(October 31, 2018 at 8:02 am)robvalue Wrote: I recently heard an atheist asked whether they’d be a Christian if they woke up one day and believed in Jesus, The Bible, and so on. They said yes they would, because a Christian is someone who believes those things to be true.
I’ve always stated I wouldn’t be a Christian, even if I became convinced that it contained truth. But perhaps this is a contradiction. By the above definition I’d be a Christian, but I would call the whole thing morally corrupt, and I’d want no part of it; just as I wouldn’t vote for the Tories, but I still accept they are real.
I expect this comes up so rarely that there’s not even a particular term for it. I’ve heard of maltheism in general, and that’s rare enough, without a belief that a specific religion is true to rebel against.
What would I be called?
Here's the thing big thinker..
We according to Christ and the bible do not get to award ourselves with such a title.
Only the religious claim christianity.
Jesus was not fond of religious people.
To object to religion and traditional beliefs as a means to salvation is following in the foot steps of Christ Himself.
If you learned the truth of Christ and accepted it you would be a believer not much different than me.
As I am not religious either. I go to church I believe in God but not the traditions and repetitions of religious worship. For those who need it, fine.. for those who don't, can live a life after Christ without it.
That is what bible christianity is all about. freedom from the law/religion as a means to be judged righteous before God.
Without Christ we must follow the law to be found righteous and everyone without Christ will be judged by this law... with Christ Christ blood covers the demand for restitution the law requires, so then you find rightness before God through christ and not through following the points of the law.
