(September 18, 2023 at 12:12 pm)FrustratedFool Wrote:(September 18, 2023 at 11:32 am)tackattack Wrote: Wow.. 15 pages I don't think I'm going to bother catching up on. Again @FrustratedFool, please quote me in the reply or mention if you'd like a quicker response, typically I just look at today's posts when I log unless someone specified my username.
No, I don't think I would consider myself a Christian without religious experience and an understanding of the Bible. Mainly because of the definition of Christian (follower of Christ) which necessitates both an "knowledge of" and a "relationship with". The relationship really is the crux of the definition of being a Christian for me. If the knowledge base I grew up in was Hindu instead of Christianity, I might very well have attributed it to Shiva, Vishnu or Kalki (sp?).
Given its vital importance, could you describe the religious experience you have had without which you would not be a Christian?
it seems the singularly decisive religious experience is nothing more than his by sheer chance being born into a milieu where christianity happen to be the loudest component of the ambient cacophony
