Is it any surprise that so many people turn away from Christianity?

Question

When they cannot decide among themselves who is correct.
The Pope has said only this week that non catholic churches are not truly christian.
Some don't view catholics as christians.
There are so many different denominations of christianity.
They don't argue over which religion is the only true religion,they argue over which denomination is true.

Answer 1

It's not a surprise to me...

Christians can't seem to remain satisfied for very long with the tenants of any god-belief denomination and frequently lose faith ... I don't think the arguments between denominations are a big item actually. It's the internalized personal struggles people have with their faith, the self argumentation they engage between their emotionally made decisions and the intellectual ones. That the cause of the greatest instabilities of christianity. The denominational disputes are merely a reflection of how unstable the Jesus groupies really are.

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Answer 2

Just another example of how Christians will do anything to avoid having to face the truth that Idealism and Solipsism are utterly discredited and that the Materialists were correct all along. The truth is, the physical realm is absolutely real and conscious awareness arises naturally from a living human brain. God exists only where He always has, in the subjective experience of true believers. God cannot exist where He never has, in the physical realm. Prior to Galileo and Newton, educated men believed their subjective experience actually was reality and the physical realm was an illusion of the mind. After Galileo and Newton, educated men knew that the physical realm is absolutely real and that their subjective experience is an illusion created by their living brain. God still exists exactly where He always has -- unfortunately, humanity has since redefined the nature of reality and God has been reduced to a mental delusion, a mere hallucination. Unfortunately, while Christians are busily arguing over trivial details, vast numbers of people can only choose to become atheists because it is undeniably true that the physical is actually real and that subjective experience is merely an illusion created by our living brains.

Wake up believers! Some serious theology needs to be done to address this issue. If you continue to rely on obsolete Solipsistic dogma, very few educated modern people will be able to force themselves to believe God is anything but a self-induced hallucination in someone's subjective experience.

Answer 3

well yeah, i mean, its life and there's always going to be a lot of controversy and confusion because people want to believe what they want to believe. And they do, but than they end up not even really following Gods path but just kinda trying to get on Gods good side by kinda following their own path.

I, personally, I'm catholic. and i believe that it is the one true faith because it was founded by Jesus and the other denominations branched away from it because they wanted to try things their way. The Catholic church at the time had flawed leaders and wrong doings going on which caused some of the breaking away from The Church but still the teaching have always been the same from when Jesus and the apostles founded it even if the leaders at times were corrupt.

Answer 4

Dear darwin,

True Christianity is not a "club" or social group that one joins.. A Christian is a sinner in whom God Almighty has done a miracle! The Lord had chosen to save that person before the earth was created, then paid for all his sins, and then gave the person a new resurrected soul (regenerated or born again).

The churches all have errprs in their doctrines. Though the congregations relied upon their pastors and elders to teach the Bible, it was the responsibility of each member of the church to examine what was being taught or preached to see if it was faithful to the Bible. Most of the time it was not faithful. Despite this God used the churches to get His word-the Bible-into most of the world. God did save many people using the churches to bring His word. Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. In 1988 God left the churches and allowed satan to rule there (2 Thessalonians 2). Today, God is saving a great multitude of people but it is outside the churches. God has commanded the true christians that are still in the churches to come out (Matthew 24:15, 16; Revelation 18:4). Those who remain in the churches are under the wrath of God.

Answer 5

Aslan, you are SO confused. The Catholic church was once the ONLY Christian church. The Pope says they are still the ONLY true Christian faith. What do you expect him to say, given he's a reactionary and the head of that church? Whatever Protestant denomination you are now thinks it is the only true belief. (BTW, what do you think the "protestants" were protesting, anyway? Learn some history.) Your remarks are just as silly and ignorant as the Pope's.

Answer 6

some people get into a religion believing that they should get something out of it.
christianity is no different...but Christ died for us...what more could we want?!
the reason for so many denominations is that people decide what is more important...they make big deals over baptism or communion and those things aren't huge parts of christianity...they turn the main thing into the secondary thing and secondary things into the main thing.
if we all live according to Christ's example we'd all be labeled christians and there wouldn't be any separation...let's just try that people.

blessings.

Answer 7

Not at all, in fact, it happens as early as Genesis 3. When you get down to the nitty gritty, God kicked those two people out of Eden for learning. So xtianity is not alone. Jewish people also believe in the OT. So it is no shock that the Pope is trying to K5 the other religions.

Answer 8

I believe there are numerous reasons someone may turn away from organized religion, some of them I believe is
1. Organized religion is often in tolerant to other religions groups.
2.Organized religion is often to quickly condemn individuals that met their standard.
3. Organized religion often demands consistent attendance at meeting and funding.

Answer 9

Correct

Answer 10

No. It is surprising they haven't left it in the dust long before this. How it does cling, like gum stuck to the bottom of one's shoe, and all the scraping and scraping that logic and common sense use to remove that gum have not yet succeeded in producing a clean, gum-free shoe.

Alas...time will produce change. That's evolution for you.