Originally posted by @fmfI love how you never answer questions.
If you can't read the sentence and discern what it means, so be it.
I presume you mean salvation/heaven in exchange for adherence to a moral code of behavior.
That may be the case with other religions, but it ain’t with Christianity. Belief in and acceptance of Jesus Christ is what’s required.
As my old pastor said, “Other religions are about ‘do.’ Christianity is about ‘done.’ Jesus did it all.”
Originally posted by @romans1009I interpret your repeated question about the word "adherence" as tedious, disingenuous piss taking. Just so you understand me.
I love how you never answer questions.
Originally posted by @fmfIt was a legitimate question that you couldn’t answer. So rather than simply ignore it or provide a legitimate answer, you fall back on your overused and inadequate riposte that it’s the other person’s fault for not understanding your sloppy sentence structure or confused and muddled thinking.
I interpret your repeated question about the word "adherence" as tedious, disingenuous piss taking. Just so you understand me.
That’s my opinion. Just so you understand me.
Originally posted by @romans1009Don't be a buffoon. I understand my own writing. I understand the words "adherence" and "religions" as I used them.
It was a legitimate question that you couldn’t answer. So rather than simply ignore it or provide a legitimate answer, you fall back on your overused and inadequate riposte that it’s the other person’s fault for not understanding your sloppy sentence structure or confused and muddled thinking.
Originally posted by @romans1009Other people can make what they will of my ability to write and your behaviour and suggestion in response to it.
Well unless you’re writing in a diary, you might want to consider whether other people can understand your intended meaning.
Originally posted by @philokaliaIf religious belief and the perceived instructions of a god figure are what encourage a person to act and interact in a morally sound way, I welcome it.
Someone might think that their life is good enough without God. But nobody is actually pursuing moral perfection without God, and while life may certainly be enjoyable, it is not in the process of truly being bettered without a relationship with God.
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Originally posted by @romans1009This is what adherents of the Christian religion have to do, right?
“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.”
(Ecclesiastes 12:13)
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Originally posted by @romans1009Adherents of the Christian religion are required to keep their god figure's commandments, I think you will find.
Ecclesiastes is from the Old Testament - pre-Christianity.
Originally posted by @fmfNo they aren’t. Salvation is obtained by believing in Jesus Christ and His Resurrection.
Adherents of the Christian religion are required to keep their god figure's commandments, I think you will find.
If such belief is genuine and sincere, God’s Holy Spirit indwells the new believer and begins to change his or her heart and, consequently, behavior. That is what leads to good works and an aversion to sin.
If humans were capable of keeping God’s commandments, the regular sacrifice of animals would not have been necessary, nor would the one-time, all-encompassing sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
(Romans 3:23)
“For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
(Romans 6:23)
Originally posted by @romans1009You mean to say that the "the one-time, all-encompassing sacrifice of Jesus Christ" means that adherents of the Christian religion are not required to keep their god's commandments?
No they aren’t. Salvation is obtained by believing in Jesus Christ and His Resurrection.
If such belief is genuine and sincere, God’s Holy Spirit indwells the new believer and begins to change his or her heart and, consequently, behavior. That is what leads to good works and an aversion to sin.
If humans were capable of keeping God’s commandments, ...[text shortened]... uld not have been necessary, nor would the one-time, all-encompassing sacrifice of Jesus Christ.
Originally posted by @fmfIf you’re talking about what’s necessary for salvation, it’s genuine and sincere belief in Jesus Christ and His Resurrection.
You mean to say that the "the one-time, all-encompassing sacrifice of Jesus Christ" means that adherents of the Christian religion are not required to keep their god's commandments?