Christians, somone asked me what Christians believed and I tried to sum it up. Have I missed anything?

Question

Christians believe the following:
God created the universe about 7,000 years ago (with the appearance of an ancient age, even though it is young)

God made men and later repented of making men (wished He had never done it) so He kills every one of them except for Noah and his family (He kills all the animals too except for two of each "kind" but all this needs to be taken into perspective, I mean, it's GOD!!! Who are WE to judge HIM?? God killed masses of people all the time in the Old Testament and commanded his followers to do the same2)

That God made a donkey talk, an iron axe head float (He's GOD!!!! Remember that!)

So, God demanded that people kill perfect animals for Him so they could be acceptable to God, God thought this was tiresome, so He impregnated a young girl with Himself, or part of Himself.

So part of God becomes a man and is supposed to be perfect, because God only takes sacrifices that are perfect, so Jesus couldn't sin, etc...

So Jesus is tempted by the Devil to

do bad things but Jesus survives and overcomes the Devil (Who apparently doesn't really know the identity of God dressed up as a man)

Jesus does thousands of miracles, if not millions because the Bible plainly says:
1. If the miracles were all written down I don't suppose that all the books in the world could contain them

2. The fame of Him spread throughout all of Judea

(But ignore the fact that only two or three historians of that time even mention the Christians or the rumor of a "Christ." or that Bishop Eusebius confessed to forging info about Jesus)

Ummm, Protestants believe that Satan is out to destroy everyone, since He discovered that he couldn't beat up God (ps. He was the closest one to God, from the start so obviously Lucifer, seeing God's glory and power everyday, thought He probably could take Him...)

But Satan cannot harm believers, (Except for Job - whom God allowed Satan to kill his entire family and get diseases and kill his crops, pets, etc - all because of a bet

between He and Satan)

So now, all people have to do to be saved is to repent of sin and confess jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour. (Depending upon your translation of simple scripture - there are many Christians who believe - according to scripture - one must be baptized in water - or one must be baptized in the literal name of Jesus - or one must be filled with the Holy Spirit with the evidence of speaking in tongues - or one must do good works, or one must understand the trinity to understand Jesus and who he really is - or that there were other prophets who had additional truth, Joseph Smith, etc... So one cannot say that all Christians believe alike, they do not, as the Bible is such a complex document. (God tries to hide the truth as much as possible so everyone will not find it too easy to get saved.)

Uh, OH yeah! Jesus is coming back (the original disciples thought Jesus meant that He was coming back in their lifetime, but now, two thousand years later, Christians keep rational

izing the date later and later, because.... Well, because He HASN'T come back.)

God is going to perfect the earth, establish a kingdom here and banish the Devil forever, etc.

Catholics believe pretty much the same, but that Mary, jesus' mother must have also been perfect, holy, pure, but they stop at her because one could also argue that Mary's mother must have been and her grandmother, etc, etc.. So they revere Mary kind of like a God, but not exactly.

They believe that when they take wine and the bread at communion, it transforms into actual blood and bones from Jesus.

They believe that there's Hell and Heaven, AND a waiting place in between them called purgatory - This softens the blow of the traditional protestant version of Hell.

They believe the pope speaks ex-cathedra (from the chair) and that it is the very voice of God, and al kinds of extra stuff - exorcisms, confessionals, sprinkling, voodoo... whatever it takes for the masses to believe, pretty much - that's what the

Catholic Church will embrace...

Hmmm. Actually the protestants will do the same, but they'll try to make it at least look legitimate, like Creationism, for example...

Ronnie BT,

WOW! Your answer explained things so clearly!!
I think I'll tell them what YOU said instead!

and Jengen!
I never thought of the idiot-savant approach! Brilliant!!!

Answer 1

Gen.1:1,2; Job 38:30-32; Job 38:4-7 [ Angels as inhabitants of heaven, called
morning stars and sons of God, se the ages old earth prepared ages Gen.1:3-15; for intended inhabitants. Heavens first creation, created in the image of God is the one we know as Jesus John 17:3,5,24; Col.1:15-17; Rev.3:14; Gen.1:26; God said."Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." This was 6073 years ago, [ not Satan 2Cor.4:3,4; but Jesus ];
Adam sinned and died in the 1000 yrs day he sinned in 5143 years ago, Noah was born 5017 years ago, he was in the flood 4417 years ago. Abraham son #20, Matt.1:1-17; Heb.11:1-40; died 3890 years ago, Ishamel, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph died yr 2368 to end Genesis. 3705 yrs ago. Job, then Moses was at Exodus 3560, to die 3520 years ago, David son #34 Matt.1:1-17; in the genealogy of Jesus died 3044 years ago. Solomon began the temple 480 years after Moses died, at 3040, he had 36 years to live, he died 3004 years ago.
Daniel was 2613 years ago, he gives the first and second coming of Jesus [ all but the day and hour Matt.24:3,7,14,15,21,22,36-39; that only God knows ]; 2Ki.25:8,27-30; Jer.52:31-34; Eze.1:2; Jehoiachin son #48, Matt.1:1-17; lineage of Joseph, husband of Mary, Mary lineage of Nathan, David;s son, Mary mother of Jesus son #62.

At 2007 after Christ, the bible has been in circulation 396 years, to gives us all past and future time periods.

THERE WILL BE THOSE ALIVE AT THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS

1Thes.5:1-9,21; To children of the light of times and seasons, Jesus does not come as a thief in the night. Rev.20:1-6,12,13; no Satan 1000 years, the heavenly are with Jesus at his coming, 1Cor.15:22-28,51-53; to resurrect the earthly John 5:26-29; Heb.9:27; Dan.12:2; Isa.26:19; Acts 17:13; 24:!5; Matt.19:28 [ Eze. 37:12-14 ]; 2Cor.5:10; Rom.14:9-12; Philip..2:5,9-12;

Eph.2:7; 3:21; The world with Jesus is without end. John 3:16; 17:3,17; 2Pet.3:13; Rev.21:1-5; All is made as new and perfect as before Eden. All possible is saved.

Answer 2

Wow, you have a lot to say. It is obvious that you think with a human mind. God has always wanted his children to live some simple laws. These laws form a perfect society, no stealing, no lieing, no killing, no trieing to procreate children that you are not going to take care of, no being lazy and letting government take care of you. Being generous. What a perfect society. That is the society that I want.

He created this society, but man decided to not live by those rules. A prophet named Enoch arrived on the scene at one time and took about 300 years to convert the people and convince them this was the happiest way to live. God was so happy with them, that he took them up into heaven. He is trying to get most of us to want that society. Death is not a bad thing to our Father. Everyone is going to do it. He knows there is life after death. Anyone who is not living the rules of that great society are just wasting their time on earth. So he lets them be killed.

Later on the people didn't want to live in that great society, so God decided to start over. Noah and his family were the only good people on earth, so God started over.

This worked to a degree. Along came Abraham and others that were raised up righteously. Although some communities, the people were wasting their time, like Sodom and Gomorah.

Then came Isaac and Jacob who had many righteous followers. Most of the world was not, but he would not wipe everyone out as long as there were a few hundred righteous or more. When the Israelites went to Egypt they were comparitively righteous and lived comfortably for several years, then a Pharoe came along who caused most of them to be unrighteous worshipping idols, etc. He sent Moses in to save them. You know the story. It took a generation to become righteous again, and they were allowed to enter the promised land

They were somewhat righteous for a few hundered years, and so he had many righteous spirits dieing that would be coming to his kingdom and would be willing to live in the perfect society.

Then they were taken into slavery because of their wickedness. Christ came and there were hundreds and maybe thousands more righteous people. But most were killed by Nero and so we lived in the dark ages for nearly 900 years.
Now a righteous group will arise in the last days to usher in the 2nd coming of Christ. Then the righteous that lived a good life throughout all times will come forth in the first resurrection. Christ will rule on earth. The wicked will be in prison for 1000 years. At the end, God will receive those who want to live in the perfect society. The rest will gather together and live with a murderer next door and a lieer on the other side and an adulter living behind them. They get what they deserve.

Answer 3

Your question and explanation is spot on my friend. Notice how the christians avoid trying to make sense of what you explained because there are so many contradictions in their religion. they like to quote the bible when it suites them but when someone like you exposes the contradictions then they selectively choose to ignore the fact that they claim the bible to be the word of god inspired by god.

Answer 4

The only thing you should have put was "Human nature has seperated themselves from God. Jesus Christ died on the Cross to eleminate that seperation of man from God. All those who believe and trust in Jesus Christ can be saved". That is all I have to say about that.

Answer 5

Wow! I am impressed. Ahhh let me see I will try to sum it all up.

Love thy God love thy neighbor. that is what Jesus said so I think I will stick to that part. I don't need the rest once I became a Christian. I will find out when I die what is true or not.

Answer 6

Miss? Yes, you missed "Christ is the end of the law",
and "that God" was in "Christ" reconciling the world
unto himself, NOT (law) imputing sin & death to them.

Pst: "that God" is light having no darkness in him at all;
And that God doesn't alienate, but rather he reconciles.

His Grace --> Mercy ---> Peace with you all. Amen.

Answer 7

Here's the basic tenets of Christianity
The Trinity
God created the universe, earth, all creatures, and man
Man became tainted by sin
Jesus died and was resurrected
all who accept Christ receive salvation

Answer 8

That would be perfectly correct. Except, you forgot to mention their obvious grudges with homosexuals and liberal thinking.

Answer 9

Yes, more or less you took it all out of contexts