I always hear about Isalm "the religion" and whenever I debate about Christianity, I hear that the Bible never calls Christianity "a religion".
Could it be that God doesn't want religion from us, but rather a relationship? Or is more important to adhere to a "religion"?
2006-12-07 20:11:23 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Bible does never say about a religion called Christianity. The Bible calls a true Christian as a part of the Church.
Church constitutes those who accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior and Lord.
2006-12-07 22:52:19 · answer #1 · answered by Jac Tms 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that God wants the relationship and the bible lays out what the highest form of that relationship is. It becomes a religion at the point where it requires faith for participation in that relationship. There is a difference between being in a religion and being "religious". Good Luck!
2006-12-07 20:14:51 · answer #2 · answered by joey_ploof 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any commandments that come from God order us to pray, thus we build a relationship with God where you love Him most and become fully commited to the fact that He is the One God. So it doesn't matter if you're christian or muslim or jew, what matters is that you pray to God alone and follow what He ordered us, and in return God grants you another life that doesn't end in heaven.
What's important is your actions in this life, where in all religions God orders people, for example, to not have sex before marriage, or, for another example, kill one you don't have the right to kill. Just go over different religions and the one you see perfect follow it. But keep in mind, don't follow a religion of how people follow it or how it is through media or people's tounges, follow it through its holy book with complete understandment. I did so, and I found myself the perfect religion.
Look in the quran (Islam), and you can find the purity in it. The greatest book ever.
2006-12-07 20:19:51 · answer #3 · answered by Shark_Tooth_90 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hi Pagan Lotus! you have already got such super solutions, relatively from brother Ibrahim, masha'allah. i won't manage to think of of a lot else to characteristic different than I even have examine the two books that brother Ibrahim mentions and that they are very stable! -relatively for westerners to envision as they have been written with the aid of ppl that comprehend the west (one a non-Muslim, the different a Muslim) as adversarial to a pair books that have been written with the aid of people who on no account set foot interior the west and can be troublesome for a westerner to comprehend in the previous each thing (no offense). So those 2 books are a stable place to commence. (needless to say the Quran too). I additionally choose so say that Islam (peace with the aid of submission to God) isn't out to triumph over ppl. the only way Islam "conquers" all people is thru their hearts while they study to enable go of their ego and placed up themselves to God and discover inner (and at last outer) peace. Peace starts from interior of. If all people had inner peace, outer peace interior the worldwide could come.
2016-10-05 01:08:31 · answer #4 · answered by grumney 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I debate those who claim the bible verse " the only way to the father is through me" as a justification for worshipping jesus. After all, we weren't there. We don't know how he meant it. Maybe he meant it like " you're not getting to the father if I have anything to do with it", the way somebody today would say "if you want to smack that old lady with her walker and steal her money you're going to have to go through me first".
2006-12-07 20:46:20 · answer #5 · answered by enslavementality 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Salaam
Also Jesus never mentioned that he wanted to start a new religion. He encourage his followers to Follow the Law.
When God ask you to obey and worship him then that is a religion.A religion of submission to God.To offer yourselve to him and to become his faithfull servant.
2006-12-07 23:43:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Amu Abdallaah and others of all religions fill up these responses with ream after ream of verbose nonsense from holy books, and expect these self-referencing "proofs" to hold up, and, I suspect, convert non-believers. They don't, and besides being tedious, repetitive and dull as ditchwater, their offerings are just confirmation that religion encourages ambiguous, circular, unadventurous and dangerously wacky thinking. We humans owe it to ourselves not to waste our precious time with this nonsense.
2006-12-07 23:57:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
have faith in God that u believe in , which God u believe in i don't know. but if u believe in islam u would get what u want that is piece and people will start to like u and trust u becuz of ur honesty , and when u believe in islam u will get heaven at the end which will be a gift from God for believing in him and praying for him .
2006-12-07 20:26:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Men enjoy the power religion provides them to rule over others. You don't need a religion to have a personal relationship with your "God" if thats what you believe.
2006-12-07 20:13:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Religion is the creation of man, not God. It is a business in disguise, a highly competitive business.
2006-12-07 20:18:04 · answer #10 · answered by The professor 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋