How important is it for a religion to proclaim it is a Christian religion for that religion to be a success?
Wandering Stranger asked:
By “success” I mean, to have more converts. Why do a lot of Christian sects try to proclaim other Christian religions to be non-Christian religions? How important is the label “Christian” to their own religion’s success?
@Cthulhu:
Thank you for your reply but I have to re-post this question since it seems it has been buried by other questions.
Samuel
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By “success” I mean, to have more converts. Why do a lot of Christian sects try to proclaim other Christian religions to be non-Christian religions? How important is the label “Christian” to their own religion’s success?
@Cthulhu:
Thank you for your reply but I have to re-post this question since it seems it has been buried by other questions.
Samuel
January 15th, 2012 at 2:31 am
Jaden
Well considering that Islam is the fastest growing religion, I would say that the “Christian” label is starting to become irrelevant.
January 18th, 2012 at 1:01 am
Aubrey
There really is no valid measurement for the success of any religion. God would
not leave anyone out. He has teachers for all nations and different thought systems.
We are all born where we are for a reason and we are always exactly where we need
to be for our life lesson.
Many people believe that they should try to convert others to our way of thinking,
flawed though it is. I guess they think that the Divine Intelligence that created us
didn’t know what It was doing and needs us to straighten it out for Him.
Not so! We should listen to His prompting and spread love to all our brothers everywhere.
There is no correct religion. All are of benefit to their adherents and some cross
bleeding of traditions may be beneficial to all. After all, if we are narrow minded
how can we learn about the real Creator? Preconceived ideas will just keep us in
the rut we are in. God is so vast we need every approach available to learn about Life.