Is Christianity just a book?
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no, it's a cult, a lifestyle
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It's entirely up to you. \nThere is no absolute proof; therefore, whether the bible is true or false is merely an opinion. \n\nI, however, believe it is mainly fiction. If you compare Christianity to other religions, such as Buddhism, although many Christians are too close-minded to do this, you will see broad comparisons between the messages trying to be conveyed. Buddhism provides guidelines to live by, ways to live in self-actualization. The bible does the same in a different method. The ideas in the bible are hidden; they are dressed in a story as though it's needed to be interesting to be convincable. \n\nI personally take most books in the bible as a story with hidden symbolism. Many people take these stories more seriously; they refer to them as though they were there and that there is no other way. \n\nAs long as you are open to other's beliefs it doesn't matter whether you think the bible is a lie or it is the word of god. Just respect that, although some are placed in a seperate religion stereotype, we are all human and our beliefs are our individuality.
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Well... I guess many people have hard feelings towards cristianity.. and the book gave them "arguments". Have you realized people who think it is a great book are not readers? I mean.., most of them have not read more than ten books in their life. but somehow they knew that there was a book "revealing" the truth about those things in the form of a novel.. and that caught their atention.\nA funny thing. I know some who don't believe in what church does... but didn't have any trouble to accept blindly right away what the book says.
95842
No. It differs on the fact that Christianity has a faith different from the others.
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If the 1st book of the Bible is proved wrong, all Christianity is lost. It is quoted by Jesus, Paul, & Peter.\nIf you really want to see what we believe about creation. go to  www.answersingenesis.org  I hope it helps your unbelief.
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It's just a novel - like the bible.
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Its a good question. I don't think CSLewis was being particularly pluralist. He may have just been talking about the catholics. At the time he was writing there was lots of controversy about whether catholics were christians.\nIn his book 'mere christianity' he says that he believes that following Jesus is the only was of serving God. \nOf course, the narnia books are fiction so maybe its just a damn good story.
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it's a book which you can read - by Dan Brown.\n\nAnyway the basic plot:\njesus didn't really die, he married Mary Magdalene and went to France with her, where they had kids. His descendants still live on and this is a big ass secret from the world. Christianity itself is a big scam. The End.\n\nThe Controversy:\nduh. The church obviously doesn't like this plotline, as the basis of christianity is that jesus died on the cross and was not a regular man but a son of god.\n\nThat's it.
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Chaos theory dictates that if the whole world was christian, then a new religion would emerge.  being christian is believing that the "phone game" about god has been true for over 6000 years.  Silly if you ask me.  It is a simple concept that is learned in American Kindergarten.  The phone game lies in as little as 30 seconds... well there are a lot of seconds in 6000 years, and you treat the bible as historical fact?  Who is the non-believer now?
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Wow where did you get this information? Christianity is called Christianity because of the followers of Christ that would be those called Christians. Where did you ever get he was against religious laws? He said that not one jot or title shall pass away until he returns. Jesus came to fufill the law not to destroy it. god is the same yesterday today and tommorow although mans relationship to God does change.
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It is such a broad term "Christianity" that no one would listen to just one person.  Just the history of Christianity shows that as soon as one person starts to speak they're followed by a group of others all trying to speak louder.\n\nThe Bible, since it's the basis of Christianity, is the only thing that covers "all" of Christianity but even quoting from it leads to much confusion and disagreement.\n\nSo, the answer is, No body is speaking for all of Christianity.  Just individual speakers for parts of it.
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There is "Christian Book Distributors" at http://christianbook.com\nBut this may not be what you are referring to.
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True to the first sentence.  I disagree with the second.  There no "one book" that will make everyone think.  It's different for each of us.  \n\nIn addition, from what I've experienced, many who read the bible faithfully tend to say they don't question their faith.  If you read a book and you're not supposed to question it, doesn't this mean you're not thinking too much??
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An essential part of being a Christian is being a =community=, i.e. the Church.  Christianity is not simply a set of beliefs.  The community of the Church, in all its diversity, has a common history and part of that history is the canonization of its Scriptures.  IOW, at a point in its existance (about 300 years after Christ) the Church came to recognize certain writings as sacred and others as not.  Though this was not universally agreed upon (some parts of the Church recognize the inter-testament books, some times called the Books of the Apocrypha), for the great majority of Christians in the West the canon is closed.\n\nRe. the Gospel of Peter, earlier does not necessarily mean closer to the truth.  FWIW, the Gospel of Thomas is gaining authority among moderate/liberal Christians.\n\nBTW, many of the church "fathers", Luther, Calvin, Zwingli, et al., raised serious questions about what the canon included. \n\nGood question!
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The book to read about it would be called the Bible...and it would be how Christians are truly suppose to walk...according to Jesus.\nSome of the "pet peeves" of today are man made...not made by God.\nTrue Christianity= Christ like.
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I'm in the middle of Da Vinci Code right now.  I am an atheist, this book neither stregthens or weakens my atheistinity,  neither should it weaken or stregthen a Christians Christianity,\n\nwhat you see is a good book that uses historical figures to make a story, a fiction,\n\nany Christian who says, I don't know any more,  well,  where was their faith to begin with.\n\nI think ultimately the born again christians who ask people to pick between Jesus and evolution is whats going to kill christianity, cause the evidence just keeps mounting for evolution, and more and more people flock to science, not dogma
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how many ppl thinks its anti christian\nand the ppl that thinks its a fiction book\n\nThat is a flawed statistic. The people who think it is antichristian also know it is a book of fiction.\n\nStats like this have not been established or published. Anyone trying to answer this will be guessing.