Denominations.

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I'm thinkin and I'm startin to disagree w/ us Christians making big deals out of denominations.
Because honestly, do you think God cares about how we look at it as long as we give Him everything and we follow Him?
We're His bride, we love Him, why should it matter what we wear or how we look as long as we don't promote Satan/sin with it? I think He cares alot more about the conditions of our hearts.
I'm just sayin..
what do you think?
 
THE ONE, TRUE CHURCH
What am I deceiving?
What are you believing?
What are you listening to?
The church-going sermons
Some fundamentals learnt there
It is really up to you
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Is in your heart
Your communion to the Lord,
Is not through another
Look within
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The one, true church
No man can deceive
When you believe
Your faith,
Your strength,
His strength
That lies in you
No Pope to idolize
Hypocrisy
A cruel demise
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The Lord,
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Confess to Him,
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That can forgive your sin
For He is the Lord
A mere man
Cannot forgive your sin
For they are not thee eternally
And they will be judged themselves.
 
it is a religion and a relationship. but for the sake of this define religion and relationship
 
But Christianity is a religion (unless you really want to get into convoluted semantics). We all hold certain doctrines to be true, no? This would entail that the doctrines of others are simply wrong, or if one is looking for a particularly harsh term (we don't like to use it much these days!), lies.
 
Christianity is a religion, but James tells us what our religion should look like.

James 1:26-27 26 If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his own heart, this one’s religion is useless. 27 Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.

Those who followed Christ weren't even referred to as Christians until they were called such at Antioch (Acts 11:26)
The next mentioning of it is when Agrippa asks Paul if he thinks he could be persuaded to become a Christian in such a short time.
Paul replied, saying that he wished everyone there would become as Paul, aside from the chains that bound him. (Acts 26:28-29)

We can see that to be Christians, we should be nothing other than disciples of Christ himself. To have anything else is useless. We should also be representatives of Him by the things we do, such as James said.

As far as denominations are concerned, it seems that there is too much put into them. People tend to define themselves by their denomination, rather than the God they follow. If you ask a Catholic what their religion is, they will most likely say Catholicism. If you ask someone who attends a Pentecostal church, they will say they are Pentecostal; A Baptist will tell you the are Baptist. It's as if nobody can just say "I am a Christian" today. They have to specify which doctrines they follow, which most of these doctrines were created and enforced by a person.

When asked, I'd much rather reply that I am a Christian, a disciple of Christ, instead of defining myself by which doctrines I follow.
That's my take on it..
 
Not only is Christianity a religion, but it's a communal religion not an individual religion. Christianity is about the community, not the individual.
 
There's an important distinction to be made here.

There's nothing wrong with having different ways of doing things and different preferences regarding non-scriptural practices and issues. These kind of divisions are superficial, not true divisions of the church. They might better be described as diversity.

When it comes to scripture and biblical doctrine, differences are not allowed because they divide the church. Denominations are clearly outlawed in scripture. There are no divisions within Christ's church. For example, if a church teaches that God does not kill, they are not in the truth (John 14:6).
 
Ok, WAYYYY off topic from what I was trying to get by. And I'm kinda worried w/ what you guys are saying.
Mmmk, what I meant by religion + relationship. Religion= man trying to get to God by himself and his own actions. We're always like "used menstrual cloths". We can never be "good" because we are sinners, so religion in my book is us trying to prove that wrong and be good by our own actions when we can't. Relationship= God finding us and us falling in love w/ Him. By what I meant by "turning it into a religion" is that we get so weirded up that we think by reading our Bible's everyday or wearing the right clothes we're going to be "good". so can we get back to what i was saying in the beginning please? haha.

Ok, what I'm saying is we keep worrying about the little things that don't matter instead of the things that matter most. I've heard more messages about what people wear from churches than preaching of Jesus Christ and His Truth. Going to some Baptist churches I was taught all I had to do was pray a prayer and I was set for life to go to Heaven no matter what I did. Going to a penticostal one I was told that if my mamaw didn't wear dresses all the time she was condemned to Hell. What I'm saying is that the body of Christ needs to come together and become one instead of having so many freaken different doctrines and beliefs that aren't even based off of what God said! God told us what to follow and how, we need to start doin that instead of replacing it with all the junk that should be on the side. I'm not saying it's wrong to have different non-scriptural practices and issues, but dividing the body and fighting because everyone else doesn't do the same things on the side is rediculous and I've seen way too much of it and I'M FOURTEEN! lol seriously now.
 
i agree. I think basically it depends on how radical the churches are and if they deviate from the God/human "rules". The reason for different denominations are usually differences in beliefs, but most "christian" demoninations should have the foundations in God being an almighty being.
 
What is a denomination anyway? You could have 10 people from the same denomination and all of them have their own interpretation on what it means to be Christian.
 
If dis is about dressing, take a look.. Rom 12 1-2.. verse 2 says we shouldn't be conformed to this world..I have no problem with dressing as long as is it not conformed to dis world.. Whatsoever we do or *WEAR*.. with d purpose of Feeling among or being *MACHO* is a sin. But really there are some dressing dat CRUCIFY Jesus a second time instead of actually GLORIFYING him..
 
religion actually means observance and there are religious aspect to Christianity. We follow the law not because we are justified by it but because we have been justified. No work or action is going to bring about your salvation but if you do not pray and read the scriptures I'm going to have to ask you how are you getting closer to God and pressing on to that upward call of God in Christ Jesus? Denomination tend to agree on the fundamentals or primary doctrines and disagree on the secondary.

Here is a question I pose to you though about these small things. If one says that Jesus is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (modalism, oneness, sabelianism) while another says that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are three distinct persons within the Godhead are they worshiping the same God?
 
Denomination are a tool of the devil. They only separate people.
 
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religion actually means observance and there are religious aspect to Christianity. We follow the law not because we are justified by it but because we have been justified. No work or action is going to bring about your salvation but if you do not pray and read the scriptures I'm going to have to ask you how are you getting closer to God and pressing on to that upward call of God in Christ Jesus? Denomination tend to agree on the fundamentals or primary doctrines and disagree on the secondary.

Here is a question I pose to you though about these small things. If one says that Jesus is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit (modalism, oneness, sabelianism) while another says that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are three distinct persons within the Godhead are they worshiping the same God?
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I do read my Bible man, but i'm saying if you turn that into something that you use to make yourself feel like you are 'good" then that's abusing it's use.
And to answer your question- Yes, because God is all in all in Jesus, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit as well as He is the same being.
 
Paulasaurus said:
I do read my Bible man, but i'm saying if you turn that into something that you use to make yourself feel like you are 'good" then that's abusing it's use.
And to answer your question- Yes, because God is all in all in Jesus, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit as well as He is the same being.
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Honestly, Christians (Evangelicals in particular) have redefined the word in so many ways it's ridiculous. If you use the traditional definition of religion Christianity of any form fits all the criteria. The definition you're proposing for religion is basically the phrase "dead religion". Maybe you should use that phrase instead of using a alternate definition of religion, after all that is what we have adjectives for.
 
Paulasaurus said:
I do read my Bible man, but i'm saying if you turn that into something that you use to make yourself feel like you are 'good" then that's abusing it's use.
And to answer your question- Yes, because God is all in all in Jesus, God the Father, and the Holy Spirit as well as He is the same being.
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could you be more clear on your answer? I'm not following it to well and I would actually say that trinitarians and sabelianists could be worshiping different gods. Also the mention of scripture wasn't a rebuke it was just getting into that we do have to pursue some things to draw nearer to God (not that we draw ourselves nearer to him but that he does it for us) but that those works aren't salvific. and as for my meaning of religion I was taking it from the jewish mindset. the word religion if I'm not mistaken comes from religare meaning to bind together or reconnect. I might be remembering that wrong though. at any rate Christianity still falls as a religion however I agree with Subito that the word has undergone a remarkable amount of change in it's meaning.
 
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