"Faith is a Journey, not a Guilt trip" do you believe this is true?

Question

I saw this quote, and for me it really sums up my struggle with accepting Christ. I was a Pagan and I completely rejected Christianity. Pushy Christians forced religion at me, and I closed my eyes to it all.But once I read the Bible for myself, I opened my heart to the message I accepted Christ and realised that it was not about a guilt trip, God truly does Love us, and I felt whole.♥

For you has faith been a journey?

Answer 1

Absolutely.

Every time I let go and let God, I see prayers answered and I notice improvement in my relationship with God.

Faith is a bit like a muscle, the more you exercise it, the stronger it becomes.

Salvation is not a do-it-yourself project. Only by exercising faith that God will make all things right can a Christian truly come to trust God.

Bad things can still happen to good people in this world because sin is all around us, but God will one day eliminate that and we must trust HIm to do so.

Expect to be tested. Satan hates it when someone he had in his grips turns to God. But you have make a good choice.

Answer 2

I tried to find Christ once and I even joined a Christian community. Spent some 8 months with them and from then on I have a strong dislike for any religion. I also study history and your quotation struck me as very true - it used to be like that in the past - the Church kept people in fear of God and profited on in. But what did the original Christianity looked like no-one really knows - the Bible has been edited too many times and people used to think in a completely different way 2 000 years ago. I guess it was just a sect promoting submissiveness for they were unable to stand up for themselves.

Answer 3

i'm a 15 3 hundred and sixty 5 days previous lady, that has been scuffling with faith for a protracted time, yet now, after analyzing the Bible in greater component,sure, I do have self assurance Adam and Eve existed. i comprehend that evolution ought to have occured to a undeniable degree to for human beings of different races (actual ameliorations which incorporate pores and skin pigments) yet which may be by way of version, different than Evolution. yet another situation many human beings question is the subject that folk say the Bible grow to be written over 4000 years, making the Earth 6000 years previous now. however the Hebrew translation of 'day' is loosely a volume of time, so i've got self assurance that once Genesis says that particular issues have been created on each and each 'day' an afternoon ought to in fact be hundreds of years, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that it would look like a 'day' (The becoming and the putting of the solar is how each and daily is accounted for in Genesis, yet whilst God is each whee the solar might not at all set on him)

Answer 4

It should be. The condemnation of mankind and God being love do not reconcile for me. I have always felt that it is very unjust to convict anyone of something for which he is not responsible; but the bible seems to do just that. That is why Nietzsche spoke out against Christianity because it was crippling people emotionally. And that is why I am not a Christian.

Answer 5

I am a Muslim for me yes it is a journey that come this world humanbeing, Quran, universe, events within this world are letters written to us They describe God to us. And if one knows Him 100 % loves Him. So I THINK PROBLEMATIC PART IS SOME PEOPLE AND SOME PRINCIBLES IN SOME FAITHS DO NOT DESCRIBE GOD CORRECTLY From those introductions sometimes it become queit difficult to understand that He loves us. Thank to Him, I am not good server but I know He loves us much All he best :)

Answer 6

I don't think faith is a journey, if you have already arrived at the fact that you believe in your faith, then you don't have anywhere else to go with that. The true journey is the thirst for knowledge, we can not know everything, so it is a constant journey.

Answer 7

faith is indeed a journey and not a guilt trip.... it is not a medicine pill to wash away your illness all at once. it must lie deep within you, accepted wholeheartedly and loved... it doesn't need to stop to any obstacles, and if someone needs a ride, faith is there to help them thru, to lead them away from temptations and it leaves to that someone (the hitchhiker), to come along for the ride without any doubt and of his own freewill...

Answer 8

Like you said, Faith is a Journey, not a Guilt trip. After all God did die for our sins. YOU GO GIRL!!!!!!!

Answer 9

life is a journey with heaven as the prize for those who except that JESUS died for our sin's & that he is the son of GOD many stumbling blocks will get in our way .only when we fall down & wallow in our self pity will we lose so we must rise up each time & carry on the good race[GOD bless you & all]
happy day
old geezer======ps keep the FAITH no matter what

Answer 10

No...God does have His favorites.

I waited for a woman for the first thirty years of my life, and He provided an angry, abusive, abrasive wife for me. I waited to fully express my abilities, and God sent liars to pound me, to make sure that I would be so discredited that no one could possibly trust anything that I say.

I had faith in God, and His will is for me to experience betrayal, pain and abuse...whether sexual, physical or emotional, God is soverign and rules the world...

He loves those whom He loves and destroys those whom He wants...I simply wish that I was good enough for God. Maybe He'd leave me alone...