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The quick answer is that a Christatheian is a Christian who does not believe that the Bible is a Holy book or that it was authored by a supreme power, and they may not believe that there is a God as depicted in that bible. However, they do accept that there was a Jesus or Christ that lived a good life, was a positive thinker and teacher who tried to set an example for others to follow.

For many years, Christians have enjoyed the benefits of being a Christian and congregating with others of like mind. They have enjoyed a peace within and learned to use the power of meditation and prayer to achieve many of their goals.

Christatheians believe in the power of prayer. In fact, we believe that everything that happens in your life is a result of prayer. Christians pray to their father who art in Heaven, or to Jesus. Catholics pray to Mary, or to one of their many saints. The Chinese pray to Buddha, The Muslims pray to Allah, and the list goes on and on. There are thousands of different religions, and they all pray to someone or something, and they all will tell you of prayers that their divine power answered.

All religious people have one thing in common and that is the subconscious mind, or what the Christatheians call the "God Mind". Christatheians believe that our subconscious mind controls everything that we do or that happens to us. When we meditate, or pray, we are communicating with our subconscious mind, or our God Mind, and giving our subconscious instructions or direction.

In the New Testaments book of Matthew Chapter seventeen, Verse twenty-nine, Christ is quoted as saying " If you have faith as small as a grain of Mustard seed, you can say unto a mountain, remove now to that place over there, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible unto you."

Christatheians believe that Christ was the original public motivator, and teacher of the power of positive thinking, and that today, many Christians are actually Doctrinites. They are all tied up in, and members of, a captive audience. One day Christ was teaching about love, and faith, about charity and forgiveness, and about having faith and believing in yourself. In the back of the church were some members of the congregation and they were chomping on a piece of chewing gum. Christ noticed that their chomping was bothering and distracting other members of the congregation, so Christ stopped talking about the things he was talking and teaching about and said to the congregation, it might be good if we left our chewing gum at home and did not chew it in church.

A writer in the congregation took out his pen and wrote, Christ said don't bring chewing gum to church. The writer did not write about his real message of faith, hope, love, forgiveness and the other things Christ was teaching. 2000 years later. you have the Doctrineites teaching all about not bringing gum to church and other things you should not do but missing the whole message of Christ's teachings.

The subconscious mind in each one of us has a great deal of power and through meditation and "praying", to our subconscious mind we can have anything we want if we can simply have faith, and we can be anyone we wish to be if we will simply believe in ourselves.

Christians have known for many years how to tap into the power of their subconscious mind because of their belief in prayer and meditation. They found answers to their problems, things they needed, or simply wanted, and were able to become who they wanted to be, not so much because of what they believed, but because they really believed what they believed.

Christatheians don't believe that they can find anywhere in the New Testament where Christ taught that you had to believe in the virgin birth, that the earth was created before the sun, or that the World was completely flooded and that Noah and his family were all that survived, and God had to start all over. The only requirement you can find for being a Chrisian is the most quoted scripture in the Bible and that is the third chapter of John verse sixteen. That verse simply says that you have to believe in Christ. History does indicate that there was a man named Christ and that he was a teacher, so it does not insult your intelligence to believe in Christ.

Many good people have stayed away from the church and Christianity because they think that in order to be a Christian, you have to believe everything in the Bible so they just chose to accept that they are not a Christian and can't be a Christian, so they don't congregate with Christians.

There are more than three thousand different religions and each one of those thinks that their religion is the only one that has it right.

If you study about the power of the subconscious mind and the power of positive thinking, you might believe that was the same information that Christ was teaching. The more you study the subconscious mind, the more you might understand about the things you have experienced when you were young, in church, and looking for answers.

Christatheians think of the subconscious mind as the God mind and believe that therein lies all of your hope and all of the answers to your needs, wants, and who you wish to be. Christians have been enjoying the blessings that come from faith and meditation, not just because of what they believe, but because they really believe what they believe. It is just faith as big as a mustard seed.

To be a Christian means to be Christ like. Christatheians don't believe you have to believe that the earth was created before the sun, that God created two different lights, one to shine at night, and one to shine during the day. You do not have to believe the Universe was created in seven days, or that Eve was created from one of Adam's ribs. You do not have to believe that Jonah was in the belly of a big fish for three days, or that Christ was born of a virgin, or that he rose from the dead and ascended up to Heaven on a cloud, however, it is all right if it makes you more comfortable to believe in those things, and helps you use your subconscious mind that has been developing for thousands of years. However, the more you believe what other people who claim to speak for God tell you, the less you will trust yourself to find those answers from within for yourself.

Everybody is their own World, and they alone can find what is right, or correct, or best for their World. Another person cannot live your World and you could not live another person's World. Both of your Worlds are perfect for each of you but will only work for each of you and you control your own World through meditation, prayer, study, and research.

If you want to believe what the Bible says, God made you in his image, therefore, you are perfect and good.

If you want to believe what a Christatheian says, you are perfect because you have been evolving for many years. You are more perfect today than you were yesterday, but not as perfect as you can be tomorrow if you start doing your own meditation and work to make your personnel world more perfect for tomorrow.

You may believe that the Bible was written by men who were inspired to write about a God as they perceived him to be at the time. You go to a concert for the first time in your life, and you are almost moved to tears as you enjoy the concert. After the concert you might be inspired to write about the concert as you saw it. That writing would be inspired, but it would be limited to your ability to interpret what you were experiencing. Most successful books were written by someone who was inspired about the subject they were writing about. However, their inspiration was always based on life as they understand it at the time.

People are always looking for easy answers to many of life's great mysteries and when they find an explanation that they are comfortable with, they grab on to it. The Bible has been providing inner peace, and understanding for many people, for many years, and that should never change.

If reading your Bible every day brings you peace and happiness, by all means, continue to read it every day. However, for those who might find it impossible to believe it was inspired by the God that the people who teach about their God, claim him to be. That God they describe might not have created so many contradictions.

It might not be that you are an Atheist because you don't accept the Bible as having been written by God, or that you are not sure if there is a God, as described by modern religion.

You might just be a Christatheian Christian Baptist, Nazarenes, Methodist, Catholics, Church of Christ, Presbyterians, Murmans, and others all profess to be Christians, but each one of those has a doctrine based on how they interpret the Bible. As a rule, Baptist will only go to a Baptist church, Nazarenes will only go to a Nazarene church and so it is with most religions because they believe theirs is the doctrine that interprets it correctly. The fact is that they all interpret it correctly for their doctrine, religion, or church.

A Christatheian can be comfortable with any of those congregations because they don't base their faith, doctrine, or religion on any one book or source of information but by being open to other theories. The truth or facts from yesterday, may not be correct for today, and the truth or facts from today, may not be correct for tomorrow.

Each of us was created with a mind that was designed to learn and grow. The more we are open to looking for our own answers, open to other's answers, but not willing to accept any one source's answer as being the absolute truth, fact, or reality, the more we will grow and the better our own personnel world will be.

If you accept another person's idea or opinion of what restaurant is the best place to eat, you may never find the place that has the best food.

The World is a better place because there are so many Christians today.