goat wrote:drs wrote:McCulloch wrote:Slackerella wrote:I am a christian, but I differ slightly. I belive that God/Jesus/Holy Spirit are in fact 3 different individual personages, not one in the same. But I agree with everything else.
Can I still be Christian?
McCulloch wrote:Not according to Brother Drs.
drs wrote:lol are speaking for me?
Just drawing the logical conclusion. You stated that
regarding core issues there can be no debate here is a short list that anyone claiming to be a Christian should believe. Slackerella stated that she differed. Since there is no debate, according your own words, I must conclude that you must consider her to not be a Christian. Either that or you did not really mean what you wrote when you stated your creed.
I have asked and she is yet to state what she means.
And for there can be no debate these are GOD's truth according to scripture.
A Christian SHOULD believe these.
Why SHOULD a Christian believe that. Many Christians disagree with your interpretation of scripture. The fact that there are Christians that disagree DOES mean that there IS debate on it, since they are basing it 'according to scripture'.
I gave scripture reffences on the other thead that this started from
Here in these scriptures
verse 46 crucifiction and rise from the dead on third day
verse 47 repentence for sin
Luke 24 (New King James Version)
The Scriptures Opened
44 Then He said to them, “These are the words which I spoke to you while I was still with you, that all things must be fulfilled which were written in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms concerning Me.� 45 And He opened their understanding, that they might comprehend the Scriptures.
46 Then He said to them, “Thus it is written, and thus it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise[h] from the dead the third day, 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in His name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem. 48 And you are witnesses of these things. 49 Behold, I send the Promise of My Father upon you; but tarry in the city of Jerusalem
until you are endued with power from on high.�
verse 3 rebirth to enter the kingdom of heaven
verse 16 Son of GOD everlasting life to those who believe in him
verse 18-20 all are condemned who do not believe in LORD JESUS
John 3 (New King James Version)
John 3
The New Birth
1 There was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. 2 This man came to Jesus by night and said to Him, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher come from God; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.�
3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.�
4 Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?�
5 Jesus answered, “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but cannot tell where it comes from and where it goes. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.�
9 Nicodemus answered and said to Him, “How can these things be?�
10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? 11 Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven.[a] 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.�
Matthew 22 (New King James Version)
Matthew 22
verse 37-38 Love GOD above all
verse 39 love neigber as yourself
37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’[d] 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’[e] 40 On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.�
