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

 

Which are you?

Catholic 18 16.82%
 
Orthodox 20 18.69%
 
Protestant 15 14.02%
 
Non-Denominational 13 12.15%
 
Non Christian just wanna see results 40 37.38%
 
Total:106
Jumpin on 21 August 2011
osamanobama said:
Jumpin said:
I am not entirely sure what I would be considered. My family belongs to a denomination where we believe Yahovah is a Demiurge who formed the universe in ignorance of 30 higher Gods.

The 30 Gods and Goddesses share a collective consciousness and existence called the Pleroma. Sophia was the youngest female of the 30 Gods, and went off on her own to find the origin of everything, and upon getting lost she became lonely and conceived Yahovah on her own. She was ashamed of him, and so hid him away and in his ignorance of everything, felt he was the original being, and brought the material universe into existence.

Sophia's divine power was scattered among the souls of humanity, and her consort from the Pleroma was born into flesh to bring Sophia (the soul of humanity) back to the totality of the Pleroma, the true divine power of the Universe, and not the false Yahovah of the old testament who was a jealous and flawed being, and not a true God.



Anyway, I am not sure if this falls under Protestant or not, anyone know what my family religion falls under?

Oh, one more detail, we practice in underground Temples, and in groves, because Cathedrals and Churches are a celebration of the material universe of Yahovah, and not the true path intended by Jesus.

thats not Christianity. but is interesting.

It is called Christianity. We also follow the bible.



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Branko2166 on 21 August 2011
ils411 said:
Branko2166 said:

Unfortunately I couldn't take part in the poll as I am Orthodox Christian. Historically we and the catholics were part of a unified Roman church until the great schism in 1054 which split the church in two.

Here is a decent link which explains the differences between the Orthodox and Catholics.
http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/ortho_cath.html

Without going into too much detail I basically just try to live my life without hurting anyone and respecting God's laws as much as I can in this secular age. For instance even though I shouldn't work Sundays, at my work it is a requirement.

I don't believe in preaching to people though I will discuss my beliefs if anyone inquires.

One very important thing I believe is that judgement day will only happen when God deems it appropriate and that we as people can not influence this in any way which it appears may be the belief of many fundamentalist Christians these days.

I don't believe in preemptive use of force. It should only be ever used if attacked and even then enemies should be treated mercifully. That is combatants should be given a quick death, prisoners and civillians are not to be harmed.

That's just a quick and basic summary of my beliefs.

I got curious about your link and clicked it. While reading it, I was like "Why does this article seems biased towards the Orthodox Church and makes the Catholic Church look like the stupids.." then I scrolled up and saw this

"Copyright, 1994 St. Nectarios American Orthodox Church
Reproduced with permission from The Orthodox Christian Witness, Vol. XXVII (48), Vol. XXVIII (6) and (8), 1994.
May not be reproduced without permission"


ahhh...soooo...This document is from the Orthdox Church. It would be nice, when sighting such Information, it would be better to sight something from an unbiased source. Just saying.

Anyways, I have a question, "Why are you an Orthodox Christian"? Is it by choice or were you born into it?

I'd also like to address the same question to all the Christians here.."Why are you Christians?" Was it a choice you made yourselves? Where you born into it? Where you persuaded or coerced into it? Actually, this applies to all religions.. "Why are you a follower -insert religion here-"? Like i said, were you born into this religion?

Regarding that link, it just happened to be one of the first that came up when I googled the difference between denominations. I'm not in any way trying to promote one of the other.

As for your question, I was born into it.



 

 

Branko2166 on 21 August 2011
richardhutnik said:
I find it weird that Orthodox would clock in as top Christian on here in the survey. Is it that VGChartz has a number of people from Eastern Europe or Russia on here?


Evidently we have a very diverse group of users on these forums. As far as your point goes I don't think it's as simple as saying there are lots of people from eastern Europe on vgchartz. There are millions of Orthodox residing in the Middle East and Africa as well, mainly in Egypt, Syria, and Ethiopia.

I myself live in Australia(originally from Bosnia in central Europe).



 

 

Lastgengamer on 21 August 2011

Good thread. While I respect those who go to church; I myself am non denominational, since I believe most of those traditions associated with going to church to be fluff and not at all necessary for the faith.



richardhutnik on 21 August 2011
Lastgengamer said:

Good thread. While I respect those who go to church; I myself am non denominational, since I believe most of those traditions associated with going to church to be fluff and not at all necessary for the faith.

I tried to go that route and watch too many church splits and arguments of minutia that was part of the reason why I ended up in the Orthodox faith actually, which doesn't lay out a lot theologically, allowing for room for different thought, but the church doesn't blow up either.



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huaxiong90 on 21 August 2011
Branko2166 said:
richardhutnik said:
I find it weird that Orthodox would clock in as top Christian on here in the survey. Is it that VGChartz has a number of people from Eastern Europe or Russia on here?


Evidently we have a very diverse group of users on these forums. As far as your point goes I don't think it's as simple as saying there are lots of people from eastern Europe on vgchartz. There are millions of Orthodox residing in the Middle East and Africa as well, mainly in Egypt, Syria, and Ethiopia.

I myself live in Australia(originally from Bosnia in central Europe).

Are you a Bosniak? Or Serbian?

 

As for the Christians of the Middle East, for other people's info:

- The Christians within my fellow Palestinians/Jordanians are mainly Greek Orthodox (fellow Palestinians by ethnicity, and fellow Jordanians by nationality).

- Syrians are also mostly Greek Orthodox, but they have Syriacs/Assyrians, Armenians who belong to the Armenian Apostolic Church, and Maronite Catholics.

- The Lebanese Christians are mainly Maronites, with some Greek Orthodox and Greek Catholic.

- Iraqi Christians mainly belong to the Eastern Rite churches

- Christianity in the gulf countries comes from foreigners mainly.

- Egyptian Christians are mainly Coptic Orthodox.

- Sudanese Christians are mainly Anglican or Roman Catholic, but with a notable number of Coptics.

- Libyan Christians are Coptics.

- Algerian Christians are both Protestant and Roman Catholic.

- Moroccans I think are Coptics as well.



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richardhutnik on 22 August 2011
Branko2166 said:
richardhutnik said:
I find it weird that Orthodox would clock in as top Christian on here in the survey. Is it that VGChartz has a number of people from Eastern Europe or Russia on here?


Evidently we have a very diverse group of users on these forums. As far as your point goes I don't think it's as simple as saying there are lots of people from eastern Europe on vgchartz. There are millions of Orthodox residing in the Middle East and Africa as well, mainly in Egypt, Syria, and Ethiopia.

I myself live in Australia(originally from Bosnia in central Europe).

When I was pondering this, I was also think who had Internet access in sufficient numbers, and didn't think of the Mid East and Africa as being places with that, and/or stable enough people would be on VGChartz talking about videogame stuff at this time.



sapphi_snake on 22 August 2011
richardhutnik said:
I find it weird that Orthodox would clock in as top Christian on here in the survey. Is it that VGChartz has a number of people from Eastern Europe or Russia on here?

I assume that a couple of people are just voting over and over again.



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sapphi_snake on 22 August 2011
Jumpin said:
osamanobama said:
Jumpin said:
I am not entirely sure what I would be considered. My family belongs to a denomination where we believe Yahovah is a Demiurge who formed the universe in ignorance of 30 higher Gods.

The 30 Gods and Goddesses share a collective consciousness and existence called the Pleroma. Sophia was the youngest female of the 30 Gods, and went off on her own to find the origin of everything, and upon getting lost she became lonely and conceived Yahovah on her own. She was ashamed of him, and so hid him away and in his ignorance of everything, felt he was the original being, and brought the material universe into existence.

Sophia's divine power was scattered among the souls of humanity, and her consort from the Pleroma was born into flesh to bring Sophia (the soul of humanity) back to the totality of the Pleroma, the true divine power of the Universe, and not the false Yahovah of the old testament who was a jealous and flawed being, and not a true God.



Anyway, I am not sure if this falls under Protestant or not, anyone know what my family religion falls under?

Oh, one more detail, we practice in underground Temples, and in groves, because Cathedrals and Churches are a celebration of the material universe of Yahovah, and not the true path intended by Jesus.

thats not Christianity. but is interesting.

It is called Christianity. We also follow the bible.

Are you absolutely sure?



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"Last book I read was Brokeback Mountain, I just don't have the patience for them unless it's softcore porn."

                                                                               (The Voice of a Generation and Seece)

"If you cant stand the sound of your own voice than dont become a singer !!!!!"

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The Fury on 22 August 2011
sapphi_snake said:
Jumpin said:

It is called Christianity. We also follow the bible.

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.



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