this.
I say if it is okya to pick and choose, then it is oky to pick and choose, but if anyone claims the bible only, but breaks even one rule of the bible is guilty of breaking it all.
2006-09-29 07:03:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You can be religious about anything. You can religiously do anything. YOu can religiously play the piano, or you can religiously do anything- where it is more important to you than any thing else. I have seen a shooters bible for hunters, therefore some hunters are religious about hunting. The Holy Bible tells us the truth about God. There are also clubs that meet regiously sometimes on Sunday, but they are void of the knowledge of God.Some of these clubs meet in the name of religion to get tax cuts. What is the use to be religious and to go to a church if you are not studying the Bible and learning the truth about the maker . Have you been unitarian all your life, don't know any different? if so, maybe you should try reading the Bible for yourself and see what it says. YOu could start reading in he book of John, since that seems to be the easiest to understand. All religions are different , but there is only one God. Try to find him. He is the way , the truth , and the Life.anything else is just a waste of time.
2006-09-29 06:45:53 · answer #2 · answered by KaeMae 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Exactly you are being religious and not biblical. BUT are you saved from eternal separation from God, that is the real question I think. To be biblical would be to follow the way of salvation that is described in the bible.
As a matter of fact there are many verses in the bible that point out that there are many religious people in the word who try to be religious but "miss the boat" in regard to Jesus who paid for our sins with His blood on the cross.
I think (this is my personal opinion) that you are asking if you can be considered a good person for being religious and going to church without accepting and following Jesus Christ as Savior. Christianity isn't a philosophy or even a religion it is a relationship.
Consider the difference between a religion and a relationship.
True Christianity is a relationship with Jesus Christ. Joining a church and going through the "motions" of a church is religion.
Years ago when someone would ask me about religion I would have answered with the name of the church I attended. Now that I have been studying the bible for over a decade I can say without hesitation that I am a Christian regardless of the name of any church that I might be attending.
My suggestion is to read and study the bible for yourself. Let scripture interpret scripture.
James 1:26-27
If anyone among you thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this ones religion is useless. Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this:
to visit orphans and widows in their trouble and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.
2006-09-29 07:10:03 · answer #3 · answered by redeemed 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Most religious people don't take the whole Bible literally. You need to ask yourself why the text you are reading was put there, what does it explain & what reference points they would have to base their understanding on. So for example the creation story is there to answer the question "Why?" not the question "How?" Better still, ask a Jew how he might interpret some of the things in the Bible. It's a real eye-opener!
2006-09-29 06:46:57 · answer #4 · answered by dzerjb 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
countless regress is a useless end argument that does neither area credit. It no extra disproves the bible than it disproves a mundane version of the large bang (I say secular version, because it changed into first proposed through a Catholic Priest, father Georges Lemaitre). both a sequence of causality will be eternal and round, or there must be a aspect of starting place. And we do not have any way, at latest, to examine the info. So non-believers declaring, "then who created God?" as against, believers crying, "nicely, who created the without delay increasing singularity?" are like youthful toddlers on a playground declaring "you're rubber, i'm glue, inspite of you assert, bounces off me and sticks to you." "earlier" the quick boost of the the bump between 2 quantum mbranes which then without delay increasing forming macro observable phenomenon is likely a ineffective question, for the reason that time, and performance of area, both would were created on an identical on the spot. What changed into earlier time? How can that make experience. in case you want to study cosmology and quantum mechanics, some very, very complicated equations would, would, get close to to an answer, yet I doubt it. We lay persons only ought to shrug our shoulders and anticipate persons, opponents, who choose the spotlight, who favor to instruct one yet another incorrect, arise with equations that paintings, which could not be disputed through opponents.
2016-11-25 02:37:03 · answer #5 · answered by bruckner 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well u can want to do right and have a lot of love to give and share, however u cant be religious with out the bible it goes hand in hand. Because if u love god and want to live for him u will read his word and want to get closer to im. So that u will do his will not yours.Sounds like u have a great heart I will pray for u and hope that u will find a good church to start going to. Do it as a challenge and see how much better u feel . God is Wonderful
2006-09-29 06:37:08 · answer #6 · answered by becky 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Absolutely, seeking after salvation comes in all shapes and forms. And anyway the Bible is a guide not an absolute.
And simply, do onto others as you would have them do onto you.
I have been a Christian most of my life. I haven't been "born-again", I do not go to church and never have, and I do not believe that God cares much about that. Anyway most of the Bible is simply information. Whose father was who and whose mother was who is not something that guides your life. And it has little effect one way or the other.
And I must say that it bothers me somewhat when some Christians ask me if I know I am going to heaven. And then state that they know they are. As if I do not know something that they do. Usually this comes from so-called "born-again" Christians.
And their belief that one must be born again in this life in order to accept Jesus is simply not right. It is taken out of context from the Bible. Anyway the Bible need not be applied literally to all of your life, if you live a good life and be a good person, and remember only one thing, you will be judged by how you treat the least of us. And do onto others as you would have them do onto you.
2006-09-29 07:05:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Sure you can, but then in the end, will it save you? Many religions have lots of good things about them. But in the end, a person is without hope.
Why do you think there are so many religions? To keep you away from the Truth. Jesus didn't want people to be religious. He wanted them to live full lives in relationship to Him.
Jumping through religious hoops is a waste of time and effort. And again, in the end, will not save you.
2006-09-29 06:38:25 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes. I think you can. Can I? No I believe in the literalnis of the Bible. That works for me. If you fell that you get what you need out of the simple phylosyphies contained in the bible, the koran, or what ever other holy writ you choose and they help you to live a happy productive life than God bless you and may you ever find happiness.
2006-09-29 06:35:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Or reverse that. I am Biblical but not religious. I believe in the Bible and in God but the man made rules made in the " religious" groups and churches drive me nuts.
So for your question I say yes, why not?
2006-09-29 06:34:16 · answer #10 · answered by Zoey 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋