Did you know that having a Binary view of the world is the opposite attitude of what Jesus wants you to have. The Binary view of the world is this us against them mentality and in itself is the most condemning attitude anyone with any religion can have and your view of saving the world is to convert people to Christianity which is not what Jesus wanted either. His message was a message of action through love... not a message to convert and then be saved. To believe in Jesus has nothing to do with a prayer you say where you get an 'imaginary best friend in your heart' whom then you are to yield to...
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This is a cult trick at its best. No sir, to believe in Jesus is to live a God- inspired life and live out your life to the best that you can do while affecting as many people as you can in the most positive way you can...
It truly has nothing to do with religion. You can believe in Jesus by living a God inspired life as a Muslim, as a Hindu, as Buddhist, as a Sikh... Jesus has nothing to do with religion. Nothing.
The typical Christian response is to isolate from anything that doesn't support their personal dogma. IT is why divorce is so high in the church b/c it is excused most often on religious reasons primarily around personal dogma. What you are taught to do to yield to the voice in your head is wrong... So often that voice is clouded by emotions, not reason. IF you believe the Bible is God inspired then so also is everything around you. The people around... but most Christians don't learn from others b/c of that binary attitude. Nothing but someone who lines up with their own personal dogma can be God inspired which severely limits ones scope of learning and makes one very ignorant of the truth.
Jesus, the greatest teacher of all, came to Earth to tear the veil of religion. He came and fought the most powerful religion in the land of the time. AND WON BY HIS BLOOD!
Does man learn? Heck no? He just creates a religion out of Jesus and completely misrepresents the meaning of God's Son. The biggest metaphor in the Bible obviously is that Jesus is Love. But what most Christians can't grasp is that it is not enough to accept the metaphor of Jesus which is love and can only be represented HOW YOU LIVE.
The biggest mistake religious Christians make is that accepting this metaphor whole heartedly by the way you live is not enough and you cannot be saved without accepting someone else's religion... which in essence is just someone's culture. What is sin to you may not be sin to someone else... especially when it comes to physical sins.. The biggest injustices and sins you can have are spiritual sins which are the attitudes that you hold. Attitudes that automatically condemn and put you in perpetual sin by just have that attitude.
Perception of physical sin has a lot to do with culture and guilt is derived from deviating from your culture, attitudes and spiritual sins remain the same no matter what culture you are apart of.
Playing religion in church is a waste of time and the biggest misrepresentation of what Jesus would really be wanting you to do.
