LISTEN, CHRISTIANS!

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Huggy74,

Forgive me if someone has asked you this before;
I am new and I find the prospect of digging through all past threads, a bit daunting,
so if you'll allow me to ask:

Your profile says that you "believe in God, not Religion";

This is a view I have no problem with, whatsoever
(and one that I wish more people would adopt).

However, in this post you espouse Christian dogma....that Jesus IS God.

To me, that IS Religion....which your profile claims to eschew.

This seems incongruous to me.

If you are interested in elucidating, I'm interested to hear what you have to say on it.

I believe there is one supreme being which in and of itself is not a religion, a religion is man made and consists of a set of beliefs and traditions instructing you on what you can and can't do. A christian is free to do whatever he wants to do, there are no rules, but if you call yourself a christian and willfully commit sin, then it shows that the spirit of God isn't in you. A person with the spirit of God, would have no desire to sin, and therefore need no "religion"

I'll use this analogy, say two people are in love and decide to get married. Religion would be like having a list of do's and don'ts that you had to follow during the course of the marriage.

In a true marriage the husband or wife is free to do what they want, but loves each other so much that they would never do anything to hurt the other. But IF one so happened to mess up and have an affair and was truly repentant, then the other loves them enough to forgive them.

Willfully having affairs shows that they never truly love their spouse to begin with.

Short answer.. I don't belong to a denomination or any organization.

I see.  Thank you for replying.