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 Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 8:36 pm
RaInBoWdAsHiNg No, but Jos K Kitten did say that "Christ came down to earth to abolish religion." Which is not a true statement. He came to save us from original sin, and set the law straight. yeah I wasn't trying to argue with you on that. Sorry if it came off like I was.
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Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2013 8:46 pm
rmcdra RaInBoWdAsHiNg No, but Jos K Kitten did say that "Christ came down to earth to abolish religion." Which is not a true statement. He came to save us from original sin, and set the law straight. yeah I wasn't trying to argue with you on that. Sorry if it came off like I was. No no I didn't think that, You had just said I don't think anyone here is saying that the idea of church is bad. But the last part of her thread discredited the creation of a religion so I feel that maybe there is some animosity between Religion VS Church.
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Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2013 6:05 am
RaInBoWdAsHiNg rmcdra RaInBoWdAsHiNg No, but Jos K Kitten did say that "Christ came down to earth to abolish religion." Which is not a true statement. He came to save us from original sin, and set the law straight. yeah I wasn't trying to argue with you on that. Sorry if it came off like I was. No no I didn't think that, You had just said I don't think anyone here is saying that the idea of church is bad. But the last part of her thread discredited the creation of a religion so I feel that maybe there is some animosity between Religion VS Church. Oh yeah that's right she did. I addressed it and gave my 2 cents on it already so yeah I kinda forgot.
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Posted: Sun Apr 07, 2013 12:59 am
Of course there was no concept of "Christianity" as a religion until well after the death and resurrection. At the same time, while I agree Christ was not trying to start a "religion", he was creating a Church. What that means to me is that Christianity in practice is a community as well as a faith.
Yes, the most important thing is that one believes. But it is also important that Christians believe and pray and "do Christianity" together, whether they are able to be physically together or not. Sometimes I feel that people don't appreciate the meaning of community... they think it only means people who spend time together, share some things, have some things in common. In a Christian sense, it's much deeper than that. "Fellowship" isn't just something people do to get to know each other. Christians are literally one body.
Our culture, at least in the US, is very individualist, and it's popular therefore to assume that a person can just be Christian all by themselves. We can believe as individuals, but we can't have Church without community, and we can't have Christianity without Church.
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