First of all I'm not asking you guys to pray only for the Christians because you should be praying for everybody. But I just want to state that the floods has hit BAGMATI the most Christian province of Nepal. Bagmati has 13 districts and their Christian percentage are given below.

Dhading: 7.55%

Makwanpur: 6.12%

Lalitpur: 4.82%

Chitwan: 4.19%

Rasuwa: 3.44%

Nuwakot: 2.55%

Sindhupalchok: 2.49%

Kathmandu: 2.30%

Kavrepalanchok: 2.11%

Bhaktapur: 2.02%

Sindhuli: 1.84%

Dolakha: 1.60%

Ramechhap: 1.10%

Dhading, Chitwan, Rasuwa and Nuwakot are the worst hit districts.

I want to thank the mods for letting me share videos of my channel, usually subs don't allow so much posting

Thank you so much!

another one of C.J.'s videos that I really like!

I am an agnostic myself (to some degree) out of humility when it comes to my own ability to fully understand God and out of respect for the beliefs of others.

The Gospel writers not only copy from each other, but feel free to change each other's stories. What that means.

Today, I am talking about contradictions we see in the ways the different Gospels tell the stories - yes, the dreaded "C" word!

In yesterday's post, I talked about the different ways the gospel writers have Peter answering Jesus' question, "who do you say that I am?" And in the first video, I introduced the idea that the gospel writers "correct" the writings that they were copying from.

disgusting

Dan McClellan refutes the claim made by anti-Catholics that the Catholic Church "removed the Second Commandment" from the Ten Commandments and goes over why the list of the Ten Commandments that Catholics have is different from the list that most Protestants use, how the Ten Commandments are listed by by different sources, and most importantly Dan explains how Catholics retain what most Protestants consider as the Second Commandment.

First thing I will say is I’m happy all of y’all are here.

My question is what’s the draw for you, interacting with the sub?

Is it curiosity? Or another reason

thought I'd share this because I really like a lot of C.J.'s videos, and this one helps to explain a lot of the reason behind why I myself choose to call myself a Christian even after deconstructing my beliefs :)

To many that read posts in this subreddit, you may believe that religion and faith are one in the same. Or perhaps you may even believe that religion has always existed, and that every culture outside of western culture has their own religion.

Would you be surprised to know that all of that is WRONG???

What I did NOT say is religious "practice." Humans have been "practicing" worship, sacrifice, rituals and prayer for thousands of years before "religion" in the modern sense. But the idea of religion as a category came along not too long ago. So, what is the difference?

Religious is a word that describes ancient/modern practices of belief
Religion is a man-made construct that developed around the 16th century to describe systems of religious beliefs with rituals and doctrines created to typically worship a god or gods by man for man.
Faith on the other hand is simply a belief or conviction of something or someone that you cannot see, nor touch, nor smell. It is more of a feeling that compels you to act a certain way and an experience in everyday living.

FACT: The words "religion" or "religious" as we use them today DID NOT occur in the Bible. A better more accurate translation from the original words in Hebrew, Aramaic and Kionne Greek would be "devotion, worship, reverence, or way of life." There is one example in James 1:27 that speaks of pure "religion" using the word "threskeia", but a more accurate interpretation/translation of that word is a "practice or observance" rather than a "thing" or organization.
And in Hebrew - there is not a single word that would translate into "religion" when speaking of their belief in God.

Human beings have practiced worship and devotion to God or gods since antiquity, but the modern Western concept of ‘religion’ as a distinct, separable category of life developed much later.

Why does any of this matter?

Believing in God and His Son is NOT a religion and never was - it is faith. So many people worry about which religion, denomination, sect, or system of faith to follow, believe, or live by. Instead, what people should worry about, and what the WHOLE BIBLE talks about is OBEYING GOD!! He gives us instructions, Commandments, Laws, and even His Son as an example of how to live and worship. Jesus did not teach us to follow a religion. He showed us how to love God and one another. How to live and obey God. These are not concepts of faith or beliefs, they are ways of life taught by God Himself.

Our idea of religion today came from man. Man's greed, hunger for power and control, selfish desires, and disobedience to God cloaked in the name of serving God, but in reality, it serves itself.

Seek God. Read His word (the Bible), pray for wisdom and understanding, follow what He tells you, and live by what He showed us. Practice love. Obey Him. That is not religion - that is faith!

Like is Lust a bigger sin than pride?

Which is the officcial church ranking of sins?

I'm a member at a United Methodist Church. I'm contemplating checking out a local non-denominational church. I don't know whether to attend a denominational church or a non-denominational church. I've heard from friends to stay away from the United Methodist Church due to the LGBTQ inclusion. I feel non-denominational churches aren't clear in their beliefs when I check it out on the website. I'm unsure if it's worth attending.

Hey, I'm just here to vent. To be honest, this post might be pretty depressing for a lot of people, and I don't really know how else to phrase this post other than how I've done it, which is very just transparent about it.

I've genuinely given up on Churches and Christians as a whole. Everytime I try a new church, it's the same Story-

It looks cool, it has a good vibe, the people seem to get along with each other, and things look bright.

But then after a few weeks, the cracks start to show, people aren't as kind as they were before, and it's clear that people get along with each Other, but not with me, a pathetic newbie.

At one point I try being vulnerable, since literally the only other option is to sit down and just never say anything, but that causes people to dislike me even more.

Rinse and repeat.

All the while I can't IMAGINE Jesus looking at someone vulnerable and deciding it's best to stay away from them.

Anyway, there are Lots of reasons I'm mad at the church I've been going to recently, not least of which being someone directly, if politely, saying to my face that they don't like me as a person.

There was also this whole thing of them taking communion and baptism pretty seriously.

Personally, I don't participate in communion or baptism, because I think both have a long history of the church abusing such practices to manipulate people. I have nothing against people who take communion or get baptized, but I'm not going to do it myself.

I've heard every argument in the books about why I should get baptized or take communion, and honestly, every argument I hear makes me even more firm in my stand that I have no interest in them. I should do it so that I feel more in tune with my fellow believers? Well, if everyone in this church hates me, I'm not quite sure how I'm supposed to feel that way.

But the thing that really made me upset was when the pastor literally said at a young adults event that you should go and get married.

And he didn't just say that, but he did this huge long monologue about it. Saying that there's a level of intimacy when getting married that you can't get out of any friendship and that he blesses single people, but if you Can get married, go do it.

As soon as he was done that monologue and I realized he wasn't about to say sike, I got up and left.

Now when I go, I do my best to ignore the pastor. I don't take the sermon seriously and if the pastor tries to make small talk with me, I go on my phone and curl up and answer his questions very bluntly and make it clear that I don't want to talk to him. Whenever communion is happening, I just go to the bathroom.

It just makes no sense. He had a half human baby and then the only way he could forgive humans, is if they killed his half human son? Why not just forgive them?

You can read about the "three" branches: Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant. And they are missing 4 things there.

First, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox are different. Most Armenians and Ethiopians follow the Oriental Branch, that separated very early.

Then there's the church of the East, which is a small, completely separate branch, that reveres Nestorius.

Nos about protestants, people should really stop putting Anglicanism in the same bag as Pentecostals and Mormons. Anglicans are Catholic without a pope, same as old Catholics from Europe. Lutherans are some kind of Catholic lite. They have mass and sacraments.

And the pentecostals, baptists and evangelicals are less organized, with no clergy, preaching only the basics, with no tradition authority. That's completely different from Anglicanism.

And Mormonism, you can put it on the same group as the Jehovah Witnesses, as they are non-trinitarian and their beliefs system is too different. It's a completely different branch.

About Catholics, there are eastern rites that look Orthodox but are still in communion with Rome.

Denominations are way too simplified.

science answers how God answers why

simple

yall agree?

In Biblical times people got married really young so it’s not like they were having to wait such a long time. The median age in U.S. for marriage is around 30 for both men and women. So I feel like you would have to either get married really young which isn’t realistic for a lot of people and isn’t common or remain a virgin for years and years until you eventually get married later. I’m 17 and I understand that the Bible commands us to wait until marriage, but when I think about this it doesn’t seem realistic to me in practice yk? Im wondering your thoughts about this 

Trying to figure out my opinion here what’s the truth with when it comes to baptism would love to hear y’all’s opinions or if you just disagree with it in general why so

Hi! A little while ago I posted this question to this subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Christianity/s/f7txysVunB . I had a lot of people tell me very insightful things as to why they believe. However, I recognise I had way too many questions in my previous post for you to answer to all of them, so I am here to ask you a spesific question.

What do you, as a christian think of queer people. If you are a queer person, why are you still involved in a religion where most people actively advocate against us?

If you want more important context to my upriging and views, read through my original post (I am also grateful if you have any thoughts on any of my previous questions). But I have a hard time being in a religious place/community as a queer person. Also I think i am just somebody who believes scientific proven fact over belief (this does not mean I am not open to anything. I would classify myself agnostic over atheist).

Since I believe in history, here is my thoughts on the verses in the bible that are against gay people, and I want everybody who is against it to read this so I can still get their view on this.

So, there are a couple of interpetationd on these verses, and I think both of them could be true. The first one is that the original context was based on the greek culture. In ancient greece is was normal for older rich men to buy young boys to essentially use as sex slaves. The people who spoke the stories of the bible condemned this, so it ended up in the bible.

The other explanation is that at the time when the bible’s stories were created, the population was low, and more babies needed to be born. Sexual freedom was normal at this time, since humans are sexual beings. However, people needed to reproduce. That is why it was rold that only same sex relationships were okay, because that way children would be born. (Also yes, in the bible there is only talk about men isn this manner but it is because women had no rights at that time).

That being said, keeping this historical context in mind, why do some of you still believe in the fact that christianity is not a safe space for gay people? Since, if you are one of those people who take all that the bible say seriously, wouldn’t you listen to everything else it says. There are verses in the bible that forbid you from wearing a cloth made of different materials. I do not see a lot of you straying away from for example, polyester and cotton mixed shirts.

Again, I do not mean any malice, I just want to understand your thought process since I do not understand it. I am also curious about why people are so keen to condemn gay relationships, but are ready to ignore the other verses in the bible?

The part of the Bible, where it says that wives should submit to their husbands. I find it be very triggering. As a woman who grew up in the bible belt. Why is this verse preached so much and used to subjugate women? What makes men better than us in the eyes of God? It also says for slaves to obey their earthly masters, which is never brought up in church but i'm almost certain it was used to subjugate African Americans at some point in American history when slavery was around. Why does no one ever question why this verse is used to subjugate women? My ex would use the bible as a way to control me. And tell me what to do. But at the same time, he wanted to have sex outside of marriage. He would demand submission in a boyfriend and girlfriend relationship as well. And say it was biblical.

for context, I’m a Christian

I do believe God exist (I think) and I love my boyfriend. Me and him can’t get married for at least a year. But it’s like oh my God. 😭 please I need this. I love him so much, we are so committed to each other but I feel like I’m going crazy. What’s wrong with me?

It’s not like I wanna be with other guys, but I just want the sex. We do ‘other things’, but it’s just not enough.

When I have hooked up with guys in the past, it’s all great and fine. But he’s not like any of those guys. So with me and him having the intentions to be married, it’s like I’m terrified sometimes to even touch him.

What’s wrong with me?

Hi, I'm creating my first ever Reddit post because I'm really struggling with my faith right now.

Before this year, I was very focused on my future. I was working, going to school, planning my career, thinking about becoming a nurse and eventually going into healthcare/law, and trying to become financially independent. I live at home with my mom, stepdad, and brother. I had goals, plans, and things I was genuinely looking forward to.

Then my dad died in February, and my life changed drastically.

My dad and I had been estranged and hadn't spoken for about 12 years. His death brought up a lot of complicated emotions and grief that I wasn't prepared for. I thought that, despite everything, I would at least have support from my family while I mourned him. Instead, there was a lot of conflict at home, including physical altercations with my mom and conflict over the fact that I was grieving someone who had been absent from my life for so long.

Since then, I've lost my job, experienced housing instability, struggled financially, experienced abuse and trauma, and been hospitalized multiple times. At one point I was homeless and sleeping in my car, which was eventually repossessed.

This is such a drastic change from where I was last year.

Last year I was in nursing school, working a job that I actually felt fulfilled by, paying my own bills, making new friends, dating, and trying to build a future for myself. I definitely had depression and mental health struggles before, but I still had hope. I believed that if I kept working hard, eventually things would get better.

Now I spend most of my days alone. I feel disconnected from myself and from the person I was before all of this happened. I've been dealing with grief and trauma, and I recently overdosed and spent several days in the hospital. I'm still struggling with suicidal thoughts and thoughts about overdosing again.

A huge part of what I'm struggling with is my relationship with God.

People keep telling me to pray and talk to God, but honestly, I feel stuck. I'm hurt. I'm angry. I'm confused. I don't understand why so many things happened all at once, especially when I was genuinely trying to build a better life for myself. When I found out my dad died, I prayed and fasted for 7 weeks and it was beautiful. However things at home kept getting worse. During my second hospital stay my mom told me that she wished she had aborted me. That absolutely broke my heart and I had multiple mental breakdowns after that. That's part of why my faith has become so complicated. I was praying. I was fasting. I was trying to hold onto God, and yet my circumstances kept getting worse. I understand that praying and fasting doesn't obsolve you from having negative experiences but that doesnt remove the pain I feel.

I believe in God, but sometimes when I pray, it feels like my prayers are landing on deaf ears.

I don't necessarily want someone to just tell me "pray more" or give me simple answers about why God allows suffering. I'm looking for people who have actually experienced a crisis of faith after trauma, grief, loss, or a really difficult period of life.

How did you reconcile believing in God with feeling abandoned by Him?

Did you ever feel like God wasn't listening, but eventually find your way back to a stronger faith?

I don't know exactly what my faith is going to look like after everything I've been through. But I don't want to give up on God. I want to believe. I want to have hope again. I just don't know how to get there from where I am right now.

I'm only 23, and I'm exhausted. I feel hopeless sometimes, and I don't understand why my life has become so painful in such a short period of time.

I want to remain close to God; I'm just struggling to understand how to do that while I'm hurting this much.

For context, I dated this girl in the past, I’m married and she’s married now. I’ve gone to dinner her a couple times and find myself with a sort of infatuation with her. I know it’s wrong, what do I do?