If you have a personal ralationship with God through Jesus,do you think our religion matters to God.?
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I really don't think God likes religion much at all. He does want us to have a personal relationship with Jesus, though.  As long as that's all we're relying on to make us right with God, nothing else really matters, I suppose.
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The only thing that matters is my personal relationship with Jesus Christ; the only place I "go" to worship on any day, is to Him in Prayer.\n\nGod Bless.  He's a lot nicer God than that one we grew up with!
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I personally do not believe that any church in particular will help the body and soul. What will help that, is a deep personal spiritual life and devotion to having a greater understanding and meaningful personal relationship with the Creator (which often one refers to as "God".)\n\nI assume by denomination and church you are referring to Christianity. There are many other religions of the world that could loosely fit into the categories you have given here. Since you mentioned "Gospel", that is why I focused on Christianity. There have been many who have studied the question you ask, myself included. One of my favorites was a professor of humanities who specialized in mythology. His name was Joseph Campbell. He likened denominations to a computer program (not the most elegant of analogies, but it will do for this example). Campbell said that we each view the world and our concept of "God" in a unique and individual way. So, what your perception of God is and what my perception of God is are two different things.\n\nIn Christianity, we are taught in the Gospels that Jesus was God who loved the world so much that He gave his only Son to the world by becoming incarnate (born into the flesh and not just a spirit) of a virgin woman of Nazareth in ancient Israel named Mary. He lived among us until he was accused, tried and crucified for teaching people to love one another, have a personal relationship with God and know that God loves each one of us no matter what. Jesus gave His life as a sacrifice of the sins of everyone dead, alive and yet to be born. This was something different from every other religion. Three days after He died, witnesses testified they saw him and that He had risen from the dead. This is something that all Christians take on faith. We have no proof, we do not know for a fact. We only believe. Now comes the rub.\n\nAfter Jesus died and resurrected He ascended into Heaven. We do not know if this was meant literally or figuratively because we only have the word of those who were present and even at that, what was written down was hearsay, passed from one person to another before it was written down. There is much debate and it has been argued that one of the gospels was written by one of Jesus' original twelve apostles. Because this was all shrouded in obscurity and the early Christian church was small and did not worship openly (it was punishable by death if they did), people began to worship in slightly different ways. \n\nThe Roman Catholic Church was the Church in Rome. There were also other early churches but the first church of Christ was in Rome. There was also a church in Constantinople (today Istanbul, Turkey) where the Pope originally resided and later moved to Rome. When that happened, there was a rift in the Church and one became the Roman Catholic (from Rome and 'catholic' meaning 'universal') and the orthodox church. Today there are two major branches: The Greek (Eastern) Orthodox and the Russian Orthodox. As time went on, church doctrine and biblical interpretations caused yet more conflict and in 1520 A.D. a German named Martin Luther (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther) wrote a treatise in which he declared the Pope in Rome to be the antichrist. This caused quite a stir and eventually Luther's writings and influence caused many Germans to break from the Holy Catholic Church and both the Lutheran and Protestant Church developped from his teachings and writings.\n\nIn the 1530s, King Henry VIII of England (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII) was married to Katherine of Aragon. He wished to divorce her so he could marry Anne Bolyn. The Roman Catholic church (Pope Clement VII specifically) would not allow divorce so Henry defied the Pope and the Catholic Church by separating from the Church. Clement excommunicated Henry and Henry declared himself supreme ruler on Earth and head of the Church of England. Thus, the Anglican Church was
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I really do not feel Jesus would belong to any of our "organized religions". It was the religious people of his day who had him crucified , and he called them whitewashed tombs, and a brood of vipers .\n\nThe Assembly of God is probably the closest to what Jesus wanted for us to be , but we are not perfect by far .
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Good Question-\n\nI changed from Grk Orthodox to (no title) I just say I am a child of God. It's all about having a relationship with Jesus. It's not about tradition, works or man made rules. Jesus took to the cross all our sins, sicknesses, infirmities and iniquities. I didn't know this until I became a born again Christian and read my Bible. They never told us "Read your Bible" It was not stressed enough.  I was never even taught "how to ask Jesus in my life" nor did I even know about the free gift of salvation. I believed in my mind but not in my heart. \nHere I thought we were the "best religion" the most righteous. Again, it all boils down to having a "relationship" with Jesus.\nI am so thankful to Jesus for opening my eyes and ears to His Truth.\nIt's all about Jesus and all Glory to His Name.\nHallelujah!  **A child of God**!
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Your philosophy is based on your religion. What do you think is most important?
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No, I have a strong relationship. There is a difference. Religion dictates belief while a relationship is nutured over time. I read the Bible and ask God to give me the details to understand. I have pastors that I mentor under, but I will challenge them if I think they are in error. It is not often, cause I got some great teachers.
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Why do you ask such a question? Anyway, born and raised a christian. I know I'm answering your question, but tell me this, would that matter to you, if you met a decent, respectful person of a religion different from your own?
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Well according the bible we pray in the name of Jesus through the Holy Spirit To the Father. However I dont belive God is up there saying Opps you didnt address the right one of us your prayer doesnt count. LOL
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I believe in God, but religion is to binding. There are good values in every religion. Everyone beleves differently, but when any religion is broken down, God is the basis. So to me religion is not important, and does not limit me to my worship in the lord.
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I would have to say yes Jesus cares because you all ready said Jesus was a good worker. Now who is he; he is the one that you need to replace. If it was me I would give Jesus a raise and get rid of ( He.)
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I could be wrong but to me it dosnt much matter!My belief is that our god both yours and mine created us with our own strenths and weaknesses we overcome are weaknesses and build upon our strenths and we attempt to fulfill the purpuses of our uniqe creations!!Meaning we each were created for a purpose known only to our own gods and we attempt to acheive that purpose and at the same time better ourselves!!
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Being a Christian myself I don't think in my own personal mind I don't think that the kind of music you like should interfear with your religion. To me, they're totally diff worlds. My personal life, which consits of my culture, my school, what I like to do in my spare time, and what music I like, and then another world which is my relgion, Christianity, which still consits of me, and my personal out look on my Christianity so, I don't think trhat the music you like interfears with your Christianity
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God and Jesus are different. God is the father and Jesus is the son of God.
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What a good question.  Yes I think so.  Because God can mean just about anything, right?  When you say Jesus...everyone just sort of catches their breath, because inherent in His name is His claim that He is the only way to God.  That is much, much too "narrow" for most people.  That is why it's easier to speak of a "generic" God...who they can make into anything they wish.
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Have you told him about Christ and everything he's done in your life? Don't worry so much about his religion - only Jesus offers eternal life.
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I don't think so.  I think my mother is the one who gave me self confidence. My religion gives me hope and comfort. With the bible as my guide, I am sure my interaction with people is differnt had I not had religion in my life.