MY QUESTION:

Do you believe in pure Christianity or Christianity added with wasteful fats over the centuries?

Some observations to think about!

The Bible is the most misinterpreted book in the whole world. If you have an axe to grind you have plenty of verses in it to do the job for you.

"Amen, Hallelujah, Blessed be His name, God is living, Praise the Lord. His will be done" - these are some of the most fat-rendering, misused expressions utilised entirely for self-aggrandizement.

The Christianity at its origin was fat-free. Now it is fat submerged thanks to some of its wily followers.

If you have an option to choose what would be your choice – the original one or the corrupted one?


BEST ANSWER - Chosen By Voters

I would prefer the teachings established by St. Paul any day. This was what closely resembled Christ's original message. By the time Christianity was born, that original message had been adulterated (to the point of persecuting the followers of the original message).

Don't overlook the fact that Christianity came long after the first sets of followers (who established what would later become Christianity) were gone. The original teachings were then mixed up with some pagan beliefs (like Christmas celebration to make the new one more popular), and with a few decrees here and there, the old teachings were taken over completely and Christianity was born


OTHER ANSWERS: -

Would choose to follow the True faith without all that crap found in cults like Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormonism that was added centuries later.

1. I believe in pure Christianity

2. The very original one, which I still believe in as a true religion but now it has been corrupted. Too bad!




3. I don't quite get what you are saying. What is wrong with saying, "Amen, Hallelujah, Blessed be His Name, God is living, Praise the Lord. His will be done"? I don't see how these words can be used for self-aggrandizement. Perhaps some do, but I'm having trouble imagining how they do so. It seems to me that if anything, these verses would produce humility in the person, and it reminds them to not be selfish, but to think of what God wants.

I do think that many people ignore some of the most important verses of the Bible though, so I kind of understand a little bit of what you might be saying. For example, Jesus clearly taught to live a humble life with no attachment to material possessions, and yet many today seem to forget those verses. They seem to ignore the part where Jesus says how hard it is for a rich man to get into the Kingdom of Heaven

5. I believe in the purest form of Christianity not the garbage that was added later at the Council of Nicaea and other so-called Church Councils.

6. Many religious groups who reject the pagan teachings, customs, doctrines, and holidays are considered "heretics" and "cults" such as the Jehovah's Witnesses, Christadelphians, Anabaptists and some of the Seventh Day Adventist groups. These groups reject worldly ideas and pagan holidays that infiltrated the churches centuries after Christ walked this earth. Jesus said that his TRUE disciples would be hated and spoken against, NOT accepted by the world or its political systems such as the mainstream churches that label them Christian but hypocritically follow the ways of the world.

7. I would rather be labeled as a "heretic" or a "cultist" then blindly follow a church system which has committed so much evil over the centuries, these so-called "Christian churches have taken sides in two world wars, blessing so-called "Christian" leaders such as Adolph Hitler and George Bush, while at the same time they profess Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. What hypocrisy! The church that was founded after the Council of Nicaea changed in nature. The early Christians were the "under-dog" they were persecuted because they were viewed as a "cult" and enemies of the Roman Empire. After Nicaea all of that changed. The church became part of the state and persecuted other religious groups as "heretics" and "cultists" because a small number of TRUE "Christians" refused to follow the worldly ways of the Nicene Church and its so-called "Orthodoxy."

8. I believe in God's word the Holy Bible! so yes I believe in pure Christianity

9. Since for a long time Bible did not exist in the form of a preserved and documented condition as human interjections in the text due to mischievous intentions or knave ness cannot be ruled out. Bible was meant for the Jewish people till the advent of universal message, so it is not for following after that. Whatever was true in Bible was reaffirmed since it had become imperative after the corruption of biblical text


10. I believe Christianity to be a Relationship with God and not a religion... cos religion makes Christianity a political institution with Bishops and Priests..... but I do go to Church for the simple reason of to remind myself that I’m not alone in this war on Earth....

11. I believe in what the Holy Spirit teaches me through the Bible nothing more or less.... everything I knew came from him.....

12. I really don’t like religion.
The bible is my ONLY code of conduct, and I don’t think anyone should try to interpret it. just don’t interpret it, read it, understand exactly what its saying, and there you go! God's word! Definitely worth living by. i don’t NEED anyone to tell me what it says, i can go and read it myself. i can discuss it with people, see what they think, fine...but if the bible says THIS, I believe THIS.

12. You are right if you are upset with someone that really doesn't know the bible and you need to tell them where they are going just use that bible to beat them over the head with it I mean with Words that in the bible. I do not think God want use to take verses out of the bible show people that never read the bible how right you are but if you read the whole chapter of the book you will find they have use one verse to use against you and now you upset that they lie, that what make so many people leave the Christian faith because they read the truth and the lie was force on them by someone taking a couple verses out of the bible

13. Believe in Christianity. God wants us to praise him for everything. I agree that we are not to praise him for self-gratification. We are warned to not preach from the corners of the street or praise him just so others can hear how good we are and make ourselves feel better.

14. Yes, you’re right. Our nation is spiritually obese. What do you, and I, intend to do about it ?

15. Consider that your interpretation of corruption might not be the same as other people. The expressions you mentioned, when used by a born again Christian, have a lot of meaning and importance. People who casually throw these phrases around, and have no idea of their meaning are just being flippant and really have no idea what they are saying. The beauty is in the eye (or heart) of the believer.