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3b0abd No.581405

Ummm, is Christianity the one true religion? And if it is, then what denomination is the most accurate as far as Christian principles are concerned? I just don’t want to believe in lies all my life which is why I’m struggling to find the one true religion. Only one of them can be real.

Regards,

Deistanon

59b818 No.581409

>>581405

Most accurate? There's the Churches that were founded by the Apostles: Catholic, Orthodox, Coptic, Syrian. Then there's the protestants who came about 1500 years later. So if you were a betting man, what would you bet on?

Is it the true religion? I think too many people died by being eaten by lions for it not to be the true religion. It's not a folk story, Christ was real and so were the Apostles that spread the word.


9ebcd2 No.581412

inb4 (1) and done OP


3b0abd No.581414

>>581409

Could it be possible that Jesus was just fooling everyone


1a4a4c No.581415

>>581409

>Then there's the protestants who came about 1500 years later.

that's one way of looking at it, the other is that your institutions' teachings had 1500 years of corruption and additions to the Christianity we can read about in sacred scriptures, and what came about 500 years ago was one of many attempts to return to that.


7f10e5 No.581419

>>581409

>too many people died by being eaten by lions for it not to be the true religion

Jews are the most persecuted people in history, so by your metric, Judaism is the one true religion.


9ebcd2 No.581424

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>>581414

gn*stics get out


59b818 No.581425

>>581419

Jews were prosecuted for usury and general shenanigans, not because of their religious beliefs.

>>581415

The doctrine of the Apostolic Churches has always been the same. Someone appearing 1500 later and telling what should be in the Bible and what people should believe is not very credible.

>>581414

What if Buddha and the jewish prophets did the same?


9ebcd2 No.581428

>>581415

re fucking tarded even by pr*testant standards


d766de No.581430

>>581415

>”When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth…” eventuallly, like in 1500 years, be patient.

Your brain on Protestantism.


8c7449 No.581431

>>581405

>is Christianity the one true religion? And if it is, then what denomination is the most accurate as far as Christian principles are concerned?

Christianity is based on the truth, yes. It is based on those things which are in fact true.

Becoming the most accurate Christian or the truth is not all determined for you by simply joining a denomination. It's determined by the word of God and whether you are able to see the truth from the word of God or not. As shown in Luke 24:45, God is the source of understanding the scriptures; without Him you will never be accurate. Fortunately, with God, you can know the truth. Which is His word.


6976e0 No.581432

>>581405

I've been looking for the past few months. I'm starting to learn towards Apostolic Christianity, but I'm unsure if it's just my guilt or compulsions pushing me towards the places with the scariest messages.

While I agree Apostolics have doctrines closest to that of the early Christians (who I believe were likely closest to the truth), such as salvation by works, sacramental confession, the priesthood, and Church councils, I have my doubts that all their doctrines were taught by the Apostles. For example, the role and assumption or dormition of Mary, prayers to saints (although some evidence exists in the catacombs), and the modern use of images don't really seem to have been present in early Christianity. In fact, it seems it took them awhile to even get their Christology worked out, so I have my doubts that every Apostolic teaching today was truly passed down by the Apostles.


1a4a4c No.581435

>>581425

>The doctrine of the Apostolic Churches has always been the same

if i prove this wrong this is wrong beyond a shadow of a doubt, you have to write a post at least 400 words long about how beautiful martin luther's hat was.

deal?


59b818 No.581438

>>581432

Do some research. Go to websites of Apostolic Churches. You'll see that all of them say the same about the saints and Mary. For example the Copts, who have not been in communion with Rome for more than 1000 years, recognize the Assumption, they pray to saints, etc.

>>581435

You're telling me a German monk knew more about real Christianity than Syrians, for example, who are the oldest Christians? And the very fact you have the audacity to claim that a dude from 21st century can prove what real Christianity looked like is just ridiculous. Spare me.


b37dfa No.581439

>>581425

>because of their religious beliefs

Ah, I see, so witches murdered by the hundreds of thousands by Christians means witchcraft is the one true religion! Thanks for clarifying that.


59b818 No.581440

>>581439

Ah, so alleged witches gave themselves up willingly to die for their supposed faith? Or maybe you'll claim that criminality is the real religion because so many criminals got the death sentence?

>hundreds of thousands

No.


7f10e5 No.581447

>>581440

>it's ok when we do it!

Yes, by the way, hundreds of thousands. The Christian witch hunts lasted for 400 years. In Germany alone there were a recorded 80,000 witches burned.

But … it's ok when we do it, right?


6976e0 No.581448

>>581438

When I mean "early" Christianity, I mean truly early, as in ante-Nicene (preferably within the first or second centuries), as I've heard from some that after Christianity was legalized under Constantine, a bunch of pagans flooded with weird doctrines. I've heard of Irenaeus' reasoning of Mary as the "second Eve," but I think that most Christians, including Protestants, would agree with such a title, since it doesn't seem to imply much in the way of prayer or veneration.


1a4a4c No.581450

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>>581438

>Spare me

so that's a no?


9ebcd2 No.581454

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>>581447

Get your life back on track, anon.


16ccdd No.581491

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I said this in a thread about a potential convert before and I'll say it again, nearly every religion can provide evidence of mystics who meditated so well that they saw the light. Among occultists basically every faith or system is considered effective at achieving its spiritual aims, and "Theosis" or "Samadhi," the bliss of union with the Godhead, is a process as mechanically consistent and imitable as making a sandwich. Not that it's that easy, it requires decades of discipline and the ability to still the mind's movements into absolute nothingness in order to percieve the truth of things, it's just well attested enough in various faiths both old and new that they can treat it like a science.

But only Christianity has figures like St. Augustine who can converse with his mother on the lives of those in heaven and reach such heights of love and bliss in their conversation that that question is answered on the spot, saying "And when our conversation had brought us to the point where the very highest of physical sense and the most intense illumination of physical light seemed, in comparison with the sweetness of that life to come, not worthy of comparison, nor even omention, we lifted ourselves with a more ardent love toward the Selfsame, and we gradually passed through all the levels of bodily objects, and even through the heaven itself, where the sun and moon and stars shine on the earth. Indeed, we soared higher yet by an inner musing, speaking and marveling at thy works. And we came at last to our own minds and went beyond them, that we might climb as high as that region of unfailing plenty where thou feedest Israel forever with the food of truth, where life is that Wisdom by whom all things are made, both which have been and which are to be. Wisdom is not made, but is as she has been and forever shall be; for 'to have been' and 'to be hereafter' do not apply to her, but only 'to be,' because she is eternal and “to have been” and “to be hereafter” are not eternal. And while we were thus speaking and straining after her, we just barely touched her with the whole effort of our hearts. Then with a sigh, leaving the first fruits of the Spirit bound to that ecstasy, we returned to the sounds of our own tongue, where the spoken word had both beginning and end."

Only Christianity has figures like St. Thomas Aquinas who can construct an unparalleled masterpiece of theology and then one day get randomly struck by the light in the middle of mass and say "The end of my labors has come. All that I have written appears to be as so much straw after the things that have been revealed to me."

Only Christianity has figures like St. Teresa of Avila who didn't just work for Theosis, but after a certain point had it given to her with no effort on her own, saying "Then the cloud rises to heaven taking the soul with it, and begins to show it the features of the kingdom He has prepared for it. I do not know whether this is an accurate comparison, but in point of fact that is how it happens. In these raptures, the soul no longer seems to animate the body, its natural heat therefore is felt to diminish and it gradually gets cold, though with a feeling of very great joy and sweetness. Here there is no possibility of resisting. . . rapture is, as a rule, irresistible. Before you can be warned by a thought or help yourself in any way, it comes as a quick and violent shock; you see and feel this cloud, or this powerful eagle rising and bearing you up on its wings. You realize, I repeat, and indeed see that you are being carried away you know not where. . .We have to go willingly wherever we are carried, for in fact, we are being borne off whether we like it or not. In this emergency very often I should like to resist, and I exert all my strength to do so, especially at such times as I am in a public place, and very often when I am in private also, because I am afraid of delusions. Sometimes with a great struggle I have been able to do something against it. But it has been like fighting a great giant, and has left me utterly exhausted."

Perhaps this entire post reads as insane to you, the preaching of the Apostles on Pentecost seemed like drunken gibberish to those who heard it for the same reasons, but the more you research faith not just as a theory but as a practice, the more it's true ends are testified to not by figures of myth but of history. Spirituality is not just confined to theory, it is a living thing that masters of every faith have achieved bliss through and only in modern times has that fact been shoved to the side because modern minds cannot account for it in a purely rationalist worldview. But only the Holy Spirit can give these blessings freely as a gift to those who love him and love Jesus because the Holy Spirit is love itself. Not many will see God in their lives, but Jesus promises that everyone who trusts him will see him in their deaths.


4440a0 No.581496

>>581405

>Christianity the one true religion?

yes

>en what denomination is the most accurate as far as Christian principles are concerned?

My denomination, of course.


cb8ba5 No.581501

>>581405

>is Christianity the one true religion?

I believe so, yes.

>what denomination is the most accurate

All of them.

braces for impact


16ccdd No.581503

>>581501

I mean i'll impact you softly bby, but how is Luther as accurate as the RCC or Calvin as accurate as Pastor Anderson?


cb8ba5 No.581504

>>581503

Consider the parable of the weeds in Matthew 13:24-30. Even the most carefully sown field has weeds. It doesn't make it a bad field.


16ccdd No.581507

>>581504

Certainly, but there's a difference between saying "every denomination has the Gospel" and "every denomination is right," and fringe groups like Anderson's church or even mainstream ones like the Reformed tradition and it's predestination can preach deadly doctrines and not even realize it. I figured that's what you were getting at, but just remember that the weeds can very well choke the seeds.


cb8ba5 No.581508

>>581507

The question wasn't "which is right". The question was "which is accurate". People can be accurate without being right.


16ccdd No.581509

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>>581508

>People can be accurate without being right.

Hwut. I mean if by accurate we mean how close to the truth a person's teachings are, and by truth we mean what teachings are correct and not incorrect, and if right is a synonym for correct, then no I don't think that people can be accurate without being right. Am I missing something here?




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