Why Christianity ?

Jack Hibbs ^ | May 10, 2025 | Jack Hibbs

[knarf]

48 minutes of assurance, re-assurance or conviction.

[FNU LNU]

Good question, since the term isn’t even in the Bible.

And there is a much better term.

[Hebrews 11:6]

WHY CHRISTIANITY?

"Christianity doesn't save. Christ saves." CS Lewis, in a private letter to William Steuart McBirnie.

[metmom]

But the term *Christian* is.

The disciples were first called Christians in Antioch.

Honestly, yes, religion doesn’t save but criticizing the use of the term Christianity, which is informative, seems like hair splitting.

[Strict9]

the word “Bible “ isn’t found in the Bible. People say there is no Rapture because that word isn’t in the Bible. It’s actually Harpazo. Harpazo is greek and Raptura is Latin. The Bible usually isn’t in Latin. Especially for Protestants.

[knarf]

You should listen

[knarf]

you should listen

[Honorary Serb]

“Why Christianity ?”

Read the Nicene Creed!

https://www.oca.org/orthodoxy/prayers/symbol-of-faith

Read the Gospels, and the Book of Acts!

Christ is Risen! Indeed He is Risen!

[knarf]

I think everyone is missing the point . . . . probably because they did not listen, but are responding to the title.

Jack Hibbs provides very clear understanding for those of us that sometimes need help in articulating the Gospel message, attempting to get the lost INTERESTED in seeking further, if not getting saved.

I confess . . . at 77 with relatively clear intellectual abilities, I fumble for words to say at various times.

Faith cometh by hearing . . . . . and hearing by the word of God

[Hebrews 11:6]

I had no doubt that Hibbs would get it right. I just wanted to memorialize Lewis’ pithy quote.

[AndyJackson]

I think everyone is missing the point . . . . probably because they did not listen

You can't miss a point when you don't know what it is which is the whole point of the FR tradition of commenting without listening.

[metmom]

The Latin is a translation from the Greek.

English from the Latin Vulgate is a translation of a translation.

Best to go from the original language and lose as little in the translation as is necessary.

[metmom]

Why Christianity?

Because the gospel is found in it.

[knarf]

posolutely.

[AndyJackson]

Shouldn't require splainin. If I wasn't aiming at a duck when I pulled the trigger, you can't accuse me of missing the duck. Sometimes you just accept the fact that you bagged what you bagged when you fired the shot, whatever it was that you bagged, and if you didn't bag anything well that is the opposite of blind dumb luck. Some folks call it trolling, but that's probably off point too. In the military its called armed reconnaissance which is another version of FA to find out what's going around, which is maybe nothing and maybe gold in them thar hills. It's a deep problem in epistemology. How do you find something out when you don't know whether there is something to find out that you wanted to find out. Columbus found out, but what he found out wasn't what he was trying to find out. If he had known what he wanted to find out would he have gone anyway? There is a whole DEI culture that resents what Columbus discovered, although others argue that the Vikings and the Chinese got there first. Of course those who really got there first were the Indigenous people or the latest wave of migrating invaders, which is okay to be unless you are white European Christian.

I dunno. Seems this is more Laz's kind of thing so I am roping him in here.

[knarf]

If I had any idea about what you are trying to say, I’d try to reply intelligently, but throwing in epistemology is apparently a shibboleth that never got to me.

[AndyJackson]

Well, if you don’t know what I am trying to say, that makes two of us.

[Retain Mike]

At 78 it is a little late to explore other choices.