I Lost Faith in Christianity

HisW0rd said:

I've been reading the bible and studying for 15 years now. I still do not understand how the bible is related to churches today. I find churches one of the most racist organizations in the world. When I read about Christ and how He was our example, I don't understand how He is related in Christianity. We are divided in many denominations, we rarely have unity, and if you show any power of God you are treated as if your a demonic plague.


I have been church hopping for years. Trying to find somewhere I would fit in but I dont so maybe I am just not a christian

Click to expand...

Since you've been reading the Bible, then you have been warned, but just remember it's not flesh and blood we wrestle with.

I take comfort with the BIble knowing the Word works! It also shows that Satan and his peeps will not have the last word. They know they're defeated, and we would do well to remind ourselves that fact as well. But he's going out with a bang. You do well not to join him.

You sound discouraged, but you don't sound like you've lost your faith. You're just not focusing on things that are going to minister peace to you. No one craves rejection, God made us for love,"Let God be true, and every man a liar." Don't take that rejection on yourself, you cast that on Him and go to praising God for His love and deliverance, because God will have his vengeance.

Whatever you're going through, cast that over onto the Lord.

I would sugest not puting your faith in the church
only in the lord Jesus

Jesus did not create churches or Christianity. He called out followers. It was man who, for whatever reason, created Christian religion and churches and the cause of Christ has gone downhill ever since. You have the Bible, you have God (who still speaks to His people today) and you have the ability to talk to Him. You do not need Christianity or a church. But it is good to fellowship with other Believers. Try having Bible studies in your home with other Believers and in their homes too. Keep your eyes on Jesus. Keep your hope in Jesus. May God bless you as you grow in Him.

You sound like a true follower of Jesus. You believe in Him and want to see His Kingdom come. Don't give up; you are an agent of change.

HisW0rd said:

I have been church hopping for years. Trying to find somewhere I would fit in but I dont so maybe I am just not a christian

Click to expand...

If you want to find Christ's Church. See Matthew 16:13-18. That Church is the Church Jesus built & has protected to this day.

If you are looking for a set of beliefs that will match yours, then you may be tackling it from a bad angle. Christians 'conform' their beliefs to the truth rather than find a Church that aligns with their current beliefs.

Pray Pray Pray!

revrobor said:

Jesus did not create churches or Christianity. He called out followers. It was man who, for whatever reason, created Christian religion and churches and the cause of Christ has gone downhill ever since. You have the Bible, you have God (who still speaks to His people today) and you have the ability to talk to Him. You do not need Christianity or a church. But it is good to fellowship with other Believers. Try having Bible studies in your home with other Believers and in their homes too. Keep your eyes on Jesus. Keep your hope in Jesus. May God bless you as you grow in Him.

Click to expand...

Very well said!

The church is the bride of Christ. Christ is head of the church. It's not a matter of whether the church is good or not in it's own existence, because Christ DID create the church. The fact is that many are hypocritical and not reflecting God's glory. It's hard to know where to go. Even Jesus asked, "Will I find faith when I return?" Church is not a man made creation. It is God's bride for his Son Jesus Christ. And we need to view it that way. It doesn't sound like to me you've lost faith in Jesus Christ. You may have lost faith in people who make up the church, but even there God wants you to be in fellowship with trusting believers who make up Christ's bride.

HisW0rd said:

I've been reading the bible and studying for 15 years now. I still do not understand how the bible is related to churches today. I find churches one of the most racist organizations in the world. When I read about Christ and how He was our example, I don't understand how He is related in Christianity. We are divided in many denominations, we rarely have unity, and if you show any power of God you are treated as if your a demonic plague.


I have been church hopping for years. Trying to find somewhere I would fit in but I dont so maybe I am just not a christian

Click to expand...

EXACTLY what is it you are looking for/want?

May I ask what you mean by showing the power of God? As for the rest of it I agree with the others. The church is not what you should have faith in or any earthly preacher. There is an old saying that if you find the perfect church, dont join. No church is going to be perfect because we live in a fallen world. The best you can do is find one you can fit in with and then try to strengthen that church from within.

Michaelismyname said:

I would sugest not puting your faith in the church
only in the lord Jesus

Click to expand...

I couldn`t agree more, remember it`s god that`s the judge and if the clergy that are running the church are racist as you say, then they`re just like the pharisees that Jesus had a go at (for abusing their power and not following gods law).
If you have faith in the bible and believe it, don`t let the rest of the people in the church/christian faith put you off.

Lord have mercy.

I feel similar sometimes. For the fist 15 years of my life I went to a Baptist church with my family. It was always alright to speak very badly of the evil non-Christians or of the evil people of other denominations (yep, everyone besides the Baptists was evil and a pseudo-Christian), but it was never ok to point out things that were going wrong within the church: lies, vanity, the daughter of an important member who ended up in the streets as a drug addict and whom he used for missionary-service while giving away her room... to this day it makes me feel sad. There was no honesty or true humility. To this day I can't bring myself to go to church again because of these things. I don't think that's how it was meant to be.

Once I'd spent years away from the church, I really found God for the first time and found a true joy in believing and in knowing what He has done for us. I never experienced that while I was going to church regularly.

HisW0rd said:

I've been reading the bible and studying for 15 years now. I still do not understand how the bible is related to churches today. I find churches one of the most racist organizations in the world. When I read about Christ and how He was our example, I don't understand how He is related in Christianity. We are divided in many denominations, we rarely have unity, and if you show any power of God you are treated as if your a demonic plague.


I have been church hopping for years. Trying to find somewhere I would fit in but I dont so maybe I am just not a christian

Click to expand...

Jesus Christ is within not "out there", if Jesus Christ is "out there" one can only know that by Jesus Christ within.

......

If you want to follow Jesus listen to his testimony and keep it and do what he says. Do not expect for someone else to tell you who Jesus is or what Jesus is asking you to do.

Many leave the testimony of Jesus Christ by wanting to find something else. They may speak what they think is very well of Jesus but they can have knives in their heart and do not mean "Jesus" when they say "Jesus".

They mean someone else.

2 Corinthians 3:6
"He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant--not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life."

The problem with churches today is that they are founded and perpetuated on tradition, not the Spirit. The habitual and often mundane repetition of the letter with little to no explanation or even discussion of its true meaning. In other words, all broth, no noodles. The soup base is there but all the other ingredients to make it truly nourishing and hearty are missing.

There is a lack of spiritual leadership because there is a lack of dedicated obedience to Christ. People in these modern times tend to be very lax about it and do not take it seriously, because of this they cannot reflect the true potential of Christ because they are still living in their sin natures. Not many people truly try feverishly to do the right thing; most people think they can just be casual about it and it doesn't matter because Christ is merciful and forgiving. However they seem to disregard this:

Matthew 5:18
"For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled."

In other words if we are truly dedicated to Christ we will give up anything about our lifestyles or our nature to commune with Him. Many people often "undo their belts" as it were because they live under the axiom that no one is perfect. Which is true, but it doesn't mean that we can be sloppy and half-hearted about it.

Thusly, as with anything that is done in slack, the result of that slack effort shows in the finished product. Thus we have churches that do not rightly nourish us, do not offer the proper support to keep those young in the faith standing upright, and likewise cannot help us up when we falter.

It seems as if Non-denominational Christians are becoming hostile to Religion. Which is odd, given Jesus was religious. This is scary to me. There won't be anyone left to defend religious freedom in America soon.

Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against obedience and being faithful to Christ. But I see people focusing on things and blowing them out of proportion and I see way too many people judging others or even using the Bible to basically be mean. One famous example is homosexuals. I'm not saying Christians should it embrace it as something that's ok, but didn't Jesus love the sinner, even though he hated the sin? And what to we do? We walk away from the homosexual because he is so sinful and damned, forgetting about our own inappropriate contentographic fantasies or the hate for our colleague that we feel is completely justified. Just an example. And that's what troubles me.

jakael02 said:

It seems as if Non-denominational Christians are becoming hostile to Religion. Which is odd, given Jesus was religious. This is scary to me. There won't be anyone left to defend religious freedom in America soon.

Click to expand...

There is no salvation in religion only in Jesus. Jesus was not religious. He did most of his work outside the synagog. Why should you be scared? If you have faith in Jesus no one can take that from you.

revrobor said:

There is no salvation in religion only in Jesus. Jesus was not religious. He did most of his work outside the synagog. Why should you be scared? If you have faith in Jesus no one can take that from you.

Click to expand...

I disagree. He was often invited to speak at Synagogues. He was raised in the Jewish faith. He obeyed the Mosaic Law & fulfilled it. It seems the confusion is over Jesus harsh critique of the Pharisees. It was not that Jesus did not recognize the Pharisees authority on the Torah, but that the Pharisees overzealous attention to ritual purity & the rituals that were to stand alongside the Law of Moses. The scrupulous attention drowned out the important aspects of the Law: “Justice & Mercy”.

Your thoughts/Opinion?

jakael02 said:

I disagree. He was often invited to speak at Synagogues. He was raised in the Jewish faith. He obeyed the Mosaic Law & fulfilled it. It seems the confusion is over Jesus harsh critique of the Pharisees. It was not that Jesus did not recognize the Pharisees authority on the Torah, but that the Pharisees overzealous attention to ritual purity & the rituals that were to stand alongside the Law of Moses. The scrupulous attention drowned out the important aspects of the Law: “Justice & Mercy”.

Your thoughts/Opinion?

Click to expand...

Jesus did not establish churches He called out followers. The Church the Bible refers to is the Body of Believers not a religious institution. It was man who, for whatever reason, established the religious institutions we call "churches" with all its rites, rituals, requirements and traditions (many of them man-made). Jesus was not a religious man. When He appeared in synagogues it was to bring a "New Teaching" not to participate in the Jewish religious service.