Are you talking about the way it should be? The way you personally feel? The way you interpret the bible? I'm just trying to understand your thought process. They are the 10 Commandments. That, in in of itself, tells us that Christians are commanded to do them...
The Bible explicitly says that we are dead to the law. Most "Christian" churches of course ignore most of the New Testament because THEY BELIEVE that teaching the entire truth of the New Covenant would cause believers to slip in to license and stop tithing. No. The JEWS were commanded to do them. They were part of the Law, which Christians are now dead to. 2. Galatians 3:13--Paul said, "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse for the law, being made a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree." 3. Galatians 2:19-20--Paul said, "I, through the law, am dead to the law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me." Believers have died to the law and come alive in Christ. "by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight" (Rom. 3:20) b) 1 Corinthians 7:39--Paul said, "The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord." Death permanently ends the law that binds two people in marriage. In fact many marriage ceremonies contain the words, "Till death do us part." Unfortunately, many are eliminating that portion of their wedding vows because they do not want to be obedient to that ideal. Paul's analogy here is simple and straightforward: Death ends a marriage.
but i would consider made up answers to be worse than no answers at all. maybe it was the spaghetti monster. it is "possible". not just literalists but any believers, because they are unreasonable. when somebody is unreasonable, there is just no point.
Now you are ducking an answer. You just said "Religion is man's attempt to earn himself good standing with a Deity", followed by "Christ is a Person who wants your relationship with Him. This was your effort to explain why Christianity is not a religion. Now you are saying that Christ is also a diety. By your own definition Christianity must be a religion.
Where? But Christianity is a Jewish sect! Christians worship a Jewish God, venerate Jewish prophets, keep Jewish Commandments, and include Jewish holy books in their Bible. Christ himself was a devout Jew and was called rabbi by the masses. The first controversy in the early Christian church was over whether non-Jews could be permitted to become Christians.
No. It wasn't at all. Now you are attempting to entrap me. I was trying to emphasize in previous posts that Christianity is not a religion because we are accepting our salvation by faith in what Jesus did vs. earning it through good works, tithing, and forced church attendance.
Galatians. You've posted this verbatim so many times. Sadly, it probably hinders you from seeing the truth. Right before they shouted "Crucify him"! Because he proclaimed himself 1) God in flesh 2) The fulfillment of the law - which meant the prestige, honor, and authority of the Pharisees would be no more There were several "Christian Churches". Each of them had their own issues. Corinth especially was given over to the tendency to revert back to sexual immorality and idol worship. Hebrews in its entirety is a letter to Jewish Christians imploring them to not return to old system of law-keeping and exclusion of "Gentiles"!
That isnt the basic idea of existentialism. The basic idea is that life is defined by several themes. One of those themes is death, but we can somehow overcome those themes. Dumb crap. Show me one person who overcame death. I don't disbeleive it because of a book. I dont beleive it becasue it is dumb. Yeah, but they are wrong.
