If you could change one thing about Christian culture, what would it be?

Question

Please, no hate mongering. And remember, you can change one thing about it, but you can't change the central doctrine, just the culture. Were not allowed to delete Jesus.

If you could change one thing about the culture, what would you change?

... I knew this would pull out some fun people. Let me repeat again, you can't change the doctrine, just the culture. That means Jesus is still the son of God and a full member of the Trinity. You can only change the culture.

Answer 1

hypocrisy. That would make Jesus happy and it would help our witness.

Answer 2

I am a Christian and I'd like to answer this question. Even among the Churches their is a lot of 'we are right' and 'they are wrong' that has bothered me since I was a kid. If you are a Christian, then that means you except ALL of Gods children, period. We come from all walks of life, faith, and as I said different Churches, but the basic message is the same, if you are a true believer. I recently started going to a Church that feels the same and works with other Churches in our area at food banks, food kitchens, etc. It's a blast to be standing in line with a Priest, a Pastor and so on, and we are all there for the same purpose, to extend a helping hand to those that are in need. I would like to see ALL of my brothers and sisters, no matter what congregation they belong to, to be able to see that we can do more, together, than broken up into pockets of yet another kind of prejudice. If our City can pool this off, then I believe that it can be done all over the world and more people would benefit.

Answer 3

Absolutely nothing. Christianity is all perfect. Many complain that we like raving about our God being the only one, well it's true, God is the only true living God and Jesus is the only way to God and He is the only way to salvation because he shed his blood for us. All the other gods are just the Devil's deception, sooner or later the other religions will realise it, let's hope it's not too late when you do.

Answer 4

Still believe in Jesus but only believe him as a holy man that has been appointed to be the messenger of God.

If this culture can be changed, the rest of the teachings can easily be understood.

If there is the second culture or belief system that should be changed, it is to change the belief of original sin (that is every child is born with sin) to the belief that every child is born without sin.

Answer 5

That they would remember and act on the teachings of love and tolerance. Not judging others for something God knows happens and lets because he made people gay or lesbian. It's the love that needs to be remembered

Answer 6

As far as I know, there is no Christian culture.

As a Christian, I would prefer my fellow Christians to stick to Jesus teachings, and stop preaching against homosexuality. Jesus never taught against homosexuality , and many of his teachings contradict Judaism, establishing new rules. Gays should be treated like straights, same rules regarding sexual conduct (monagamous relationships only; no sex before marriage or union ceremony).


Be well.

Answer 7

Its exclusivity.

Progressive Revelation

A great stumbling block to many, in the way of religious unity, is the difference between the Revelations given by the different Prophets. What is commanded by one is forbidden by another; how then can both be right, how can both be proclaiming the Will of God? Surely the truth is One, and cannot change. Yes, the Absolute Truth is One and cannot change, but the Absolute Truth is infinitely beyond the present range of human understanding, and our conceptions of it must constantly change. Our earlier, imperfect ideas will be by the Grace of God replaced, as time goes on, by more and more adequate conceptions. Bahá’u’lláh says, in a Tablet to some Bahá’ís of Persia:—
O people! Words are revealed according to capacity so that the beginners may make progress. The milk must be given according to measure so that the babe of the world may enter into the Realm of Grandeur and be established in the Court of Unity.
It is milk that strengthens the babe so that it can digest more solid food later on. To say that because one Prophet is right in giving a certain teaching at a certain time, therefore another Prophet must be wrong Who gives a different teaching at a different time, is like saying that because milk is the best food 123 for the newborn babe, therefore, milk and nothing but milk should be the food of the grown man also, and to give any other diet would be wrong! ‘Abdu’l-Bahá says:—
Each divine revelation is divided into two parts. The first part is essential and belongs to the eternal world. It is the exposition of Divine truths and essential principles. It is the expression of the Love of God. This is one in all the religions, unchangeable and immutable. The second part is not eternal; it deals with practical life, transactions and business, and changes according to the evolution of man and the requirements of the time of each Prophet. For example. … During the Mosaic period the hand of a person was cut off in punishment of a small theft; there was a law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but as these laws were not expedient in the time of Christ, they were abrogated. Likewise divorce had become so universal that there remained no fixed laws of marriage, therefore His Holiness Christ forbade divorce.

According to the exigencies of the time, His Holiness Moses revealed ten laws for capital punishment. It was impossible at that time to protect the community and to preserve social security without these severe measures, for the children of Israel lived in the wilderness of Tah, where there were no established courts of justice and no penitentiaries. But this code of conduct was not needed in the time of Christ. The history of the second part of religion is unimportant, because it relates to the customs of this life only; but the foundation of the religion of God is one, and His Holiness Bahá’u’lláh has renewed that foundation.
The religion of God is the One Religion, and all the Prophets have taught it, but it is a living and a growing thing, not lifeless and unchanging. In the teaching of Moses we see the Bud; in that of Christ the Flower; in that of Bahá’u’lláh the Fruit. The flower does not destroy the bud, nor does the fruit destroy the flower. It destroys not, but fulfills. The bud scales must fall in order that the flower may bloom, and the petals must fall that 124 the fruit may grow and ripen. Were the bud scales and the petals wrong or useless, then, that they had to be discarded? Nay, both in their time were right and necessary; without them there could have been no fruit. So it is with the various prophetic teachings; their externals change from age to age, but each revelation is the fulfillment of its predecessors; they are not separate or incongruous, but different stages in the life history of the One Religion, which has in turn been revealed as seed, as bud and as flower, and now enters on the stage of fruition.

Answer 8

The fact that many Christians are just Christians on Sunday morning.

Answer 9

When my dear Mother passed away, her husband told my family (Baptists) that I was a prostitiute. This was absolutely false; I was a cocktail server in a strip club at the time. Anyway, without even asking me, or even bothering to support me, whom they'd known and "loved" for 20 odd years...they believed him and disowned me...at my Mother's funeral!! The thing I would change is for Christians to stop being so narrow minded and judgemental.

Answer 10

I would eliminate the illusion of separation, of us from God, and of us from each other! I saw some other excellent answers too!