Kazudy

We just don't want others telling us what religion we can or can not have. I am a Bible beliver, if I had the power to shut down Muslim Musks and Morman Temples I WOULD NOT!!! They have the same freedom to worship wh**ever or whoever they please. I want that same freedom for Christians. By the way, why is the Christian religion the one most targeted by the left?

bahmer

Because they don't like hearing that what they are doing is a sin and goes against God and His teachings would be my guess. Being a bible believer that is the only thing that I can come up with.

Rose42

Why? Because there is a power in Christianity that exists in no other religion. Ever wonder why people use the name Jesus or Christ when they swear and never Allah, Budda or any other god? Because there is power in the name. There is no power in Allah, Budda or other gods because they are false gods.

The reason is spiritual. Spiritual warfare is very real.

bahmer

Very good Rose that one slipped my mind.

Kazudy

Iiiamma 1/2, you could not be more wrong. Many and I mean in the high hundreds that were in prison for violent crimes read the Bible out of curiousity or wh**ever reason and started sharing with other inmates, some of them started prison ministries one famous one was Charles"Chuck"Colsen one of Nixon's lawyer of Watergate fame. I can tell you this, my parents took me to Church when I was a kid and the minister's sermon would go in one ear and out the other. In 1993 I decided to read the Bible from cover to cover and I felt that it was T***h so everybody is free to read it, some will accept it others will reject it. Either way it is the individuals choice for people to accept it or reject it. It's not the atheist poragative to deny people that choice. One question for the atheist, if God doesn't exist, WHY are they offended by Him?

Iliamna1

I agree wiith your post nearly 100%. The number is more likely in the multiple thousands As an unbeliever, when you first started reading the Bible, you didn't understand much of it. But you understood that you were a sinner and BELIEVED that Jesus died for your sin, just as Colson did. I never heard the Gospel as teenager, but had started on a quest to learn about God and came across Rev 3:20 which states "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me." My belief was an understanding that IF there is a God, He has to faithful to His word. As an unbeliever, it was my perogative to believe Him or reject Him. I chose to believe. It was life-changing experience as there was no one there to explain that the Holy Spirit actually comes inside your heart at the moment of belief. Life has been blessedly and strangely interesting since.

jimpack123 Loc: wisconsin

Seem like Trump wants to shut the door

Iliamna1

There are many 'doors' and types of doors. To i*****l i*******ts, yes. He wants to protect the borders. But he can't affect any spiritual door that is opened by anyone by belief in Christ. Your analogy is off course.

Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

84% of the people on earth are religious, affiliated with religion, believe and have faith in God, a Creator, a supreme being, a higher power, gods, deities, and such. That's around 6 billion people out of 7.5 billion who believe in something greater and certainly more powerful and enduring than the human ego and our frail human conceits. One third of those 6 billion believers are Christians, 240 million of them are Americans. By contrast, about 10 million Americans are atheists, and about the same number are agnostic. A significant percentage of those American atheists are also antagonists, they are actively hostile toward religion, invariably singling out Judeo-Christianity as the target of their scorn.

I don't suppose a learned, God denying scholar and logician such as yourself can explain why Christianity is a greater threat to your egotistical secular beliefs than any other religion on earth. Spare us the superficial crap about Christianity's stand on homosexuality, gay marriage, a******n en mass, separation of church and state, and all the rest of that mundane bulls**t, see if you can pin down the real reason why Christianity is such a threat to your self-centered world view, to your overinflated ego.

The Holy Bible is still by far the best selling, most widely distributed, and most thoroughly studied and researched book on earth. The Bible has been t***slated into more languages than any other book in existence. Nearly 4 billion Bibles have been sold or distributed in just the past 50 years. The runner up has a total of 800 million copies in circulation, mostly distributed or sold to Chinese and other c*******ts, and most often forced on them by state mandate.

Moreover, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of Bible research institutes in countries around the world, among these are archeological and other science based projects focused entirely on the Biblical record. Is there another scripture in existence that has inspired such study and research? Not even close.

One thing you apparently seem unable to understand is that a person's belief system informs his or her actions, it influences and guides every action they take, every decision they make, every thing they do. If a person's belief system is based on faith in God, there is no possible way for him or her to abandon the principles by which they live. IOW, no one can separate their religious beliefs from their politics. You certainly don't. There is no possible way to prevent religion from "filtration (poor choice of words) into our political system".

It should be obvious that religion, that belief in God, belief in a higher power, belief in something greater than ourselves is here to stay, it is not on a "downward trend". In spite of your fervent desire to see religion, particularly Christianity, disappear from earth, I have bad news for you, it ain't gonna happen, not in a hundred years, not in a thousand.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

BTW, and FYI, the number of times a Bible stopped a bullet and saved a soldier's life is quite remarkable. Happened in the Revolution, the Civil War, WW1 and 2, Korea, Vietnam, and it has happened to civilians struck by bullets.

Some examples:


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Blade_Runner Loc: DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

What makes Christianity unique among all world religions?

Is Christianity really unique, or is it just one of many roads on the path to T***h? Is Christianity truly unique among the many religions around the world? If it is, what makes it so? Unique among all religions, Christianity makes several claims that others do not. First, all other religions exhort man to reach up to God and grasp hold of Him through their own efforts. Christianity is the only religion where God reaches down to man. Second, other religions are systems of do’s and don’ts to appease God; whereas Christianity is a relationship with God. Third, Christianity looks to the Bible as the singular source of T***h. Finally, Christianity is based upon truly the most amazing event in all of human history—the resurrection.

As to the first issue, other forms of religion subscribe to a system of works—those we should do and those we should avoid—which will make us “good enough” to please God and merit His favor. Christianity, on the other hand, is based on the biblical principle that we can never be good enough to be in the presence of a perfect, holy God. The Mosaic Law was given to mankind to prove to us that we can’t keep it. Galatians 3 describes the purpose of the Law. It is a “tutor” or “schoolmaster” to lead us to Christ because “…by observing the law no one will be justified” (Galatians 2:16). The impossibility of keeping the Law is revealed in what Jesus called the “first and greatest commandment” in Matthew 22:37: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This would mean loving God with every fiber of our being 24/7, with never a thought for ourselves, an impossible task for anyone. But rather than condemning us as law-breakers and leaving it at that, God provided a substitute—Jesus Christ—who obeyed the Law perfectly for us. By faith in Him and accepting His work on our behalf, we are justified and made righteous. Here is the crucial difference between Christianity and all other religions.

As to the second point, Christianity is not a religious system, but a relationship with God, one that He initiated and maintains. Christians believe that mankind was created specifically to have a relationship with God, but sin separates all men from Him (Romans 3:23, 5:12). Christianity teaches that Jesus Christ walked this earth, fully God, and yet fully man (Philippians 2:6-11), and died on the cross to restore the relationship that was broken by sin. After His death on the cross, Christ was buried, He rose again, and now lives at the right hand of the Father, making intercession for believers forever (Hebrews 7:25). The intimacy of this relationship is revealed in two poignant pictures. Now no longer seen as law-breakers, we have been adopted into God’s own family as His children (Ephesians 1:5). Even more intimately, believers are the very “body of Christ” of which He is the head (Ephesians 1:22-23), having been purchased by His blood (Hebrews 9:12). No other religion makes assertions that even begin to approximate this incredible t***h.

Another thing that makes Christianity unique is its source of information. All religions have some sort of basis of information that outlines its beliefs and practices, but none have one source of information that makes the claims Christianity does about the Bible—it is the written Word of God, and it is infallible and inerrant and all that is necessary for faith and practice (2 Timothy 3:16). Christians believe that the Bible is the inspired—literally “God-breathed”—Word of God and that its teaching is the final authority (2 Timothy 3:16; 2 Peter 1:20-21). Though there are other religions that use prophecy, none are 100% accurate, as are those in the Bible, and none of them point to someone like Jesus who made incredible claims and performed incredible deeds.

Perhaps the most defining principle of Christianity that makes it truly unique in every way and provides its fundamental basis is the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Within Christianity, the resurrection is vitally important, for without it, Christianity does not exist, and our faith is useless (1 Corinthians 15:14). It was Jesus' resurrection that changed the lives of the disciples. After Jesus was crucified, the disciples ran and hid. But when they saw the risen Lord, they knew that all Jesus had said and done proved that He was indeed God in flesh. No other religious leader has died in full view of trained executioners, had a guarded tomb, and then rose three days later to appear to many people. The resurrection is proof of who Jesus is and that He did accomplish what He set out to do: provide the only means of redemption for mankind. Buddha did not rise from the dead. Muhammad did not rise from the dead. Confucius did not rise from the dead. Krishna did not rise from the dead. Only Jesus has physically risen from the dead, walked on water, claimed to be God, and raised others from the dead. He has conquered death. Only in Christianity do we have the person of Christ who claimed to be God, performed many miracles to prove His claim of divinity, died and rose from the dead, and claimed that He alone is “the way the t***h and the life” (John 14:6) and that no one comes to the Father except through Him.

padremike Loc: Phenix City, Al

Never miss a chance! I'm thinking you don't know to what door Jesus was speaking.

Rose42

Canuckus Deploracus Loc: North of the wall

Chinese Buddhists often use the name Buddha to swear...

Many Muslims use the word Allah as a swear..

Western culture tends to use Jesus, Christ, and God... But other cultures use other terms...

Jovickie

Jovickie

Guess that part about “can’t we all just get along “ isn’t gonna pan out 😕