Can someone explain Christianity to me as if you're talking to a Tabula Rasa or blank slate with no prior knowledge? I don't understand how any of it fits together into one coherent system. Why do I need God? Why is sin even a problem for anyone? What's with all the liturgical church services and prayers if Jesus saves me from sin? How can I carry on sinning if Baptism brings me the Holy Spirit? What's the point of it all anyway?
Like what I need is the ultimate 101 that's structured, linear and explains everything including the beginning, Jesus, me and the future etc. Please don't just give fragments, explain it all like you were talking to an Alien. Thank you.
Even many heathens knew they had sin. The issue is what all constituted as such. And how to escape it. Some turned to philosophy or other gods or some other attempt to enlightenment. Did they have answers? Christ declared no, in word, purpose, and action. "No one comes to the Father but by me." You either believe him or you don't.
Other than this, I can't begin if you don't even understand sin.
He fulfills a deep-seated spiritual need in all humans, the same way your parents are supposed to fulfill a certain emotional need in you. Man was created with a divine nature, and to go against it by sinning is to oneself harm. It's similar to how rebelling against your physical nature by eating unhealthy foods all the time will cause you harm as well. Jesus only saves you from sin if you ask Him to. The church services and prayers are simply a formalized procedure of asking for salvation. You can do whatever you want within the laws of physics. God's not going to physically restrain you from making bad decisions just because you claim to follow Him. Eternal peace in the presence of our God in Heaven upon the termination of our physical lives.
Robert Williams
That's not the final point, we will have resurrection and live on the new earth
Thomas Butler
Okay but the important part there is the whole eternal peace in the presence of our God thing.
Joseph Mitchell
This was exactly what I feared I would get. Just specific answers to examples I gave instead of the actual narrative that everything fits inside of. You completely missed the point of my OP about tabula Rasa and fragmented knowledge.
Start to think that you people can't even piece it all together yourselves and just believe random things.
William Young
You should be talking to a preist IRL, not some random people on an obscure russian prayer rope crafting forum.
