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 Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 5:30 pm
This is the sub-forum where people can seek advice on tough questions, seek assistance on life issues, etc.~ You know the rules, respect, keep it PG-13. However, because this is a "Life Issues" area, we'll be a little bit more lenient on this rule! Thanks ^^
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:34 pm
I was wondering, there are possibly 100,000's of 1,000's of religions out there, how can we Christians be sure that being a Christian will get us into salvation. I remember thinking this a while back and even though i believe in Jesus Christ and everything i still think about all the good people in the world who have helped us out so much i mean look at Ghandi and Albert Eisenstein. What will happen to the people who have followed gods plan though believe in a different religion because of choice or not?
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Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 10:31 pm
There's a little something I like to call faith. It's what makes religion, a religon. If it were facts, then it would be science. As Christians we believe in the idea that there is a God and his son came to earth and died to save us.
And as for all the great people who don't believe in God and Jesus, yet still lived good, even godly lives, they won't be going to heaven. I hate to tell you that but Jesus said that he is the way, the truth, and the life, and no one can get to the Father except through him. (I don't know if that's the actual quote or not, I always get it wrong in some way, though that's the basic idea behind the verse.)
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 3:51 pm
d34thk1tty I was wondering, there are possibly 100,000's of 1,000's of religions out there, how can we Christians be sure that being a Christian will get us into salvation. I remember thinking this a while back and even though i believe in Jesus Christ and everything i still think about all the good people in the world who have helped us out so much i mean look at Ghandi and Albert Eisenstein. What will happen to the people who have followed gods plan though believe in a different religion because of choice or not? Oh oh!! I know the answer!! I had this explained to me!!! Oh if i only had a tape recorder in my brain i could play it for you!! *sigh* And Albert Eisentsein was a christian just to let you know smile *edit* this is why i am majoring in theology. So i can actually remember this stuff :p
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 6:02 pm
Siren of Saturn d34thk1tty I was wondering, there are possibly 100,000's of 1,000's of religions out there, how can we Christians be sure that being a Christian will get us into salvation. I remember thinking this a while back and even though i believe in Jesus Christ and everything i still think about all the good people in the world who have helped us out so much i mean look at Ghandi and Albert Eisenstein. What will happen to the people who have followed gods plan though believe in a different religion because of choice or not? Oh oh!! I know the answer!! I had this explained to me!!! Oh if i only had a tape recorder in my brain i could play it for you!! *sigh* And Albert Eisentsein was a christian just to let you know smile *edit* this is why i am majoring in theology. So i can actually remember this stuff :p weird i heard he wasn't... o-o;; i should look this stuff up before saying stuff like this ^-^;;
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:31 pm
Oh! Issac Newton was a Christian too! ^^ Used science and discovering the law of gravity to strengthen his faith in the Lord.
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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 7:36 pm
d34thk1tty I was wondering, there are possibly 100,000's of 1,000's of religions out there, how can we Christians be sure that being a Christian will get us into salvation. I remember thinking this a while back and even though i believe in Jesus Christ and everything i still think about all the good people in the world who have helped us out so much i mean look at Ghandi and Albert Eisenstein. What will happen to the people who have followed gods plan though believe in a different religion because of choice or not? Well, He warns us about that ^^ Quote: Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it. ~ Matthew 7:13 God's plan is to use us to praise and know him as the one and only God. If we know him, we can pick him out from a crowd of others who appear like him, right? 3nodding Quote: My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand. I and my Father are one. ~ John 10:27-30 And we can't serve two masters, or be a servent of God yet not know him or believe in his Son. Quote: "No servant can serve two masters, because either he will hate one and love the other, or be loyal to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and wealth!" ~ Luke 16:13 In that case, money was being used as an idol, which the Bible says anything that goes to an idol before God goes to Satan. God and Satan = the two masters 3nodding Or here is a nice link on that.
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Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 7:46 am
Agreed with ya'll~ But I didn't know Einstein was a Christian o-0! I though he was Jewish or Atheist or Agnostic~!
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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 11:47 pm
Einstein was a humanist. He was raised Jewish. Here's an excerpt from an article Einstein wrote in the 9 November 1940 edition of Nature:   And, in a 1950 Letter to M. Berkowitz: "I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth." - October 25, 1950, Einstein Archive 59-215 (which, unfortunately, the UT database couldn't get me access to [like it did for that Nature article]) Edit: And, yes, Issac Newton was devout, almost to the extreme.
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:42 pm
Wow! Thanks Icarus ^^ And what do you mean, Isaac Newton was almost a Christian to the extreme?
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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 1:36 am
mazuac Wow! Thanks Icarus ^^ And what do you mean, Isaac Newton was almost a Christian to the extreme? More recent translations indicate that he was very devout, and in fact believed that he was especially chosen by God to have a particularly perfect understanding of the scriptures. A lot more can be found here, and in the various sites the article links to at the bottom.
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