12-10-2017, 05:31 PM
(12-10-2017, 12:31 PM)Evil Yoshi Toes Wrote: @HylianDev Christianity is pretty broad, and there are a lot of different versions of Christian belief. Not all Christian religions tell their followers to drop everything and worship God 24/7, or to forget that science exists. Most modern commonly practiced forms of Christianity encourage people to use their talents and actions to live life fully and morally (according to the morals that religion teaches). Christians don't have to be radicals in order to follow their religion unless they are part of a radical form of Christianity. And this of course goes for all religions.
Christianity is indeed very broad. But that's where things get tricky: how do you judge Christianity? By what's said in the Bible, or by the beliefs that a particular Christian has?
In my opinion, there's often at least one disconnect among Christian beliefs: usually the "why believe at all" part doesn't really have much of an answer. They might say "the universe needs a creator!" and use the old Ray Comfort "every painting needs a painter, every building needs a builder" thing, but rearranging pre-existing paint into a pre-existing painting within a universe with time and physics isn't comparable in any way to creating matter itself within a universe, especially since time is a property of the universe and time is required for the universe to have not existed and then existed.
Another disconnect is usually "I believe the Bible!" but typically they believe the teachings they were brought up with, or teachings they like. I'm convinced that if somebody sat down with 0 Biblical knowledge, was told that the Bible was 100% truth, and read it cover to cover, they wouldn't come up with a belief system anything like modern liberal Christianity. There's an urgency all over the New Testament to save the lost and to live right for God because the end of the world is right around the corner.
So my answer to that is: if the Bible is indeed your standard, which church in Revelation best related to your life? How much blood is on your hands?