Originally posted by FabianFnas
Okay, I asked myself, and came up with this thoughts:
I think that the christian community is not homogenous. There are as many sets of beliefs that there are christians. No christian can be a spokesperson for all christians. Every experience of god is a personal one. No churches with rules what is right and wrong are meaningful.
So what is right an ...[text shortened]... th hating harts. Who will enter to pearly gate, do you think? I think I know the answer. Do you?
There is only One Lord, and One Spirit of God, we divide ourselves over some really
stupid reasons. I recall a story that was covered in a news paper talking about two failing
churches that were going to merge. They had everything ironed out except one, one
group wanted the Lord's prayer to be "And forgive us our sins", while the other group
wanted the say, "And forgive our debts", and because of that they didn't merge, the news
paper following the story said, one group went back to their sins, while the other their
debts.
What we are talking about in a sinful people, that God is reaching out too. He has to come
into our lives to make us new creatures in Christ. Not everyone who claims to be a
Christian has done that, and some here even frown upon that I guess, since they are
always talking against it. The bottom line get your eyes off people, we suck, where the
reality is, is God. I cannot prove He is real, I cannot show you God is real, but He can.
God is love, He loves us and will not force you to do anything, the choice is always yours.
God is also Just, He will do everything justly, and righteously. He did not just forgive us
for our sins, He paid a price for them so we could be saved righteously, Jesus who was
sinless, became sin for us, so us sinners can be saved.
If you listen to some here, you'd think that isn't true, they are pushing being good enough,
and none of us are good enough. If we do good works, we are only doing what we are
supposed to be doing nothing more, and that alone does not clean us from our guilt of sin.