Reply #96: I believe that most of the great "prophets" taught the same things Jesus did [View All]

[OnionPatch]

But of all the "teachers" out there, Jesus is the one I know the most about and learned the most from, so I consider myself a Christian. But I don't believe a lot of the same things conventional Christians believe (certainly not right-wing "Christians") and I also don't believe everything in the Bible literally, some of it not at all. The Bible was twisted through translations by men with their own agendas. The screwy, scary stuff in the Bible was not about Jesus and Jesus didn't write the Bible, after all. If you read enough of the others' writings on the teachings of Jesus, though, you can get the gist of what he was all about and I feel a connection to that. But like I said, the so-called Christians of today would not accept me as one of their own. For example, I don't believe that people of other religions or even atheists go to "hell". Hell is here on Earth. I have been agnostic and atheist at times and I never needed to belong to a religion to feel strongly about my moral convictions. Currently, I believe there is something more going on and Jesus was just one of the wise people who tried to tell us about it. Maybe I shouldn't call myself a Christian, I've asked myself that a lot. To be honest, I don't really care what people call me, Christian or not, I know there are a lot of people out here like me who would consider themselves Christians if they had to categorize their beliefs.