Okay, I'm curious, just what type of Christian are you?

Question

Pentacostal, Presbyterian, Catholic, Lutheran, 7th Day Adventist, Jehovah Witness, Baptist, Mormon, Amish, or some other type?

Please list your denomination and your views on the other groups of Christians (i.e. why you are not one of them).

Just so you're all aware, I'm not the one giving the thumbs down. I'm pretty sure that's one of the fundies that doesn't like your answers but is afraid to put in their own.

Guppie, I'm a confirmed atheist and former christian. I reserve the right to label fundies as fundies whenever they degrade other religious beliefs simply because they are not fundamentally the same as their own. From your non-answer, I'd say I wouldn't be too far off base by saying that you were one of the fundies giving thumbs down to the other christians who answered by saying they were something other than your brand of religion. You and the guy above you that is. You both seem so, well, intollerant.

Answer 1

I'm a rather poor example of a Roman Catholic, if you want me seen in true light. I do the minimum "church" work, as I do not share the views of many. I tend to think GOD is beyond human understanding, so listening to humans as they put limits as to how to find heaven is starting to upset me. GOD tests everyone, (even Jesus says so), so being pompous is just asking for a fall.
I usually think all people are RC - until they tell me their faith/path as I can't tell what people 'are' (?) - is that weird? So many are lucky to see faiths by their words or cloths.

Answer 2

I am Baptist. My dad was raised Baptist, mom raised Assembly (derived from Pentacostal).
Please note I am not downing the way people worship

Pentacostal: holy rollers, they sing loud and upbeat music, a little more liberal than Baptist, more modern music

Presbyterian: They are more conservative, they worship kinda like the Catholics with organ music

Catholic: Not sure, I know they pray to Marry and other saints, I don't know why, They belive in purgatory and the more you do for the church the better chance of getting into heaven, they dont believe you can know where you go when you die

Luthern: kinda like the Baptist, but they don't believe that you accept Jesus into your heart, they just confirm he is already there

Mormon and 7th day adventist: All I think of there is polyigomy, I dont' know how they believe

Jehovah witness: don't believe in Jesus, don't clelbrate hollidays

Amish: nothing modern have not ever met any so don't know how they believe

I do know the first 3 we believe you can know where you are going when you die, I will be in heaven thank you! have a nice day♥

Answer 3

I am a Unitarian Universalist (and I know that others out there would consider these to be non-Christian, so don't bother pointing it out or berating me for it). I don't believe in the trinity as three aspects of the same being--that came about because early Christians grappled with the idea of monotheism and the divinity of Jesus. In other words, if God is God, then the son of God is also divine. Yikes--Two gods! I also believe in universal salvation. There may be some sort of punishment after death for the truly evil, but I don't believe that an all-loving God would condemn anyone to ETERNAL punishment.

My upbringing was Methodist and Presbyterian, but I left them because of the heaviness of the dogma. No one religion has all of the answers. Even Christianity struggled in the beginning. The first Council of Nicea basically was an attempt to rectify all of the different beliefs among Christians. A lot of our "sacred" beliefs came about because the issues were debated, and one side outvoted another.

All religions start out as ideas, which can be altered--and have been altered. The problem is that over time ideas can become beliefs, and beliefs are much harder to question. I like to think of religious truth as a destination on a map--how you get to it depends on where you're starting from, and it will be different for different people. God is like ocean water: If you went to the ocean with a bucket, the water you pulled out would have a lot of characteristics (e.g. salt level, minerals) of the whole ocean, BUT--it's not the whole ocean.

Just keep in mind the words of Teresa of Avila: "I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him. " -Words to live by.

Answer 4

I am former Lutheran who is now non-denminational Christian.
I believe in the literal truth of the Bible. Christianity is not a religion, it is a relationship with living God.

In my book you are not Christian if you do not believe in Trinity and if you do not believe that Jesus is God. Protestants and Catholics are Christians and we are talking only about the different worship styles. But belief systems like Jehovah's Witneses and Mormons are not Christians.

Answer 5

Anglican (a.k.a. Episcopalian).

I am almost Catholic but disagree with some of the infallibility of the teaching office doctrines and the doctrine of apostolic succession. I could as easily be Methodist or Quaker. Probably even Lutheran.

I am most strongly opposed to Calvinists (old school conservative Presbyterians) because of their sola scriptura, literalist perspective on the Bible [which makes the Bible into an idol, in my opinion] and because they usually believe in full on predestination.

Answer 6

Any kind of intercourse for any reason different than duplicate is seen a sin, inspite of a companion. Therefor, your answer might confirm. do no longer positioned too lots inventory into what the bible deems as a sin, although. The bible replaced into written by way human beings human beings, so, evidently, won't be able to be thoroughly precise.

Answer 7

I'm one of those "other" Christians.

No denomination. The reason why I'm not one of those specific groups you list is because I don't agree with all their doctrinal stances, and I don't feel a need to identify myself with a particular sub-community within the larger Christian community. The groups I identify most would probably be Wesleyan and/or Quakers, but I don't feel a need to join either one.

When forced to identify what "type" I am, I usually say I'm a liberal/progressive non-denominational Armenian Protestant-ish Christian with open theist leanings. That usually just confuses people even more.

Answer 8

I'm a Confessional Lutheran,

Like Father K. we also believe in one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, the Communion of the Saints, the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and, Holy Spirit.

Catholic means Universal. Apostolic means as taught by the apostles of Christ.

This, as Martin Luther described it is the "Invisible Church", made up of all believers and only believers regardless of denomination, both living and dead, and will be added to by all who come to faith in Christ. (this is the Communion of Saints).

Your friend in Christ,

Mark

Answer 9

Catholic




If I do not want what you want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong.

Or if I believe other than you, at least pause before you correct my view.

Or if my emotion is less than yours, or more, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel more strongly or weakly.

Or yet if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, let me be.

I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up changing me into a copy of you.

I may be your spouse, your parent, your offspring, your friend, or your colleague. If you will allow me any of my own wants, or emotions, or beliefs, or actions, then you open yourself, so that some day these ways of mine might not seem so wrong, and might finally appear to you as right -- for me. To put up with me is the first step to understanding me. Not that you embrace my ways as right for you, but that you are no longer irritated or disappointed with me for my seeming waywardness. And in understanding me you might come to prize my differences from you, and, far from seeking to change me, preserve and even nurture those differences.


If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
—Henry David Thoreau

Answer 10

I am Word of Faith. I believe that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God.
Some other denominations use fear to make you believe in God, but the Bible says that "God has NOT given us a spirit of fear..." (emphasis added), so I prefer not to go to those churches.
Some other denominations believe in poverty as a virtue, and I do not believe this to be true. How can God expect us to "go ye into all the world..." if we do not have the finances to do so? The Bible says that God will "supply all our needs according to His riches and glory." I prefer to not go to churches that preach against what God says in His Word.
There are churches that pray to saints, but the Bible says we are to pray to the Father in the name of Jesus. I want to go to a church that prays the way the Bible says to.
Still others have added to the Bible, and I'm not referring to something that happened in 300 AD. Most notably, some books that are used to be "complimentary" to the Bible go against the teachings of the Bible. If they are contradicting themselves, I will just get confused and prefer to go elsewhere.
Finally, some believe that we are supposed to be vegetarian or vegan. Well, the Bible says that it doesn't matter what we eat, and that we aren't to judge people on that basis. Of course, this is in the NT somewhere... I haven't forgotten about the Levitical Laws. Even in those laws, certain meats were considered "clean." I have found those people to be extremely devout and loving, but I still cannot follow their teachings because they are basically saying that God was just kidding when He told us we could eat beef.
I do not hate or discount any faction of Christianity. I may disagree with them **see above**, but I believe that even though we aren't in the same apartment, we are in the same complex. Meaning that if you believe that Jesus is the Son of the Living God, then you are in my religion. People are always going to disagree on how to interpret things, but that doesn't mean that their hearts don't belong to God.