What are the positive effects of Christianity?
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http://www.thesheepfold.org/
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A great question that cuts to the core of Christianity and our modern age.\nRedemption brings escape - Christianity - based on Jesus acting for us.\nEscape brings redemption - Buddhism - based on one's efforts to escape from the world on ones own.
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Why not? Even if yoga originated from other cultures it doesn't mean that Christianity puts a ban on all things that make you feel good.
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Depends on the Christian and whether they truly understand and follow what the Bible teaches about what a Christian should be. For myself, I think it's fair to say that I do much more good to others than I do harm.
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I've never thought of it that way. I'm in between religious beliefs at the moment, but yours has given me an entirely new perspective on Christianity. Thanks for putting it out there!
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I certainly do! I've only been involved with Yahoo Answers about a week, but I've already received some very positive responses to answers I've proposed. I'm very happy and excited to know that we have a forum here that allows Christianity to be expressed as much as other forms of religion. The Christians, by and large, seem to be very sincere and helpful-most other participants do too, for that matter.\nAs others have said, God can use this forum as a way to communicate His thoughts, and especially His love to people.\nMay we as Christians be not only sincere, but well-versed in our beliefs and God's Word.\n\n"So shall my word be (like the rain that makes things grow) that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." Isaiah 55:10-11
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u need God in your family lifes for the positivety and the strength and everything good and positive go to church is a great plus  you will see a difference promise
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Although religion is good in many ways, it has also created a lot of wars. Music can cross boarders that religion can't.
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positive....as difficult as my life was, I always enjoyed my children, my home, and the daily routine of life.  If you are a Christian you'll understand when I say I've been through the fire and came out stronger.....a positive attitude is key.....I made gratitude lists, I prayed and I believed in a power greater than myself.....and I laughed and stayed in touch with the people I love....and I made it!
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Every January, the International Bulletin of Missionary Research publishes a “Statistical Table on Global Mission” — a detailed look at the world religious situation prepared by the mathematically indefatigable David Barrett. Absolute precision in these matters is impossible, but over the years, Barrett (an Anglican who teaches “missiometrics” at Regent University) has proven himself a judicious, reliable guide. Browsing his numbers reveals more than a few interesting things.\n\nChristian mission, for example, was essentially flat in the twentieth century. There were only 558 million Christians in the world in 1900 and there will be approximately 2 billion Christians by the middle of this year, a huge increase. But as a percentage of world population, Christianity has been treading water for a century: Christians were 34.5 percent of world population in 1900, and will be 33.1 percent in 2002.\n\nHalf of the world’s 2 billion Christians are Catholics. The next largest “megablock” of Christians is found in the denominationally-unaffiliated “Independent Churches,” which have some 400 million members — almost twice as many as the 217 million Orthodox believers in the world. Barrett counts 350 million denominationally-affiliated Protestants and another 80 million in the Anglican “megablock.” The relative positions of these “megablocks” within world Christianity will likely remain constant for the next quarter-century.\n\nEven as Christian population remained steady as a percentage of world population, other dimensions of Christian life changed dramatically in the twentieth century. Christians worshiped in 400,000 congregations in 1900; they can be found in 3.5 million parishes worldwide today. There were 300,000 books on Christianity published in 1900; 5.1 million such books will be published this year. The 3,500 Christian periodicals published in 1900 are a small fraction of the 35,000 Christian periodicals circulating today. Ten times as many Bibles will be distributed worldwide in 2002 as in 1900: 59 million versus 5.5 million. Christian organizations used some 1,000 computers in 1970; they use 332 million computers today. Charitable giving to Christian causes rose from $8 billion to $300 billion over the last century. Perhaps most strikingly, the number of Christian denominations skyrocketed, from some 1,900 a century ago to 35,500 today — one measure of the immensity of the ecumenical task in the twenty-first century.\n\nChristianity became much more an urban phenomenon in the twentieth century. In 1900, only 28 percent of the world’s Christians lived in cities. This year, 58 percent of the global Christian population will be urban dwellers.\n\nThe communications revolution also made a dramatic impact on Christian life: today, 2.5 billion people watch and listen to Christian broadcasts every month, a number Barrett expects will increase to 3.8 billion by 2025. Only 750 million were tuning-in thirty years ago, and of course no one was in 1900.\n\nThe total of what Barrett calls “distinct religions” has shot up from 1,000 in 1900 to 10,500 today, and will likely increase to 15,000 in a quarter-century. While this extravagant growth in new religions refutes the notion that the modern world is inevitably becoming secular, new religious movements are also a serious challenge to interreligious dialogue. The existing difficulties of Christian-Buddhist, Christian-Hindu, and Christian-Muslim dialogue will be magnified in dialogues with such rapidly growing “new religions” as the Vietnam-based Cao Dai (which blends Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism with themes from the Bible and the Qu’ran, while styling its leader the “Pope” and its headquarters the “Holy See”), and the Ahmadi Muslims, who claim that Jesus escaped the cross and died in India at age 120.\n\nIslam is the fastest growing major religion in the world today. From a population base of 200 million in 1900, Islam grew more th
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There is only GOOD.  All things that appear to be evil are really teaching us something for our personal growth.  Christianity exists to help folks grow.  It helps them see that even though they practice a certain religion, they are no closer to the truth.  If anything, they become disillusioned by all the lies.  But, again, they "grow" through that and eventually come to the "bliss" they forgot.\n\nWe are not human beings having a spiritual experience.  We are Spiritual beings having a human experience.  :)\n\nP.S.  Since we all have the capacity for good and negative choices, we can't really throw stones.  However, most "Christians" I have met, seem to be more hateful and unkind than others.  It shows it takes more than a commonly accepted belief system to make a true difference in our attitudes and actions.  :)
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Honestly my faith has allowed me not to worry about the little things that most other people worry about. Because of this it has way reduced my stress levels and brought my blood pressure way down. Right now I am working on removing as many vulgar influences as i can from my life that the common world has placed in it. The new challenges that I am approaching are whether or not I appear to be a good Christian to people who see me in my everyday life and whether or not i will be able to avoid doing sinful things that are common for most of the world to do as they carry on with their lives. Another benefit to my life is that it has allowed me to grow closer and find people who are a lot nicer and more understanding.
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I am a Christian already... I just feel Christ presence and I have faith in Him. I read the Bible and pray to God constantly and helps me strengthen my faith in Him. I also listen to Him.. listen to God and contemplating in His words really helps alot... Christ did something so wonderful to me... He saved me from ALL my unrighteousness... but not just ME but to you also...to all of us... and the good news is Christ is coming again to take us to heaven and would give us a new earth and a new life where there will be no more tears and no more failures and heartaches.. that's how wonderful to have Jesus in your life...
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Ok, I've had to write a similar paper about a zillion times in college, so here's some advice: Write on the positive and negative outcomes it could have such as organ transplant and the possiblity of people trying to sell their own organs for $$$, and how there could be a large black market of organs for sale. This will make a rise in the homocide rate (people killing other people to steal their organs) and because there has not been a lot done w/ stem cell organs, they do not know the longivity of them. Most religious people are aganist it because they think that it will increase abortion. I don't know....Good luck!
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Religion gives you identity, it gives you a sense of belonging, it makes you understand the purpose of you existence. It makes you understand that these sufferings are not permanent. All these things are very important from psychological point of view. And hence it gives you happiness.
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Being a Christian means you admit you are a sinner, so you don.t really become a better Christian. Once you accept Jesus you are justified to GOD so that is as good as it gets. \n\nDoing some of the thing above may make you a happier Christian, You are able to grow in knowing GOD and having a closer more fufilling relationship. \n\nIn every relationship spending time together makes it more fun. Same thing with GOD, prayer and obedience makes Christianity more fulfilling.\n\nAlso Dont buy the snake oil the Joseph smith guy was trying to sell you!
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same as any other group of ppl. some are good, some arent so good. christianity started out with the best of intentions, but theres always going to be flaws with stuff like that.