Ok this uk chic knows about as much about christianity as i do about quantum physics so i apologize if these questions are uber noob.
Ok I know you guys believe Jesus is god, or something of that nature. do other people concepts of god really make it bad? what is the christian stance on say a bi sexual girl as myself, im not lesbian so I'm curious, and are women and men equal in the bible?
Hi, Yes, we believe Jesus is God. God is one of three persons, Father, Son (Jesus) and Holy Spirit, the trinity.
One God.
All men have sinned and so Jesus came and taught, performed miracles, healed, forgave, and then went to the cross willingly and died for our sins and was resurrected.
When one believes in Christ, puts their trust in Christ for their life, their sins are forgiven, past, present and future.
We then start our Christian walk. It's differnt for everybody, but for me I started reading the bible and learned truths about God and many other things in the bible. I turned from the life I used to live as I just had no desire or interest at all. Jesus was right there with me, and I sensed that so strongly when I first came to Christ. It was awesome, coming to Christ.
As to your being bisexual, that is between you and God.
We are all sinners and there are many sins of course, all sin is wrong doing. But it is not one thing that we are involved in or doing which Christ is about.
Jesus paid for all our sin, and regardless of what the sin is, when we come to Christ we are forgiven all sin. We still sin, and while we are commanded not to and we do our best not to (depending on our walk with God) we still sin.
Sin is many things, many things, self righeousness, pride, envy, hatred, etc, there are many, the famous ones we hear about are sexual immorality and such but all sin is sin which is why I said, it's between you and God, and it's not about one sin, or one thing we do.
It's about our life, our being reconciled to God, having a relationship with God.
Coming to Christ is a transformation of life. We become a new creation, the Holy Spirit (God) indwells us, and it's just awesome really and I've no clue how I got by before without God.
Prior to coming to Christ, I knew nothing of God, never thought of God,never taught of God, nothing ,and not until right before coming to Christ did I start thinking of God, and I mean weeks. Prior to that nothing at all. Never even aware about religion nothing.
I lived a very dark life, as many of us do prior to Christ. I've done all there is to do in this life. I wasn't raised with any sort of morals so not blaming my mom at all, I grew up with no guilt about the many things I did. I sinned much against others and against myself in the many things I did. Many people feel guilty when they do wrong, I never did, which to me was kind of strange as once I became a Christian I wondered why I never felt guilty over things I did, and like I said, I lived one dark life and short of murder and a few other things did just about everything else in this world.
But still when I came to Christ, it wasn't about sin, I came to Christ from answering two questions. Would I commit my life to Christ, and would I die for Christ.
With those two, I immediately was a new creation. Pastor said nothng more to me, didn't tell me to do anything or any more, as you see he knew God does the work in our life.
As I said, I started reading the bible and it was, is fascinating and wow, I relearned so much, as I had worldly wisdom and the bible gives us godly wisdom, renews our minds, changes our mind about things, just by reading and by God working in our lives.
It's a lifetme walk, we go thru mountains and valleys, and God never leaves us nor forsakes us, no matter what goes on and He's always right here.
I went to church and to a small bible study, and one of the first things struck me about God was He loved me as I was and for who I was. I had never known such love before; I was a nobody a nothing, but here's God saying you are precious in my site and very worthy and valuable and then the few that reached out to me also treated me the same really and I had never known such in my life.
They didn't care how I looked, dressed, talked, none of that. I used to sit in the parking lot of the church crying as I didn't have the courage to go in cause i wasn't like them (in my mind so i thought), and finally told someone how i did that, and she talked me into coming in, and as I did it got easier as i had never done any social type of thing in my life either, so was real hard being around people at all. And since we believe things about chuches, christians, God and the bible, which are not true, that is what I was doing, had preconcieved notions which were wiped out when these women reached out to me in love and ah..it was awesome.
So, sorry for the long story, but just thought I'd tell you a bit about myself.
God bless,
tapero
