In Reply to: I have a question posted by Acheick on November 16, 2002 at 10:15:16:
'If Berg wasn't a Christian, then what is a Christian 'is looking at the question from a strange angle. I think Berg is not even a factor at all but that we need to look directly in the Gospels to see what Jesus described. If you want to know what to believe there it is and if you want to know how you should live, there it is. I don't know that trying to figure out every detail of what a Christian is is as important as living the plain obvious stuff that we do know what it means.
Remember what Mark Twain said about the Bible? he siad that, "It's not the stuff that I don't understand tht bothers me, but the stuff that I do understnad." in other words, forget the knotty questions & theological mysteries. Try swallowing and truly living "love your neighbor as yourself" and you'll have enough of a challenge already.
I think the only way to have a good idea in our mind of what a Christian really is is to be trying to live it to our own abilities as best we can. it's not just knowing & being able to quote the scriptures tha twill give us clear definitions in our minds. It's having the moral authority from know we're also living the truth and that it can be lived. only whenwe're living it ourselves can we look up from our Bibles and think aobut how others around us are lliving or distorting the truth, don't you think?