What's the difference between Christian & Non Christian religions, besides not believing in Jesus?
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The foundation of Christian religions is belief in Jesus. It is the single most important thing. If you remove that there isn't alot left.\n\nAnd the non-Christian  religions is a huge category that is hard if not impossible to cover in any real depth in this venue.
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I believe in a "higher power" but am not religious...The difference is that the higher power (God) is interpreted in many different ways but they all have one thing in common..Thats is that they are all MAN MADE..Every religion on earth past and present starts with one persons interpretation of God..This is why there are Christians, Muslims, Hindus and thousands more religions...We are all trying to understand existence and this "higher power" but many of us come to different conclusions...Christianity itself is split into many different denominations because of this very fact..Catholics, Evangelicals, Baptists, Episcopalians there all trying to understand the nature of God but go about it in very different ways...My personal belief is that existence itself is the "higher power"..I do not refer to it as a God but thats my belief and I stick to it..You dont need religion to find God because the concept of God is different for all of us...Thankyou for listening
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No. It differs on the fact that Christianity has a faith different from the others.
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I am a Christian which is not a religion it is a relationship.  I checked out most of the other religions which are man's attempt to reach God.  I believe in Christianity because of the testimony of the Bible saints as well as those whose lives I have seen converted. I know that it is the only belief system that can make a difference in someones life not by doing or being good but by allowing the Living Creator of Heaven and Earth to indwell in you and His helping you to change your life around.
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False dilemma. Both religions are false. One is more violent than the other. However, its not an either/or choice. You can have your own stupid reasons for believing either. The most illogical choice would be both!
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Christianity is like Judaism plus some extras.  Plus, Christians believe that after Christ came, the traditional Jewish law of sacrifices and certain other laws were no longer needed; they served a purpose, but Christ fulfilled that purpose once and for all (to atone for sins).  So there are parts of it that Christians also accept and believe, like the 10 commandments and the one God, but they also believe in the divinity of Jesus and his death and resurrection as the ultimate sacrifice.
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A Christian is someone who believes in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and is baptized. A Catholic is a specific kind of Christian, one who also believes the Catholic Church was founded by Christ and accepts it as possessing the fullness of Christian truth and the means of salvation\n\nThe words Catholic and Christian were once interchangeable. The first Christians called the Church Catholic or universal, to distinguish it from heretical splinter groups that denied necessary Christian truths. Thus the early Christians came to be known as Catholics.
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i prefer the term "beliver" which is what i am. i dont think there is a difference in non and un because,for example,  if someone was to say they were a non believer as opposed to an un believer it means the same thing i beieve that god created us and that he sent his son to die on the cross for our sins and that the only way to get to heaven is through jesus. once you accept him into your heart that is where he dwells inside you. and then once you have jesus you have to obey God and his rules and commandments. you do not have to go to church to be saved. church does not save you God does. the different denominations take different parts of the bible and focuse on them rather than stick to the basics. other denominations disregard part of the bible all together and others write their own version. that is why i prefer just to be a christian rather than a babtist, southern babtist, catholic, or lutherian or whatever. besides the bible is clear on so many things that i dont understand how so many different religions came about. the things that are unclear are trivial. its best to be just a believer.
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Not everyone believes in Jesus, people choose religions which are relevant to their lives.  Many people don't identify with Christianity, whereas the teachings of Mohammed seem to attract a lot of people.
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completely different religions. Catholics are christians. Mormon, have a different bible. Look them up on the internet, you'll see find out for yourself
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Christians believe in many different things. Me and my mom are Christians but she is Mormon and I am Pentecostal. We don't see the same things but we both are Christians. For me it is how I want to Praise Jesus. For her she is mostly told how to praise Jesus. But we have the common factor which is Jesus.
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Of course I believe in God, silly boy. I just don't choose to be Christian. I'm a Non Denominational Happy Pagan Person. God and I keep organized religion out of our relationship. It simplifies matters greatly.
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Christians believe in one God, in three parts, God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.\n\nMuslims do not accept this belief, believing that Jesus was only a prophet and that there is no Holy Spirit.\n\nNo, they are not the same.
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Catholics are Christians if they have accepted Jesus as there saviour, same as any other denomination. (I'm not Catholic.) I don't know where you live but in UK the mainstream church had lost it's way and started compromising on things such as sex before marriage and the like, but now things are going back to God's word. The church I'm in is very Bibe based, happily.
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Some of these answerers are mistaken. JWs DO believe in Jesus and, therefore, ARE Christians. They don't believe that Jesus is God(but they are not the only ones). They believe that Jesus is the son of God. They don't believe that Jesus is a god at all. The main difference, in my opinion, is that they disagree with the dates of Jesus' birth and death. That's why they don't celebrate Christmas. ie. because they don't think Jesus was born at that time. In fact, I don't know why some Christians do celebrate Christmas as Christ's birth, surely they should know by now that this date was taken from Pagans to encourage conversion to Christianity. JWs also believe that there will be 144000 people going to Heaven and the others will live on Earth.\nAlso there are certain differences in their Bible, but you will find that Bibles differ between most, if not all, Christian sects. They are not the only ones who go door knocking but they are the ones who have the reputation for it. BTW, I think you will find that the Bible has been rewritten many times by many "cults". It has been translated in so many different ways but most likely from the same original source. Any religion follows their own doctrine, which for many, does all their thinking, whatever the religion. How can you say they don't follow Christian doctrine anyway? There are so many different versions, it's no wonder there are so many "non-believers".
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Catholics are pagans and Christianity (generally) is a pagan religion. Christians do not follow the Ten Commandment or any other known rules.
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It is a common error to include Buddhism in the category of 'faiths' or 'beliefs'.  \n\nThese terms refer to theistic religions - that is, religions based on gods,  whose existence is claimed on the basis of writings, 'revelations' by individuals ('such as 'prophets' etc.), even on the coincidental incidence of cataclysms etc. In other words, these religions are based on 'faith' or 'belief' - meaning simply on claim or assertion but without any irrefutable evidence.\n\nThe problem is that any or all of the claims of each of these such religions conflict with those of the others - even to the extent whether there is only one god or many, what he/they look like (whether, for example, with the head of a dog, like of Anubis the Egyptian god, or with the head of an elephant, like in Ganesh the Hindu god, or with the head of a man, as in the Christian, Muslim and Jewish god, etc. -  and they depend on their survival and spread on the brutal eradication of the other similar religions, all equally based on unsupported assertions. For instance, when Constantine the First became a Christian, he (but mostly his son) eradicated the existing Roman religion by intense persecution of the adherents of that religion. While western films have spread endless propaganda about the persecution of the early Christians (when they were a minority and powerless) by the Roman-religion-believing Roman Emperors, Hollywood's Christians have carefully avoided mentioning about the persecution BY the later (and then the dominant) Christians - how they intensively persecuted not only the Roman religion believers (throwing them in thousands to the lions in the same gladiatorial arenas etc.), but of EVERY other religion around the world ever since.\n\nThis pattern of one set of god believers attacking and eradicating other god-believers has been characteristic of the past two millennia since the birth of Christianity.\n\nBuddhism does not have such 'faiths' and 'beliefs', and the SUTTAS (the records of the discussions between the Buddha and his disciples) reveal how ENTIRELY rational, scientific and dispassionate they were - in contrast to the discussions between Jesus and his disciples (or the similarly unsupported statements by Mohammed), where he made totally unsupported assertions and his disciples were simply expected to accept them on his (unsupported) claim that he was a god's representative. (He did NOT claim that he was a 'son of a god, but EVERYONE was at that time supposed to be children of the god. Indeed, a modern re-reading of the Bible suggests that 'god 'was an alien, who inter-married with a 'daughter of man'!!).\n\nBuddhism's inherent pacifism made it an easy target for the god-believing religions' fanatic marauders, and the religion was eradicated from Iran, Iraq etc. right down to Indonesia (except for a few countries like Sinhalé (the correct name of 'Sri Lanka'), Myanmar (formerly called Burma), Thailand etc. The process of persectiion and forcible conversion - now using different weapons - is today being seen in intense use by Christians in the Buddhist countries, and Vietnam and Korea have already fallen victim to the modern Christian gladiators.\n\nWimal Ediriwira