Post by Arlon10 on Jan 25, 2018 8:30:14 GMT
Christianity, you might well know, has more internal controversies and more vehemently contested ones than any other "discipline."
They argue with "themselves" over things like whether Jesus "is" a god or just some temporal manifestation of one. They argue whether infants can be truly baptized. They argue how necessary being "born again" is. They argue whether gibberish is of angelic origin. They argue whether women should wear hats in church. Many of those arguments can become quite heated with page after page of Bible quotes flying from each side. Quite many Christians go through much of their lives unaware how controversial those issues can get, but eventually many do find out. What's a "Pentecostal," some young ones ask.
Sometimes this board addresses those controversies, but usually it is more of any and all Christians however loosely defined against any and all atheists however loosely defined here.
The most remarkable "Christian" "internal" controversy is the one concerning "grace." The apostle Paul went on at great length about the difference between being "under the law" or "under grace." To Paul being a Christian meant no longer being under the laws of God. It meant more like being in the "family" of God in a way that people today might describe as tribalism. It doesn't matter so much what you do as what group you claim.
The foremost pastor I have seen speaking on grace on television is Joseph Prince. You might inform yourselves of the issues today by examining his materials.
The doctrine of grace can be very confusing. It can be quite murky just how important following any commandments can be. That can and does lead to strange people considering themselves "true Christians" seeing no requirements other people still place with some value.
You might find people who kill humans and have sex outside marriage without a blush calling themselves Christians. My own views on such activities are that we do not know exactly what God will forgive after death or how. On Earth though, and this is an important difference, many people are quite upset by such activities and believe they should be curtailed. Thus the controversy.
They argue with "themselves" over things like whether Jesus "is" a god or just some temporal manifestation of one. They argue whether infants can be truly baptized. They argue how necessary being "born again" is. They argue whether gibberish is of angelic origin. They argue whether women should wear hats in church. Many of those arguments can become quite heated with page after page of Bible quotes flying from each side. Quite many Christians go through much of their lives unaware how controversial those issues can get, but eventually many do find out. What's a "Pentecostal," some young ones ask.
Sometimes this board addresses those controversies, but usually it is more of any and all Christians however loosely defined against any and all atheists however loosely defined here.
The most remarkable "Christian" "internal" controversy is the one concerning "grace." The apostle Paul went on at great length about the difference between being "under the law" or "under grace." To Paul being a Christian meant no longer being under the laws of God. It meant more like being in the "family" of God in a way that people today might describe as tribalism. It doesn't matter so much what you do as what group you claim.
The foremost pastor I have seen speaking on grace on television is Joseph Prince. You might inform yourselves of the issues today by examining his materials.
The doctrine of grace can be very confusing. It can be quite murky just how important following any commandments can be. That can and does lead to strange people considering themselves "true Christians" seeing no requirements other people still place with some value.
You might find people who kill humans and have sex outside marriage without a blush calling themselves Christians. My own views on such activities are that we do not know exactly what God will forgive after death or how. On Earth though, and this is an important difference, many people are quite upset by such activities and believe they should be curtailed. Thus the controversy.
