Listed in random order:
A. Belief in priests or ministers higher than the church member?
B. Belief in all the Bible being the Word of God ?
C. Belief in ascended human "saints" ?
D. Belief in a "chosen nation" or "chosen race"?
E. Belief in blood atonement ?
F. Belief in a literal Hell ?
G. Belief in The Holy Spirit as the same Person as He the Spirit of Truth in John 16:7-16 ?
H. Belief in the infallibility of their church's dogmas/creeds/doctrines ?
I. Belief in the "Fall of Man" or "Original Sin" ?
J. Belief in secular humanism or a "social gospel" over Transcendent Truth?
K. Belief in the service of the Church over the service of God ?
L. Belief in one Holy Day of the week and not seven ?
M. Belief in condemning all personal God-consciousness among their members or anyone else?
N. Belief in a Gospel that does not include each living Human ?
O. Other (tell us)
State the 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc to be rejected soonest and why.
2007-09-11 10:04:58 · 8 answers · asked by ? 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Brother hbart12 has a good comment. Yes it is better to be positive.
Which of these (or any other) do you most want retained forever in Christianity ?
2007-09-12 00:29:08 · update #1
A Christian is one that knows that Jesus, who is God, died for their sins and rose again, to get them into heaven and out of eternal hell.
A, C, H, K, L all belong to the catholic cult. Catholics are not saved Christians.
B, D, E, F, G, I, N are Biblical (if by N you mean that some don't accept the Gospel and damn themselves for it)
J is a false gospel, and M doesn't make any sense
The sentence I put first (interestingly which you didn't include) is what makes someone a saved Christian. That's what matters. E is the closest for what you said.
2007-09-11 10:13:22 · answer #1 · answered by CJ 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
When Christianity was being formed there was no alternative explanation of how the world worked. There were other Mythological explanations, but no real cause and effect ones.
In the last two hundred years we have make incredible inroads on every profound question that we can ask.
We now have alternative explanations for how the Earth and the Heavens work and came to be.
The Religious (Mythological) explanations will seem dated, then silly, then irrelevant.
But it takes time.
2007-09-18 15:28:58 · answer #2 · answered by smkeller 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
since a is the current belief which gets us Christians in the most rouble and helps us to stray furthest from what the Bible actually teaches I hope it is discovered to be true and that the accountablity prescribbed in scripture begins to be practiced as prescribbed including the versues for holding clrgy accountable. Denominations would disappear soon after that.
hopefully b never gets lost.
2007-09-11 17:17:01 · answer #3 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The one,s that believe in God,The Son,The Holy Spirit and the blood atonement and Resurrection and is born again and is baptised will go with God,the rest will not.
2007-09-11 17:13:48 · answer #4 · answered by elaine 30705 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, your points A, C, D, H & L were never a part of Protestant Christianity.
And I'm not sure where you got J, since only a minority ever believed that.
I'm too lazy to address the rest.
2007-09-11 17:25:40 · answer #5 · answered by Randy G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be more fun if you have to get the right answers and unscramble them to get another right answer. A positive approach would be to pick the ones to keep. lol luv
2007-09-11 19:17:45 · answer #6 · answered by hb12 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I could live without.
ADHK and M Do it backwards if you can.
2007-09-15 05:10:28 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
all of the above
2007-09-19 15:01:06 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋