Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

-One should strive to act with compassion and empathy towards all creatures in accordance with reason.
-The struggle for justice is an ongoing and necessary pursuit that should prevail over laws and institutions.
-One’s body is inviolable, subject to one’s own will alone.
The freedoms of others should be respected, including the freedom to offend. To willfully and unjustly encroach upon the freedoms of another is to forgo your own.
-Beliefs should conform to our best scientific understanding of the world. We should take care never to distort scientific facts to fit our beliefs.
-People are fallible. If we make a mistake, we should do our best to rectify it and resolve any harm that may have been caused.
-Every tenet is a guiding principle designed to inspire nobility in action and thought. The spirit of compassion, wisdom, and justice should always prevail over the written or spoken word

mwdegutis Loc: Illinois

Question: "What is a true Christian?"
Answer: According to Acts 11:26, the followers of Jesus were first called Christians at Antioch. Why were they called Christians? Because they were “followers of Christ.” They had committed their lives to “walk as Jesus did” (1 John 2:6).

Other Scriptures explain how a person comes to faith in Jesus Christ and begins this relationship. For example, Ephesians 2:8-9 reveals that a person becomes a Christian by faith, not by following a list of rules or good works: “For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.” A true Christian has faith in Jesus as the Savior.

Romans 10:9-10 says, “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.” A true Christian is unashamed to say Jesus is Lord and believes Jesus was resurrected from the dead.

First Corinthians 15:3 says this message of the resurrected Jesus is of “first importance.” Without Jesus’ resurrection our faith is “futile,” and we are “still in [our] sins” (v. 7). A true Christian lives by faith in the resurrected Jesus (1 Corinthians 15:13-14).

Paul writes, "If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. . . . The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children" (Romans 8:9, 16). A true Christian has God’s Holy Spirit living within.

Despite the wide variety of beliefs that fall under the general “Christian” label today, the Bible defines a true Christian as one who has personally received Jesus Christ as Savior, who trusts in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ alone for forgiveness of sins, who has the Holy Spirit residing within, and whose life evinces change consistent with faith in Jesus.

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

You didn't answer the question or get the right answer.

Write: "I'm an i***t" on the chalk board a thousand times.

mwdegutis Loc: Illinois

I wasn't answering the question.

"You're an i***t" on the chalk board a thousand times.

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

Then you struggle with reading...that explains so much.... :?

mwdegutis Loc: Illinois

Then you struggle with comprehension...that explains so much.

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

You struggle with many things.

You can't do a simple search in google to get the right answer.

You're opinion is of no consequence, you'll burn just like everyone else...deluded...smug...arms crossed...

lindajoy Loc: right here with you....

Your first is of the Satanic Temple, as is the third...the rest may very well be although I do not remember reading them before..

Why would we limit our beliefs' to that of scientific understanding..Science thesis change by the minute and or depending on who composed the compilation of data and reports....It is no more accurate than our own "reasoning of something"...I'll listen to me over them..I'll use them or it as a guide but I will not simply accept it because its written by some think tank ..................

I see where the thread is headed in discussion, what was your purpose for posting the question??

jelun

Reading isn't reading without comprehension.

Face it, your insistence on inserting Christianity as superior to all other belief systems stunts your IQ.

jelun

You have s/him pegged, for sure.

okie don

"Seek and ye shall find" ( can't quote scripture.
"Speak not to all about GOD"- Pythaguras(530 BC)

Some find and believe, some don't.
That's my attitude anyway for what it's worth.

mwdegutis Loc: Illinois

First, thanks for not accepting my humble apology.

Second, Jesus himself said (emphasis is mine), "“I am THE way, THE t***h, and THE life. NO ONE can come to the Father except through me."

okie don

'Be humble, don't stumble' jelun(:

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

Jesus wasn't talking to you.....hypocrite.

Dummy Boy Loc: Michigan

flies like poop, so I didn't expect you. No insult intended for you. You have passed the test.