Very true, true indeed.
Although most will post what they post because it's 100% true to them
Amen lol
Otherwise we wouldn't post it. I just feel that who am i to judge when i feel what i believe to be true and so does someone else especially if we agree on the core concepts. You know like the trinity, Jesus as savior, only way to salvation, etc.
I feel like why try too hard to prove something on subjects that dont really matter. I mean some people will debate over how many gallons of water we need for a baptism.
It just gets old after awhile. God if only I had better self control and post my beliefs and move on. Knowing whoever opposes has their belief set in stone. It becomes one of those pointless arguments that Paul warns us not to get into.
Paul had to deal with religious teachings and rituals seeping back in from the law and false teachers.
We have to deal with both of that in a different cultural way but now we also have 2000 years of ways for man to corrupt truth.
All i can say is the best defense against this is read the bible first and then filter everything man has to say through it.
I grew up methodist and in my teens after struggling with anxiety and panic attacks i was led to a therapist. It was not a spiritual therapist but this man helped a lot.
I spent months going to him but the biggest thing he did to change my life was give me a small little book. And the concept of this book has forever shaped my life.
At this point in my life i had never read the whole bible but only knew the popular stories in small detail. This book gave me the understanding of how to see truth and protect myself from lies.
My therapist gave me a book called
The Voice of Knowledge.
The author was a Christian but also had some very spiritual ideas about his faith, as to the reason why my therapist told me to focus on the concept of the book.
And so i read the book and was enlightened that i needed to question everything i knew. Everything! Do you know how unraveling and scary that is?
To question everything my parents had told me, everything i believed, everything anyone ever told me.
Once i accepted in my mind to do that and made it a habit to every thought question its truth. Was it logical, reasonable, loving and good.
But the only way we can truly do that is I had to know what to judge my thoughts with.
I began to read the bible cover to cover within a year and a half and all my old thoughts i held them as guilty until proven innocent.
I was amazed at how much awesome detail i missed from only hearing the major stories of the bible.
I took Jesus's teaching on building the right foundation to heart. I was not only doing that but completely now demolished everything i ever had known.
So now the Bible became my filter to sort through lies and truth. I found thoughts from my youth to be lies but also found thoughts to be wise.
This helped with my anxiety to see the lies that evil was attacking me with and now i had the sword of truth to fight back.
That journey led to many different Churches trying to see where my new belief fitted in the most. Ironically i was led back to my old church. I felt as if the other churchs watered down scripture too much. The new pastor that came into our church i hadnt even heard him speak yet.
Once i came back this man was teaching not just preaching. I mean our morning pamplets is filled with like 4 pages of information in a sermon. I loved it.
But now my journey wasn't over i still had to question this mans beliefs.
And so far we have been meeting for almost 2 years. I made a friend, he is very direct and his military career shows but i like his directness because too many people wont say how things are.
In fact when i first met him, the truth he told me, my flesh didnt want to hear it and i stayed mad at him for awhile lol. Until i decided to meet with him weekly realizing i wanted a faith like this mans faith.