Do you think if Christians behaved as Jesus calls us to, would the world still be so bitter against us?

Answer 1

If you truly want to know why good loving people sometimes get angry with Christians you actually need to listen to what they are saying. You need to try to understand how what many that see themselves as Christians are doing is making them feel.

It hurts your feelings when someone pokes fun or makes disparaging comments about what you believe in. You know it does. People’s beliefs are precious to them, just as yours are precious to you. Simply thinking or saying but my beliefs are right and theirs are wrong does not help. In fact it is always seen as arrogant and often comes off making the one saying it sound like a fool.

People believe in what makes sense to them from their perspective, even if it makes no sense logically when it is looked at from any other perspective. Look around you at the great diversity the creator has given us to experience in this life. See the colorful and ever changing panorama that we have here to experience within. If this shows us any one thing about our creator, it makes it apparent that He/She loves this idea of diversity. If you look at any aspect of life, trees, birds, languages, or even sunsets you see an almost dizzying array of possibilities. This life we have been given by our Father/Mother God is a veritable feast of diversity from which we may chose what pleases us.

Such is the gift this life we have been given. Why is it so hard to imagine that our creator’s obvious love for diversity would not extend to the way his children expressed their love for him? If it seemed appropriate to have thousands of types of insects, birds, trees and sunsets etc. how likely is it that She would have suddenly become so narrow minded when it came to ways to express ones faith. Think about it. Just for a moment forget what you have been told over and over about their being only one correct way to approach God. Would this God who so obviously thrives on diversity even want that? When viewed from this perspective it makes one wonder about the source of the my-way or the highway idea of god. Sounds a lot more like ego bound narrow-minded human control issues than the work of our God who seems to have made diversity his trademark.

There is only one God; He/She has had many names. After all should we expect people who speak different languages to all call God by the same name? This would hardly seem to be a logical expectation. Jesus told us to love our neighbor, not to judge our neighbor or try to fix our neighbor, Only to love them. We are hardly being loving when we are insulting the way they express their love for our creator by telling them we have a better way. This can only make us seen like an arrogant know it all. The obvious consequence being our comments will hurt their feelings and they will say or do something to return the insult.

If we want our faith to grow we need to stop going around singing “MY Gods better than your God “. We need to shut up about their beliefs and start teaching by example. If we have learned anything about loving our neighbors like Jesus asked us to, it will show. People will be drawn to this loving belief system and want to know more about it. This is what being a Christian means. Anything else is just being an arrogant know it all.

Love and blessings
don

Answer 2

By the very fact that Jesus Himself was persecuted Christians should also expect it.

Of course Jesus was faultless Christians on the other hand deserve some of the "persecution" the way they behave.

Answer 3

JEsus said that if you want to be perfect, you must sell all you have and give the money to the poor. He said not to pray in public, but in private (keep your religion to yourself). He said that one must keep ALL the commands of Moses, and that breaking even the least of them, and teaching others to do so, was a sin. For you to behave as Jesus tells you to is out of the question, because you don't want to be bothered.

Answer 4

yes i think so because you are always going to have the people who totally disagree with what you believe. and even if all Christians acted God-like there would be some people who would be disturbed by that just as people were to Jesus in the bible... even though God was perfect people still hated him and were bitter.

Answer 5

Yes, the world would still be that way towards Christianity. It has always rebelled against that which it doesn't understand or doesn't conform to or attempts to change it's way of thinking. Remember, the Jews (with the Romans' help) put Christ to death for blasphemy (among other things) in that he was claiming to be the Messiah that they were foretold of hundreds of years prior. It's amazing when you look at it that way; they were told of a man born of the House and lineage of David that would come to save them and when Jesus came along and started preaching salvation that was different from their sacrificial sacraments and placing Himself in a perceived role as Savior, saying His truth would enable them to be free, they called Him blasphemer, unlawful (for healing on the Sabbath) and etc. They murdered Him for being who HE SAID HE WAS! But we can't fault the Jews for they were destined to be in that role because Jesus couldn't commit suicide and still be qualified to be a pure sacrifice. He wasn't born under the sin-curse of man but had he killed Himself, it would've constituted sin in the fleshly aspect of His nature, therefore nullifying everything he ever taught. The Jews were looking for a Savior who would deliver them from Rome, not a Savior from their sins. They felt like their sacraments were enough, not understanding that He came not to destroy the Law, but to become it, superceding it, so that man could come to Him individually for their salvation. The world will always be against this and all basic tenets of Christianity because they feel like they're being stripped of their freedom, being forced to change their system of belief, and etc.

Answer 6

Most definately the world will always fight the church, because the Word states that 'if you were of the world, the world would love it's own.' We are to 'come out of the world, least you be decieved.' We fight, Eph. chap 6, states... the 'world,' the flesh, and the devil.

Answer 7

Yes, Jesus said that the world will hate us, bc we convict them by showing them the standard God holds us to, perfection. ppl don't like being told they're wrong or that they sin, it's the way it is.

Answer 8

Yes, because of original sin.
...And I will put enmity between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed.He shall bruise your head,
And you shall bruise His heel.
The serpent metaphorically being the "world"
Seed (capitalized) being Christ who is in Christians
That is what I believe

Answer 9

They could hardly fault us, for doing what's best...
It's a big COULD, because hardly anyone does things correctly.