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How Important It Is To Have Jesus Christ As Your Personal Savior

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
I still like the mythology of Jesus. The lore.

On occasion, I like to play Jesus Christ Superstar and reminisce about the good memories back in the day. It's importance lays there, and is nothing more past that without any regret.

There are of course future memories to have still, and reminisce over them as well down the line until its time to return to the grave once again, and whatever manifests in the future as another being or whatever.
 

Vinayaka

devotee
Premium Member

TransmutingSoul

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Friday 11-25-22 6th. Day Of The Weekly Cycle, Cheshvan 29, 5783 65th. Fall Day

By Faith what if jesus christ is not your personal savior?

How Important It Is To Have Jesus Christ As Your Personal Savior - Google Search

Matthew 7 BSB (biblehub.com)

Love, Walter and Debbie

Good morning from Australia to Walter and Debbie, God bless you both and all.

I see 'Christ' is our saving grace. I see "Christ" has been given in many names, all given of our One God.

It is to God we ask forgiveness, it is God's mercy, bounty and forgiveness that we all share.

So a question in return. Why do you think there are passages in the Bible that talk of New names of God and that Jesus also said that he would give a New Name?

All the best in faith and love, Regards from Tony and Annette.
 

Sgt. Pepper

All you need is love.
Friday 11-25-22 6th. Day Of The Weekly Cycle, Cheshvan 29, 5783 65th. Fall Day

By Faith what if jesus christ is not your personal savior?

How Important It Is To Have Jesus Christ As Your Personal Savior - Google Search

Matthew 7 BSB (biblehub.com)

Love, Walter and Debbie

I must say, as a former evangelical Christian myself, I think I can recognize when evangelical Christians are trying to subtly evangelize without just coming right out and saying it. It's the reason why I'm skeptical of your intentions on this forum because your threads so far seem to be evangelically focused. Regarding your query, I don't think it is relevant or even remotely deserving of my consideration.

As a former Christian, I now believe that some of the stories in the Bible about Jesus were embellished by his disciples to make him out to be someone he wasn't, and that others were lifted verbatim from Greek mythology and other ancient pagan religions. If Jesus was real, then it's most likely that his disciples and other followers idolized him and purposefully spread false information about him to increase his popularity and spread stories about him to make him seem like a god. The savior story of Jesus isn't the first of its kind.
 
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sun rise

The world is on fire
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Since this is a discussion not debate thread, I'll quote Meher Baba who in various ways indicated that a truthful, honorable atheist is more blessed than someone who says that they are a believer but does not put that belief into practice.

Everyone is an atheist until he finds God by actual experience. It is better to be an atheist and be honest in words and deeds than to pose as a lover of God and lead a dishonest life. God is completely independent. He needs no worship. He only wants us to be honest. Who is an atheist? « Avatar Meher Baba Hyderabad Center


How many Christians follow Christ's teaching to "turn the other cheek," or "to love thy neighbour as thyself?" How many Muslims follow Muhammad's precept to "hold God above everything else?" How many Hindus "bear the torch of righteousness at all cost?" How many Buddhists live the "life of pure compassion?" How many Zoroastrians "think truly, speak truly, act truly?" Meher Baba: My Silence Had To Be

From my point of view, far more blessed is the atheist who confidently discharges his worldly responsibilities, accepting them as his honorable duty, than the man who presumes he is a devout believer in God, yet shirks the responsibilities apportioned to him through Divine law and runs after Sadhus, Saints and Yogis, seeking relief from the suffering which ultimately would have pronounced his eternal Liberation. Messages
 

Quintessence

Consults with Trees
Staff member
Premium Member
On a scale of one to ten, with one being "not at all important" and ten being "vitally critical" I'd rank it at... oh... let me pretend to think about this for a few moments.

Hmm. Hmmm....

Somewhere between zero and one. We can interpret a zero as "not applicable" so I'm somewhere between "not applicable" and "not at all important."
 

paarsurrey

Veteran Member
Friday 11-25-22 6th. Day Of The Weekly Cycle, Cheshvan 29, 5783 65th. Fall Day

By Faith what if jesus christ is not your personal savior?

How Important It Is To Have Jesus Christ As Your Personal Savior - Google Search

Matthew 7 BSB (biblehub.com)

Love, Walter and Debbie
"(Jesus) Yeshua- the Israelite Messiah did not die on the Cross", one gets to know from many clues in the Gospels itself, so how could he save the sins of the Hellenist Pauline " Christians", please? Right?
So, isn't it an Illusion that Yeshua- the Israelite Messiah is savior of any person, please, right?

Regards
 
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Polymath257

Think & Care
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Faith in general? Why?

Faith involves believing without sufficient evidence. And that is a dereliction of the duty to think things out and to be skeptical.

But I do distinguish faith and confidence. I have confidence in my wife. I do because of a long series of experiences with her that allow me to predict her actions in many cases and to trust what she says.

Religious faith is nothing like that. Instead of their being a wife, there is an un-evidenced deity that you cannot comprehend, refuses to actually give evidence of existence that is clear to a non-believer, and seeing everything through 'faith colored glasses'. I see that as a type of self-delusion.

So, yes. I see faith as an evil.

In answer to the OP: I find it of negative value to have 'Jesus as your savior'. From what I can see, it wastes time and energy that could be better spent other places. But to each their own.
 
I must say, as a former evangelical Christian myself, I think I can recognize when evangelical Christians are trying to subtly evangelize without just coming right out and saying it. It's the reason why I'm skeptical of your intentions on this forum because your threads so far seem to be evangelically focused. Regarding your query, I don't think it is relevant or even remotely deserving of my consideration.

As a former Christian, I now believe that some of the stories in the Bible about Jesus were embellished by his disciples to make him out to be someone he wasn't, and that others were lifted verbatim from Greek mythology and other ancient pagan religions. If Jesus was real, then it's most likely that his disciples and other followers idolized him and purposefully spread false information about him to increase his popularity and spread stories about him to make him seem like a god. The savior story of Jesus isn't the first of its kind.
Thank you.

Walter
 
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