On what are these views formulated on by unbelievers? Should Christians be conformed to this world?
2006-12-01 15:32:40 · 18 answers · asked by Lovin' Mary's Lamb 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So many great answers it's difficult to choose! Great food for thought from inside and outide the conservative Christian realm!
2006-12-02 05:01:34 · update #1
Chaos within: You have now.
2006-12-02 06:07:42 · update #2
Lots of great answers! Thanks!
2006-12-02 06:20:08 · update #3
People who are relativist with their own lives, but absolutists when it comes with Christians. It's the price you pay for a high standard!
2006-12-01 15:36:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A christian is one who produces more fruit as they get older. There should be growth. Fruits are listed in scripture. If after a period of say 3 yeasrs the person has not developed to an observable exptent then one can be pretty sure they are not a Christian. I spose there are some circumstances which might impede the process but if a person can not be observed to grow under anything close to normal circumstances then they never actually became a friend of Jesus or they decided not to be somewhere along the line. It is not any specific measurable point of development that makes one a "good" christian it is the direction they are going which is towards God. Also the direction therefor is in the oppositr direcion to being conformed to this world.
2006-12-01 23:43:39 · answer #2 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although I'm a deist, Romans 12 from the Bible is something I read a while back that has stuck with me. The first part saying not to conform to the world but to be transformed with the renewal of one's mind. That whole chapter sums up how a Christian should live. -ian is a combining form meaning "like" or "of". So, Christ, being the root word of Christian means you should follow the examples or parables he spoke in. He also said the greatest of all commandments is this-To love God with all of you heart and your mind and your understanding. And the second is as important as the first-Love your neighbor as you would love yourself. Meaning put the needs of others before you.
2006-12-01 23:43:27
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Unbelievers think Christians should practice what they preach or at least practice what they believe and teach. That is a bad assumption. Just read the bible to find lots of believers that were not what some would call "good". King David for example committed adultery and murder. As St. Paul said, the good I wish to do, I do not and the bad that I do not want to do I do. The first thing people should understand is that we are ALL sinners and Christians are just more aware of it. Boy.
2006-12-01 23:39:47 · answer #4 · answered by Boy 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Christians should live up to the title ... they should be like Christ ... that is, they should love others, serve others, show humility, forgive, show mercy, be compassionate and understanding, think before they speak, love God with everything that is within them ... they should NOT have a "holier-than-thou" attitude, ignore needs around them, and condemn people to hell (that's not our place) ...
they should definitely not conform to this world ... but they should definitley not separate themselves either ... don't conform to how the world believes because the world in a whole does not believe in God ...
Christians should strive to be like Christ, and when they are truly passionate about this, they will be living lives that are pleasing to God :)
2006-12-01 23:45:27 · answer #5 · answered by called*to*love 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They should be living in the way they tell others to live. If they spout "live in the world but not a part of it" then that is EXACTLY how they should be living. Just a tad hypocritical to tell us Non-Christians to live in a way other than what the Christian speaking is. Especially if they quote Old Testament laws yet state "I'm no longer under those laws". I'd have to say "You will be judged as you have judged others... with the same measure you have given."
2006-12-01 23:43:50 · answer #6 · answered by Kithy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are no part of the world, just as Jesus was no part of the world. It seems to me the unbelievers would like us all to have supernatural powers and walk on water to prove God's existence. If we were to conform to this world, we wouldn't necessarily be Christian then.
2006-12-01 23:36:33 · answer #7 · answered by CHRISTINA 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well at the very mimum yu need to subscribe to the 10 commandments and what Jesus said and showed us about living.
No divorce except for adultery
No fornication.
Love your neighbor, love your enemy the most, carry the pack for 10 miles when asked to carry it 5 miles. Turn the other cheek when struck, don't be a reactiionary.
Put God above your Mother, Father, Son and Daughter
Don't align yourself with people who don't teach the value of Jesus and God.
2006-12-01 23:48:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a Christian is conformed to this world they are not a true Christian.
Jesus Christ set the example of how we are to live. A Christian should be striving to live by His example.
2006-12-01 23:43:19 · answer #9 · answered by JohnC 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
loving the world is a sin
John 3:19
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
John 12:25
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
John 15:19
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
John 17:23
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
2 Timothy 4:10
For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.
1 John 2:15
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1 John 3:1
Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.
2006-12-01 23:37:40 · answer #10 · answered by Robert K 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋