2007-07-28 11:11:40 · 29 answers · asked by CHEESUS GROYST 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
So he could troll around R&S all day telling Atheists that they're heartless human beings.
Oh don't forget: he'd use the Bible to validate the Bible. That seems to be all the rage these days!
2007-07-28 11:14:05 · answer #1 · answered by ? 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋
I suppose it depends on how you look at it. If you look at it from a viewpoint of universalists, agnostics, or athiests, God would not necessarily be a Christian because he has many choices. This presupposes that God would be a follower of any religion, and that he has many valid religions to choose from. I think the tenor of most of the "pro" arguments (from those whom I am assuming are Christians) is that God is God, and because his is the deity he cannot be a follower.
I want to take issue with my brothers' line of logic for a moment and assume that God can be a believer in himself. In fact, I want to point out that the Bible shows God to be the greatest believer in himself. The Bible clearly states that the Trinity believes in, and relies on itself at all times. In other words, God has faith in himself. He has relationship with himself, just as his followers do. And, according to the Bible, as God is the author of Christianity, it reasons that he is its strongest supporter. Because God the Father is also the Son, or conversely, Jesus IS God, and Jesus is the "Great High Priest in the Order of Melchizidek," then God is his own high priest.
All that said, one must assume that the Bible is true and that Christianity is the only true source of salvation in order to believe that God would be a Christian.
If God is in fact God, then God, offered the choice between religions to follow, would follow the correct one. Now when this discussion takes places among people of different faiths, the discussion is going to become very cyclical and is more likely to turn into a heated argument, because each side has radically different presuppositions. The athiest presupposes that there is no God in the first place and that the entire argument is moot. The universalist presupposes "all roads lead to God," so the argument is irrelevant. And then those who adhere to a single line of faith each presupposes his own faith is correct, and therefore this is the most crucial argument he can be involved in right now. It gets heated.
I say God is a Christian because He authored Christianity, because He is Christ himself, and He is his own High Priest.
2007-07-28 18:41:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God would not be a Christian. Christianity comes from the following of Jesus, who is God. Since God would has no need to follow God, then he would not be a Christian.
2007-07-28 18:15:17 · answer #3 · answered by zbjw 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
God isn't a Christian. Neither would Jesus be and, technically, the apostles and the first believers won't Christians either. They were Jews and preferred to remain as such. It wasn't until Paul evangelized and converted many gentile groups to believe in Jesus and the Jews kicked believers out of the synagogues that believers became Christians as such. I would think as a "superior" atheist, you'd know these things.
2007-07-28 18:17:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Maybe he isn't! Only Christians believe their God is Christian. If you ask other denominations you will get different answers.
2007-07-28 18:19:04 · answer #5 · answered by Violet c 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
There IS a GOD and HE is not a Christian. HE is GOD, not a follower of the SON.
2007-07-28 18:15:07 · answer #6 · answered by mesquiteskeetr 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
He would not.
"Christian" refers to a human being saved by the blood of Jesus Christ. God is not human, never sinned, and therefore not needing salvation.
2007-07-28 18:16:34 · answer #7 · answered by lady_phoenix39 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
he wouldn't, Christians are called so because they believe that Christ is there lord and savior if you are Christ you are not a christian you are whatever you want to be, if there is a god then he would not be anything but himself religion was crated by man why would a god attach himself to it.
2007-07-28 18:19:24 · answer #8 · answered by Back To Enlightenment 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because Jesus Christ's followers were dubbed Christians by the early church, and Christ is God in the 2nd Person.
2007-07-28 18:15:11 · answer #9 · answered by WC 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
He would be Christian per the New Testament version of a Christian.
He would NOT be one of Pat Robertson's, Jimmy Swaggert, Fred Phelps, Dick Cheney's kind of Christians (who aren't Christians at all, only mindless sock-puppets).
He might also be Muslim, Buddhist, and Hindu all at the same time.
I have no problem believing that at all.
2007-07-28 18:16:14 · answer #10 · answered by Acorn 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋