please, no answers that just bash Christianity... is there really any need for that?
2007-12-23 09:02:03 · 8 answers · asked by Jane Nicole 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The only group I see that practice the teachings of Jesus in their every day life are Buddhists.
2007-12-23 09:05:23 · answer #1 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Having the Holy Ghost. That is the birth of the Spirit.It means God is living in your heart by his spirit. See John 3:5, Acts 1:8, Romans 8:9, Romans 14:17, I Cor. 6:11, I Cor. 12:13, Eph. 1:13-14, Titus 3:5, I John 3:24.
2007-12-23 09:11:08 · answer #2 · answered by paula r 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
What makes a person a Christian is that they have been born again. They have become partakers of the divine nature as Scripture calls it. A Christian is a person that has a new relationship with God as a result of being born again.
To come into that new relationship or to be born again if you prefer that term means that a person has done the following:
Realized that they are truly a sinner.
And as a sinner they deserve to be punished.
Realizes that they cannot do anything to save themselves from that punishment.
But realizes that Jesus Christ as the Son of God has taken that punishment in your place.
And honestly and sincerely asks Jesus to be their Lord and Saviour. and does NOT trust anything else but Jesus to save them from their sins. It has nothing to do with being good or joining a particular church. It is all about faith in Jesus Christ.
That is a very short description and I hope it helps you. If you need more information on what it means to be born again. Or how to saved from the punishment of sin, email me and I will be glad to share the truth of God's word and Hos plan of salvation with you and/or answer your sincere questions.
Merry Christmas.
2007-12-23 09:16:27 · answer #3 · answered by mr_e_cowboy 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Three things in my understanding:
1. Repentance - forsaking of ALL sin.
2. Water Baptism - Public confession of faith
3. Holy Spirit Baptism - God's acceptance of our commitment.
Acts 2: 38
Many denominatons dont believe in the 3rd step. BUt the Bible says so, and there fore I believe. It also happened in Jesus life - the spirit witnessing the sonship.
2007-12-23 09:15:24 · answer #4 · answered by chris_muriel007 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The only way to be saved and go to heaven and not eternal hell is by believing that Jesus, who is God, died for our sins on the cross and rose again (1 Corinthians 15:1-4).
Works don't save.
2007-12-23 09:07:29 · answer #5 · answered by Chris 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In the whole psychology of the Gospels the concepts of guilt and punishment are lacking, and so is that of reward. "Sin," which means anything that puts a distance between God and man, is abolished--this is precisely the "glad tidings." Eternal bliss is not merely promised, nor is it bound up with conditions: it is conceived as the only reality--what remains consists merely of signs useful in speaking of it.
The results of such a point of view project themselves into a new way of life, the special evangelical way of life. It is not a "belief" that marks off the Christian; he is distinguished by a different mode of action; he acts differently.
He offers no resistance, either by word or in his heart, to those who stand against him.
He draws no distinction between strangers and countrymen, Jews and Gentiles ("neighbour," of course, means fellow-believer, Jew).
He is angry with no one, and he despises no one.
He neither appeals to the courts of justice nor heeds their mandates ("Swear not at all") .
He never under any circumstances divorces his wife, even when he has proofs of her infidelity.
The life of the Saviour was simply a carrying out of this way of life--and so was his death. . . He no longer needed any formula or ritual in his relations with God--not even prayer.
He had rejected the whole of the Jewish doctrine of repentance and atonement; he knew that it was only by a way of life that one could feel one's self "divine," "blessed," "evangelical," a "child of God."
Not by "repentance,"not by "prayer and forgiveness" is the way to God: only the Gospel way leads to God--it is itself "God!"
What the Gospels abolished was the Judaism in the concepts of "sin," "forgiveness of sin," "faith," "salvation through faith"--the wholeecclesiastical dogma of the Jews was denied by the "glad tidings."
The deep instinct which prompts the Christian how to live so that he will feel that he is "in heaven" and is "immortal," despite many reasons for feeling that he is not "in heaven": this is the only psychological reality in "salvation."
A new way of life, not a new faith.
2007-12-23 09:14:35 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They go to the cross and acknowledge the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ and receive the blood atonement as a sacrifice for their sins. They acknowledge that Jesus was God in the flesh and that He who knew no sin became sin so that we could be made righteous...
2007-12-23 09:12:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
bubba is right
hindus and buddhists pretty much do follow the teaching of jesus christ
2007-12-23 09:07:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋