RE: Hall of wit and epicness.
January 21, 2014 at 10:07 pm
(This post was last modified: January 21, 2014 at 10:13 pm by Polaris.)
(January 20, 2014 at 8:43 am)rasetsu Wrote:(January 19, 2014 at 5:17 am)Esquilax Wrote: I've always found it odd, the way some people want to equate a lack of knowledge about a religion as not being a part of it, for a number of reasons. First of all, if salvation is through faith, it shouldn't matter how much you actually understand, right? Additionally, there's clearly some other component beyond religious knowledge involved in that equation, since you wouldn't consider an atheist who knows the bible word for word to be a christian, would you?
Lastly, it's not a definition we'd apply anywhere else, either; if I play chess and lose all the time, am I not playing chess? Polaris, what you're describing isn't someone who isn't a christian but thinks they are.
You're describing a christian who's bad at their religion.
nailed it.
Yeah no. It's OK. You Americans (regardless of beliefs) rarely examine cultures outside of your own.
You try and pretend that they are the same as yours (even other Western powers like France) and you end up with responses like you two give.
But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.