Monday, December 6, 2010
You're a Christian?
You can brush off someone doubting your age, your weight, or even your height. Those are things that can easily be proven but one thing you never want to hear someone doubt is your faith. Yet I meet so many people that lay claim to one religion or the other and I just can't seem to believe them. It is not something that can be easily proven but at the same time it shouldn't be something that people should have to ask you to prove. You choose your religion based on what YOU believe..or at least you should anyway, If you say you are a follower of a certain religion then the basic foundational information of that particular religion should be something you don't dispute. You can seek to get greater understanding by studying but if you are looking to prove anything about your faith you are not going to get very far. The very reason it is called faith is because it is something you just have to believe and choose to stand by despite the lack of proof. You can not pick and choose what you want to believe, you should not add or subtract from the basic principles within the scriptual text your faith ascribes to. If you find yourself doing something wrong it is right to ask for forgiveness, but it is ridiculous to do wrong on purpose and then ask for forgiveness because you think God owes you something. There is nothing that God owes you, so you should seek to live appropriately...so you want to sleep with everyone before you're too old, you want to try every type of drug and drink combo to see how your body holds up, you want to steal, lie, cheat, be mischievious and jealous? If you choose to live your life without thinking of the consequences those things add up, if your half hearted sorry isn't good enough for your ex girlfriend then why should it be good enough for God. Live with purpose and live all the way right or all the way wrong don't be an inbetweener. If you say you are a Christian, don't just be a Christian on Sunday, if you're a muslim or a jew don't just follow the rules on friday you have to be all the way invested in your faith because if it isn't worth following to you then honestly you should say that you are a follower of that religion because you make the rest of the people who really mean it look bad.
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I don't agree with the whole you're either 'right' or 'wrong'. the beauty of relgion to me atleast is that you have the chance to be in the middle and see for yourself. Am I a christian? No. Do I believe in God? Yes. Do I belive that Jesus died for my sins? uhmm I don't know and I'm still trying to figure it all out but I would call that right or wrong. Faith is a journey that is never compelete even if one claims to be a christian, jew or muslim. When we become content believing what we are told and giving we lose sight of what's really right.
ReplyDeleteI never said any religion is right or wrong. I am mainly speaking to people who claim to be part of a religion but don't believe in the very things that make that religion what it is...I don't believe in hypocrisy. As people we have actions that are right and wrong and we know the difference between the two, you can't be half this religion and half non believer you're either one or the other. People do things that bring shame to the religion they call theirs, I can be a prosititute and still call myself a Christian? I can eat pork chops and call myself a muslim? I can call myself a devout jew but never go to Shabbat? It doesn't make sense. If you claim to be something you can't take what you like and leave the rest that's not how it works. If you don't ascribe to a particular faith then that's completely different. I believe in exploration, you should want to seek understanding and should never follow anything blindly,however, if you are looking for proof or an answer there is none. That's what makes it faith you have to believe it and if you don't believe it don't call yourself a believer of that religion. Everyone should seek to improve themselves and sometimes we make mistakes there are no perfect people but for someone to purposely live wrong (cheating, stealing, killing, etc...) and say "Oh God'll forgive me I can do what I want" is not right by any means. There is no middle ground. What you said is right you don't believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins then you aren't a Christian, but there are people who call themselves Christians and don't believe anything the Bible says....does that make sense? that's where my problem lies...Thanx for your honesty and I hope that explained what I was trying to say...
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