Why in the world are questions about Christian beliefs always answered with many different answers. If this truly was a belief system, one would have expected the followers to be like an ant community. They are, however more like sloths; each resting in a different place and having different reasons and sometimes, different beliefs altogether.
There is no CLEAR answer to any question, just nonsensical attempts at theology which appear to have been written by toddlers.
If there really was a God out there waiting for Christians to 'succeed', wouldn't the Christian people have more uniformity and a direction?
2007-12-15 20:38:45 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Just one word will describe it all.....Contradictions.
2007-12-15 20:43:34 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have four children and if you ask each of them questions about what was taught in our home or about a certain Christmas or why I had a certain rule then you would get four differing answers and most likely start an argument between a couple of them since the last two are teens :-)
I cant imagine having billions and billions of kids like God does. No wonder the answers get a messed up. Children are rebellious, think they know better than their parents at times, try to interpret what their parents 'really' mean, try to get around their parents rules, etc..
2007-12-16 04:45:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
there is only one true church founded by Jesus Christ. that is the catholic church. one reason for all the different beliefs is that so many people refuse to accept the teachings of the church. another reason is that many things that arent vital to the faith arent addressed in the bible. but christians are in agreement on the important things. we all agree that Jesus is the Son of GOD. HE is fully GOD and fully human, He died for our sins, and he is the only way to the Father.
and where do you get the idea that GOD is out there waiting for christians to "succeed"? succeed at what? the church has been here for the last 2000 years. thats pretty successful. what other institution has been around for so long?
2007-12-16 05:03:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well- the answer to that is that Rome via Catholicism successfully wiped out the Gnostics and other early hybrid pagan-Christian sects and the Byzantine Church of (the 2nd Rome) Constantinople fled the barbarous Muslims upon its' fall and set up the 3rd Rome of Muscovy (modern Moscow) and hence suffered major schisms with the establishment of Orthodoxy.
I'd argue that Caholicism and Protestantism are far more closely related than they differ, the earl Christian groups of the Coptic and Orthodoxy are very similar as well.
The only major difference truly in fundamental dogma is that of the Gnostics who claim Christ was not the Son of God- but a major prophet- and his flesh and wine are not literally partaken at Communion.
I'm an avid atheist- but your ignorance of the world's greatest religion does our argument great disservice.
My point being not one of the G10 nations are Muslim- are they- but overwhelmingly majority Christian.
Furthermore, Christianity has reformed itself, separated itself from State and has a far longer and more illustrious history of education and cultural patronage than even the rosiest-tinted pro-muslim could dare make up.
Look at the Vatican, St. Peter's, St Pauls, St Basils, the City of the Holy See and of course the stolen Byzantine cathedral of the Haga Sofia and compare them to Mecca and Medina. Which one wins?
Christianity has born Martin Luther, Bach, Beethoven Wagner, Goethe, Nitzsche, Shakespeare, Newton, Copernicus, Galilei and countless others.
Islam has created whom who so beautified and enhanced the world?
2007-12-16 04:51:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The fact that there is so much diversity in Christianity shows that it's primarily a relationship, rather than a religion. It doesn't have a load of rules and regulations - the whole point is to get to know God as Father, and Jesus as Saviour.
If you knew someone with lots of children, you wouldn't necessarily expect them to have the same interests, or theories, or even lifestyles. The one thing they have in common is (hopefully) a relationship with their parents, which allows for lots of freedom and diversity.
2007-12-16 04:45:49 · answer #5 · answered by Kukana 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I guess you have never heard of Catholicism. Over 1 billion followers. The Protestant Churches keep splintering. That is why there are so many different answers.
2007-12-16 04:45:42 · answer #6 · answered by Indy Indy Indy!!!! 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree. Why should I have "blind faith" in a religious theory started and recorded by fallible humans? I have my own relious philosophy.
If one true relion were found to exist, we'd have more bake sales and less suicide bombings
2007-12-16 04:46:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I totally agree.
But they do agree on one thing - the don't like any other religions apart from their own.
2007-12-16 04:42:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think so..........
i don't agree
2007-12-16 04:44:46 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋