People live in this world have all one thing in common, the fact is they do not know where they are really going to after death, and no one really has that faith that god really exist. If faith was so strong and true, then one who proclaim their beliefs in god would've gave up everything if so called god asked them to do. From the community I know, 100% of christian sleep with each other before marriage. Be it just another small rule the bible gives, but the disobedience rate is 100%. In the first place, how can we be sure the bible is right and whatever portray to us is right? Jesus was portrayed as a long haired man, yet another article goes around saying that Paul clearly mentions that it is shameful for a man to have long hair, which clearly means that during Jesus' time he did not have long hair because it is shameful for one to have long hair at that time. Unless Jesus was a rebellious man at that moment, which I wasn't told. When the earth was fresh and new, man are exposed to many germs and bacteria which cause them to fall sick easily. Over time, you may call it evolution, our body mutates in a way that our immune system learns about the bacteria and builds a defense system over it and hence today, we do not fall sick by breathing dirty air polluted all the bacteria which may seemed hazardous to mankind say, 1million years ago. The point I was about to say is that humans, throughout the years of evolution has found a defend system for their actions also. The bible is interpreted in millions of different books, each may vary little from the other, but varies a lot when a different person is reading it. One scripture clearly says, that `christian must be prepared to give reasons for their faith, and do it in a gentle way as not to offend people'. That statement was practice but not literally, christians use reason for their actions which are wrong.
It is really sad, when your friends and family backstabbed you......its actually forgiveable if they are not christians. But it is not forgiveable when they tell you how good god is and how they're trying their best walking that road, yet the fact shows that, they're swaying furthest from it.
Should faith has a measure? Level 1, level 2? Or should faith be just faith? If today a so called pastor walks up to you and tells you that today god ask you to give up your carreer, and go into a bible school and start going into missionaries, would you? If you're paid a thousand dollar a month, you might, if you're paid 20thousand a month, you won't. That's a fact, don't deny it. If you say no, show me your case. And then perhaps one might come up with the question after being called and say, `..well i wouldn't know if that pastor is saying what god wanted me to do or it was just a mistake.' So now the pastor do not speak words from god when it is something you are unwilling to give up deep inside your heart. Yes, you may say, of course I am willing to give up but it has really got to be from god, I won't just give up because a pastor came and tell me so. There you got it! Are you now doubting the man of god who stands up there, whom all believe he was chosen to be there? And now you think that his words might not be from god to you. The classic excuse I hear are usually that, or well if that's god's will for me, god will speak to me directly. So which is the way god comes and speak to you? There is no way which are perfect of his will unless it coincides with your will. Face it, we only hear and follow what we like about our life. Being a christian is like this if it is to be illustrated in the worldly sense. There is this biggest company in the world, and the company pays their employees higher than the king of the world is getting. But the thing is this, they tell you...the payment comes when it all has ended...but you're sure to get your payment..and our company is so strong, if you're with this company, you are literally the brothers of our CEO, and our CEO is bigger than the king of kings. You can find another job elsewhere, but you are still employed under us, there will be no breach of contract. But although you are considered the brother of our CEO, you must do kind to another so that you will get more at the end of the day. We won't pay you till 100 years later. You don't get to see our CEO, we will send someone to transfer you the message from time to time and our CEO's will to your life. Here we include for you a guidebook, you read it and do not disobey these rules because we see your actions all the time.
Are you kidding me? When people don't see cameras around them, do you think they'd be afraid? You just lost the little wind cap of your tyre. You're now at a parking lot, now you know that taking from another without permission is stealing whether or not it is a small item or big. You saw another cap, you look around, you see no cameras, would you be more daring to take it then when there are actually cameras? The point is this, you can go to church everyday and people telling you god is watching, but it has become evident throughout million of years that if human does not see, mere listening to warning may never be sufficient. Faith is believing without seeing, the second part to that definition was never told....to believe without seeing only the things we really wanted in our heart whether we know it or not.
Now you walk around as the brother of the CEO who is bigger than the king of kings knowing that only you and people who work for that company may go to that place for shelter and reep all the benefit, do you think as humans, you will not have a subconcious pride that tells you, I am now higher and more knowdlegeable than the rest, those who do not see are blind and I pity you, let me enlighten you kinda attitude?
Listen, let us change the religion for a bit. What if, one day, another part of the bible was discovered by theologist, a whole book, and this book, comes right after the book of revelation and the whole book speaks this; ....brothers and sisters, for all the whole entire book is telling you to believe we are now to announce to you, that heaven is already crowded with angels and heavenly beings, there is no room for mankind after life. When you die, life would be over and you will know nothing because all memory will be erased and pain will be removed and you will ceast to exist forever, only we, the angels, and god will be having life in heaven. BUT we would still want you to do all that the bible is telling you to do, obey the ten commandments and do good to one another. Sin will not be punished, if you die, you die like the rest of the world's people whether they believe or not in god. That and more, all reversed from the benefit and priviledges that we were suppose to get. Two questions, would you still tell people you are a christian? Would you still try your so called best to be good? If it was certain that there will be no heaven nor after life for you? You have got to put your head into it and believe that there is no after life and no sin will be punished after life. What would your honest answer be? I cannot answer for you, but being a human...people will start do be different. We are all the same, we live and do something with the hope of some reward and the hope of evading punishments. Christian, or non christians. Good enough that speeding is punishable by the law, yet people still speed, christians too....and please, the bible tells you to obey the ruling government's law also mind you. Even with punishments in mind, people still do it. Now do you think if they remove that law, but place a speed limit, would you obey it knowing there will not be any punishment?
Is this how christian life is suppose to be? Living by the rules because there is such thing as punishment and reward?
From my little knowledge, god did not create man to be a robot but be a mindful of himself and watch his own act. Which is why Adam and Eve was created. Created and only given the advice of not doing sinful act. They have no knowledge of the after life, and they have no knowledge of the punishments, but only was told that they would die if they eat the apple. .they still ate it due to temptations. Because knowledge sounds better to them. If man was born with sins because of Adam, then man are all the same as Adam is. They will always choose what which is in the world than the rest. As a matter of fact, I was making a joke about how forgiving God is to punish man for millions of years just because Adam ate an apple. Death is incorporated to our body because of one man's sin millions of years ago and it is only through Jesus that we can be forgiven. If such, does that mean that our actions won't matter? Because if its not Jesus saving you, whatever good you do, won't do any good for you? Then why bother? And, if it was only after Jesus' death that we are now saved, everyone else mentioned in the bible before the coming of Jesus are now in hell? If not in hell, then why need Jesus to come? What difference does it make? Is Moses in hell? What about David? They all died before Jesus came. So whatever happens to them?
For god so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son to die for us....do you love god that way? Would you die for him? Would you, if you know that the only reward after that is nothing? Do you actually understand what love is? Do you love god or do you love yourself more?
Why do I asked like that? Let me explain.
Lets say you would die for god, would you die for god if god tells you no afterlife for you, no meeting me, but if you die for me, I will be glad about you and I will be happy. Will you still die for him? If you still will, that is loving god. If you will only die for him because of his promise for eternal life, and punishments if you do not obey him, you only love yourself too much that you want to work towards that purpose for you to reep at the end of the day. If all those hopes and dreams and rewards and punishments diminished, would you still go to church, would you still do what he ask you to do?
You may come out with reasons like, no, god will not be that kind of god. I have faith. God is good and all. I am telling you to give it a hypothetical situation. Its not an issue of who and how god is here. The spotlight is on YOU! It is if god have no reward for you, would you still love him? It is a test to see whether you love him, or you love yourself. Its not an issue of how god really is, and what are there in the after life....it is a question, it does not require you to tell me how god really is, god will not do this, the bible never said so. Its a hypothethical question...you are suppose to answer it, not build flowers around and say the shit you offered is not true, this flower is the truth...to put it in a straight way, if shit comes and shit is all you have, what would you do? Question yourself, and ask yourself, it is for the love of yourself that you believe in god or it is for the love of god you believe in him.....
