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There is a huge difference. Christians are giving, honest, friendly, accepting, etc. There are so
many people put there that say they are Christians but really are not. Their life has nothing
"christian-like" in it. They do drugs, go out and party, sleep around, don't read the Bible or try
to follow it at all and don't go to church. These people are not Christians, I don't care what
anyone says. Christians go to work, love their kids, read the Bible, memorize verses for courage or
strength, go to church every week, happily help others and so on. |
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I agree that there is a difference between SAYING you're a Christian and actually BEING a Christian.
Anyone can say that they are a Christian, but for someone to actually BE a Christian, a person has
to take into consideration the teachings of Christ and put them into action in his/her own life.
That's not to say that a person has to know ALL of the teachings in his/her lifetime, there are
exceptions. The thief on the cross next to Jesus asked for forgiveness and Jesus promised him right
then that he would be in paradise. That also doesn't mean that a person can wait until his/her dying
breath to decide to ask for forgiveness. If you live your entire life putting it off, just so you
can wait until you die, you cannot call yourself a Christian, because you have not taken what you
know and put it into action. All in all, in order to call yourself a Christian, you must recognize
that you need Christ to save you and you must repent of your sin and from that point on strive to
learn about Christ and his teachings and follow his teachings. |
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It really isn't all that complicated. If you accept Christ as your savior, then you are a Christian.
People (like Hitler) may say this for political reasons, but it was hardly demonstrated by anything
that he did or said. It is something that is for the individual to accept within himself. By
accepting Christ as your savior you also accept his doctrine and way of living. A Christian would
acknowledge when he falters in this, a non Christian wouldn't even notice. |
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Christianity is a system based in beliefs, and if you believe you are a catholic, then so be it.
Hitler believed he was Christian therefor he was.
Are you forgetting about what the Christians have done?
Crusades, Spanish inquisition, witch hunts
Seems to me that Hitler was just following others' interpretation of Christianity. |
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Would you extend the same latitude to Osama bin Laden? He wasn't a Muslim because Islam is a
"religion of peace", right? And Stalin and Mao weren't true communists because they hurt ordinary
people and communism is about helping them, right? Everyone gets to disown whoever they don't
like.
If you believe in the divinity of Christ, you're a Christian. The Christian church nurtured
anti-semitism for centuries. The original complaint against the Jews was that they were
"christ-killers". Then your boy comes along, reared in the fine Catholic tradition, and goes further
with it than anyone else has before. Oh, and the last I heard it was six million Jews Hitler killed. |
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10 May 2008 18:39
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