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Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
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RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
(September 24, 2016 at 10:22 pm)InquiringMind Wrote: If you can give me a good definition of a True Conservative or a True Liberal, I'll do my best to come up with a definition of a True Christian.

A liberal is someone who see's the cup as half filled. A conservative is someone who says "Who' been drinking out of my cup"

Proceed!
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#22
RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
(September 24, 2016 at 10:42 pm)chimp3 Wrote:
(September 24, 2016 at 10:22 pm)InquiringMind Wrote: If you can give me a good definition of a True Conservative or a True Liberal, I'll do my best to come up with a definition of a True Christian.

A liberal is someone who see's the cup as half filled. A conservative is someone who says "Who' been drinking out of my cup"

Proceed!

That may be true.  But I don't think that's a satisfactory definition of a True Conservative and a True Liberal. For example, George W. Bush described John McCain as a "true conservative" and I'm still unclear about how a conservative is different from a True Conservative.
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RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
(September 24, 2016 at 11:31 pm)InquiringMind Wrote:
(September 24, 2016 at 10:42 pm)chimp3 Wrote: A liberal is someone who see's the cup as half filled. A conservative is someone who says "Who' been drinking out of my cup"

Proceed!

That may be true.  But I don't think that's a satisfactory definition of a True Conservative and a True Liberal. For example, George W. Bush described John McCain as a "true conservative" and I'm still unclear about how a conservative is different from a True Conservative.
True is not good enough?
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#24
RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
(September 24, 2016 at 11:33 pm)chimp3 Wrote:
(September 24, 2016 at 11:31 pm)InquiringMind Wrote: That may be true.  But I don't think that's a satisfactory definition of a True Conservative and a True Liberal. For example, George W. Bush described John McCain as a "true conservative" and I'm still unclear about how a conservative is different from a True Conservative.
True is not good enough?

True is a lie. They use true to cover for the fact that they're going cafeteria.
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#25
RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
A 'True Quadruple Amputee' will have no hands or feet.

Posers will be hiding one or more. The really outrageous ones will have all 4.

What kind of 'True Christian' would we consider equivalent to an individual with all 4 appendages ??

An individual with just 3 ??

2 ??

1 ??


None ??
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#26
RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
A true Christian is the person who is saying that a Christian they disagree with is not a true Christian. So, again all Christians are true Christians.
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RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
(September 24, 2016 at 12:22 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: This was be "A Christian who follows exactly every edict attributed to Jesus Christ found in any version of the Gospels and associated texts in the Bible."

That is not what the Gospels teach however; a True Christian; is one who follows Jesus as Lord.
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#28
RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
Even the ones who 'follow' from ahead ??
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RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
(September 25, 2016 at 1:12 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Even the ones who 'follow' from ahead ??

I'm unsure what you are asking.... Do you mean those who came before Christ?
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#30
RE: Proposed: A common definition for "True Christian"
Bertrand Russell attempted this 80some years ago. Here's what he said he considered a minimum to call yourself a christian:

Quote:I think, however, that there are two different items which are quite essential to anybody calling himself a Christian. The first is one of a dogmatic nature—namely, that you must believe in God and immortality. If you do not believe in those two things, I do not think that you can properly call yourself a Christian. Then, further than that, as the name implies, you must have some kind of belief about Christ. The Mohammedans, for instance, also believe in God and in immortality, and yet they would not call themselves Christians. I think you must have at the very lowest the belief that Christ was, if not divine, at least the best and wisest of men. If you are not going to believe that much about Christ, I do not think you have any right to call yourself a Christian.

Bertrand Russell, "Why I Am Not A Christian", speech delivered 1927
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