[b said:
Quote[/b] ]So it blind worship.
A closer colliquism would be blind faith. But it wouldn't be blind as all thoughs who have faith can share very real examples of faith in action. For example, everybody has blind faith that should you jump of a cliff, you will fall because every time you jump off the stairs, you fall. Christians all have experiences that solidifies their faith in much the same way.
The first step is often taken "blindly" for lack of a better term. But God promises to reveal himself to all who search.
[b said:
Quote[/b] ]Another question what is the difference between a religion and a cult. When I look at cults I think of them as another religion just with a minority. When people look at cults they think that these guys are brainwashed and their faith is wrong. Kind of the same way as the Romans looked at christianity back in the old school.
I'm not very good at explaining my self hope u understand what Im trying to say.
I understand you to be asking about the difference between a cult and a religion. Christianity is labelled a religion by the secular world. But every Christian will tell you that their faith is based on a relationship with Jesus and that it is not a "religion" as defined by that same secular world. Religion is often mans rules. But if you look at Gods rules (the ten commandments) you very much already follow 6 - 10. 1 - 5 is a given as a Chrisitian. And further breaking down the 10, you get two simple commandments:
Love God with all you got and Love your neighbour as yourself. When it comes to the religion of Christianity, this is it, it boils down to those two commandments (compare those two to the billions of laws and regulations in the USA, the free'est nation on the earth.)
My understind of what a cult is that is is based on what you do to get something better. Give more money to the leader, have your sexual organs mutilated or you won't be clean, you must drink this poison as the meteor passes by or the spaceship behind the meteor won't beam you up. Its all about you doing something.
Christianity is not based on you doing something to be reconciled to God. Rather, there is nothing you can do on your own that will ever achieve this. The bible is not a book of how goody goody people were, are or should be. It is a book filled with strife and rebellion against God. Christianity is a choice, a free choice, to accept that you can not reconcile yourself to God without the benefit of Jesus' death on the cross.
You do not have to kill a chicken, have your fingers cut off or help 50 million old ladies across the street. You choose to accept the Lord Jesus as your savior, that he died for your sins so that you can be reconciled with God, you choose to say the Jesus is Lord and choose to believe that God raised him from the dead.
On the other hand, you can choose to believe none of that. And God, instead of destroying your soul, will honour your decision and has created a place that one can spend eternity away from Gods presence. I would call it hell as I choose to be with God for eternity. Maybe for the peope who would rather not spend eternity with God, this place would be heavan for them.
