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Why can't it be both a religion and a personal relationship with God?
| This statement is completely obvious and has been restated continously: According to the world, Christianity is a Religion. Yet according to what is in fact True and the Bible, it is a Relationship with Jesus Christ. |
I'm taking up Isherwood's and others' point.
You have not yet shown why Christianity cannot be both a religion and a relationship with Christ. They are not mutually exclusive.
An example: There is an object concealed in a box.
Alex says that the object is round. Bob says that the object is blue, and thus cannot be round. However, Bob did not successfuly prove the object to not be round simply because it is blue, as it could easily be both round
and blue. They are not mutually exclusive.
Thus, simply because Christianity is a personal relationship with Christ, that does not bar it from also being characterized as a religion. You have yet to show otherwise.