According to Christian beliefs can one follow Christ and practise a non-deity driven philosophy for example?

Question

“Taoism” as a way of life and still get into heaven?

My understanding is to enter heaven, you just have to believe that Jesus is the son of God, and has the philiosophy in questions does not have a god or god like deity then would it bother.

Answer 1

You can do whatever you want. Just look at how many different christian religions there are. Lutheran, Catholic, etc. etc. Start a new one if you want. If one person can do it than another person can do it.

Answer 2

No. In order to be a Christian you must believe that God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are One and the same God. There are only two roads to pick from, the wide highway which is the road to destruction, or the narrow road that follows Christ, to eternal life. You can't follow other philosophies because you won't be accepting God's Word as the absolute truth and will be led astray off the narrow road.

Answer 3

no you can't, now that being said. let's take care of some of the arguments put out above.

being others centered and loving is very pleasing to God, but it does matter that it is through Christ because in Him we have a payment for our debt, because we all have lied or stolen or lusted or dishonored our parents etc, so we need to be cleansed of those things.

As far as the defaming of the denominational state of the church, Jesus warned us about these things, one specific scripture is

"30 Then He said, “To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it? 31 It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth; 32 but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out large branches, so that the birds of the air may nest under its shade.”

He always uses the same symbols in His parables. so we see that the mustard seed changing into a tree shows us that something is off because the mustard seed actually grows into a bush, so He is warning us, that the when we focus on just a small part of the word [the mustard seed] we make God's word something it wasn't meant to be. and so if the true is the church then we see that the birds of the air come and sit in the branches. earlier in the chapter Jesus explains that the birds of the air are demons, so we see that when we don't look at scripture in light of itself we weaken ourselves and put ourselves in a placed to be tricked by decieving spirits as the apostle John says in the first epistle.

Answer 4

There is a BIG difference between Christianity and philosophy. Philosophy is a way that a person thinks based upon his/her own values.
Christianity is a RELATIONSHIP with Jesus Christ, knowing that He is TRUTH and that HE is the only way that anyone can have the chance to get to Heaven.
Philosophy will get NO ONE to Heaven.

Answer 5

Truly I believe it is how we conduct our lives towards others, no matter if you are Buddhist, Muslim, Christian, Jew or so on. How do we give to and serve others? How do we humble ourselves by remaining peaceful, kind, thoughtful and non judgmental? How do we accept others religions, live peaceably, embrace differences? You will always be in a better place when you know the secret, which is doing these things. You will attract goodness and "mercy will follow you all the rest of your days" to eternity. Your heaven will be your reward for what you do here, and it does not have to follow any one religions belief of what heaven is to that religion. Keep on doing good work, and as simply as being kind to others during your daily interactions. That will have a great effect on you and a light will surely shine inside you that others will see and uphold.

Answer 6

It explains how to follow Christ. it says to worship God. it says Christ is God. If you don't worship a God, you aren't really practising christianity, are you following Christ's teachings as a philosopher or worshipping him as a god? that would be the key. They usually just say the way to heaven is through christ, so maybe a God isn't neccessary.

Answer 7

Whatever you put before God is your God and you cant have 2 Gods, you cant say you believe in both ways of living. You cant serve 2 masters. Who do you serve? Dont we have a bible to know how we should condust ourselves? Jesus said to love the Lord God with all your heart, mind and soul. Do you love Him enough to follow Him and not others or other things more than Him?

Answer 8

Sure you can do whatever you want and get into heaven.
Jesus came to give the new covennent. One gets to heaven by the Grace of God.

Matthew 22:34-40
36Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38This is the first and great commandment.
39And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
40On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.

Answer 9

No. You need to put all your trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. Taoism is of Satan, not of God. You cannot serve both.

Answer 10

And the fantastic factor of disproving none of your checklist exists may be which you does no longer question God's existence anymore yet which you does no longer % to worship him, is what? it form of feels you have greater time on your hands than I do. Complying including your request is approximately as useful as milking a image of a cow.