First real post, how exciting!

Now that all of the formalities are out of the way, I suppose I will pose a few general questions I've puzzled about.

1. Even if I am not sure that I truely follow Christian beliefs, would I still be considered Christian?
2. Where did the pope come from? I'm not entirely sure when the office was created, what the restrictions are and where the idea for the position came from.
3. Lastly, for any Muslims who stumble upon this, how did Christians and Jews go from "People of the Book" to infidels? (I realize that this isn't even a somewhat normal belief, but I was wondering if anyone could shed some light on the process behind that.)

Haha, most of these questions need a historian to answer them, rather than just a practitioner of the faith. Ah well.

To anyone who reads or comments, thank you for your time.

Rules, because a topic like this needs boundries

Yup, that's right. There will be rules for commenting on this blog. It may seem silly, and I understand that there most likely won't be enough visitors for me to act on these. On the other hand, I also recognize that I will be asking questions that could easily be the cause of argument and that this is the internet, not everyone is going to respect each other. So I am going to set up mutual boundaries, okay? Okay.

1. There will be no name calling, swearing, or using the Lords name in vain.
   
2. You must be able to accept that there are opinions that directly oppose yours, and you must be willing to be grown up about it.
3. Derogatory slurs against any demographic will not be tolerated. I mean it, this upsets me so much.
4. If there is a troll or a flamer, do not respond or give them attention, I will moderate them to my best ability, but you undermine what I can do if you engage them
5. If you get frustrated while having a discussion with me or someone else and you just feel like yelling or name calling, simply say that you do not wish to peruse the point any further.
6. If someone says that they no longer want to discus something, observe that and do not continue pestering them.
   
7. If someone chooses to discontinue a discussion the other side has not "won" it is not about winning.

If a rule is broken I will mark you appropriately (since I believe I can not delete comments) and if you were really misbehaving I will not refrain from sending you a reprimanding email, because I am just that annoying. And no, I don't observe almost any of these in real life, I am not that good of a kid.

These rules will be updated accordingly, thank you for your time.

Why did I create this blog?

Well, even if you don't necessarily want to know I will tell you.

I am confused, to put it simply. I have recently taken myself to be Christian, but I'm not even sure about that. I have been told that to be Christian (not Catholic, I have learned the importance of this distinction) you only have to believe that God is the only god and that Jesus is his son and our savior who rose from the dead. Part of me, either my head or heart, I'm not sure which, believes that this is true, the other part does not exactly follow suit. Does this make me Christian? I have also been told by someone else that doubt is normal and expected, but I don't know how much doubt is okay. I also am very wary to assign myself to God but then, perhaps when I get bored or something similar, leave Him behind like an old fad. I know right now that I never want to be able to put God in that category.

One other reason is because I am a very curious person. I like knowing what people think and why they believe it, and religion is one of the most interesting and controversial. Just the kind of discussion the internet is good for, and thank goodness because all deep conversations in high school last five seconds. You could also say that I take a Muslim (Renaissance era Muslim, anyway) approach to religion, being that I question it without refuting it. To be less abstract, I have not started this blog to discuss what is written in the Bible, but the interpretations of it.

And not to be forgotten, I am also searching for a community where I will be able to find religious support, but there are so many different kinds of Christian churches that I don't know how to start looking for one to participate in. I thought that this would be a good way to get to understand the differences.

Thank you for your time, I guess.