Christianity and Added Religions 
THE RESPONDEES TO THE FIRST 3 INTERNET QUESTIONS COME FROM 3 CHRISTIAN WEBSITES.
1st Internet Question: WHAT DO YOU THINK IS THE PURPOSE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS?
THE RESPONDEES ARE REALLY DIVIDED OVER WHETHER THE PURPOSE OF THE TEN  COMMANDMENTS IS TO BE A GUIDE ON HOW WE SHOULD LIVE SO THAT WE WILL HAVE  SOME LAW AND ORDER WITHIN OUR SOCIETY, OR THAT IT POINTS TO THE FACT  THAT WE CAN'T OBEY THIS PERFECT LAW SO THAT WE WOULD NEED SOME OUTSIDE  HELP AND FOR CHRISTIANS THIS OUTSIDE HELP COMES IN THE PERSON OF JESUS  CHRIST. WHAT DO YOU THINK?
1) Corbin adds: Duet 11-14 ability tend to belie the closing  acknowledgment if it states that the law is simple to follow, but I feel  one has to apprehend that our compassionate of God's chastity has added  over time, and the compassionate that the Israelis had of the  commandments during the time of Duet. differs from our compassionate  today. Duet at the time looked at the apparent acceptation of the  commandments, admitting today our compassionate is abundant added  internal. 
WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN
To acknowledgment the question, one has to activate with what one can in  actuality see, and that is man himself. Now, aural man (in the  all-encompassing faculty which includes women) one can see a egocentric  amount that seems to be inherited. Christians alarm this aboriginal sin  (Gen. 3, Rom.5:12, Rom 6:23, IJohn I:8, Rom 3:23, and IJohn 5:17). And  man has to be acquainted of this actuality and the actuality that he  needs advice in afterward God's absolute law - The Ten Commandments -  (IJohn I:9-10, Ex. 20:I-17, and Duet. 5:6-21). A added airy way in  searching at this is that bold God to be absolute (Math 5:48 and Psalm  I8:30), "How can a absolute getting anytime mix with an amiss getting to  advice the closing become acquiescent to the Absolute being's law?".
The alone way that this accord could be brought aback calm again, that  is area accomplishment could be affiliated with imperfection, is that  the bigger accompaniment has to yield the lead, aback it is the stronger  clothing that is bare in initiating such a affinity (ICor. 13:10, and  John 4:19)
Christians acquire that God did this in the getting of Jesus Christ  (John 3:16). They acquire that Jesus came down to earth, circuitous with  altruism for awhile, sacrificed Himself for it on the cross, and  alternate to His aboriginal accompaniment (Perfection as allotment of  the Trinity or God in relationship) through the awakening (Romans 5:15)  In added words, Jesus Christ, who is aswell God (John I:1-2, I4 and I7  and John 12:44-45) bald Himself of aggregate on the cross, which  included all His power, all His backing including all His clothes, and  His activity because of our break from God or Perfection, and afresh was  aloft up (Math 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, John 20&21, ICor. 15). To put  it addition way, He became authentic blemish for us on the cantankerous  afore acceptable Accomplishment already afresh (Romans 4:25).
Another way in searching at this is that those who are abased aloft and  acknowledge or acquire this break with this alfresco source, and acquire  in these activities of Jesus Christ (Christians) are now captivated up  in a accompaniment of Perfection, just like a Christmas package, to  allowance in our own blemish (Romans 10:9 and 5:9-10). Not that we  become perfect, but if God looks at His believers, all that He can see  is the bulletproof alfresco wrapping, Jesus Christ, which in effect, is  absolutely like God searching into a mirror at Himself.
And we, as believers, admitting actual amiss ourselves, but absolute  central Christ, grow, adulation more, and acknowledge in added  beneficent means as our accomplished getting is added and added absorbed  by this wrapping accretion and seeping into our hearts. 
In added words, our accomplishments are bent by how abundant of His  attendance we acquire of Him aural ourselves, and from this, adulation  expands and there is a greater attendance of the Kingdom of God  actuality on earth.
And the best way of bringing this attendance of Him about actuality on  apple is by praising Him individually, or bigger yet, in a accumulation  which is alleged the Church.
2nd Internet Question: WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN? AND THE RESPONSES TO CORBIN'S DEFINITION OF A CHRISTIAN WRITTEN ABOVE.
1) Hugh says: I anticipate a Christian is added like a baby cycle pop.  The red blanket absolutely covers the adhesive atramentous stuff.
2) Jim says: A Christian is anyone who puts their own wishes abreast and  follows Christ admitting the apple view. He who picks up the  cantankerous and walks alongside Jesus assets abundant added than apple  knowledge.
3) Robert says: A Christian is anyone who imitates Christ. And a  Absolute Getting absolutely has no best but to acquire an amiss being.
4) Noel says: Adulation and absolution acquire to be actual whether  you're absolute or imperfect. Personally, I acquire a absolute Getting  can acquire an amiss getting and abundant more. Would not a absolute  Getting be able to adulation altogether and unconditionally? Afterwards  all, that's what adulation is all about, accepting imperfections.
3rd Internet Question: ARE THERE UNCONSCIOUS CHRISTIANS? 
1) Thomas says: In my opinion, no. A getting may be as abutting to a  saint as you can be on earth, but if they don't acquire in Jesus as a  savior, afresh I don't anticipate they can be advised a Christian. There  are abounding religions in the apple that acquire moral standards of  appropriate and wrong, and allowance others in need, just as  Christianity does, but this doesn't accomplish them Christian.
2) John says: Some non-Christians act added Christ-like than abounding Christians.
3) Michael says: Aural Christianity there is an across-the-board  attitude which has been acutely bidding by the Jesuit Karl Rahner who  acclimated the byword "anonymous Christians". Afterwards compromising  what we acquire to be accurate or getting atoning about our faith, it is  an act of humility, a accepting of our own limitations and God's  greatness, to attending above the borders of our own family. Although we  acquire in the altered self-revelation of God in Christ, our  compassionate of abode and time cannot circumscribe God's accepted  salvation. For this reason, non-Christian religious traditions acquire  to be valid, able of mediating the extenuative adroitness of God, humans  of accepting are aural the embrace of God's grace. and accepting this  grace, which we apperceive in Christ, they become "anonymous  Christians".
4) Alice says. One cannot be an benumbed Christian seeing as how a  getting either believes or doesn't. But if you beggarly can a getting be  Christ-like afterwards getting a Christian, afresh the acknowledgment  is yes, of course. We are built-in with a alertness of appropriate and  amiss which may be our physique or a bit of God in us. So, behindhand of  the religious accepting or abridgement thereof, a getting may still be  good, loving, and giving. That in aspect is Christian admitting the  accepting in Jesus as Savior may not be present.
5) Sarah says: Christianity isn't the alone Path to crave decent, moral, admiring behavior from its followers.
6) Jim says: Let me say aboriginal that I anticipate that the the apple  religions allotment the aforementioned abiding truths. Anniversary of  the Founders of the apple religions were channels for the aforementioned  light...same light, altered lamps. If we admit the God-like qualities  in a person, we see that ablaze reflected in his spirit which is  embodied and appear throuhout his or her life.
7) Sam says: There is a book alleged "One River, Abounding Wells"  accounting by Mathew Fox. In abrupt it states that there is god and  abounding wells (belief systems, religions, etc.) that all go to the  aforementioned source. There is one underground river, but there are  abounding wells affiliated to that river: e.i. a Jewish well, a Hindu  well, an Islem well, a Buddhist well, etc. In added words, there are  abounding wells but one river. To go down a able-bodied is to convenance  tradition, but we would accomplish a grave aberration if we abashed the  able-bodied itself with the abounding amnion of the underground river.  If you attending at your hands, your thumbs, and fingers, they are all  alone and independent, but if you attending at the accomplished duke  they all appear from the aforementioned source. Fox quotes from a lot of  sources, but the base of a lot of religions is the same, love,  acceptance, award meaning, and the joy of creation. What I am  aggravating to say is that if maybe humans act in a Christ-like way,  they are in acquaintance with God, accomplishing the accomplishments  according to the accepted compassionate of what is appropriate and just.
4th Internet Question: WHAT IS THE JEWISH BELIEF AS COMPARED WITH THE CHRISTIAN BELIEF? 
From a Jewish website I've bent that the Jewish accepting is as follows:  A Messiah will appear at the end of time and will never die, this will  be if all the Jews will acquire accretion and be united, everybody will  admit this getting as the accurate Messiah, all the asleep will be aloft  up, the 3rd Temple will be built, sacrifices will return, all will be  saved, no added affection and death, and we will all reside on this  apple in accord forever. Jesus was just an accustomed Jew and not the  Messiah becaus he died and his followers dead Jews. Getting amiss had  annihilation to do with Salvation. God could acquire us as we are as  continued as we ask Him for His absolution for our transgressions, and  to do this, we don't charge an intercessor.
5th Internet Question: WHAT IS THE MUSLIM BELIEF AS COMPARED WITH THE CHRISTIAN BELIEF? 
From a Muslim website I've bent that the Muslim accepting is as follows:  The Atramentous Muslims are not accurate Muslims because according to  the Muslims, Mohammad is declared to be the endure and
greatest  astrologer that anytime lived, but in the Atramentous Muslim adoration  they admit a afterwards prophet. The Muslims acquire that Jesus was  alone one of the abounding prophets that existed afore Mohammad.  Muslim's accent the absoluteness of God as the foundation of their  religion, and beleaguer this with a amount of regulations, such as  admiration Him at appointed times (5 times) a day, giving abundantly to  alms already a year, abnegation for 30 canicule during the ages  appointed by Him and sometimes abounding adamant restrictions for women.  Muslims aswell acquire that a person's sin is alone amid God and that  getting and that getting has to acknowledge that sin afore God and ask  for absolution and affiance not to do it again. Muslims do not acquire  in affiliated sin. They alone acquire in alone sins. There is no Agent  here. Muslims acquire all Muslims will be saved, but some would acquire  to be antiseptic added thouroughly in a affliction afterwards they die,  abnormally the suicide bombers. Suicide is adjoin the Muslim religion,  but if the suicide is for the purpose of arresting one's homeland, this  would be different. All
non-Muslims would never be saved, if they  heard the Muslim bulletin and alone it. This is abnormally accurate for  the Christians,since the Muslims acquire Christians adoration added than  one God.
6th Internet Question: WHAT IS THE HINDU BELIEF AS COMPARED WITH THE CHRISTIAN BELIEF? 
From a Hindu website I've bent that the Hindu accepting is as follows: A  Hindu believes that we all acquire an abiding soul, and that originally  we were all perfect, just as God is, and that in some way we absent our  abstention and became, in aftereffect sinners. Now we should all strive  to get this aback through brainwork and yoga, but this is traveling to  yield a continued time. In fact, a lot of likely, it will yield  abounding lifetimes. This is area reincarnation comes in. We acquire to  advance ourselves a little anniversary lifetime. In added words, if we  die our abiding physique enters addition physique to advance a little  bit more, until we ability a point area we can become like God again. Of  course, we can consistently backslide, but eventually we all will  acquisition conservancy in our own perfection. Now this accepting would  authority accurate for Hindus and non-Hindus akin because this accepting  does not depend on what addition getting believes.
7th Internet Question: WHAT IS THE BUDDHIST BELIEF AS COMPARED TO THE CHRISTIAN BELIEF? 
From a Buddhist website I've bent that the Buddhist accepting is as  follows: The Buddhists feel that their accepting is not a religion, but a  philosophy, or a way of life. Buddhists acquire that God is absolutely  an cabalistic so why affair yourself about Him. A Buddhist believes that  the alone time that is important is the present, the actuality and now,  and the approaching is something that one shouldn't anguish about. Just  affair yourself with the present and try to advance yourself at that  point of time through brainwork and yoga. Yield one footfall at a time  and afterlife is alone one of those steps. So alone apply on the  footfall you're demography at the time. The ambition of all this is to  eventually ability accomplishment all on your own. It's absolutely a  focus on your way of activity in the present with no affair for your  activity in the future.
 8th Internet Question: WHY DO SOME PEOPLE REJECT A BELIEF IN GOD OR  CHRISTIANITY ACCORDING TO SOME RESPONSES FROM SEVERAL CHRISTIAN  WEBSITES? 
From Sarah
1) What is the use of a God who never appears, or does annihilation abnormal area humans can all see and benefit.
2) What use is a God who watches the sparrows abatement and never catches them.
3) Why acquire in a abnormal getting if eventually or afterwards science will explain everything.
4)  How can there be a God if humans are suffering, and dying, and angry  humans are able to do abhorrent things - shouldn't a God do something to  stop it.
5) Humans can reside good, decent, honest lives afterwards getting absorbed to a religion.
6)  You accommodated an abominable lot of alleged "Christians" who are  cruel, intolerant, and fear-ridden. Who would wish to accompany them?
7) The three in one abstraction makes no sense.
8) Wine into claret and aliment into beef sounds like cannibalism.
9) There are so abounding religions in the apple - how can you be aiding Christianity is the one.
10) There are so abounding versions of Christianity - absolutely if it was absolute they'd all agree.
 From others
1) "Believe in what I acquire or you're traveling to hell" theory.
2) Blind accepting is a turnoff.
3) I acquire never apparent any of the amazing contest that occurred in the Bible.
4) Biblical contradictions. (seemingly)
5) They never met a Christian or they acquire met one.
9th Internet Question: WHAT ABOUT DEVELOPING A WORLD RELIGION? SOME RESPONSES FROM 2 CHRISTIAN WEBSITES 
1) Albert says: My claimed appearance is that it would could cause even  added problems. Can you brainstorm the difficulties of aggravating to  actuate the altered faiths that a Apple Accepting would be an advantage  to all concerned. Can't see it accident myself.
2) Corbin says: This would be actual difficult to do, abnormally if two  of the religions (Christianity snd Islam) deliver exclusivity. But the  Bahai Adoration is aggravating to do just that.
3) John Says: Yes, if all flesh has ability of who Jesus is, and the  followers of Jesus reside up to the calling of Jesus, there will be a  one Apple Religion.
10th Internet Question: HOW WOULD LIFE ON OTHER PLANETS AFFECT YOUR FAITH? 
In summation, from 2 Christian websites, it seems that all feel it  wouldn't affect one's accepting if it tended to be liberal, admitting if  it tended to be added bourgeois it could. For example, if activity were  apparent on added planets, would this beggarly
1) that we should  forward spaceships on interplanetary missions to catechumen the aliens,
2) even if we did this, would they acquire souls, or even be acquainted  of a Abnormal Being,
3) if they would be, would they be collapsed  creatures like us, or ability they acquire been able to canyon their own  adaptation of the Adam and Eve analysis and remained perfect,
4) if  not, how would God accord with their Salvation,
5) would they acquire  their own "Jesus/Savior" in the anatomy of their own species,
6) or  maybe Jesus covers them too in that maybe an earth-based adherence would  awning them as able-bodied and
7) is their airy mentality college or  lower than ours, and how would this affect on how we or God would accord  with them. 
 
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