BELIEVE Religious DataBase Program
Teen Version

We think you might find it refreshing that we have no intention of pushing you toward any specific attitudes or positions. We also have no intention of trying to get you to like or dislike any specific group or Denomination or Faith. (We DO hope that you will pursue SOME Faith and some method of Worshipping God!) Our intent is only to present you with enough accurate, unbiased information such that you can make your own conclusion about any particular subject.

There is certainly a multitude of Christian and other religious sites on the Internet. Many of them are informative, but they seem to generally present only their own view of whatever subjects they discuss. That might be valuable, but it can often cause an incomplete understanding of those subjects. How can a student of Christianity or any other religion truly understand any subject if he/she only has access to one narrow viewpoint? Our Non-Denominational Christian Church thinks that is wrong. How could a person develop a solid foundation for Faith if incomplete or inaccurate or distorted information is all that is available? Our approach is to try to imagine how Jesus might have presented religious information. Would He have only presented some facts that supported a point He wanted to make? We doubt it! Would He have presented any statement that He did not truly believe to be true, or that was otherwise incomplete or inaccurate or misleading? We doubt it! We think that He would have patiently sat down with anyone who had questions and He would have helped each person to fully understand the answers to those questions. Well, we have a disadvantage here! We are not Jesus! We do not have His Knowledge and Understanding! So, we just try the best we can to supply the most accurate, understandable and complete information we can, on each of these many subjects. That is basically the core reason for the BELIEVE Religious Information Source web-site. We try to not express opinions but only present the facts and all of the generally accepted attitudes on each subject. BELIEVE-Teen's subject list is to the right. These articles were written by many world-renowned scholars in their specific subjects. We felt that such scholars were the best available authorities in each of the many subjects. In the process of selecting the several hundred articles that are currently included in BELIEVE-Teen, we examined over several thousand other articles that we did not include. If an article seemed biased or incomplete or not solidly based on accepted scholastic standards, we did not include it. It is our hope that the remaining articles are useful to the visitors to this site. BELIEVE is meant to have the most accurate and understandable information possible. We tried to set this all up to encourage browsing. You might have 15 minutes available one day. You COULD play some computer game! But if BELIEVE is there, you might just as well decide to learn a little about Evangelicalism. You don't need to spend a lot of time (but you could!) BELIEVE can be useful for testifying to others BELIEVE is a useful information source when you are about to testify to someone of another Faith. Articles describing nearly all world belief systems are included. Knowing something about what a person presently believes will help you to intelligently comment on their beliefs, and then express the advantages of your belief system. This can help develop respect and credibility in you and make YOUR presentation more acceptable. Often, when Christians witness to others, they overlook why the person currently believes what he/she does, as though it is irrelevant, often because they know very little about that other belief system. Here's a chance to improve the effect of your witnessing to others, by showing respect for them by intelligently discussing their current beliefs. BELIEVE also includes thorough and fair presentations of all of the other major belief systems of the world. Again thinking of how Jesus might treat such subjects, we think that He would be open and honest, having Faith that Christianity can "hold it's own" when honest and complete information is available about all options. We do not think that He would have been "secretive" in avoiding discussing other religions and their good and bad points. Therefore, we try to follow His lead in BELIEVE. We put those subjects down at the bottom of the list, separate from the Christian subjects. Actually, we suspect that many Christians will be amazed to find that Muslims' Holy Koran tells the stories of Adam and Abraham and Israel and Moses and many others on whom our Faith is based. Certainly, their stories have slight differences from our Bible, but the many similarities are something to consider! Again, we know that Jesus would be absolutely confident that Christians would not have their Faith weakened by learning about such things, but it might assist all of us to learn to get along better together. Volunteers??? It recently occurred to us that the ideal source of authors of the entries for the young people's versions of BELIEVE would be young people themselves! We adults may not always recognize the aspects of these subjects that are really important from a young person's point-of-view. This being the case, we think that maybe some Sunday School groups might want to take on one of the subjects in our list. Not only would the class members learn a lot about that particular subject, but they could also help young people all over the world learn about it too! If you are associated with such a Sunday School group, please contact us by e-mail below. Of course, such a group (or individual) would get appropriate credit at the end of the article, just like we do with all our other source authors. (All of the links DO currently work, but quite a few of them presently just go to the "adult" presentations of BELIEVE, which sometimes get carried away with detail! YOU could help improve the usefulness of BELIEVE-Teen!) . E-mail to: BELIEVE at BELIEVE1@mb-soft.com BELIEVE Teen Home Page address: http://mb-soft.com/believe/indexl.html (Adult's) BELIEVE Our List of 1300 Religious Subjects E-mail

Subject list Christian subjects Central Subjects Bible Spiritual Gifts God Arguments for Existence of God Bible Infallibility Jesus Christ Christ Holy Spirit Ten Commandments Trinity Faith Grace Baptism Sin Atonement Lord's Prayer Bible inerrancy Original Sin Resurrection Covenant Crucifixion Liturgy Religion Conversion Christian music history Church Eucharist Holy Communion Justification Messiah Millenialism Salvation Sanctification Evangelism Second Coming of Christ Pre-Existence of Christ Logos Last Judgment Elect Last Supper Book of Genesis Book of Exodus Incarnation Romanized Bible text Jehovah YHWH Literal Translation Adam Predestination Revivalism Sabbath Biblical inerrancy Sacrament Dispensation Christianity Protestantism Roman Catholic Church Evangelicalism Charismatic Movement Biblical infallibility Congregationalism Church Government Biblical Theology Movement The Church Pentecostalism Presbyterianism Christian Groups Jesuits Liberal Catholicism Franciscans Eastern Rite Catholic Church Eastern Rite Church Episcopal Church Anglican Communion Orthodox Church Coptic Church Protestant Groups Protestantism Baptists Calvinism Wesleyan Tradition Methodism Lutheranism Reformed Church Adventism Amana Society Evangelical United Brethren Church Evangelism FourSquare Gospel Church Aimee Semple McPherson American Holiness Movement Jehovah's Witnesses Mennonite Millenarianism Church of the Nazarene Churches of Christ Christian Science Christian Church / Church of Christ neo-orthodoxy Quakers Salvation Army Sect Shepherding Movement United Church of Christ Plymouth Brethren Disciples of Christ Shakers Religious Cults Moravian Church Mormonism Spiritualism The Early Church Septuagint Apocrypha Papacy Paulinism Apostles' Creed Creed Council of Nicaea Pseudepigrapha Pharisees Great Schism Roman Catholic Popes Protestant Reformation Protestant Reformation Martin Luther John Calvin Ulrich Zwingli John Wesley Solafidianism By Faith Alone Arminianism 39 Articles Marburg Colloquy Pilgrims Believer's Baptism Infant Baptism Lay Baptism Modes of Baptism Puritan Ultramontanism Oberlin Theology Orthodoxy Plainsong Perfection Philosophy of Religion Protestant Scholasticism Thomism Divine Transcendence Trappist Effectual Calling the Bible Christian Bible Books of the Bible Old Testament Pentateuch Book of Genesis Book of Exodus Book of Leviticus Book of Numbers Book of Deuteronomy Historical Books Book of Joshua Book of Judges Book of Ruth Book of Samuel Book of Kings Book of Chronicles Book of Ezra Book of Nehemiah Book of Esdras I and II Book of Tobit Book of Judith Book of Esther Book of Maccabees Poetical or Widsom Books Book of Job Book of Psalms Book of Proverbs Book of Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon Book of Wisdom Book of Sirach Prophetical Books Book of Isaiah Book of Jeremiah Book of Lamentations Book of Ezekiel Book of Daniel Book of Hosea Book of Joel Book of Amos Book of Obadiah Book of Jonah Book of Micah Book of Nahum Book of Habakkuk Book of Zephaniah Book of Haggai Book of Zechariah Book of Malachi Book of Baruch Apocrypha New Testament The Gospels Book of Matthew Book of Mark Book of Luke Book of John The Acts Acts of the Apostles The Epistles Book of Romans Book of Corinthians Book of Galatians Book of Ephesians Book of Philippians Book of Colossians Book of Thessalonians Book of Timothy Book of Titus Book of Philemon Book of Hebrews Book of James Epistle of John Book of Peter Book of Jude Revelations Book of Revelation Book of the Apocalypse Other Christian Subjects Authority in Church The Crucifix Ex Opere Operato Filioque Household Salvation Mariology Monasticism Advent Amish Angel Apostle Ark of the Covenant Ascent, Ascension Asceticism Assumption Theology Protestant Reformation Church of England His Arising Religions of the World Saint John Saint Jerome Archangel Gabriel Atonement Augsburg Confession Saint Augustine Protestant Ethic Other Religions Judaism Judaism Jews Jewish Beliefs Yom Kippur Talmud Torah Hasidism Rosh Hashanah Bereshit - Jewish Genesis Bar Mitzvah Mishnah Islam Islam Mohammad, Muhammad Koran Hezbollah Jihad Sufism Shiite Sunnite Buddhism Buddhism Zen Buddhism Lamaism Hinduism Brahmanism Hinduism Transmigration of souls Untouchables Vedas Reincarnation Eastern Religions Baha'i Confucianism Sikh Jainism Zoroastrianism Mithraism Shintoism Taoism Reincarnation Other Religions Atheism Scientology Rastafarians Primitive Religion