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Date Posted: 08:59:38 06/19/03 Thu
Author: Mando
Subject: Re: Christianity=hate
In reply to: findinggodinotherthings 's message, "Christianity=hate" on 17:59:46 04/15/03 Tue

Christians shouldn’t be hated.



Now maybe the people who practice Christianity are the ones who cause other’s to hate them. Christianity itself is a truthful practice. Though people who practice it don’t apply it’s principals, as they should. Such as the Pharisees, they practiced Godly principals but their motives were just as wicked as you can possibly think of. God says in His word that the first people who will be judged by Him are those who so call themselves Christians. Let me say it this way, He will judge the body of Christ first. The body of Christ is the church or the people who make up the Christian community. Why because they know the truth and still yet they don’t live up to the full understanding of God, they refuse to live totally united to Him, they instead have one foot in and one foot out. God says you are either cold or hot, which is it going to be. God gives an illustration in His word, that a person who picks up a cup of coffee and drinks it and tastes it to be cold He will spew it out of his mouth. Such as God would do to those who know the truth yet still refuse to obey and live after the full understanding of God. God holds Christians more accountable because they no better, because they should be good examples to those who don’t know. They should be the light and the hope for those longing for freedom in spirit. Right now there is a lot of crazy things going on within the Christian community. God will clean all that mess out and the few remnant that live totally united to Him will remain within His favor. Right now God is perfecting the church and once that is accomplished there will be more people coming to unite with Him because they will see that God is more real than they possibly thought or even imagined. I believe that so many people hate and are angry with Christianity because of all the stupidity they have seen and heard through media and personal experiences they have had. We as Christians need to really get real with ourselves and God, we need to strengthen our chords with Him that we may be good, true in spirit that others may be drawn to what is true.
I am a man who believes in God and son Jesus Christ. I’ve accepted that for myself. I do say this that God is continually perfecting me and molding me into the man He knows and desires He wants me to be. I wont sit at my computer and type messages in forums pointing fingers to no one, which is not my goal. I myself have imperfections; I stand more accountable for my actions than those who don’t know the truth. Though just cause I am not perfect doesn’t mean I can sin whenever I want, NO! I have to continually work out my own salvation, striving everyday to live the right way, persevering and leaving my old nature behind, striving to take on my new nature, which is in God. Its not easy but it is well worth the fight, knowing that in the end I will have a great reward. I will leave these last words with you, no matter what it looks like or feels like, no matter how hard it has been to see the truth and to know what is right never give up, if you look hard enough you will know and when you know you will be free. I pray this In Jesus ‘s name, amen.

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