My experience with people who are basically waving a banner they are Christian is they have almost zero experience with God whatsoever and they have no idea of what they are talking about.
I am extremely frustrated on this.
There seems to be zero concern about allegiance to dogma and tradition, and zero concern about actually holding and keeping the actual teachings of Jesus. Far more important seems to be holding to some "church" teachings and a bunch of nonsense which ends up basically being well founded fodder for the critics -- of whom are many and very relentless.
Great example: Carl Sagan's book on the supernatural. I forget the name of it, but I painfully read through the whole thing. All he did was use worse case examples - strawman arguments - and for the fuel for his fodder of complaint he used these liars and fakes.
I then come down to earth and deal with agnostics and atheists and others, and shake my head because I can not help but be stereotyped by them because of these people who claim to know God but show no spirituality at all. In fact, they just make up and repeat what others have told them and completely disregard the teachings of Christ.
I am not sure what it is, we are called to live a life on another plane of existence entirely.
We are called to rise above all of this.
But, everyone seems to act like they do not care about anyone outside their own social spheres, they do not even begin to try to be merciful or not judge by appearances. As though this is something Jesus taught, when his whole life was teaching the exact opposite of that.
Has the antichrist taken over the "church", while the real church has risen up in the rapture and left them behind?
I mean, for me God and angels are more real then people. I do not understand their earth or their lives without miracles. Miracles seem more real to me then the weird physics and "science" guided rules they live by.
I am extremely frustrated on this.
There seems to be zero concern about allegiance to dogma and tradition, and zero concern about actually holding and keeping the actual teachings of Jesus. Far more important seems to be holding to some "church" teachings and a bunch of nonsense which ends up basically being well founded fodder for the critics -- of whom are many and very relentless.
Great example: Carl Sagan's book on the supernatural. I forget the name of it, but I painfully read through the whole thing. All he did was use worse case examples - strawman arguments - and for the fuel for his fodder of complaint he used these liars and fakes.
I then come down to earth and deal with agnostics and atheists and others, and shake my head because I can not help but be stereotyped by them because of these people who claim to know God but show no spirituality at all. In fact, they just make up and repeat what others have told them and completely disregard the teachings of Christ.
I am not sure what it is, we are called to live a life on another plane of existence entirely.
We are called to rise above all of this.
But, everyone seems to act like they do not care about anyone outside their own social spheres, they do not even begin to try to be merciful or not judge by appearances. As though this is something Jesus taught, when his whole life was teaching the exact opposite of that.
Has the antichrist taken over the "church", while the real church has risen up in the rapture and left them behind?
I mean, for me God and angels are more real then people. I do not understand their earth or their lives without miracles. Miracles seem more real to me then the weird physics and "science" guided rules they live by.