What kind of Christian are you?

[NavelTickler75]

So are you liberal? New Age? Moderate, conservative, dogmatic?
Just curious. I for one am a mostly conservative dogmatic Catholic.

I guess Liberal Christians might be those who follow Jesus' teachings but don
t believe Him to be God, or the founder of the Church. They don't think they need to concern themselves with all the rules or at least most of the rules.

New Age would be Christians who see God as a mystical aura type think which they can join upon death.

Moderates, believe Jesus is God, but don't believe He founded the Church, nor do they think they need to follow most of the rules, but do follow more than the liberals do. And speak up for those that do follow a lot of them.

Conservative, believe Jesus is God, that He founded the Church, and follow ninety percent of the rules, maybe bending a little here, little there. But they are not zealots.

Dogmatic, belive as the Conservatives do, and follow ninety five percent of the teachings. Still they are not Zealots.

Zealots, completely into the rules, and thus i doubt would be on a site like this.

Agnostic, Believe in Jesus, but aren't sure where He belongs in the whole God thing, rarely, if ever follow most of the majority of the rules.

 

[NavelTickler75]

Ooops sorry I forgot to put moderate on the list, my bad.

 

[Redmage]

Do you want to define some of these, just so everyone is using the words in the same way?

 

[NavelTickler75]

I suppose that would be a good idea.

 

[NavelTickler75]

Wow a lot of Conservative Christians here!

 

[Redmage]

You might be seeing the slant toward the conservative because of the definitions you've chosen. For example, most moderate (or "mainline") Christians believe that Jesus founded the church. Even many who would define themselves as liberal believe this. New Age or mystical Christians generally believe that Jesus was a divine entity, but they may not believe that he was unique in this.

As for following the rules, it sort of depends on which ones you mean - Old Testament, New Testament, both? Then there are the various rules unique to each church. For example the Catholic Church requires that all those who take communion first undergo the sacrament of confession if they are aware of guilt for a mortal sin. The Episcopal Church offers sacramental confession, but does not require it.

If you're interested in this then you might like the various ways of classifying Christian belief used at religioustolerance.org.

 

[NavelTickler75]

I'll take a look later at that thank you.

Im just in shock im not the only dogmatic one here.

 

[P[a]pi]

denver_tickler - I was thinking the same thing. I've never heard of a agnostic Christian. I think those two words mean two totally different things.

I'm this kind of Christian:

If you are Christian than parts of the Old Testament are true, but if the New Testament says something contradictory to the Old Testament than the New Testament has changed it. And all of the New Testament is true.

If the story names people by name than I take it as historical truth. If the people aren't named than I don't. But, either way I believe the messege of the story is true or right, whether it is historically true or not.

These were just two quotes of mine from another thread that I thought summed up the kind of Christian I am pretty well haha.

 

[Redmage]

denver_tickler - I was thinking the same thing. I've never heard of a agnostic Christian. I think those two words mean two totally different things.

You might be interested in The Christian Agnostic, by Leslie Weatherhead.

 

[Vae]

Maybe I haven't read enough, but what about those who aren't Christian at all? Not everyone falls under this umbrella category.

 

[NavelTickler75]

Maybe I haven't read enough, but what about those who aren't Christian at all? Not everyone falls under this umbrella category.

Well this was for different types of Christian ideals. There is a different religion poll somewhere here.

 

[Excess]

You might be interested in The Christian Agnostic, by Leslie Weatherhead.

After reading about that, I would definately be considered an Agnostic Christian.

 

[Angband]

Oops, I hit Liberal before reading. XD I guess I assumed it was like the secular version of the word...

 

[NavelTickler75]

Oops, I hit Liberal before reading. XD I guess I assumed it was like the secular version of the word...

It happens. So what do you really consider yourself based on what I wrote down if you did liberal before reading?

 

[911]

A real one not someone posing as one, there are too many of those.

 

[NavelTickler75]

A real one not someone posing as one, there are too many of those.

Er a real what?

And who else here is dogmatic? I would love to know!

 

[The Last Laugh]

I know this poll doesn't really concern me, but I'd still like to mention that I'm an Agnostic (traditional, not the "Christian" type), with a tendency towards Atheism.

 

[JennIsHere]

A poor one at best.

 

[NavelTickler75]

A poor one at best.

Too many of us are like that Jenn, unfortunately.

 

[jim66e]

I selected Dogmatic.

 

[NavelTickler75]

I selected Dogmatic.

LOL finally! The mystery is solved!

Or not! Now we have three dogmatics, myself, jim, and someone else!

 

[911]

Er a real what?

And who else here is dogmatic? I would love to know!

christian

 

[NavelTickler75]

christian

Okay I see now.

 

[JennIsHere]

Too many of us are like that Jenn, unfortunately.

I hope to improve to fair, but at times it seems unobtainable.

 

[NavelTickler75]

I hope to improve to fair, but at times it seems unobtainable.

It does I feel the same way sometimes, but anything worth doing is going to be a rough time.