can you be Christian and bI?

rapture101 · Post by **rapture101** » Thu May 05, 2005 10:41 pm

i know this sounds weird.One of the people I go to school with asked me this questian.So I became a little weird about it.I couldnt find the amswer.So what are your oppions?

Madeline · Post by **Madeline** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:26 am

Here is a link on Einstein, and whether he actually believed in a personal God. I know that Einstein believed in a historical Jesus, but don't believe he was a christian.

http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/einstein.html

Here is an interview with Einstein and what he believed about Jesus in short:

"To what extent are you influenced by Christianity?"

"As a child I received instruction both in the Bible and in the Talmud. I am a Jew, but I am enthralled by the luminous figure of the Nazarene."

"Have you read Emil Ludwig's book on Jesus?"

"Emil Ludwig's Jesus is shallow. Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot."

"You accept the historical Jesus?"

"Unquestionably! No one can read the Gospels without feeling the actual presence of Jesus. His personality pulsates in every word. No myth is filled with such life."

http://www.ctinquiry.org/publications/r ... rrance.htm

Love,
Madeline

methylatedghosts · Post by **methylatedghosts** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 10:11 am

topaz wrote:Hi meth

You talk of relativity, Einstein. Do you know that Einstein was a christian. Yes a messianic christian. How about that ?

I'm not talking about Einstein. I was talking about relativity. There IS a difference however close you may think they are.

So please don't give me all that crap explanation about tsunami, earthquake and all. God is bigger and deeper than science.

God created science.

And ... don't you know that the bible says sin desolates the land ?

The bible is not an authoritative source

bernee51 · Post by **bernee51** » Thu Oct 19, 2006 11:14 pm

topaz wrote: You talk of relativity, Einstein. Do you know that Einstein was a christian. Yes a messianic christian. How about that ?

Einstein said "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings."

and

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."

That certainly doesn't sound like a messianic christian to me.

I think you are making it up - bearing false witness. You must know that bearing false witness is a sin - bound for the lake of fire you are.

topaz wrote: So please don't give me all that crap explanation about tsunami, earthquake and all. God is bigger and deeper than science.

How is it 'crap'? Because you say so?

topaz wrote: And ... don't you know that the bible says sin desolates the land ?

Humans desolate the land. Sin only exists in the mind is god botherers like you.