Reply #17: I'm a Christian and a lot of that isn't true [View All]

[FreedomAngel82]

We do have conversations about all types of things. I've gotten into discussions at my church with my age group about all types of things that's going on in the world and talking about a lesson from the Bible. We're encouraged to think and be out in the world and all that. Now I think there are probably some groups who are like this. Yesterday at my church the sermon was on personal responsibility. It was about not blaming someone else for what you do and he used the example of Adam and Eve and how Adam blamed Eve for what he did and my preacher talked about how we're the one's who are in control of what we do. Not anybody else. Sure, Satan and the negative one's can tempt you but in the end it's up to you. That's why, for example, if you know you have a problem with drinking and alcohol to try to stay away from a situation that can put you in that place or around it or have a friend to help you with the problem. If you do drink and go down that path you have nobody to blame but yourself. And how do you know it was Satan and not just you? For example there's this girl I know who is a vegeterain and she doesn't eat a lot of meat and things like that. My mother was saying how she was being tempted to do so and she was blaming Satan. I thought that was ridiculous because it's your body's reaction to not having something. Those who blame Satan are looking for a cop-out of personal responsibility and that's not what it's about. When the time comes to meet God it's me that's going to be judged and what I do and my actions. If I blame Satan on something it's still my fault.
We are never discouraged from being wordly but quite the opposite. We want to be apart of the world just not consumed with worldy pleasures. What we want to do is be a friend to the world but put our posessions up in Heaven (what matters to us). We are encouraged to fellowship and be with other Christians and have other Christian friends because they are like us and they help to re-energize you and to give you strength as friends. They understand what we go through and can help us get through something that is a trial to us (like with drinking again). I am not any better than someone else who is religious. I'm my own person and just here doing the best I can to get through life and the stages of life. My religious beliefs help me get through the rough parts because I know that this isn't what all my life is about. So everything in your post NAO is totally BS. My preacher has never talked about agony or hell. He talks about lessons that can be applied to our lives daily and used here on Earth. Any preacher who preaches soley on Hell, in my opinion, doesn't really care about the message of Jesus Christ and what he was about. We don't have sad singing in our church. They're all gospel hymns and more updated hymns as well. I love a lot of the songs we sing. This person has not ever heard every sermon in the world. He/She should come to my church.