It seems that there are good and bad people both outside of Christianity and within. Both are equally flawed, being human, but one group, thanks to the teachings of Jesus, has no excuse to plead ignorance to the solution to this behavioural problem.
My opinion of either group of self-serving humans has not changed since childhood, but my opinion as to the reason for the hypocrisy has changed once I stopped looking at man's Christian reasoning through what man has said, and paid more attention to Jesus and what He has said. The difference, hidden in plain sight, is obvious.
Man more than often defends the traditional ways of man and sees Christianity through worldly eyes rather than through the eyes of the Kingdom of God as taught by Jesus. The two ways oppose each other. Jesus said we can't serve both, so man, in his self-perceived wisdom, adapted the kingdom and Christianity to suit and justify worldly purposes rather than change the world to suit God (the narrow path). It doesn't mean Christians are not on the path to God but have simply been misdirected into taking a detour down mankind's highway full of billboards promoting itself while blocking the view of God's clear and simple way. Hopefully they will redirect themselves back to the Kingdom.
Matthew 22:
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
© ...timothyu
My opinion of either group of self-serving humans has not changed since childhood, but my opinion as to the reason for the hypocrisy has changed once I stopped looking at man's Christian reasoning through what man has said, and paid more attention to Jesus and what He has said. The difference, hidden in plain sight, is obvious.
Man more than often defends the traditional ways of man and sees Christianity through worldly eyes rather than through the eyes of the Kingdom of God as taught by Jesus. The two ways oppose each other. Jesus said we can't serve both, so man, in his self-perceived wisdom, adapted the kingdom and Christianity to suit and justify worldly purposes rather than change the world to suit God (the narrow path). It doesn't mean Christians are not on the path to God but have simply been misdirected into taking a detour down mankind's highway full of billboards promoting itself while blocking the view of God's clear and simple way. Hopefully they will redirect themselves back to the Kingdom.
Matthew 22:
37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38 This is the first and great commandment.
39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
© ...timothyu
