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What do you think saves you...Religion or Faith?

Faith is what God has in 'us' and Religion is the organization of Beliefs. Sacrifice is defined as the ultimate giving of self for others and God, through Christ, the Son, epitomizes this through selfless sacrifice. Faith, in our own selfless actions, or interactions, should mirror the Faith that God has in us. To be 'Saved' or acquire 'Salvation'is fully dependant on a Belief in God, the Son and the understanding of Truth associated to Christian teachings.


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  • Faith and Acceptance of God's gift Saves us.

    You can grow up in the church and say you are a Christian and have Christian Parents. But if you have no Faith in God and accept his Gift of Salvation, you will not get into heaven, and you should also try to further your relationships. Like James said, faith without works is dead. Then again, works without Faith mean nothing. We all make mistakes and sin, but the only sin that is unpardonable is not acccepting Salvation and saying God does not exist. I may not be right, this is just what I think and I want to know how you feel too.

    19%  Voted for by crosscountry07, eyeseverchanging, hitchhiker42, eternalsol, GreaterLight. (8 total)
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  • Faith is an energy

    I feel faith is an energy we choose freely, it is an 'inner connection' that can not be destroyed because all is 'energy'. How many humans througout time has held their course through great trials of life. They are the teachers that renergize us to hold true to our lives and try to create better lives for the future of mankind.

    11%  Voted for by Angels43, JenOwl, Tarianas Last Hope, Neeg, skye01.
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  • Jesus

    What I think saves me is Jesus - hence the word Savior.

    9%  Voted for by Lisa Milligan, likewhatitis100, eternalsol, Violet Moodswing.
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  • jesus saves you

    jesus saves you

    Fath-beliving in your heart that jesus is real not emaganary Religion-is a grup of people who belive in the same thang

    jesus died on the cross for everyone but its up to the person to have fath in him. thos who don't are not saved. caues its having fath in jesus that will set you free

    may god bless you and help you make that right choice

    7%  Voted for by eternalsol, Ezra-smile, Miss Hanako Megumi.
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  • Definition

    I think honestly that there is an issue with definition of terms here. How do we define "religion"? How are we defining the term, "Faith"? Faith in what? Are we saying that faith is simply whatever you believe in? What then, is religion? Are we speaking of the rules of different beliefs which the followers of these beliefs adhere to? What exactly are the definitions for these terms? This needs to be spelled out better.

    7%  Voted for by assassinforhire, grant, GreaterLight.
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  • Faith...Period

    Without faith, there is no belief, no hope, no care, and certianly no religon. The only reason religon last so long is because it focuses on faith... if your life is crappy and you want to end it, Faith that your life may turn around could stop your worrys about life. Religons only focus is to put faith into the masses... if no one was told that if you do good then will be rewarded in the end , then no one would try. People can live on faith alone, but if religon had no faith from the people then it would never have started

    7%  Voted for by KarmaChild, grant, splodgey.
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  • Faith

    By the biblical defenition, is the evedence of things unseen, and the substance of things hoped for.

    4%  Voted for by Dwn, eternalsol.
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  • Neither

    Neither faith nor religion will save you. Faith cannot save you because it requires the suspension of knowledge and common sense. This is a danerous undertaking. The Devil, power of darkness, or whatever you want to call them, deceives many people because they have faith, rather than striving for knowledge. Religions fail to save us because the majority of them are the creations of men whose goal is control of the people, not opening the channels between Man and God. Religions are manmade power structures that provide easy answers to those who do not want to struggle to find the truth.

    Only honest and relentless search for truth will save you. I am not talking about mere intellectual exercise, such as taking a philosohy course (many who study philosophy are not searching for truth). I am speaking of a lifelong search and struggle to know whatr is true, especially about yourself, your motives and your real reason you are on this earth. Many people use faith and religion to avoid those things.

    4%  Voted for by wisdomsearch, caylierose.
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  • none of the above

    Jesus eather saved[2000yrs or so past tence] you or he didnt, depending on if you were one of those who were elected children of God.and when he said it is finished , he meant there was nothing more that needed to be done.

    Voted for by Dwn.
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  • Faith is Ignorance

    Faith is when you've stopped trying to learn, or you are too ignorant to take in the reality of the situation.

    Voted for by ExpensiveThinker.
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  • belief vs faith

    Belief is holding on. Faith is letting go. All belief is essentially bullshit (therefore all religion). To have faith is to accept whatever happens is true. This is experience. Belief is to fix or make fixed (religion). A holding on to life (making fixed rules for life) of which is impossible in reality because life is flux. Always changing. To fix (what is not broken) is to categorise, label, contain, measure. These are just phenomenal functions of the phenomenal mind (brain). The same brain which believes stuff. The brain believes stuff because it has trouble accepting it's insecurity (it dies). It seeks that which does not exist which is security (an unchanging world). All phenomena is insecure because it changes and dies. To "let it go" allows change. Resistance to natural change is disease (un-ease). Life is insecure and insecurity is life. Any "belief" in the contrary is a "holding on" and no more than a living death (walking sleep, un-aware). To live is to accept death. One does not exist in reality unless in relation with the other (pleasure only exists in relation to pain). One lives so why resist. "Resistance is futile". To hold on to life is "to catch a flowing river in a bucket. Once it's in a bucket the river no longer flows". Religious teachings are but signposts pointing in a direction. Religions are just a way of feeling comfortable. Comfortably sucking on the finger instead of looking at where it is pointing. Belief is only about comfort. I only want to believe the pilot of the 747 that I'm a passenger in will land the plane safely. No amount of belief or prayer will make it so. It might just make me feel comfortable. As if I'm in control. Well, the truth is I'm not. The (phenomenal) brain thinks (or believes) otherwise only because it thinks. And thinking is only it's phenomenal function. Thank (god?) I'm not my brain any more than I am my lungs or any other phenomena like trees, clouds, air, cockroaches, the murderer down the road, OR, am I all of this. What a mystery this phenomenal existance is. That which cannot be known, only experienced.

    Voted for by grant.
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  • faith

    My faith saves me. I have faith in myself, in my friends, in my family, in my life AND in my God. Religion is nothing but an organisation. Like a team. You can have the team and the coach telling you what to do, but without faith in yourself AND that team, you aren't going to win. Don't get me wrong, religion can be a good thing for the right people, but having said that, those people that it is wrong for shouldn't confuse faith and religion. If one doesn't want a religion it doesn't mean they can't have faith. you just have to work out which is more important to you.

    Voted for by Fading to shadow.
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  • Religion

    If any of you here have read C.S. Lewis's "The Last Battle", then I would like to tell you one reason why I love that book. In the end, where the one Calormene has truly searched for Tash(representing Satan) all of his life, wanting only to see his god's face and fall before him, he had a true heart, and that was all that mattered. He had searched in the wrong direction, in the wrong religion, perhaps, but his faith and true virtue and intent was all that mattered in the end. A quote from Aslan(portraying God and Jesus) if I may:

    "Child, all the service thou hast done to Tash, I account as service to me...I take to me the services which thou hast done to him. For I and he are of such different kinds that no service which is vile can be done to me, and none which is not vile can be done to him...And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves, and by Tash his deed is accepted..."

    I truly believe that C.S. Lewis was on to something there. If any "Christian" did something vile saying it was right by God, then he is no Christian. Just the same, if an "athiest" did a true deed in the name of Buddha or something, then he believes, truly, just does not realize it. It is therefore by faith, and not by religion, that mankind is saved.

    Voted for by littleoneof-God.
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  • you save you.

    I wonder a lot whether or not there is a "right" religion, and I have come to the conclusion that there really isn't. In majority of religions there is some sort of forgiving, merciful, loving supreme being(s) who love(s) us very much. I truly believe that in the end what religion you practice (or didn't practice) will not matter. If you are a good person at heart, lived your life humbly, you will be alright in the next life.

    Voted for by kissing the lipless.
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  • I Go Faith

    Religion and faith generally go in the same sentece, but if you say, "I have faith in you my friend, I belive you can do it." Doesn't it simply mean you put your trust in your friend and doubting them is out of the question? Same goes for me in religion, as long as you trust in God, there wouldn't be a problem if you were to be baptized or not. It's not a requirement, to me it's all trust in what you believe in.

    Voted for by Vyandierre.
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  • both

    NOW I think this is a kind of stupid question! its kinda the same thing you have to have faith in god for you to be saved; but religon is a part of faith and is the bases of everything; you have to have faith in something to have an religon. and if you have a religon you certainly have faith.

    But faith is what you start with then it deals with religon you have faith in the same god not matter what religon your in.

    Voted for by twistedtiger.
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