Can Christians and Atheists Get Along? (Baptist, Jewish, evolution, believing)
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Originally Posted by TKramar True, but anything worth undertaking (like love) involves risk.
So for fear of trusting people you might miss out on your 1 true love.
But I guess you would only feel this as a loss if you were actually looking for love.
That's why it's no great loss. I don't even believe in this concept you call love.
AQUEMINI331: What I meant by the 'cart before the horse' is that I think it's easier for atheists to get along with Christians than for Christians to get along with atheists, since atheists don't have a source book telling them that the others are inferior and will be judged, etc. I probably should have stated that the first two questions in the original post placed the cart before the horse, not all of them.
Anyway, I have Christian friends because there aren't many others to choose from, and they don't proselytize me.
In Adam, humanity became individuals, as separate entities or as gods.
From one God, creation becomes many, as in a constant multiplication.
The consequence of division was death. Death to all. As in born to die.
Unless...........God Himself provides the antidote to save that which was lost in the creation process.
Of the many, who has the right to access the creator? And who does not?
To start with, the creator was introduced to mankind via a selected few in word.
First, to Abraham and to his decedents.
Note: There was a Consciousness amongst the people of the world as to some kind of spiritual entity, not knowing anything about it; evidenced by the many images created to represent it.
So, the God of Abraham became the first real reference to who this God was.
The purpose of this introduction was so that God could not only reveal who He was, but also to repair what became broken in the process of creating individuality.
The redeeming factor was God's responsibility, of and in which He performed in a body of flesh, as God, not a god as some would like to think, but in God's own power and might redeem that which was lost.
So, He redeemed period, or in other words, purchased back that which was lost for with a price.
The price? That one, of many should shoulder the costs of the many, by redeeming them all as one individual as God, and be offered up as a sacrifice for the many.
Having said all that, I now bring you to the resultant: Mankind redeemed!
Question now is, for referencing purposes, by the words saved or not saved, salvation or no salvation, heaven or hell, Christianity, Jew Muslim or Athiest, in having knowledge of God's saving work in our behalf.
Before anything can be saved, first there must be a lost condition or the potential to become lost right?
Jesus, as God paid the price for the lost condition and for the potential to become lost in one effort, that being the sacrifice of the one for the many.
Where do you or I fit in in these whole scheme of things?
If I, choose to believe in Jesus, I can claim salvation done. If you claim not to believe in Jesus, salvation can not be claimed.
Therefore, it is in having knowledge of God's work of salvation and accepting it or not, that determines in one's own mind whether we want it or not.
Every religious belief has it's radicals. The ones whose motives are acted on, out of brotherly love, are in my opinion true believers.
I have no problem with unbelievers, yet, had they knowledge of the saving grace of God and accepted it, I would say that life for them would take on a whole different meaning.
So, in my long winded response, I believe that if believers and or non believers all practiced brotherly love, getting along would made easy.
But, life was not designed to be that way without the effort in the struggle.
That's why it's no great loss. I don't even believe in this concept you call love.
I know, which was the reason I wrote the last line.
It is only logical not to miss something if you've never had it (or believe that you’ve never had it).
But I keep hoping that someday you'll give love a chance, because the saying that everything worth undertaking will always involve risk is still true.
That's why it's no great loss. I don't even believe in this concept you call love.
What kind of love do you not believe in? I mean are you saying you don't believe in the concept in any fashion, that you even disbelieve in the Platonic or Fraternal kinds of love, or do you just mean you disbelieve in romantic love?
Looking at the christian history I would say they can’t get along with any group whose ideas do not meet their political or monetary needs. Most other groups in the past seem to survive without the massive death tolls, but sadly that seems to be changing now as well.
What kind of love do you not believe in? I mean are you saying you don't believe in the concept in any fashion, that you even disbelieve in the Platonic or Fraternal kinds of love, or do you just mean you disbelieve in romantic love?
I don't believe that people ever have someone else's best interests at heart...just their own.
I don't want kids. I don't have the patience for them, and they're nothing but a drain on my resources.
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True, but anything worth undertaking (like love) involves risk.
But I guess you would only feel this as a loss if you were actually looking for love.
I know, which was the reason I wrote the last line.
But I keep hoping that someday you'll give love a chance, because the saying that everything worth undertaking will always involve risk is still true.
