First of all im Christian, but now a days the faith of Christians has lessened greatly, there are soo few who are willing to fight for what they believe in, not because they are Christian but because they have to many comforts at leats here in america, Occupation(work) keeps us busy 40 hrs a week and Entertainment takes the rest leaving God on the back burner, and thats why to regard in wich the bible was held has lessened, from a Holy Book to almost a book of fairy tales, turn to God
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2006-09-29 17:45:40 · 29 answers · asked by king_of_crusade 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
What would you have your brothers and sisters do?
2006-09-29 17:48:54 · answer #1 · answered by Pablito 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Christians are weak because they don't incorporate their spirtuality into all parts of their daily lives. They prioritize God out. A lot of this is due to instatutions that quite frankly provide a lot of judgement and not much spiritual fullfillment. About the whole Bible, people have demoted it to a fairy tales book becuase it is. If you take the whole bible literally you can't believe in things like organic chemistry (disproves that whole creation in 7 days) and science or logic. The Bible is also a political creation (the whole king james thing), but all this doesn't mean its without merit.
2006-09-30 01:08:28 · answer #2 · answered by mountnrebl 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If God is on a back burner then it is because you put him there. He gave us 24 hours in a day and you cannot take one hour out to worship Him or spend time with Him?
Get up a half hour earlier for work and pray or read from His word. If you have time to watch a football game or play a video game then you have time to spend with God.
Heck, the time it took you to write this question could have been spent in prayer, My Friend. You could say a prayer before going to bed and one when you wake up. You choose to put God on the back burner. You had better pray that He doesn't decide to do the same to you on Judgement Day, or put you on some other kind of burner because you chose to watch SpongeBob instead of praying or reading from the Bible
2006-09-30 01:02:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am a Christian also, but I must agree that in some ways the Bible is a fairy tale book. If you want to spend time as a Christian, and learning the truth, find out how the Bible was created. Find out how many people had a hand in deciding what they wanted to include, based on what kind of picture they wanted to paint.
The current Bible we have is certainly a useful tool; maybe even the most useful tool we have, but a "holy book?" I don't think so. My research shows many flaws in our current bible versions. Keep in mind that nowhere in the Bible do you even find God or Jesus authorizing that book to be written and approving of its contents. Men wrote, decided what would be in it, and scared everyone into thinking it was the word of God and perfect.
I've been doing a lot of obsveration and research on this for over ten years, and my research leads me to believe that the Bible actually causes as many people to be the kind of Christian that you are talking about as it causes good ones. The Bible orders death for certain individuals (witches for one, but this is a mistranslation, no one bothers to dig deeper to see what the words actually meant, and they don't mean "witch."
People think the Korean speaks hatefully, and I agree, it does. But the Bible is not much better. Stick to, and teach the words in red and everything will come out fine.
2006-09-30 00:59:09 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
In Mathew 4:1-4, there is this exchange between Satan and Jesus:
1 ¶ "Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil.
2 After fasting for forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.
3 The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread."
4 Jesus answered, "It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, BUT ON EVERY WORD THAT COMES FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD."
In that passage Jesus is hungry after fasting for 40 days and satan comes to him and says, "if you are the Son of God turn these stones into bread". Bread represents physical food. Jesus said that man doesn't live by PHYSICAL FOOD ALONE. He does live by physical food but there is another kind of food the christian needs....namely, spiritual food. What is spiritual food?....... EVERY WORD THAT COMES FROM THE MOUTH OF GOD.
What's that. The bible! Just the way a person will schrivel up and die physically if they don't take in physical food, a christian will schrivel up spiritually if they don't take in the word daily. That's why so many christians are so weak. They have a number of bibles and the bibles just sit on the bookshelf and collect dust. You say, "are you saying I'll get strength in my life just by reading a book"? It's not just a book. It's the word of God.
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2006-09-30 01:03:10 · answer #5 · answered by upsman 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Christianity is a God centered religion. It sees God as the focus of
meaning in human life and history as the unfolding of God's plan. They put belief in a physical god over belief in what really matters like peace, love, compassion, forgiveness. God can be defined negatively by refuting false ideas about it. God is a supreme reality who is boundless in compassion and immeasurable in wisdom and who is involved in the endless activity to enlighten all existence. Christians believe god punishes and can damn individuals for all eternity, pressuring its followers to constantly please their god and forget whats really important. It can also lead to extreme guilt That gets old pretty quick, I know I was a christian for a long time.
2006-09-30 01:04:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why r u saying that? Christians fight for what they believe in but without blowing up people and killing the innocent. We don't have to pray in Churches we could pray at home. Jesus said that when you praid don't go over the roof tops and show everyone that u r praying (or fasting or giving money to the poor).
Christians are not weak but peaceful. Jesus taught us to turn the other cheak remember?
Anyway we don't have to prove anything to anyone, God will judge every person based upon his believes.
2006-09-30 01:14:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The time will come when our metal is tested as in days of old (see Fox's book of the maryrs" a good read from a good man) and we will hafe to prove if we are for reall or not tell then this is a good time for people to start beleving very slowly. God is so kind to us.
Stand firm brother/sister and God bless
2006-09-30 00:52:21 · answer #8 · answered by esoreinna 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I don't think I am weak because sometimes it take a whole lot of strength to keep my mouth shut. The meek shall inherit the earth and although I am not very good at being meek, I keep trying. amen
2006-09-30 00:55:59 · answer #9 · answered by Godb4me 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This is because the Day of judgement is nearing. Also, science is making the possibility of there being a God less and less. Of course, I belive in God. Just keep your faitrh, and Allah will accept you into heaven.
2006-09-30 00:50:03 · answer #10 · answered by baselthe2nd 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
One thing that might make them stronger would be to learn how to write complete English sentences in which 90% or more of the words are actually spelled correctly.
2006-09-30 00:48:59 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋