Deism

Christ is the only way to eternal salvation. He is the door. Without what He has done for us we would be lost. He is the basis of what I stand for and Who I am glad is part of my life. Where as church and baptism are just something that are able to gather others around us to rely on to glorify God together. It sounds weird in itself, but it's becomes part of life more than it seems like a chore. Many have been saved on their deathbeds because of Jesus and Jesus alone, not because of how many times they went to church or got baptized, or even walking an old lady across the street. It's that amazingly simple.

Cool question Matt

The Bible was written by humans through Him, which is why it is so holy. Other wise it would be there opinions, not Gods truth.

It is able to be known because of the prophecy that are indicated in the Bible itself. It is said that the odds of all the prophecies coming true by sheer coincidence are the same odds of filling the universe with sand and painting one single grain red and being able to pick that one grain out. It's simply amazing how accurate the Bible is, which makes it purely reliable. Thanks Matt.

It really isn't that accurate, at all. In fact it's very inaccurate.
But if you're happy believing in it then I'm happy for you.

Ha, I don't want you to be happy for me I want you to look into how accurate it really is. How sometimes what seem to be contradictions are actually just misinterpretations.
Love you, man.

in what way is it accurate? in the fact that the number of genereations between joseph and david vary a extremely huge amount between gospels, or that it says that jesus will be a decendant of david, when in fact it was joseph who was a decendant, and joseph is not the father of christ?

I just arf, causing me to choke on my kellogs crunchy nut clusters. thank you.

You're really going to put that effort in? i think porn would be a more worthwile pursuit

Free Will comes from Awareness, Awareness comes from self discovery, God lives within each one of us, You will never be as beautiful as you are right now, but to say anything in absolute's is being an egotistical closed minded fool....which means you are unaware, thus not free from the trappings of the world and sin (yes sin is real, sin is just different for each individual...all religion/spirituality is a personal thing). Sin, is whatever drags you down in life or puts you on the road to death, pain, or suffering. I hope you get that, because if you don't....you're not aware.

If everyone felt this way about his or her religious beliefs, then there wouldn't be a problem.

If you don't agree with the Bible, don't read it and leave it at that.

Just in my time posting here at RJ, I've went from fervent atheist to agnostic to a believer in God, but I'm not a religious person. I've just seen and felt God work in such a way that I cannot deny that something is working beyond my explanation.