I run into one thread here where certain people were talking about a religion and why that religion is false? What made me feel little uneasy was that the conversation started after a certain member here said to go meetings of a particular church.
When I was at my teen years I found myself in a middle of 3 different churches. Lutheran, where I was baptized as a child, orthodox that was church of my grandparents and one other.
at age of 17 I felt God calling me to join this 3rd church and saying that baptism is something that I have to want to have for myself not that someone did it to me when i was infant and understood nothing.
I strongly felt that the infant baptism meant nothing and this thought made all my lutheran relatives upset. My grandparents who were orthodox I never told I had baptized because I feared the shock would be too much for them to handle. (the type of people they were)
Not more than 2 years maybe from this I ran into a person from yet another church. We had a nice chat as fellow Christians now could have until the point when he learned that I don't believe in eternal torture of hell but termination of their existence in there. That made him soooo mad that he condemn me to hell unless I change my belief immediately and said that all my religion and belief is false and from satan himself.
I was sad and disappointed to this man who said to be pastor.
Years later to this I was thinking back my experiences and thinking the question about different christian religions. Each to them think they are right one, why else people would stay there (unless by social pressure) but the hostility to others kept bugging me alot.
At this point God spoke to me. What he said exactly is something I cannot translate to english word by word but meaning was something like this: "Your ignorance to religions and state of man heart is so great that it's not your to worry about these things. What is meant to be between man and God is between man and God. For you my son love them like fellow christian and follow my word".
Have you encountered something similar you wanna share or what do you think about this im right and your is false thing in general and how you have dealt with that?
When I was at my teen years I found myself in a middle of 3 different churches. Lutheran, where I was baptized as a child, orthodox that was church of my grandparents and one other.
at age of 17 I felt God calling me to join this 3rd church and saying that baptism is something that I have to want to have for myself not that someone did it to me when i was infant and understood nothing.
I strongly felt that the infant baptism meant nothing and this thought made all my lutheran relatives upset. My grandparents who were orthodox I never told I had baptized because I feared the shock would be too much for them to handle. (the type of people they were)
Not more than 2 years maybe from this I ran into a person from yet another church. We had a nice chat as fellow Christians now could have until the point when he learned that I don't believe in eternal torture of hell but termination of their existence in there. That made him soooo mad that he condemn me to hell unless I change my belief immediately and said that all my religion and belief is false and from satan himself.
I was sad and disappointed to this man who said to be pastor.
Years later to this I was thinking back my experiences and thinking the question about different christian religions. Each to them think they are right one, why else people would stay there (unless by social pressure) but the hostility to others kept bugging me alot.
At this point God spoke to me. What he said exactly is something I cannot translate to english word by word but meaning was something like this: "Your ignorance to religions and state of man heart is so great that it's not your to worry about these things. What is meant to be between man and God is between man and God. For you my son love them like fellow christian and follow my word".
Have you encountered something similar you wanna share or what do you think about this im right and your is false thing in general and how you have dealt with that?