Do most christians/churches have a holyer then thou complex?

Question

Do most churches develop a complex where they basicaly say what they teach is right and other churches are wrong? since there are literally hundreds of biblical interpretations do christians believe it's right for a specific sect to mud-sling another sect for their beliefs?

i.e: protestants, evangelicals Vs Catholics
Everyone Vs mormens and JW

whatever happend to loving jesus/god, repenting for your sins and reading the bible to get into heaven? do you all really have to fight over who gets in and who doesn't or whose right and whose wrong.

This doesn't apply to all christians of course.

Answer 1

You have a church that teaches the bible chapter by chapter and you have a church who is seeker friendly, doing what it takes to bring people in. They often focus on one or two things but do not teach God's word. If the first church warns a believer of such a church it is their obligation to do so. I have never heard a pastor call out the name of such a church, just talked in general. As Christians we are to correct one another as the bible requests, doing so in love and kindness.

Answer 2

The word Christian is so generic and gets thrown around like crazy. If I asked you if most Republicans were snobs or such, could you actually answer for that large of a group? And the biggest thing, if a person is a real Christian, one who walks in the way Jesus does, and stops and before they yell at someone and says to themselves "WWJD?",then they are just the same as everyone else except they are forgiven and like in any large group, you can't label the entire group. But I do know what you are talking about because I think a lot of people go to church and say they are Christians so it makes them look good but they don't act like it and as they say, the proof is in the pudding.

Answer 3

Jesus Christ did not found the Christian congregation to propound negativisms against any specific religion, but to preach the "good news" of the Kingdom. The bible's judgment message is not against just one particular religion, and it would be a mistake to pretend otherwise.

(Matthew 24:14) And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations

(Luke 9:6) They went through the territory from village to village, declaring the good news

(Acts 5:42) Every day in the temple and from house to house they continued without letup teaching and declaring the good news about the Christ, Jesus.


In fact, at Matthew chapter 13, Jesus explained that all of self-described "Christianity" (true and false) would perform a service over the centuries in matters regarding bible translation, continuing respect for the bible, and in laying the groundwork for the ingathering prophesied to occur in "the conclusion of the system of things".

(Matthew 13:47-49) The kingdom of the heavens is like a dragnet let down into the sea and gathering up fish of every kind. 48 When it got full they hauled it up onto the beach and, sitting down, they collected the fine ones into vessels, but the unsuitable they threw away. 49 That is how it will be in the conclusion of the system of things: the angels will go out and separate the wicked from among the righteous


Note that it is not humans but angels who primarily perform the separating work. Of course, only Jesus and Jehovah make the final judgment regarding each individual.

(John 12:48-49) The word that I [Jesus] have spoken is what will judge [a person] in the last day; 49 because I have not spoken out of my own impulse, but the Father himself who sent me has given me a commandment

(John 8:16) if I do judge, my judgment is truthful, because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me

(Matthew 12:36) They will render an account concerning it on Judgment Day

(John 5:22,27-30) [The Father] has committed all the judging to the Son... 27 And he has given him authority to do judging, because Son of man he is. 28 Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice 29 and come out... I judge; and the judgment that I render is righteous, because I seek, not my own will, but the will of him that sent me.

(Acts 17:30-31) God has overlooked the times of such ignorance, yet now he is telling mankind that they should all everywhere repent. 31 Because he has set a day in which he purposes to judge the inhabited earth in righteousness by a man [Jesus] whom he has appointed

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http://watchtower.org/e/20041201/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20020715/article_02.htm

Answer 4

Different religions are different enough that they can't all be right, so every religion has to think that its beliefs are right and everyone else's beliefs are wrong. There is some difference between different faiths as to the amount of tolerance they believe that their God has for adherents of other faiths, but for many of them, if you're not a member, then there is no place in heaven for you.

Answer 5

All denominations feel they're the only ones going to Heaven and the only "right" religion. I am a Roman Catholic but know that not all Roman Catholics are going to Heaven. God judges the heart not the person's denomination.

Answer 6

No, I would not apply that description to "most" Christians.
Unfortunately, too many people think that "most" Christians are the ones they see running around the Bible Belt.

Answer 7

Some do... and then try to act like they don't. They say they are ' the ones who will be saved in the end' and the rest or you are pretty much screwed. Good luck.

Answer 8

Unfortunately, that how evangelists tell their followers, because they are ignorants and not understanding the "Good Book".
Reading it, is one thing, understanding it, is anotther

Answer 9

I think the Jehovah's Witnesses do.

Answer 10

I am afraid that many of them do. I don't know if it's most, but it's sure a lot of them.