Is It OK If I Don't Understand Everything But Still Choose Christ Jesus ?
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Yes.  No one understands everything.  Faith comes by hearing and hearing a word about Christ.  The only thing you need to know is that God so loved you, that He sent His only begotten Son that whosoever believes is Him will not perish but shall have everlasting life.  Once You have confessed Jesus Christ your Lord & believe in your heart He rose from the dead and saves you from your sins.  He's your Savior then.  You then Have a best friend who'll give you the gift of understanding, wisdom & knowledge.  As your faith grows, the answers come quicker.\n\nNext day to add:  The thief on the cross found Jesus by confessing He was guilty/sinner. He said to the other theif,"We are worthy of this punnishment. But Jesus is innocent.".  Then confessed, "LORD. remember me when you enter into your Kingdom."  Jesus, " said, "Today you will be with me in paradise.".\n\nIf anyone brings to you another gospel, another Jesus other than the one in the bible, don't believe it.  There are many wolves in sheeps clothing.  Learn the God of the bible.  The more you seek Him, the more you find Him.  The more you find Him, the more LOVE Him.
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I'm glad to be on the bottom of this mess. So many people who know so little about the Bible, and say soooo much!\nIt isn't what God thinks---as though he owed you anything. It's what he did! creation is over with. Your a new comer.\n\nRead your Bible and discover the truth. There are those who can help you to understand what your reading, and alone, you will be led astray by interuptions, wandering mind, all forms of things you forgot to do. Even sleep. All Satan's tools to keep you from finding the truth in God's word.\nA literal place-Heaven? Jesus said there was. Hell, meant for Satan and certain others but not for mankind in general.
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I was new to faith not too long ago, and I found that growing in faith and knowledge concerning the things of Christ is easier to do when under the teaching of a good solid bible preaching/teaching church.  Find a good solid church and attend faithfully, listen to what is preached and line it up with what the bible says..  Read the bible, use Strong's concordance to understand the original meanings of the words.  \n\nBe careful of cults and certain denominations out there who would lead you astray (remember, adding to, or taking away from the bible...such as the book of Mormon, the apocrypha added to the Catholic bible, etc...brings wrath according to Revelations).  Do not trust in anyone or anything that goes against scriptures.  I noticed the Watchtower site being used in answers here...please be careful if you shall go there...it is Jehovah's witnesses, and there are 15 reasons according to scripture that one cannot be a Christian and also a JW.  Be careful and ALWAYS line what you read and hear with the bible...if it doesn't line up, don't follow the thing you put up by the bible.
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It is confusing. That is why I read my Bible everyday. I believe it is the Word of God. That is all He has given me to go on. I do feel sorry for people who do not realize this. They are easily swayed. It also keeps me on track by belonging to a church. Jesus loves the church, He is coming back for the church.
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I am sorry, but those words you just said were descriptions of Jesus.  I am no Jesus.  The Bible says that a Chrstian is a follower and believer of Jesus Christ who STRIVES to be like the almighty.  The Bible makes it clear that you will fail.  No one is perfect.  I am a Christian because I try to have the best relationship with God that I can, I have and will see people delivered and set free from sin, I try to worship God as much as I can, and I strive to be part of my local church.  The one think that makes you and I human, not God, is the fact that we will never always succeed.  God knew this, so he sent us a way to not have to pay for our sins, he sent his son jesus to lift the burden off our backs and to sacrifice himself for every person on earth.  All you need to do is believe and ask for forgiveness.  That is a REAL Christian.
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Only Jesus Christ is the Truth, the Way, and the Life. So many people are wasting their time searching for Truth, but Jesus was already standing at their doorway waiting to accept you. It's your choice, and no doubt the most important decision you'll ever have to make. Nothing else in this world matters as seriously as this, the world is going to die one day anyway. When it dies, where will you be? Will you also die together with the world? Or, follow God's perfect will for you, and that is just to simply accept Jesus and be in His presense forever?\n\nAnd this is the most important decision anyone ever has to make
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Jesus! He's the one who died for us, created us, and knows everything about us! He loves us more than anyone else. If you have questions about Him, then ask someone for a Bible and read all that He's done for you, along with the rest of the world. Jesus loves you! Confess to Him. \nRomans 10:9-10: "If you confess through your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved."\n     It's your decision. Make it. Jesus or men? I'd choose Jesus. He knows you and me and everyone else better than any man could. The choice is yours. Take it.\n                                 -christismybodyguard
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congratulations for using your mind\n\n-------\n\nfirst of all, trinity is not understandable. There is only one God. not three in one God. \nIf God is the Father and also the Son, then He would then be the Father of Himself because He is His own Son. This is illogical!\n\n\n-------\nfurthermore, look and this verse of bible. \n\nMark 13:32 \n"But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father." \n\nIf Jesus and God are equal then they should be equal in knowledge. But as we can see, God is greater in knowledge than Jesus. The fact that one "personality" of God has knowledge not available to the other "two thirds" is a clear indication that they are distinct and separate beings, and not three faces of one being.\nAnd if, as some suggest, the Son was limited by his human nature from knowing, the question remains, Why did the Holy Spirit not know?\n\nSome say his human nature prevented him from knowing. Reasonably, though, if, as some believe, he was fully God, nothing could prevent him from knowing. How can human nature prevent God from knowing anything, particularly something of such import?  That further proves that Jesus was not all-powerful, because if he was all-powerful, then he would have power to know the final hour and to give himself this knowledge. \n\nFurthermore, if someone thinks that Jesus the man did not know, then he is missing a point that according to Christians, Jesus was 100% man and 100% God in one body. It means, Jesus possessed the same intellect of God and man.  If he had the same intellect then he should have same knowledge. But when we read the text it says only the father knows. This means that even the "DIVINE JESUS" doesn't know. This means that no one else knows including the divine Jesus. Therefore, Jesus lacks being All-knowing. and we know that God is All-knowing, hence, Jesus cannot be God. \n\n\n\n\n\nQuran (holy book of islam) says in chapter  4 verse 171 \n"Say not ‘Trinity’: desist: \nIt will be better for you for \nAllah is one God."\n[Al-Qur’an 4:171]\n\n \n\nQuran says in Surah Maidah chapter 5 verse 73\n"They do blaspheme who say\nGod is one of three\nIn a Trinity: for there is \nNo god except One God.\nIf they desist not\nFrom their word (of blasphemy),\nVerily a grievous penalty\nWill befall the blasphemers\nAmong them."\n\n=================\n\nHOPE THIS ANSWERS
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Your right on Brother,keep to the scriptures,they will always tell you the Truth and head you in the right direction.Always ask the Lord and get into His Word as whether something is right or not,you cannot go wrong there!
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Not everything you hear is from God.  That is why you have to weigh what you hear against the word of God.  The bible tells us not to tempt God.  In other words, don't take your life into your own hands.  So, my answer is no I would not jump off a bridge and Jesus wouldn't tell me to do that:)\nThis is why you must know the word of God and know the creator and His nature.
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I think Christ meant everything He said.  The fact that we don't listen...now there's the problem.\nWhat if we LISTENED to everything Jesus said?
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God wants us to be knowledgable.  He wants us to read His Word and really study it.  This way we can feel confident and then help pass it on to others.  A preacher might help clarify some things to you or give you new persepectives but you definitely should study yourself.  In instances of uncertainty, then you should take God's word for it, pray, and trust that He knows exactly what He's doing.\n\nIn response to a comment made above that said that Christians are taught to believe eveything in the Bible and, therefore, can't think for themselves - not true.  Most Christians I know including myself choose to believe everything in the Bible because we feel inside ourselves (from the Holy Spirit) that it is the absolute truth.  You can be taught anything, it doesn't mean you have to believe in it.  It's your own choice to do that.
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You wanted an answer, so here it is.\n\nShort answer: No.\n\n***\n\nReasons I'm not a Christian\n\nSummary:\n\n1. Christianity is a “me” religion.\n2. I wasted over twenty years being one and it never benefited me. In fact, it caused considerable harm.\n3. Jesus probably never existed.\n4. Even if Jesus *did* exist, he did not fulfill the requirements of Jewish Messiah as outlined in the Jewish bible.\n5. Even if Jesus *had* fulfilled Messianic requirements, the Messiah was never meant to be God; just a human.\n6. Even if Jesus existed and *had* fulfilled the Messianic requirements and *was* God, the Jewish Messiah was only ever for the Jews, and not the Gentiles.\n7. There is no need for the Christian idea of “salvation”. There is nothing from which to be saved. Adam and Eve didn’t bring death into the world. There is no devil; there is no eternal hell.\n8. The basic theology of Christianity is pure insanity.\n9. The Jesus portrayed in the Christian bible is not a being of love.\n10. Jesus is nothing original and nothing new.\n11. Christians are inconsistent with their views.\n12. The idea of Jesus paying for our sins is completely unethical.\n13. Fear-based belief systems are damaging; a form of emotional abuse, and can hardly be considered valid.\n14. Belief in a deity is not required for a person to be good.\n15. Emotional blackmail isn't my thing.\n\n***\n\nDetailed explanation:\n\n1. Christianity is a “me” religion.\n\nThe very basis of Christianity is incredibly selfish. If I believe in the Jesus story, it helps absolutely no one but me. Whether I believe because I want to go to heaven, or because I want to stay out of hell, it's still all about ME. No one benefits if I believe because I "love" God, or because I fear hell. No one, that is, but ME.\n\n2. I wasted over twenty years being a Christian and it never benefited me. In fact, it caused considerable harm.\n\nThat's basically it in a nutshell: I've been there, done that, got the tee-shirt - and I don't want to do it again. \n\nChristianity taught me to be ashamed for being me; that I was a "sinner" by genetic default, born bad and rotten to the core; that it was my fault that someone killed a guy over 2000 years ago and I should feel personally responsible; that God wouldn't want anything to do with me unless I took a metaphysical bloodbath. I was taught that I was second-rate for being a woman and that my role here on earth was to submit to my husband and pop out babies. That it was my fault that my ex raped me because I was a woman and I was too tempting for him.\n\nDid I have self-esteem issues? You bet I did.\n\n3. Jesus probably never existed.\n\nOutside of the Christian bible, there is absolutely NOTHING that is both historical and contemporary (of Jesus) to show that he ever existed. While there is enough literature left to fill a library from the time that Jesus supposedly walked the earth, NONE of it mentions Jesus.\n\nHere are some of the authors from the time Jesus allegedly lived:\n\nApollonius Persius\nPausanias\nArrian Phaedrus\nMartial Valerius Falccus\nColumella Phlegon\nJuvenal Statius\nDio Chrysostum Pliny the Younger\nJosephus Seneca\nFlorus Lucius Quintilian\nEpictetus Pompon Mela\nLucian Tacitus\nPaterculus Valerius Maximus\nAppian Petronius\nAulus Gellius Philo-Judaeus\nLysias Theon of Symran\nLucanus Suetonius\nJustus of Tiberius Silius Italicus\nDamis Pliny the Elder\nDion Pruseus Plutarch\nFavorinus Ptolemy\nHermogones Quintius Cutius\n\nThis list is from John E. Remsburg's book "The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidence of His Existence". \n\nThese authors were from the time of Jesus' alleged life, or within a century after - yet apart from a forged passage in Josephus' works - just ONE passage! - there is to be found no mention of Jesus whatsoever. (Most historians agree that this passage was forged, and if Josephus had truly believed that
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HOW MISIMFORMED ARE YOU HONEY... GOD SON JESUS CAN FORGIVE HES THE ONE THAT GAVE OF HIMSELF ON THE CROSS ON CALVARY FOR YOUR SINS AND FOR MINE AND FOR EVERYONES SINS... AND THERE IS ALWAYS A NEED TO HAVE FORGIVENESS BUT YOU MUST MEAN IT AND STICK WITH IT AND NOT DO THE SAME THING AND JUST EXPECT THAT YOU CAN BE FORGIVEN OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR THE SAME MISTAKE...
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I agree,.... no one should ever assume they have it all right. Every denomination or every religion is the product of someone interpretting something different than the guy before. Im a Christian and I see other Christians faithfully following doctrines that I have no idea how they can believe it in light of scripture. Im sure many would see some of my beliefs as false too. Fact being, we do not accept anything as truth that we do not understand so we change what we're told into something we can understand. However it doesnt change what IS Truth. I think our best bet is to realise we cant get it all right and just be open to learn.
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Yes.  It defines not only who you are, but how you will be spending eternity.  It allows for a relationship with God.  Acceptance or rejection of the sacrifice Jesus made is the ultimate question.  The answer will change your life forever, either way you choose to answer.
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You make a number of excellent observations, but trying to convince or convert in this type of forum is at best a crap shoot. Jesus related to people on a personal level. When someone is ready to accept the truth under the guidance of the Holy Spirit someone will be there to help them take their first step. If you're not called to save the whole world by all means don't try to do so.