Hello.
I spend a lot of time among Christians and I notice that they abide in some wrong ideas and it’s hurting them and makes their faith so much less appealing especially to the younger generation who are taught to think independently and free.
What I mean is, they have ideas about God, spirituality and the world not how it’s actually observed to work. For whatever reasons. For example they think that if they live holy lives with fewer sins, they get automatic blessing. Or they think if they pray enough or with the right heart, whatever they ask probably will happen. Or that somehow the world around them will align so that because of their faith and kind of special place with God because of Jesus, they’re privileged: protected from sin and evil, have better and clearer understanding of things, all circumstances working for their good etc. This is not at all how things work.
Maybe I’m not explaining it well right now. It’s hard to pin point. They are full of very wrong ideas. Not that the Bible necessarily explains it that way. Maybe the way organized religion and theology have been developing, and with churches running basically on money, a kind of deceiving teaching that is attractive to people at some level is being offered. There’s something wrong on a fundamental level.
Also there’s a fixation on I’m true and you are not true. Kind of prejudice and arrogance. I know in an ideology where you have to proselytize it’s important to “sell” your belief system and one of the strongest selling points is its “veracity”. We are true, so come on join us. The fact is, nobody understands and knows God, and also many ideas can be similar or not even competing, but are artificially shown to be contradictory. We people don’t know a lot more than we know. So claim to absolute and final truth is a little too opinionated, I think.
What do you think? Does it make any sense?
I spend a lot of time among Christians and I notice that they abide in some wrong ideas and it’s hurting them and makes their faith so much less appealing especially to the younger generation who are taught to think independently and free.
What I mean is, they have ideas about God, spirituality and the world not how it’s actually observed to work. For whatever reasons. For example they think that if they live holy lives with fewer sins, they get automatic blessing. Or they think if they pray enough or with the right heart, whatever they ask probably will happen. Or that somehow the world around them will align so that because of their faith and kind of special place with God because of Jesus, they’re privileged: protected from sin and evil, have better and clearer understanding of things, all circumstances working for their good etc. This is not at all how things work.
Maybe I’m not explaining it well right now. It’s hard to pin point. They are full of very wrong ideas. Not that the Bible necessarily explains it that way. Maybe the way organized religion and theology have been developing, and with churches running basically on money, a kind of deceiving teaching that is attractive to people at some level is being offered. There’s something wrong on a fundamental level.
Also there’s a fixation on I’m true and you are not true. Kind of prejudice and arrogance. I know in an ideology where you have to proselytize it’s important to “sell” your belief system and one of the strongest selling points is its “veracity”. We are true, so come on join us. The fact is, nobody understands and knows God, and also many ideas can be similar or not even competing, but are artificially shown to be contradictory. We people don’t know a lot more than we know. So claim to absolute and final truth is a little too opinionated, I think.
What do you think? Does it make any sense?
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