Am I christian?, A delema i have been waring myself with.... Options

[the-sydney327]

Ok let me explain. I Beleive that there is a God. But i dont think that he/she/it is "personified" in otherwords i dont think that god (here on refered to as he) looks like a human or even talks. I beleive that god is a vast force of knowladge. I also beleive that the holy spirit is like a wisp of gasses (im not saying it is, but im saying its like it) and it is the thing that helps us when we truly need it. Also i think that Jesus did many great things and lead mankind to help us beleive in god, but i do not believe that he "died for our sins". And i dont beleive in hell. I think that we are re-encarnated after each life and we get a little bit of the knowladge we had in the previous lives. and our slates ar wiped clean everytime. We get as many chances on earth until we have earned our place on heaven. I think this is why our population is slowly rising each year. And i also think thats why the earth is so filled with evil. Its like hell. but not realy.
So obviously i have thought about this all ALOT! and ive come to these conclusions so far.

BUT....

Am i christian?

And if not what am i??

[sweetangel2128]

To be fair, going to church does not define a Christian. Just think of it more like a classroom.

Exactly, you do NOT need to go to church in order to be a Christian.

Ok let me explain. I Beleive that there is a God. But i dont think that he/she/it is "personified" in otherwords i dont think that god (here on refered to as he) looks like a human or even talks. I beleive that god is a vast force of knowladge. I also beleive that the holy spirit is like a wisp of gasses (im not saying it is, but im saying its like it) and it is the thing that helps us when we truly need it. Also i think that Jesus did many great things and lead mankind to help us beleive in god, but i do not believe that he "died for our sins". And i dont beleive in hell. I think that we are re-encarnated after each life and we get a little bit of the knowladge we had in the previous lives. and our slates ar wiped clean everytime. We get as many chances on earth until we have earned our place on heaven. I think this is why our population is slowly rising each year. And i also think thats why the earth is so filled with evil. Its like hell. but not realy.
So obviously i have thought about this all ALOT! and ive come to these conclusions so far.

BUT....

Am i christian?

And if not what am i??

Well, I consider myself a Christian. I believe that in order to be a Christian you MUST believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins, I don't believe that you have to ask for forgiveness everytime you sin because well that's why Jesus died on the cross so we could enter Heaven since were so sinful. Now, you don't have to attend church, I used to but don't anymore however I tend to read the Bible and other books on Christianity and I do pray. I believe that Jesus did once walk this earth LONG ago and he did die on the cross for our sins, that's just what I believe. If you believe he died on the cross and you try to best understand the Bible and try to follow it as much as you can, your a Christian. But you can't call yourself a Christian if you don't believe he died for your sins, if he didn't die on the cross in my opinion Christianity wouldn't exist because that's the whole point of Christianity, Jesus dying on the cross for our sins so we could go to Heaven. It would change a lot of things. As for the Holy Spirit being a gas, The Holy Spirit/ghost is not really a spirit and it's definitly not a gas but the presence of God or as some say the Spirit of God. As for God being Knowledge, I don't believe in that, God created the earth, he has UNIMAGINABLE powers, if he truly wanted to he could wipe out the whole earth in a half a second, just like that. Now, I don't believe that God is neither he or she even though the Bible does say He quite often in text...I believe God doesn't have a gender at all, he is afterall NOT human...now Jesus was a he but that was God in human flesh which is one of the reasons he sent himself in the flesh to earth because one God would be too bright to see and second he's not human.

Now, I am not sure what your religion is, it could be buddha but that doesn't really sound like buddha cause you said you believe in a God...buddha believe in - "buddha" heres a link about it - "http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/buddha"