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Do you think of Christianity as one religion or many religions?
It's one religion although there are many different interpretations.
Jesus said "Follow me". He didn't say believe me. When we follow Him, the way He lived His life and doing the same, we are walking with Him. When we believe Him, we can do nothing for ourselves. Belief is of the mind whereas doing is of the soul. I'd think Jesus would want us to follow Him.
It's one religion although there are many different interpretations.
Jesus said "Follow me". He didn't say believe me. When we follow Him, the way He lived His life and doing the same, we are walking with Him. When we believe Him, we can do nothing for ourselves. Belief is of the mind whereas doing is of the soul. I'd think Jesus would want us to follow Him.
Do you think he was trying to establish a new religion, such as Christianity, or was he just basically preaching to his fellow Jews as the messiah that had been promised to them?
Do you think he was trying to establish a new religion, such as Christianity, or was he just basically preaching to his fellow Jews as the messiah that had been promised to them?
I don't believe He wanted to change anything or start a new religion. I believe He was here to expound on what was already here. To rebestow Divine Love and to remind everyone that God is the God of all. That's why He said love God and each other. This covers all the laws that Moses had written down. To follow those teachings is to be a Christian. So anyone who followed Jesus, lived in love and strived to become perfect, was considered a christian.
I don't believe He wanted to change anything or start a new religion. I believe He was here to expound on what was already here. To rebestow Divine Love and to remind everyone that God is the God of all. That's why He said love God and each other. This covers all the laws that Moses had written down. To follow those teachings is to be a Christian. So anyone who followed Jesus, lived in love and strived to become perfect, was considered a christian.
Just my opinion.
The only issue here is that in Jesus' time they were all Jewish and so was he. Christianity did not start until well after his death and the religion that emerged is not what he lived. The Christianity that emerged was a violent, narrow minded religion that did not even come close to what Jesus preached.
If he came back he would not recognize Christianity. He would not call himself a Christian he would look for the nearest synagogue and the Jewish community because that is what he knew.
The only issue here is that in Jesus' time they were all Jewish and so was he. Christianity did not start until well after his death and the religion that emerged is not what he lived. The Christianity that emerged was a violent, narrow minded religion that did not even come close to what Jesus preached.
If he came back he would not recognize Christianity. He would not call himself a Christian he would look for the nearest synagogue and the Jewish community because that is what he knew.
I agree. Jesus was Jewish and is still Jewish. In His later years right after His ministry started, He didn't teach religion. He taught Love and to follow Love is true christianity. I don't know a lot about how it started but I do know that the ones who started it did not follow all that Jesus taught or said and put their own words into what is now contained in the bible.
At the time of Jesus' ministry, the only apostles who understood what Jesus was teaching is John and Mary Magdalane. The others didn't get it until after Pentecost when Divine Love was received into their souls. Since they were not fully Divine even after that one time of receiving it, they still erred in their own interpretation of what Jesus taught.
Jesus has since returned to enlighten us as to what His true teachings were and still are. To Love each other. To love God. To become perfect as God is perfect. This means to pray for Divine Love in order to reach that perfection so that we can all love each other the way that Jesus loved us.
Boy, I wish you Christians would post an explanation on my thread about God and Guns...........what you are saying is exactly what I have been trying to explain over there and no one is getting it. I appreciate the clear meaning of Christianity on here. That's exactly what I was thinking it meant to be Christian.
Getting back to my opening question, what do you think of this part which I've highlighted?
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For convenience, we sort Christian denominations into four groups: the Anglican Community, Eastern Orthodox churches, Protestant denominations, and Roman Catholicism. This is one of many common classification methods.
It is important to keep in mind that Fundamentalist, other Evangelical, mainline, and liberal Protestant denominations vary greatly in beliefs, teachings and practices. Some consider them so different that they form two different religions
Christianity is one religion. Those who believe Jesus was the son of G-d. It has a spectrum of belief though and different denominations.
But each one of these denominations paint such a different picture of god that no one really gets a solid, distinct idea of this god - they may as well just divide up or finally come to the realization that there's a lot of made up elements of this god fellow...
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