who am i?

[bananas]

Who am I? I look at family and friends and in some respects they are a part of me and in other respects they are totally alien. But who am I? Why am I here? Am I the product of nature or nurture? I suppose if I were to believe in God I would have all the answers but this seems an easy way out. What is the difference between believing Jesus is my saviour and allowing some hypnotist dictate my persona so that I can live out the rest of my life oblivious to the reality of my true situation?

 

[Redeemed 39]

If you are asking questions such as "Why am I here?" and other related questions, don't you want to find the answers? You said that if you believe in God, that would be an "easy" way out. In my opinion that is the only way you'll find out those answers...it's all the better if it's easy!

 

[Lyle]

You're here to know the truth

 

[Jessica Lauren]

God isn't always the "easy" way out. We don't just say "oh I believe in god yay I have all the answers"..

 

[Nobody Special]

Hi Bananas.

First let me welcome you to CF.

Secondly I have something I want you to think about.

Your comment is great! “I look at family and friends and in some respects they are a part of me and in other respects they are totally alien.” I have to tell you that almost everybody goes through this at some time, and other people go through it several time through out their life.

Contrary to what some of the others may say, and I’m not disagreeing with them at all, I want to know what you think. What do you think makes somebody who they are? Is it their beliefs, their family history? Something else?

To me who I am is defined by what I do for others. A very, very small part of that is here at CF. I find enjoyment in helping others with problems they have. Like when somebody locks their keys in their car. Or when somebody just needs to spout off when they’re mad about something. Sometimes it’s just saying “I love you” to somebody that’s down.

Part of who I am is all the things I asked you about and more. Why am I here? To serve God by helping others.

Is being a Christian the “easy way out?” No, not at all. It’s much harder to be a Christian than it is not to be. Why? It’s hard to stick with God than anything else. It’s hard to obey His commands many times can be the most difficult at times. But see, it’s more about the RELATIONSHIP than it is a religious belief. There’s a huge difference.

I can’t say that’s the way it works for everyone, but that’s how it works for me. For you it could be something different.

Does God have all the answers? Yes, but sometimes He doesn’t give them to us when we ask. Remember that God’s timing is not ours, but it’s ALWAYS perfect!!

NS

 

[The Midge]

Who am I? I look at family and friends and in some respects they are a part of me and in other respects they are totally alien. But who am I? Why am I here? Am I the product of nature or nurture? I suppose if I were to believe in God I would have all the answers but this seems an easy way out. What is the difference between believing Jesus is my saviour and allowing some hypnotist dictate my persona so that I can live out the rest of my life oblivious to the reality of my true situation?

Welcome to CF Bananas

What Christianity tell us that God made us. That we were to have fellowship with our creator, that we wer to have dominion- or perhaps more correctly a key role in careing for the rest of creation. Christianity is the restoration of something that should have been.

Living with answers like these is the hard part. When we are "saved" or become Christians we are not the finished article. We should work to complete the restoration; to turn as much of our mortal life back over to as near as originally intended. God never takes over as such unless we allow; allowing God soveriegnty in our lives takes discipline. This requires an active choice for God on our part. As soon as we cease to do allow God to be in charge He is no longer being soverign. For some reason God wants us to love and serve Him as free agents and this is never compromised.

So we can never be blissfully unaware of anything in a fallen world full of pain and strife. Answer one question and we a presented with a new set of even more perplexing questions.

I am reminded of Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. A race of hyper intelligent beings build a super computer to answer the Ulitimate Question to life the universe and everthing. Serveral million years later it produced the answer 42. The hyper intelligent beings realised that they had not defined the question sufficiently and the only people who made anything out of the exercise were the pundits. They then had to build another super computer the size of a planet to work out what the question was!

 

[Redeemed 39]

God isn't always the "easy" way out. We don't just say "oh I believe in god yay I have all the answers"..

Well, obviously you won't automatically get all those answers right away when you accept God...but if you ask and seek for them He will give them to you in due time...

 

[Rafael]

We are here to learn the most important thing there is to know in the universe that God created for our benefit and His glory - LOVE - and not just the love that has a strong desire for a hamburger or sex, but Agape love - God's love. It is the love that GIVES.
We learn how to have Agape love in families, in friendships, at Church, everywhere we come into contact and fellowship with another human being or living thing. As a race of beings, we have fallen into a pit of sin and death. God has given us a bridge and a way out of this pit of despair through His Son Jesus. He bids us to choose life and learn of Him, bearing the easy burden He gives us of love. Why is that burden easy? Well like the song goes, "He ain't heavey, he's my brother", and He who loves, knows God.

1 John 4:7 Dear friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
8 But anyone who does not love does not know God—for God is love.

 

[Bill Taylor]

Friend,
I've been a Christian for these past fifteen years and while I have more of the answers, I do not have nearly all of them. What I do have is the God with all the answers.

You need Him also.

 

[TheMainException]

Bananas...YOU are the BELOVED of Jesus. He loves you...and you are the BELOVED. That's who you are. That's all you NEED to be...anything more is futile and can't be taken to heaven with you...if you are Christian.

With love in Christ,
Lauren

 

[azjoe_02]

Who am I? I look at family and friends and in some respects they are a part of me and in other respects they are totally alien. But who am I?Why am I here? Am I the product of nature or nurture? I suppose if I were to believe in God I would have all the answers but this seems an easy way out. What is the difference between believing Jesus is my saviour and allowing some hypnotist dictate my persona so that I can live out the rest of my life oblivious to the reality of my true situation?

Bananas, you are asking a question only God can answer. We (Christians) don't know who you are or WHY you are. Only God knows that. If you choose to seek Him, He will let you know why you are here on earth and you will have a sense of peace that it seems you lack now. We all have been there and it isn't easy for us to swallow our pride and say "I can't do it". But really the bottom line is if you want to know the answer: SEEK GOD! I will pray that you do just that. :crosself: