(August 9, 2014 at 4:48 am)Baqal Wrote: The Bible can be subjectively interpreted and thus leads us to many different Christian denominations. But there is one thing in common that all of these denominations have: they believe in God. And that is a objective description of what it takes to MINIMALLY be a Christian.
Maybe you heard this before, but the position of Christianity isn't necessarily a position of actions, it is a position of belief. Actions do not present us a "true" Christian. The belief does.
But what does it mean to believe in God? Does embracing an allegorical conception of God make one a Christian? Would a person who conceptualizes gods as a potential of the psyche generally and who recognizes the Christian God as alive and well in his own psyche count as a true Christian? What counts as belief probably has to get parsed as well.
