The Christianity Paradox

[searchme]

How come Christians are the main ones recruiting for their religion when they themselves don’t believe the same thing. There like 1400 denominations.

 

 

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[ethereal]

all christians are unified under the belief that jesus was the son of the "one true God". that's literally all you have to believe to be a christian. the rest is just extra. 

[milkcafe]

all christians are unified under the belief that jesus was the son of the "one true God". that's literally all you have to believe to be a christian. the rest is just extra. 

[searchme]

all christians are unified under the belief that jesus was the son of the "one true God". that's literally all you have to believe to be a christian. the rest is just extra.

Not true.

 

There are laws and rituals you must follow.

[ethereal]

Not true.

 

There are laws and rituals you must follow.

uh, as a christian i can tell you that's not really true. each denomination has it's own thing going on like you said yourself in the op. there's no "law". the only universal christian ritual that's probably considered necessary is baptism. communion second. but religion in itself is about the beliefs. churches are a social construction that try to monopolize and "organize" those beliefs into a structural conceptualization, but that's not really what religion is about. 

[tearose]

That's not a paradox; there's no prerequisite for a religion to have a hive mindset in order to evangelize. 

 

If you're gonna troll at least come up with a good paradox. Try "the problem of evil" or the "Euthyphro dilemma" 

[125628]

you are asking this on a k-pop forum

[lovery]

Next thread will be an original and less controversial thread topic no one talks about: The Abortion Paradox.

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[searchme]

That's not a paradox; there's no prerequisite for a religion to have a hive mindset in order to evangelize.

 

If you're gonna troll at least come up with a good paradox. Try "the problem of evil" or the "Euthyphro dilemma"

It’s not a trolling.

The Paradox is convincing people to join your faith because the beliefs you hold are infallible.

you are asking this on a k-pop forum

Are you implying that members of this forum know nothing of worldly affairs?

[MasterOfCider]

I don't do religion, and this is one of the many reasons why. Everyone thinks they're right, and if they don't agree with something in their current faction they branch off and form a new one.

[milkcafe]

I don't do religion, and this is one of the many reasons why. Everyone thinks they're right, and if they don't agree with something in their current faction they branch off and form a new one.

 

isn't that true for every community ever though? 

[searchme]

isn't that true for every community ever though?

Only Christianity and Islam

[milkcafe]

Only Christianity and Islam

 

lmao it's true everywhere dude. every community ever. just look at this forum. people have gone to make their own forums because they don't like how things are done here. almost every psychology theory is just someone taking someone elses and building on it to make it their own because they don't like everything about the original. you're naive if you don't think that every single community in the world doesn't have people who don't like how things are done and branch out to create their own factions. political parties, music genres, bands. you name it. 

[searchme]

lmao it's true everywhere dude. every community ever. just look at this forum. people have gone to make their own forums because they don't like how things are done here. almost every psychology theory is just someone taking someone elses and building on it to make it their own because they don't like everything about the original. you're naive if you don't think that every single community in the world doesn't have people who don't like how things are done and branch out to create their own factions. political parties, music genres, bands. you name it.

Not to the tune of thousands.

[Sooyoung's Wife]

It sounds like you're not actually willing to listen to any answer given that goes against your question. Like someone has said before, there's no law you have to follow, just that you believe in Jesus and God and have faith. That's it. That's all it takes to be Christian. 

 

If you want to know why there's so many different types of Christianity, then that is something you'll have to look into historically. It's as someone else has also said, many times have others branched out something of their own if they didn't agree with certain beliefs. Christianity isn't unique to this. However, there is a reason for so many different groups of Christianity. Like, if you look back at the King James era, which held the ideal that everyone was a sinner no matter what you did, you just had to make sure you didn't sin enough to get into hell. Over time as Christianity was widespread and societies progressed, a lot of people started to doubt this idea, so their practices started to differ from the old way. Now you have this split of how people interpret the bible.

 

Then there was the whole ordeal with Martin Luther exposing the Catholic church, which outraged many on both sides of the argument, splitting Christianity even further, which brought on the Protestant movement. Then you have the Puritans in 16th century America who sought to follow their faith more closely to how they deemed it was originally meant, instead of the way it was progressing. Then you have the Quakers who thought all the bloodshed and wars over religion were wrong and considered themselves pacifists. American black slaves had a different idea of freedom they interpreted from their faith compared to the typical white southerner. Fredrick Douglass touches on this a lot. So then you get the emergence of the black church in America, which has a unique culture of its own than a "regular" church.

 

It all just comes down to history. Different societies, different times, different ways of thinking. This happens all the time, not just with Christianity. Not to mention how much the religion was spread on all those European expeditions and colonizing, it would've been impossible for billions of people to think the same exact way from all different lands/cultures all throughout time. That's not human nature. I mean, you don't see everyone in America agreeing with every law passed despite still living in the country. So then you get all these different political parties that form around their own ideals and beliefs based upon the same foundation. It's the same concept.

[searchme]

It sounds like you're not actually willing to listen to any answer given that goes against your question. Like someone has said before, there's no law you have to follow, just that you believe in Jesus and God and have faith. That's it. That's all it takes to be Christian.

 

If you want to know why there's so many different types of Christianity, then that is something you'll have to look into historically. It's as someone else has also said, many times have others branched out something of their own if they didn't agree with certain beliefs. Christianity isn't unique to this. However, there is a reason for so many different groups of Christianity. Like, if you look back at the King James era, which held the ideal that everyone was a sinner no matter what you did, you just had to make sure you didn't sin enough to get into hell. Over time as Christianity was widespread and societies progressed, a lot of people started to doubt this idea, so their practices started to differ from the old way. Now you have this split of how people interpret the bible.

 

Then there was the whole ordeal with Martin Luther exposing the Catholic church, which outraged many on both sides of the argument, splitting Christianity even further, which brought on the Protestant movement. Then you have the Puritans in 16th century America who sought to follow their faith more closely to how they deemed it was originally meant, instead of the way it was progressing. Then you have the Quakers who thought all the bloodshed and wars over religion were wrong and considered themselves pacifists. American black slaves had a different idea of freedom they interpreted from their faith compared to the typical white southerner. Fredrick Douglass touches on this a lot. So then you get the emergence of the black church in America, which has a unique culture of its own than a "regular" church.

 

It all just comes down to history. Different societies, different times, different ways of thinking. This happens all the time, not just with Christianity. Not to mention how much the religion was spread on all those European expeditions and colonizing, it would've been impossible for billions of people to think the same exact way from all different lands/cultures all throughout time. That's not human nature. I mean, you don't see everyone in America agreeing with every law passed despite still living in the country. So then you get all these different political parties that form around their own ideals and beliefs based upon the same foundation. It's the same concept.

There’s a huge difference between not agreeing with every law for the sake of civility and openly recruiting people to your fractionalized faith.

 

Religion’s basis of belief is not based on human nature but based on divine scriptures and perceived intervention.