Post by hadassah on Feb 26, 2008 10:53:03 GMT -5
From my experienced I have notice that Christianity does not have a good name among the vampire boards. I like to explain the difference between the religion and true Christianity. I am going to try to use vampire termnology to explain true Christianity.
There is a big difference in the religion of Christianity and truly being a waken to it (born again the Christian term) There are many people that grow up in the church and they are raised Christian. They are a Christian because they were raised that way but they were never truly awaken to it. There are teens who go though the actions of being a Christian because mom and dad makes them go to church. Mom and dad mean well in making them go to church but what they are really doing is driving their kids farther away from Christ.
I can remember my 12th grade Sunday school class, they acted no different then my 12th grade English class at school throwing paper air planes, chrewing gum spiting at each other just caring on in class. When the teacher walked out they talked of their wild parties the night before. They really didn't want to be there because they didn't have a true awakening, a born again experience. They would of rather go to the nearest bar and drink then to be in that class.
They didn't understand what the teacher was talking about and they didn't care to understand. They were just there because mom and dad made them be there but there heart really would rather be somewhere else.
I was truly awaken and had that born again Spirit. I was hungry to hear the Word of God and knew all the answers to the questions that the teacher asked. It seemed I was the only one anwering the questions and had all the answers while the rest of the class didn't care to be there. Infact I felt like I was a 12th grader in a kindergarten class learning kindergarten material my own age group was immature and didn't care that they were acting like kindergartners. I felt more comfortable being with older adults then my own age group. I seemed to fit in better with my parents class then my own age group. What was wrong with my Sunday school class? The kids just didn't have a real awakening. They won't born again spiritually.
It would be like being on a vampire board and a bunch of role players join the board pretending to be vampires when they are just role players, they go though the actions but they really have not had a true awakening to being a vampire. You can imagine how annoying these people can be and they can give a bad name to the ones who are real vampires.
Well the samething happens in Christianity. We have many role players, we call them hypocrites. Pretending to be something they are not.
There are a lot of people like that in Christianity. There religion is Christianity for many reasons and believe it or not they are what you would call the role players. Role players do not represent things very well. They try to pretend they are something they are not. Many people do this for many reasons. One reason is they are a teenager being made to go to church and they have to go though the actions to please mom and dad. Then there are the older ones who enjoy the attention of being high up in the church. They are very religious but only because they get the attention and the money for it. They are proud and arrogant and really do not have the heart of God, they have never been awaken or born again. They are just playing the role. Jesus talked a lot about these higher ups, he had some strong words to say about them how they drive everyone away from God by the way they act. He talked about them being a beautiful cup on the out side but dirty on the inside.
Sometimes these actors slip up and some skeltons come out of the closet. Like when you hear about the priset who molested a bunch of boys ect. There true natural sometimes come out of the closet.
When a person is truly awaken or born again they take on a new natural. There natural is to do good not to harm people. They follow the law of love. The book of I John talks about a person who is truly awaken to Christianity they had an actually born again experince to do what is right and to love everyone on planet earth. There natural is not to hurt anyone. Everything that they do for God is based on love not to harm anyone. Infact it would be very painful emotionally for a born again person to steal, lie or caused harm to anyone. It is just to painful to do harm to anyone emotionally. A religous person may not have problems emotionally to do harm to another and think they are maybe doing God's will. God's will is based on love and is never to harm anyone regardless of religion, sex and age.
The perfect story is the story of Saul, Saul grew up as a Hebrew and highly trained in the books of the old testament. He knew those books pretty well and follow Jewish law and he thought he was doing God's will by killing the Christians until one day he had an encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus. He had a real awakening, a true born again experience and he was never the same again. He became Paul the apostle and wrote a good bit of the New Testament by writting lots of letters to the churches. The very people he hated and killed he became one of them. He had a true born again experince. He was a new person on the inside he wasn't the same man anymore.
Though out history there has been many people like Saul, who know the Bible inside and out and they are very religious but they never had that awakening experince infact they thought they were doing God's will by killing those who did not believe the way that they did.
During the burning times the church did not have a real awakening or born again experince. They were just the role players and if anyone didn't see things their way they killed them or burn them. It wasn't just pagans that got this treatment. It was also people who disagree with them. Luther was a man who disagree with them. You have to understand the corruption that was in the church at that time. They were making money off the poor by selling tickets into heaven, and selling bones of the prophets ect telling the people they were paying their way into heaven. They would not let anyone own a bible, they just would tell you what the Bible says. Luther spoke up against these hypocrites. He said if the common people could read the Bible they would know what hypocrites you really are and the false teachings you are teaching. The church leaders were angry and even whated to kill Luther for speaking the truth about them. Luther made copies of Bibles for the common people and read to them and taught them to read the Bible for themselves. He taught them that they didn't need these leaders to go to heaven that they could go straight to God for forgiveness and relationship with him. If you have never watched the movie about Luther it is worth watching it. He started the Luther church and there were many other churches that started by people breaking away from that church of that time.
There was one part of the story where he told the nuns and priest that it wasn't a sin to be married and that they could still serve God and be married. A whole bunch of nuns and priest run off and got married including Luther. And they still remain faithful to God even though they got married.
The church of that time was very angry at Luther. They try to burn his books that he printed against them. Infact the common people were so mad that the church was leading them astray that they began to burn churches. This made the religous leaders mad and they sent out soldiers to kill them. Many people died for wanting to know the truth and not follow something that was leading them astray.
Going back to Jesus time, Jesus faced the very samething. The pharisees and scribes were the religous leaders of that time. They knew the Jewish law very well but they were hyocrites. When Jesus came preaching and speaking out against them it made them very angry. Once they try testing him. They brought an adulteress to Jesus to asked him what should be done to her. According to Jewish law she must be stoned to death. Jesus operating on love and forgiveness and it was one of those questions if he said the one thing he could be in big trouble. If he spoke against the law of Moese he could be put to death and yet he believe in mercy and love. He was smart and knew the right thing to say. He told them "He who is without sin let him cast the first stone." Now if they deny that they were without sin they would be guilty of being stone themselves. No one there was with out sin to stone this woman so they all walked away, the olderest to the youngest. I often wonder where was the adulter if they find her guilty of adutery? Maybe some of the men accursing her were also with her in bed on other occasions and when Jesus wrote in the sand he could have been writting the names of the men who were with her that wanted to stone her?
Today in the church we still have our pharisees those who know the rules of Christianity but yet they are not walking the talk. I can see why so many would be turn off. And even though this happens there are ones who truly have an awakening experince with God. They do not want to do church the same way the religous people have been doing church. They want something new and fresh. Infact it would be ok with them to have church on a sandy beach out in the woods in someone's living room it really doesn't have to be the building but just the true relationship with their Heavenly father and Jesus. Infact they do not need to be with anyone to pray, to take communion, they can do all this alone with God but they do enjoy the followship of others who feel the same way. They know in their hearts they do not need a priest to pardon their sins, and be their way to God. They know they can go to God themselves for forgiveness and followship and actually get answers from God on how they should live. They have a friendship with God that the religous leaders do not have. The leaders know about God though the writtings but do not know him like a friend.
It would be like me reading about George Washington and believing that he exist but if I really knew him and lived with him I would know him not know about him. I would know what he likes, what his favorite food is ect. There are truly waken Christians who truly know there God. They talk with Jesus, they know him not just about him. They know what he is like and they may even know what his favorite color is.
God wants people to know what a real awakening is not just religion infact God's spirit speaks against the religion of Christianity and calls people into relationship with him. Who can have a relationship with him? Anyone can. All you have to do is asked him to be your friend and he will be. God is a real gentleman in that he will not force himself to be your friend but will asked you to be his friend and it is all up to you from then on. It is wrong for Christians to force God on others. Its ok to bring the invitation to know God but then its up to the people if they want to come. Please don't let the role players the hyocrites keep you from knowing God. They have misrepresenting him and the only way you are going to get to know him is become his friend. You would be very suprised to know that God is not 100% happy with the church right now. He does speak against them with correction that they are wrong for the things they have done in the past and present.
God is a loving father who has been misrepresented though out history. He wants to be a father to all people and he loves and accepts everyone. All you need to do is come to him just as you are.
There is a big difference in the religion of Christianity and truly being a waken to it (born again the Christian term) There are many people that grow up in the church and they are raised Christian. They are a Christian because they were raised that way but they were never truly awaken to it. There are teens who go though the actions of being a Christian because mom and dad makes them go to church. Mom and dad mean well in making them go to church but what they are really doing is driving their kids farther away from Christ.
I can remember my 12th grade Sunday school class, they acted no different then my 12th grade English class at school throwing paper air planes, chrewing gum spiting at each other just caring on in class. When the teacher walked out they talked of their wild parties the night before. They really didn't want to be there because they didn't have a true awakening, a born again experience. They would of rather go to the nearest bar and drink then to be in that class.
They didn't understand what the teacher was talking about and they didn't care to understand. They were just there because mom and dad made them be there but there heart really would rather be somewhere else.
I was truly awaken and had that born again Spirit. I was hungry to hear the Word of God and knew all the answers to the questions that the teacher asked. It seemed I was the only one anwering the questions and had all the answers while the rest of the class didn't care to be there. Infact I felt like I was a 12th grader in a kindergarten class learning kindergarten material my own age group was immature and didn't care that they were acting like kindergartners. I felt more comfortable being with older adults then my own age group. I seemed to fit in better with my parents class then my own age group. What was wrong with my Sunday school class? The kids just didn't have a real awakening. They won't born again spiritually.
It would be like being on a vampire board and a bunch of role players join the board pretending to be vampires when they are just role players, they go though the actions but they really have not had a true awakening to being a vampire. You can imagine how annoying these people can be and they can give a bad name to the ones who are real vampires.
Well the samething happens in Christianity. We have many role players, we call them hypocrites. Pretending to be something they are not.
There are a lot of people like that in Christianity. There religion is Christianity for many reasons and believe it or not they are what you would call the role players. Role players do not represent things very well. They try to pretend they are something they are not. Many people do this for many reasons. One reason is they are a teenager being made to go to church and they have to go though the actions to please mom and dad. Then there are the older ones who enjoy the attention of being high up in the church. They are very religious but only because they get the attention and the money for it. They are proud and arrogant and really do not have the heart of God, they have never been awaken or born again. They are just playing the role. Jesus talked a lot about these higher ups, he had some strong words to say about them how they drive everyone away from God by the way they act. He talked about them being a beautiful cup on the out side but dirty on the inside.
Sometimes these actors slip up and some skeltons come out of the closet. Like when you hear about the priset who molested a bunch of boys ect. There true natural sometimes come out of the closet.
When a person is truly awaken or born again they take on a new natural. There natural is to do good not to harm people. They follow the law of love. The book of I John talks about a person who is truly awaken to Christianity they had an actually born again experince to do what is right and to love everyone on planet earth. There natural is not to hurt anyone. Everything that they do for God is based on love not to harm anyone. Infact it would be very painful emotionally for a born again person to steal, lie or caused harm to anyone. It is just to painful to do harm to anyone emotionally. A religous person may not have problems emotionally to do harm to another and think they are maybe doing God's will. God's will is based on love and is never to harm anyone regardless of religion, sex and age.
The perfect story is the story of Saul, Saul grew up as a Hebrew and highly trained in the books of the old testament. He knew those books pretty well and follow Jewish law and he thought he was doing God's will by killing the Christians until one day he had an encounter with Jesus on the road to Damascus. He had a real awakening, a true born again experience and he was never the same again. He became Paul the apostle and wrote a good bit of the New Testament by writting lots of letters to the churches. The very people he hated and killed he became one of them. He had a true born again experince. He was a new person on the inside he wasn't the same man anymore.
Though out history there has been many people like Saul, who know the Bible inside and out and they are very religious but they never had that awakening experince infact they thought they were doing God's will by killing those who did not believe the way that they did.
During the burning times the church did not have a real awakening or born again experince. They were just the role players and if anyone didn't see things their way they killed them or burn them. It wasn't just pagans that got this treatment. It was also people who disagree with them. Luther was a man who disagree with them. You have to understand the corruption that was in the church at that time. They were making money off the poor by selling tickets into heaven, and selling bones of the prophets ect telling the people they were paying their way into heaven. They would not let anyone own a bible, they just would tell you what the Bible says. Luther spoke up against these hypocrites. He said if the common people could read the Bible they would know what hypocrites you really are and the false teachings you are teaching. The church leaders were angry and even whated to kill Luther for speaking the truth about them. Luther made copies of Bibles for the common people and read to them and taught them to read the Bible for themselves. He taught them that they didn't need these leaders to go to heaven that they could go straight to God for forgiveness and relationship with him. If you have never watched the movie about Luther it is worth watching it. He started the Luther church and there were many other churches that started by people breaking away from that church of that time.
There was one part of the story where he told the nuns and priest that it wasn't a sin to be married and that they could still serve God and be married. A whole bunch of nuns and priest run off and got married including Luther. And they still remain faithful to God even though they got married.
The church of that time was very angry at Luther. They try to burn his books that he printed against them. Infact the common people were so mad that the church was leading them astray that they began to burn churches. This made the religous leaders mad and they sent out soldiers to kill them. Many people died for wanting to know the truth and not follow something that was leading them astray.
Going back to Jesus time, Jesus faced the very samething. The pharisees and scribes were the religous leaders of that time. They knew the Jewish law very well but they were hyocrites. When Jesus came preaching and speaking out against them it made them very angry. Once they try testing him. They brought an adulteress to Jesus to asked him what should be done to her. According to Jewish law she must be stoned to death. Jesus operating on love and forgiveness and it was one of those questions if he said the one thing he could be in big trouble. If he spoke against the law of Moese he could be put to death and yet he believe in mercy and love. He was smart and knew the right thing to say. He told them "He who is without sin let him cast the first stone." Now if they deny that they were without sin they would be guilty of being stone themselves. No one there was with out sin to stone this woman so they all walked away, the olderest to the youngest. I often wonder where was the adulter if they find her guilty of adutery? Maybe some of the men accursing her were also with her in bed on other occasions and when Jesus wrote in the sand he could have been writting the names of the men who were with her that wanted to stone her?
Today in the church we still have our pharisees those who know the rules of Christianity but yet they are not walking the talk. I can see why so many would be turn off. And even though this happens there are ones who truly have an awakening experince with God. They do not want to do church the same way the religous people have been doing church. They want something new and fresh. Infact it would be ok with them to have church on a sandy beach out in the woods in someone's living room it really doesn't have to be the building but just the true relationship with their Heavenly father and Jesus. Infact they do not need to be with anyone to pray, to take communion, they can do all this alone with God but they do enjoy the followship of others who feel the same way. They know in their hearts they do not need a priest to pardon their sins, and be their way to God. They know they can go to God themselves for forgiveness and followship and actually get answers from God on how they should live. They have a friendship with God that the religous leaders do not have. The leaders know about God though the writtings but do not know him like a friend.
It would be like me reading about George Washington and believing that he exist but if I really knew him and lived with him I would know him not know about him. I would know what he likes, what his favorite food is ect. There are truly waken Christians who truly know there God. They talk with Jesus, they know him not just about him. They know what he is like and they may even know what his favorite color is.
God wants people to know what a real awakening is not just religion infact God's spirit speaks against the religion of Christianity and calls people into relationship with him. Who can have a relationship with him? Anyone can. All you have to do is asked him to be your friend and he will be. God is a real gentleman in that he will not force himself to be your friend but will asked you to be his friend and it is all up to you from then on. It is wrong for Christians to force God on others. Its ok to bring the invitation to know God but then its up to the people if they want to come. Please don't let the role players the hyocrites keep you from knowing God. They have misrepresenting him and the only way you are going to get to know him is become his friend. You would be very suprised to know that God is not 100% happy with the church right now. He does speak against them with correction that they are wrong for the things they have done in the past and present.
God is a loving father who has been misrepresented though out history. He wants to be a father to all people and he loves and accepts everyone. All you need to do is come to him just as you are.