Originally Posted by Hard
And why focus on jesus' death anyway? That is another thing that bugs me about most Christian sects. They focus more on the death of Jesus than what he taught. In my opinion, it is an intricate idea that began centuries ago to GUILT TRIP people into Christianity.
Jesus "dying for your sins" means nothing. It doesnt give you a free ticket into heaven. Do what Jesus taught, and dont focus your faith on a morbid death.
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you seem to miss the point. Jesus' death is only one part, his ressurection is the most amazing part. so, in truth, he didn't 'die'. and as i've stated many times, "Jesus not only gave us a door into Heaven to spend eternity with God, but he gave us his life to spend the time here on this Earth with God. Jesus was the closest being on the Earth and in Heaven to God, he was closer to God than we'd ever be, how much closer can we get by following Jesus' life and teachings?"
And no, we don't focus on Christ's death more than we do his teachings. reading the Bible and applying its values isn't just something we do once and a while, it's something we do everyday all day long...those 'things' in the Bible are Jesus' teachings (i.e. New Testament).
Being a Christian isn't easy, no one ever said it was, yet many people think it is. Christianity has been around so long that the words that are used so often are well overused and have lost their meaning. When we hear the word 'saved' it doesn't come with that same awesome power and joy that it used to. when we hear the word 'ressurection' we don't have that same feeling of the power of God and his willingness to physically live a life for us and to die and then raise again for us, all for us. Many new Chritians claim to be christians but are no where close to being a Chritsian. i'm not going to sit here and tell you what you have to do to be a Christian, but there is a way to act, and when you step out of those bounds, you don't just make yourself look bad, you make all of us look bad, and you make Jesus look bad, which is exactly what's happened in the past fifty years.
Yea, there are lots of 'Christians' who do things wrong, who mess with other women, who mess with kids, who do things that are wrong, but am i going to say they're not saved? no, that's not my decision, and it's not my place to say they aren't, am i going to say they're perfect? no. and i'll tell you right now, being a Christian DOESN'T mean that you're perfect in any way, and those who think this (Both non-Christian and Christian alike) are sorely misinformed. the Bible speaks completely against that, in fact that is WHY Jesus died and rose again for us, because we were IMPERFECT, therefore keeping us out of Heaven because God, being perfect and Holy, cannot associate with sin and disobedience. God cannot commune with something that he exist completely against. The human race at one time WAS perfect, Adam and Eve, but they stepped out of bounds, which has sent us spiralling down into a pit of sin that we cannot get out of.
Being a Christian means you GIVE UP your life and follow Jesus, you give up the things that are between you and God and you follow the teachings and life of Christ. no Christian can do this completely, and no Christian can be perfect. All a Christian can do is try, and try hard they must. we can't rely on our own strength, because it will fail us (i know, i've lived it), you have to rely on God's strength, his power, and you have get rid of things that are disobedient to God. God's not trying to control your life, he's trying to make it better. you can choose not to follow Christ's teachings and not to accept Jesus' gift of eternal life with God, or you can choose to accept his gift and follow his teachings with all your might and get as close to God as you can. you won't ever be perfect, and your life will be full of mistake after mistake and problem after problem, but these mistakes and problems are meant to teach us, for us to use them to get closer to God. we aren't meant to sit here and say "Oh look at me, i'm a Christian and i'm holy", no, because number one, that'd be showing off, and number two, that'd be a complete and utter lie.
Christians are not perfect, and cannot be perfect, and those who think they are, they're lieing to themselves. now let's learn the definition of a hypocryte: Someone who acts like they are someone/something else that they are not. Christians who say, "I don't cuss" and then turn around and cuss, they are hypocrytes, but Christians who say, "I don't cuss" and accidentally make a slip up and pray to God to forgive them and ask those around them to forgive them, they are not hypocrytes, they are Christians.
nothing negative about that. but the biggest part is that most Christians leave out section B of the situation. asking forgiveness is part A, part B is about repentence, or turning AWAY from our mistakes. it won't be easy, and it's often the hardest part of being a Christian, because we have to change the ways we LIVE and ACT completely, not just say i'm sorry and keep making the same mistake over and over again. Does this mean a murderer should get away with murder? absolutely not, but whether you judge them or not isn't the matter, if this person asks God to forgive them and turns to God and away from their sin, they are forgive, nothing you can do about that. you can hang him, shoot him, let him rot in prison, but if he asks for forgivness and changes his ways and is saved and you aren't, you'll be the one facing God on judgment day, not him.
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