Christianity and Suicide

[Godscreated]

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 I can agree with your first sentence to a point. Your second sentence needs some defining, religion is the practice of religious and formal things. These things are found in the worship services of Christian churches and they make up the whole of all other religions. practicing these things in no way makes one a Christian it's impossible and the evidence is in the Bible. Paul and the other writers of the NT state plainly that no amount of works can save you. If you do not trust in Jesus as your savior and come to live in a relationship with Him you are lost as last years Easter egg. The NT writings of Paul tell us that we can come to know God regardless of what you might believe and this knowing is knowledge. Just because you didn't experience it doesn't mean you are correct in any statements you make about Christianity. I know of no one who has the knowledge of God that has ever left Christianity. The Christians got their name early own from the secular world because of their deep devout following of Christ, ie. living in a relationship with Him.
 In your 5th sentence you are correct, there are many in the Christian church who do not know Christ and they are hell bound unless they change and accept Christ as their savior. In your 6th sentence you probably did say you knew God, but as it turns out you did not know Him or you would not have rejected Him because of somethings you thought were true. You never and I mean never were convinced you knew God as well as I claim and it's obvious because I will never reject Him. Living in a relationship of knowledge with Him is better than anything you can imagine. I will never deny Him for any reason, why because it's an impossible thing for me to do, I know He is real.
Your last sentence is nothing more than your lack of living for Christ in a relationship with Him, the knowledge you claim to have come by is your desire to break away from religion not a Godly relationship. 

GC

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Look, this whole argument is pointless since you can't provide any evidence that god exists. Once you have provided the evidence, then we can talk about whether you can be a Christian and not know him. But until you have shown he even exists to know, there is literally no point to this.

 Then we can dismiss the big bang because you have no evidence where the material came from to get thing started. Or are you going to rely on it was just there, surely not.

GC

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I believe GC is talking to himself. I admit I cannot prove that.

Then leave off the judgement of my mental state.

GC is in touch with what he believes to be is the creator of the universe. That should be trivial to prove.

I do have access to the God of creation, the only true God. If it's trivial for me to prove the God of creation who purposely uses faith in His relationship with mankind then you should have no problem in explaining where the material for the big bang came from.

All we get is A/S/K or that we are not sincere. So much for omnipotence.

You do neither so why do you believe God owes you an understanding, but you know He wants you to have an understanding. Why do you think the Christians are here, to take abuse from people like you, get real.

GC is talking to himself until otherwise demonstrated.I think he is delusional, and I am happy if that makes him behave well. I don't need that to be a well behaved human, and I don't think he needs that either. Travel GC, see the good and bad all around the world, and tell me what actually causes harm.

You are the one calling me delusional, it's up to you to prove that positive statement. You bet I'm happy, if you knew what it was like to live in a relationship with the living God you would be happy or jealous depends on what you do with the knowledge.

Education and the empowerment of women is demonstrably proven to increase wellbeing. Increased bible studies cause Ugandan anti-homo sexual laws and the spread of HIV because of the fear of protected sex.

Let's first get something straight, protestant Christians believe in protected sex and sex only within marriage. If all people lived by these two beliefs then HIV and other STDs would not exist and neither would the murder of countless babies. The protestant churches actually go into underdeveloped counties build schools and educate the children without the monetary support of the countries. We do not teach nor treat women as less than a man, there may be men in the church that do such things but it is not a teaching in the protestant church or at least any denominations I know of. The education and feeding of people in third world countries is of great importance to the church, we understand this will help them to manage their lives for their benefit and to the benefit of their neighbors.

The god you talk to is your own brain. Please travel and talk to other theists and you might learn something.

 
  Christ actually lives in my heart and not the muscle, the heart represents the center of our being. I have traveled and seen many things, I'm news conscious and I can tell you that missionaries bring back the real stories of what's happening in the world we serve. Get over yourself and realize others know many things you do not.

GC