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Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern?
Xians who do not love are not Xians. Xians who take their beliefs spoon-fed might be a little dim. Jesus wasn't characterized as a god until quite a long time after he died...and wasn't it a roman emperor who instigated that?
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I agree- a Christian who does not love is not truly a Christian. It is my personal philosophy that accepting Christ means that you accept his teachings, not just believe that there was once a man names Jesus who was the Son of God and he died for our sins and that anyone who believes that gets into Heaven. In that way, even those who have never been exposed to Christianity (like some Pacific Islanders, or Amazon tribesmen) get their fair shot.
As for a Roman emporer instigating the belief that Jesus was God, that's only moderately close to the case. For the first 300 or so years after Jesus' crucifixion, there were two main competing views as to the nature of Christ. One was that he was the same as God, God's form on Earth, so to speak, and another view that he was merely of similar substance to God but not His equal.
In 325 A.D. the First Council of Nicaea convened (at the behest of Emperor Constantine) and all the Bishops of the Church gathered together to decide which viewpoint was correct, and to codify the beliefs of the Christian Church, a summary of which can be found in the Nicene Creed, named after the Council that wrote it.
As far as the Borat/Christian hypocrisy thing goes, I can't say I blame them for asking Borat to leave. Such a guest was clearly out of place, and he had already been quite rude to them. Sure, in theory a good Christian should be all-forgiving and try to bear with it, but in practice, people only have so much patience.