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In the Born of God thread I made some points concerning religion and personal relationships with Christ. I feel the points need some further discussion of their own.
I don't understand the desire of some to deny that faith in Christ is a religion. Or why religion is bad. James encouraged us all to practice what he called pure religion which was to take care of the widows and the fatherless and to remain unsupported from the world (James 1:20
This is precisely what Christ wants us to do. It's what we covenant to do when we are baptized. This is what we are supposed to do and if we don't Christ will say He never new us. So how then can religion be bad?
Second point is how do you have a relationship someone when you limit what they say to the Bible? A.relationship, at least a good one, has good communication. You can't have that when you tell people they can't say anything they haven't said before.
I don't understand the desire of some to deny that faith in Christ is a religion. Or why religion is bad. James encouraged us all to practice what he called pure religion which was to take care of the widows and the fatherless and to remain unsupported from the world (James 1:20
This is precisely what Christ wants us to do. It's what we covenant to do when we are baptized. This is what we are supposed to do and if we don't Christ will say He never new us. So how then can religion be bad?
Second point is how do you have a relationship someone when you limit what they say to the Bible? A.relationship, at least a good one, has good communication. You can't have that when you tell people they can't say anything they haven't said before.