Do you believe in Jesus Christ as your Lord & Savior?

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No.

No Gods. Only Man.

No. Religion makes absolutely no sense at all to me.

I don't believe in any god or form of god.

Mind you I have been of two different religions in the past. I have found myself most at peace, free and happy since abandoning religion altogether. Ironically, I found myself most guilt ridden when I believed that Jesus would wipe away my sins, even though everyone would tell me that accepting Jesus as my Lord and Saviour would take away my burdens - they just increased and multiplied in number. My parents were and still are very religious.

I'm also more moral since abadoning religion. I'd always been taught from when I was a small child that you can't be moral or a good person without religion, but from my experience I became more moral after abandoning religion than when I was religious. I actually like who I am these days; a big difference compared with how I felt about myself when I was religious.

Since it's not a debate or even a discussion about God's existence nor a proposal to explain anything about Christianity, why do you want people to either declare their Christianity or not? What do you propose to do with the information?

Your faith is beyond comprehension. Even your comprehension.

ruveyn

Yes, I do. And I am saved.

jesus knew how to ride a bike.
he wanted to show everyone how they could ride a bike.
they (the authors of the bible) didnt want you to ride a bike
theyve got you riding HIM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwJP24MzCD0

good analogy.

Can't answer on the poll because of the word "saved." Not all Christians believe in that whole "accept Jesus into your heart" thing. I'm a unitarian, and I was raised Lutheran. We never had to be saved. We were baptized and later we were confirmed. My aunt once traumatized me by forcing me to do something called the sinner's prayer and then bragging to everyone that she had saved me. Absolutely humiliating. The word is a huge turn-off to me--not that I'm saying it's invalid or anything because it's not my place to say something like that.

Oh no you're not.

O_o

Wow, the random juxtaposition of text... impressive.

Are you for real

You bear my sin tooooooooo.

Well, via the validity of that hermeneutic, I shall throw a bear at you.

Wasn't sure what describes best, eventually selected the third one.

I'm a Jewish Agnostic, I guess. I'm considered "secular", but I don't think that since I've turned more "religious" it changed my behaviour or thinking somehow, at least not in the negative way people assume it to. I rejected the bible since I can remember myself, because of interpretations that I found hateful, irrational and "bad", so I only got closer to it when I started reading it again and seeing it does not mean what people say, at least not in the way I understand it.

I just a read it as an agnostic person who doesn't know whether there is a god or not, and hates "religious" morals - since I don't consider it as implying those values anyway, I don't find a problem with following it anymore, just with the way that some people do.

As for Jesus - I don't believe in him as a the saviour or in the way that most Christians do. If anything divine, he was a prophet in my opinion. But I don't consider him more divine than Moses, for example. I don't see the point in worshipping him from my Jewish point of view, even though I do appreciate his feelings, views and acts from most things I read about him.

If a "second coming" will occure, I don't see it as a second coming of Jesus more than a third coming of Daniel, or a fourth coming of Isaiah, etc. I really think that focusing on him at the personal level misses the things he stood for.