Christian's of VGChartz, are you Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant or Non-Denominational? (Edit:Poll fixed)

[Joelcool7]

The Fury said:

Joelcool7 said:

The Fury said:

sapphi_snake said:

Are you absolutely sure?

If they worthship and follow Christ as a main part or power of their faith, then they can call themselves Christian. Worthship of Jehovah (God, Allah) does not mean you are a Christian. Well, following the New Testament and taking it's words a a main basis for your faith helps.

The way I'd say it. If you believe in Christ as your Lord and Savior and the New Testiment as 100% truth then you are considered Christian. However if your theology does not see Jesus Christ as God and follow the new testiment then you are not Christian. Many religion's believe in Christ in many different ways. Even Islam sees the Bible as a Holy text (Still not entirely sure how, but my Muslim friends assure me that it is). But Islam does not see Jesus as God and do not follow Christ as their lord and savior.

Just because you believe in the Bible, even believing in someone named Jesus doesn't make you a Christian. if that were the case Sihk's would be Christian's, Muslim's would be Christian and most Jews would be Christian. Heck theirs even Athiests who believe Jesus was a living breathing man.

It's following the teachings of Christ as laid out in the New Testiment and believing in Jesus as your Lord and savior that makes you a Christian!

The Islamic faith is based on the stories of the Bible and it's teachings, most prominant prophets of the Christian and Jewish faith are prophets in Islam, Muhammed restored their teachings as well as producing the Qu'ran (I think). They see Jesus as a prophet, not the son of God.

The idea that if you believe in Christ and have faith in him as you describe above is why I have a go at anyone who claiming certain other Christ based faiths are not Christian. LDS being one which most people think is not Christianity.

Well thats because Christian's , Jews and Muslims all believe in essentially the same God. The God of Abraham. But does that mean all three are Christian? No since Jews and Muslims do not recognize Jesus as God or the teachings of the New Testiment.

As for the Church of Latter Day Saints or Mormon's they have the Book of Mormon which many Mormon's (Everyone I've met) believes supercedes the Bible. They believe in a totally different Jesus Christ then I do. However yes many do classify them as Christian because they believe in the Bible.

I once had an interesting conversation with a mormon, she was trying to convert me. I said to her does she believe in Jesus , she said yes. I said does she believe in the Bible she said yes. I then asked did she believe I was going to heaven she said yes. So then I asked her point blank, if this is the case why should I convert to Mormonism. She then told me about the Book of Mormon. However in the end she wasn't successful because she said the Bible was the word of God, I believed in the right God and was going to heaven so why would I need to follow some other book.

The Book of Mormon has also been proven false unlike the New Testiment. Archeologists have proven many of the places depicted in the book and many people and tribes did not exist. The Book also treats certain races and ethnic groups differently contrary to the teachings of the Bible.

The New Testiment is the teachings of Jesus Christ. If you have another book or another belief that contradicts the teachings of Christ then your not a follower of Christ.