What is a “Christian”?

@chaney3 said
If I am a Christian, I'm not a very good one, because I have a lot of doubt about the entirety of the story.

I have faith of a mustard seed, but it's equalled by guilt and confusion.

Then why have you started so many threads denouncing Christians for being, by their own admission "not very good"?

@fmf said
Then why have you started so many threads denouncing Christians for being, by their own admission "not very good"?

Especially me!

@fmf said
Then why have you started so many threads denouncing Christians for being, by their own admission "not very good"?

Just pointing out that repenting is a big deal to Jesus.

It's not good enough to know you're living wrong.....and do nothing about it.

@divegeester said
Same here to some extent.

I have heard that strong faith is a gift from God.

@chaney3 said
Just pointing out that repenting is a big deal to Jesus.

It's not good enough to know you're living wrong.....and do nothing about it.

Why do you feel it is for somehow appropriate for you, of all people, to be "pointing" something like this out ~ and pointing your finger generally ~ when you yourself behave the way you do while seemingly revelling in your own hypocrisy?

@fmf said
Why do you feel it is for somehow appropriate for you, of all people, to be "pointing" something like this out ~ and pointing your finger generally ~ when you yourself behave the way you do while seemingly revelling in your own hypocrisy?

Repenting is a big part of being a Christian.

No revelling, just a fact.

@chaney3 said
Just pointing out that repenting is a big deal to Jesus.

It's not good enough to know you're living wrong.....and do nothing about it.

So you see yourself ~ in some way, or to some degree ~ to be channelling Jesus here on this message board?

@chaney3 said
Repenting is a big part of being a Christian.

But your lectures on what is or isn't "a big part of being a Christian" just seem to be spiteful, nasty, highly personalized denunciations aimed at one particular person - or a few - with whom you seem obsessed in an obviously unhealthy way.

@chaney3 said
No revelling, just a fact.

It's a fact that you devote a lot of your forum contributions to revelling in your own hypocrisy while pretending it is those who point this out to you are supposedly the trolls.

@fmf said
It's a fact that you devote a lot of your forum contributions to revelling in your own hypocrisy while pretending it is those who point this out to you are supposedly the trolls.

Look FMF, you were once a Christian but discarded your faith. So be it.

You are in NO position to judge anyone with regards to doubt.

@chaney3 said
You are in NO position to judge anyone with regards to doubt.

We are all in a position to comment on each other's behaviour. And that's my point. You seem determined to browbeat people publicly about the importance of repentance while pointedly not doing any public repentance of your own.

@chaney3 said
Look FMF, you were once a Christian but discarded your faith. So be it.

But, the point is, my stance with regard to "faith", unlike you, does not turn me into a hypocrite. You appear to believe that declaring "If I am a Christian, I'm not a very good one, because I have a lot of doubt about the entirety of the story" entitles you to be oddly sanctimonious and mention the name of a religious figure over and over again while you're at it.

@fmf said
But, the point is, my stance with regard to "faith", unlike you, does not turn me into a hypocrite. You appear to believe that declaring "If I am a Christian, I'm not a very good one, because I have a lot of doubt about the entirety of the story" entitles you to be oddly sanctimonious and mention the name of a religious figure over and over again while you're at it.

In a sense, you are a hypocrite.

You discard your faith, then "browbeat" others who have doubts about their own faith, but who are still seeking, and still asking questions.

You once worshipped your own "God figure", remember?

@chaney3 said
You are in NO position to judge anyone with regards to doubt.

I am not "judging" you with regards to your doubt. Indeed, your doubt isn't particularly interesting and your words about it are too smothered in your hypocrisy to seem sincere. I think doubt is good and I think it is a quintessentially human attribute which is preferable to the certainty and even personal reality/alternative facts that ideology gives rise to. My own doubt - which led to my loss of faith - has not been a negative experience.

@chaney3 said
You discard your faith, then "browbeat" others who have doubts about their own faith, but who are still seeking, and still asking questions.

I have never criticized anyone here for having doubts about what they believe.