Hi,
So one thing that I've been curious about is self expression, art, culture and individuality, what do Christians think of this? The only thing that has ever really irked me about church is that generally I feel like it can either be too controlling or repressive or not very open to different ways of seeing things and different kinds of self expression or individuality.
Even when it's just culture and generally removed from anything else, is it really wrong? I just feel like it's human nature to a degree and I question which merits or standards then certain styles of dress or some such thing are more puritan, or godly? I understand that in a sense it's to stoo conflict between people, because for fear some people might get jealous or some such thing. I guess I think either way, there wil always be decietful and manipulative individuals amongst us, and you cannot at least keep someone from rebelling mentally on the inside first at last with thought. So what I say by that is you can't exactly force peace on everyone, if exactly it makes out to that all of the time. You can force peoppe to accept just about anything and call ot peace but it does not always make it so.
It all comes down to our authentic selves deep down; but of course likewise we all struggle between two oppposing sides of light and dark.
So one thing that I've been curious about is self expression, art, culture and individuality, what do Christians think of this? The only thing that has ever really irked me about church is that generally I feel like it can either be too controlling or repressive or not very open to different ways of seeing things and different kinds of self expression or individuality.
Even when it's just culture and generally removed from anything else, is it really wrong? I just feel like it's human nature to a degree and I question which merits or standards then certain styles of dress or some such thing are more puritan, or godly? I understand that in a sense it's to stoo conflict between people, because for fear some people might get jealous or some such thing. I guess I think either way, there wil always be decietful and manipulative individuals amongst us, and you cannot at least keep someone from rebelling mentally on the inside first at last with thought. So what I say by that is you can't exactly force peace on everyone, if exactly it makes out to that all of the time. You can force peoppe to accept just about anything and call ot peace but it does not always make it so.
It all comes down to our authentic selves deep down; but of course likewise we all struggle between two oppposing sides of light and dark.