Do you claim any particular descriptive label like agnosticism, atheism, buddhism, hindi, humanism, etc. that would give me insight into your world view?
I've been on a kick to delete some posts that are low quality and just plain factually wrong. Rather than relying on mods, could we as a community get these deleted? Thanks!
The idea that justification comes from faith alone, while being espoused pretty loudly in most of the responses to your question, is far from being the position taken by the majority of Christians. It is almost exclusively a Western Protestant doctrine. demonstrably false
Both Roman Catholics a...
For the majority of the world's Christians (obviously we're talking about theistic Christians here), God doesn't "send people to Hell." Hell is not a physical place in universe, but rather the despair one experiences from not embracing a relationship with God. The suffering one experiences is n...
Yes. One particular form of Christian atheism, (held by at least one person who exists, and which apparently does not have a name), at least, holds that Hell is "the feeling of despair and loneliness that comes from not feeling love for (and therefore loved by) one's fellow men."
According to the FAQ, Christianity.StackExchange is for
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Additionally, it seems to pretty well established that we care about theology, and that:
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@steelydan Besides the ones linked above, you've got a bunch of answers that have or are going to fall below a minimum standard. Particularly the ones that have had comments on them for months asking for references or challenging the assertions are going to be fair game for cleanup. I highly recommend doing some of the cleanup yourself, removing anything you don't plan on bringing up to par.
If you have another idea about how the site should function, now would be the time to air it out in a response of your own to Affables new meta post.
This chat room but more importantly the Christian StackExchange site is a wonderful thing. Thanks to those involved in getting it going and keeping it going!
TriG: "Today is the day the Lord has made. Rejoice, and be glad in it!"
Specific about today? I got up, the sun came up, the air was still here, I was alive.
Non-specific? That through Christ all things were made that were made, and without him not one thing was made that was made.
If you want a deeper argument than that?
Proverbs 3:5-6:
5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
@TriG For more on the specific day, I have personally experienced the indwelling of hte Holy Spirit within me as a palpable, euphoric or joyful or comforting presence. I see signs and miracles not just now and then, but daily. The miracle of the universe, the world, nature and my own awareness which I cannot explain tells me of God's presence.
The point is, I know as reality that the God plays a daily role in every aspect of the universe in a palpable and meaningful manner, suffusing all existence with his Spirit, presence and infuence. So, each day I wake up and experience is indeed palpably a day the Lord has made both from the perspective of setting it all in motion and actively guiding and miraculously and constantly creating reality as he interacts with the universe and our souls.
@TRiG I'd never heard of Stephen Strang before this, but it looks like he belongs to the particular strand of American conservative Christianity that is more loyal to its conservatism than to its Christianity.
I may have just found a topic for my November blog post on church and state.
One "feature" of Stack Exchange is that it is just as easy to post a "wrong" answer as it is a right one.
The beauty of crowd-sourcing is that many eyeballs should push the "cream" to the top and the "chaff" to the bottom. The mechanism for this, of course, is the vote. This is still and alwa...
According to the FAQ, Christianity.StackExchange is for
"any group that identifies themselves as Christian are to be considered on-topic"
Additionally, it seems to pretty well established that we care about theology, and that:
Theological claims must be backed by an external corpus that ...
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