I received more responses than I expected but either from atheists or ex-christians. Though I wasn’t looking for debates just a word of encouragement. I appreciate all of you sharing your stories with me, especially the encouragements from my brothers/sisters in Christ. What I’m looking for is somewhere to find hope or someone who’s going through what I mentioned to help me understand how they are still striving in faith. I’m not readily able to debate with anyone on whether God is real, because I believe He is and my opinion will never change. Thank you again.
If anything I’ll just start posting verses here to help me stay focussed on living, until otherwise. God bless.
8 comments
1 Kings 19
Not going to quote the whole thing. That would take a whole lot of manual formatting on this site.
Hey, no one wants to try to convince you to believe in something you don’t! You say you are a devout follower of Christ and each of us is entitled to our own believes! So I’m just saying, again, I will repeat – you are entitled to believe in your Christ, but we wouldn’t want to convert you into believing any other way than the way you have learnt!!
To my understanding, you also say you love (or enjoyed) your fellow followers of Christ more than those who don’t. Doesn’t Christ teach that he loves everyone the same even the sinners?
And aren’t “followers” of Christ expected to practice his teachings, and be Christ-Like in attitude?
I’m not a thorough understander of the religion because I am an atheist and never studied, and I’m not trying to give you an unnecessarily hard time – but just something to think about.
I’ve always noticed or never been interested in religion probably because messages I received in my youth where – the pupils who “put all their faith in God” were bias and more loving towards other Christians, yet unloving of those who didn’t put faith in Christ or weren’t a Christian! Doesn’t God teach to love all the same? You could enlighten me if I am wrong, but I don’t know how well that could go.
The easy thing in a situation is usually the thing that has the least amount of risk attached to it. For instance, it’s not easy to show love for someone with leprosy because you might get leprosy from spending time with them. That’s cut and dry. It gets trickier, though. It’s not easy showing love for a prostitute because of the social stigma attached to it, and the fact that their lifestyle might offend your sense of morality. You might feel compelled to try to change them – to make them appease your moral values for the sake of not offending you, and hang that as a condition for your acceptance. It’s hard walking that tight-rope. I can’t criticize – I used to be in the same boat when I was doing the theology thing.
I never said anything about not loving sinners, just because I care about you doesn’t mean I’ll ask you for advice. I wanted Christians to answer so I could get a Christian response, a faith based solution. One thing you don’t understand is God loves all men but he hates sin. The reason Christ spent time with sinners wasn’t to do what they do, he said “On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Mark 2:2. There is loving sinners and then there is being a fool. If all you do is laugh and do as they do and don’t talk to them about salvation the that Christian is a fool. But if you use that opportunity to share Christ with them then it’s good to be around so you can give the chance to see God s love. Like I said I didn’t want any advice from non Christians because most of you have nothing good to say except negative comments. But I appreciate you taking the time.
Love is an active thing. It’s not detached from the object it’s applied to. That wouldn’t make sense. Agape is the standard Jesus set for his followers, and it’s a type for the same love God had for man, any man, all men (and probably women, too) who universally are chaff in his eyes. And yet, Jesus represented acceptance without preconditions. The only thing close to preconditions he ever set were directly tied to the miracles he performed. Stand, pick up your mattress and go, etc.
He also offered a moral decision to anyone who would follow him, and he hid it in plain sight all over the place – my favorite is when he told the Pharisees to rend unto Caesar what is Caesars. Nothing is Caesars and everything is Gods, by virtue of everything being God’s creation. But rending nothing unto Caesar would result in death, ultimately. That’s why it offended the Pharisees. Do the hard thing, not the expedient thing, is what he was telling them.
Do you happen to have a kik?
I don’t remember really but I have email,
asigninheaven@protonmail.com
Thanks all