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Hmmmm Is believing in the teachings of Jesus Christ the same as believing in Jesus Christ?

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  • Blue
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    To believe in Jesus Christ you must follow his teachings...

  • 1 decade ago

    To a degree. Believing in Jesus is believing that he is the Son of God and the Jewish Messiah and the only hope for mankind. Also it is believing that he gave his life for mankinds sin on the cross, rose from the dead on the third day, and went up to heaven to lead the church. And that he sent the Holy Spirit to be with the people who believe in him. As you can see it is quite a large step to believe in Jesus in this way. It will obviously change how you see reality forever.

    Now Jesus taught all of this, even predicting his death, resurrection, and ascension into heaven. So obviously if one believes all the teachings of Jesus, they will believe in Jesus. What a lot of people do is simply believe in Jesus' moral teachings and leave out all the supernatural stuff. This is not the same as believing in Jesus as the Son of God. It is basically just viewing him as a wise moral teacher.

    You may have also heard the term "born again." This is the result of believing in Jesus and is the point where a person receives the Holy Spirit. Then comes repentance (giving up sin and changing how one feels about it ) and baptism, though people would disagree about the order in which these things happen (baptism, belief, repentance, and the receiving of the Spirit I mean). I bring this up because a lot of times when people talk about believing in Jesus, they are talking about being born again.

  • 1 decade ago

    nope. believing in the teachings of Jesus Christ, u may not believe the existence of Jesus Christ. But believing in Jesus Christ, means believing Bible and His teachings. In John 1:1 says "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Word is Jesus, Jesus is God.

    Good to follow Jesus.

  • 1 decade ago

    not exactly, although to really believe in Jesus Christ you have to believe in his teachings as well as what he said of himself. Many so called Christians only believe in Jesus being the son of God and so on, but don't believe in his teachings on how you should act. e.g. love thy neighbor etc. This explains why so many so called Christians do evil things and don't care about the poor and least of these.

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  • Mosa A
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    we can find that in the Bible in

    John 3:20

    20Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.

    John 6:45

    45It is written in the Prophets: 'They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me.

    and John 7:16-17

    16Jesus answered, "My teaching is not my own. It comes from him who sent me. 17If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.

    and also

    John 10:37-38

    37Do not believe me unless I do what my Father does. 38But if I do it, even though you do not believe me, believe the miracles, that you may know and understand that the Father is in me, and I in the Father."

  • 1 decade ago

    no. you could believe that you should treat others the way you wish to be treated,or that an eye for an eye doesn't solve anything, but that wouldn't make you a Christian. Believing in Jesus means you believe he died and rose again for your sins and you accept him as your savior.

  • 1 decade ago

    No, Jesus did good deeds, and it's good to believe in that.

    It's different from believing that Jesus is a god.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Jesus taught that He was God.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I don't think so. A lot of non-Christians embrace Jesus' teachings, because they are very universally appealing to people. But they don't believe him when he said he was the Son of God and came to die for our sins, which is what belief in him entails. I think they are two different types of belief concerning Jesus.

  • BK
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    Not at all.

    A person could agree with what he said/taught, but not believe he is God.

    Muslims believe he was a prophet, but he is not the foundation of their beliefs.

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