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What is it called when a person believes in god but not church or the Bible
My cousin believes in god, but doesn’t believe everything in the Bible and doesn’t believe in going to church because “too many corrupt people in the church and it’s all about money and other things and not god”. She says you don’t need church to learn about god and a a lot of things have been changed in the Bible and it’s not true, etc.
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I call that a rebel Christian. Last November I cross paths with God. I had been an Atheist for 51 years and didn't believe in God. It took less than two minutes for me to know God exists after that experience. But I'm not changing my life. I don't like the Bible I've never opened one. I don't go to church. Believing in God is a personal thing. And different countries have different religions that don't even involve our Bible. God loves us equally and gave us free will to do what we want. I'm the last person I would have thought God would have wanted a cross paths with but he did. And I'm not changing anything.
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1 Corinthians 15:1-4 says it all if you believe Jesus shed his blood on the cross and died and was buried and rose again on the 3rd day you are saved your own works wont save you just being a good person wont save you Trust and Believe in what Jesus did is enough and you can rest in that
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I understand that perfectly. I no longer attend church for some those reasons but many more. I consider myself spiritual but not religious. Religious comes from the word religion. Have you heard the term 'organized religion?'
It means: a structured system of faith or worship, especially one followed by a large number of people, such as Christianity, Islam, or Judaism, not to mention others.
It has nothing to do with believing in the Christian God or anything else but it is what the dictionary description says, very structured. The structure is not a bad thing. Think of when you were a little kid in school. The teacher structured your day. There was time set aside to do several subjects, time to creative art stuff and recess for play. As a child, you couldn't come up with a better way to learn on your own, true? And so it is for new believers of any belief system. Churches structured systems help a new believer phenomenally! I support that. But some people outgrow the church eventually as they internally go beyond relying on the structure and really having a relationship with God. There are things God has taught me that I could not learn in church. I no longer attend but I still find plenty of people out in the regular world to touch and bless, something most churches try to do but fail at because they are too segregated from humanity in their church settings. I've been there done that. It doesnt make a person any less a Christian if they no longer read the Bible but have a one on one personal relationship with God. I don't know if your friend has that but what is most important to God, is not being a member of a religious group but our spiritual growth. That takes stages of first realizing there is something bigger than us, choosing to worship only that which we can see and touch like trees, stones, statues, and the next step would be wondering how everything came to be and believing that something created us and everything we see, later learning that there indeed is a God, having experiences in our lives that clearly were supernatural and from our creator and realizing that, learning how to love a God we can't see but reading up and from others like minded, learning more of God. Then once we are at the point of realizing we are Gods children, and our creator is our heavenly Mother-Father God, just as the earthly parents he gives us, we go from not just the mentality of being an only child or limited to the church membership but realizing that we are sisters and brothers with everyone on the earth because all our souls were created by the same source, no half sisters or brothers, but on a spiritual level, we are all family. ITs just that we don't always treat strangers as if they are family. That is the point at which a believer starts living a really practical belief and the moment they hear God say, do this for that person, they do it immediately. Most people have trouble hearing from God. Its a process but I know older Christians who still haven't learned. God is not the harsh God made out to be. He actually is more patient than we would be if one of our kids kept messing up on the same issue over and over. He's not a dictator, and he doesn't care what people actually call him. As long as their minds have not shut out the possibility that a greater power exists and they are somewhere on the path of slowly moving forward toward a spiritual realization and later relationship with their creator, that's what God wants. We call humans by many terms and names that are not their own every day and of course we won't really know what Gods name sounds like til we're on the other side. I have a daughter who switches off calling me Mom with mom in other languages especially Japanese and German and if she didn't get my attention with Mom, she'll get it when I hear Okaa-san or Mutti.
Your church will be worried and call your friend a back slider but they do not really know where your friends heart or mind are at. Jesus didn't build churches, he met people and told them about his Father in order that people could each have a personal relationship with God as he has. If you are worried or confused about anything in particular, I will share whatever i know from my own experiences or what I've read. But ultimately how you deal with this all is up to you.
Blessings dear.
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