this is a question for all... imagine a new branch of christianity devoid of the supernatural and nonsensical (no god, heaven and hell, virgin birth etc) instead all that is left are the teachings of jesus... love thy neighbour, turn the other cheek, let he who is without sin cast the first stone etc
how many christians or atheists would convert to this new belief system??
2007-03-14 13:25:49 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
christianity should mean followers of christ not things that happened centuries before his birth
2007-03-14 13:33:51 · update #1
I'm agnostic and have recently looked into joining a unitarian universalist church...but what you just described is closer to what I believe in.
Sign me up!
2007-03-14 13:32:04 · answer #1 · answered by Hillary M 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are people like that but anyway...
You run into several problems when you try that.
A. Jesus affirmed the law and the prophets, therefore how can you reject that which Jesus has affirmed and claim to be his follower?
B. Jesus also taught much about the things that dont make sense to you like Heaven, hell, angels, miracles, his virgin birth, his sinlessness, etc. How is it that one can accept the earthly lessons he was teaching and reject the Heavenly ones?
C. Is Jesus truly a good teacher if he is a liar? He claimed to not only be the son of the creator but God himself! If he was wrong, then he is a liar and therefore cannot be any great figure to listen to.
D. Jesus told us many times that our salvation rests on the many heavenly promises that you find so incredible. Therefore if you reject the most important part of his message, are you really following him?
Jesus said that God the Father was looking for people of faith that would not only worship him in truth, but in spirit. Unless you start believing in God, it is impossible to serve Jesus or follow God for that matter.
2007-03-14 13:46:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nonsensical? No God? No Jesus? You can't take the parts of the Word of God that ya like, and leave out the rest. Have you not heard that you are not to take away from , or add to, the Word of God? Well now you have, and it's written if youd like to check. It's at the very end of your Bible and a couple of times throughout. Look, you either believe or you dont. You can sugarcoat it all you want, but it doesn' t change it. God will not bless taking away from His Truth. It is great to promote the teachings of Jesus, but if you dont believe He was born the way it is written, then you dont believe in Him. You either believe or you don't and there is no in between. Sorry. I dont make the rules, God does.
2007-03-14 13:36:29 · answer #3 · answered by Erin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not me as Jesus was more than a great teacher. He was the son of God and all those nosensical things are the very thing he came to teach us about and save us from.
Your new Christianity would have to be called something else as it is not Christ like. You would render Jesus' death a mere injustice instead of a chance at a new begining.
2007-03-14 13:33:17 · answer #4 · answered by crimthann69 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't convert to that. It actually is an idea of eclectic paganism because many pagans follow an idea like those of the teachings of Christ, but they do not believe in the idea of the the Christian God or an afterlife. In my mind, the main idea of Christianity is to have a savior. If you lose the diety, then you lose the crux of the religion.
2007-03-14 13:34:49 · answer #5 · answered by One Odd Duck 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Impossible! Jesus Christ, from where Christianity comes, is the son of God, fully human and fully divine. You can't take God out of the equation and still have Christianity. It would have to be called something else.
2007-03-14 13:33:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would make no sense. Jesus based His teachings on a belief in God. Without God, the words become meaningless.
God loves you all SO much!!!!
2007-03-14 13:33:30 · answer #7 · answered by ineptmarquado 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christianity is nothing without Christ. He is alive. It's a relationship with Jesus Christ.
Zhukov -Yeah, we see how that worked out for Charles Manson.
2007-03-14 13:34:57 · answer #8 · answered by celebduath 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And God said their good works are as filthy rags to me....works void of faith in the supernatural glory and resurrecting power of Jesus is as dirty rags to God....doubt that many bible literate Christians would fall for it.
2007-03-14 13:37:05 · answer #9 · answered by TNT 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's so much of the supernatural in it. If Jesus didn't rise from the dead, you might as well become a buddhist, atheist or muslim.
2007-03-14 13:59:47 · answer #10 · answered by Cader and Glyder scrambler 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋