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Originally Posted by photon
I think that's an interesting observation.. because it's not even just other groups and peoples of the world that are "wrong", it's groups and people's within Christianity itself. Many times on this forum (and even in this thread!) people have said "I don't consider them Christian" whereas if you asked those people they WOULD consider themselves Christian.
That's one of the issues I see, when visible Christian leaders or groups do things that are obviously over the line, the first line is "they weren't real Christians". There seems to be no real standard of what is and isn't a real Christian beyond everyone's individual opinion.
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Here's one obvious standard. A problem I have with Mormons and JW's calling themselves "Christians", and thats the fact that they feel the need to change some things in the Bible, as well as add onto it. If you are a true Christian, you believe the Bible is God inspired word, and it is final. I can't tell you how many times I've had arguements with Mormons after they've referred to themselves as Christians. I can't stand it.
People want to talk about brainwashed, they need to talk about those 2 groups.