I have been looking over answers this morning and it appears that there are people here that have "lost their way" and have strayed from JESUS CHRIST. Some of these people also say that they know that they have strayed and hope that they have the strength to come back when they get ready...I don't understand the concept of thinking that we have control over when we come back to HIM...could someone please explain this?
2006-10-17 02:58:35 · 11 answers · asked by herenthere 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Unfortunately, you have been totally co-opted by delusional superstitionism and any explanation that doesn't re-enforce your deeply held misconceptions will just go over your head anyway. Go watch some soaps.
2006-10-17 04:09:13 · answer #1 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well I guess I am one of those people cause I have left the sweet fellowship of God and Jesus. I have no control to come back when I want. Cause if I did I would have done been back, but its not that easy. Its like being lost but I know I am saved. I have lost my desire to be in church, I have lost the fellowship and the joy I once had. When the prodigal son was out in the world he went all the way to the hog's pen, and a hog was considered a unclean animal to a jew. He had no control till God showed him the way back. He was tired of his unclean living and I am sure he prayed and asked the same things I ask and thats for God to show him the way back.
2006-10-17 10:12:46 · answer #2 · answered by iwant_u2_wantme2000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't stray from a path that has no moral integrity.
You can wise up. Or learn from your mistake. But "stray" implies lost. These people are more found than anything.
They found their minds again. The minds that have been under attack since they were born.
Its like saying patients at a mental hospital are lost, if they regain their right minds and return home.
2006-10-17 10:11:12 · answer #3 · answered by Real Friend 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus Christ is the Savior, and it is only through Him that we can come to the Father, Jesus died for all people, and when they accept Him, that will be the moment that the gates of Heaven will be opened for them. However, this is an evil world that will always make it difficult for good people who have embraced the Christian faith to maintain that faith.
We as humans have weak natures and sometimes the Devil will test us to the limit trying to get our soul away from God, just like he did to Job. But Job did not curse or blame God for the terrible afflictions and losses imposed on him. Because Job did not forsake his faith, he received a reward from God, in that all that he had lost, health, wealth, and family was restored to him ten fold. Job was a good person of faith, just like you are, and he had the same human nature, but he remained strong, no matter what happened, and not all of us can endure what he had to endure without turning on God.
Most people will lose their faith or at least question God's existence under persecution and strife. God Knows that, and because He already died to pay for the sins of each of us, He is Patient and Understanding and will continue to wait until we respond to His graces that will bring us back to Him. For some it is soon, but for many it May take years. God's ways are not our ways, and His time is not our time. His Love is infinite and unconditional, even if one of those conditions is that we turned away from Him. God's plan is for the Salvation of all, and for all He has paid the price. It would not be like our loving God to forsake us for any reason, even when we have forsaken Him. So just believe that if a person never does turn back to Jesus in his lifetime, that at the hour of his death there will be an encounter and reconciliation, simply because it is God's Will to Save His people. However, that does not make it right for us to take advantage of God Patience and Love and decide on purpose to keep on sinning, knowing that afterward he will just repent and be redeemed, with the intention of repeating that process. God knows our heart and sees our most secret thoughts, and that would be very arrogant of us. But even then God would still love us.
2006-10-17 10:54:57 · answer #4 · answered by cnsrvtvbabe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have to choice to come back to Him if we back slide. That is what the fable of the prodical son is all about. Finding our way back to the Lord, when we see that we can't make it on our own.
Why is that so hard to understand?? We do have to control and choices in our lives to live the rightous life and live willingly according to the laws of God. Through repentance, we are forgiven. If that were not the case, then Jesus died on the cross for nothing. And I know that is not true.
2006-10-17 10:09:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People stray from a religion for various "personal" reasons, but I"ve noticed that there seems to be a common theme to all the excuses. Human pride. They stray because either "God let them down" or "They no longer believed for X reason". They want God to be flashy and there for them, when some who stray to different religions are now faced with the same problem though they refuse to see it. (I have yet to meet any Wiccan who has had a personal experience with the Goddess. She is as untouchable and unattainable as they claim God is). The truth is, humans hate rules and want what they want, right now. Religion has rules. Wicca really doesn't (I know plenty of Wiccans to know what I"m talking about. It's a primarily solitary religion where some, but not all, follow the "As it harm none" ideal). Atheists have no religious rules.
It is my firm belief that people chafe at the rules and that causes them to turn from their beliefs. Look at some of the answers on Y!A. If a religious person talks about being happy to follow the rules of his or her religion, he or she is riddiculed for being a blind follower. It is harder to follow a religion, rules and all, then to just throw your hands in the air and decide to find something different. Coming back to a religion is even harder because you have to admit to yourself that your falling out was wrong. And we hate thinking we're wrong in anything.
2006-10-17 10:06:36 · answer #6 · answered by sister steph 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I've noticed that.
I think maybe the idea is that when you're with him, you surrender your will completely to his purpose. When you "stray" therefore, your will is somehow more your own, or more under the control of the material world. Seems to be based on the (surely faulty?) premise that just because you get less interested in him, he is under an obligation to get less interested in you. Also of course, the idea that we have free will leads us to the idea that we decide to do or not to do something, and therefore that we decide when to do or not to do the thing, which leads us to the idea of control over our own destiny.
2006-10-17 10:09:36 · answer #7 · answered by mdfalco71 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all free will, People do what is expedient for them. It's hard to screw People over and still talk the Jesus talk, if You really believe it all; so........"I've lost my way!" is an easy out! LOL, at least they aren't being hypocrites, not that the True believers are that; oh my no!!!!
2006-10-17 10:40:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
due to free will each individual has the right and privilege to choose their own path to GOD. when they find one that works they will continue the path until they may see some belief system which seems better than the one they now have. remember the grass is always greener on the other side. when this occurs and if they become disillusioned or dissatisfied they may want to return to their original belief system.
2006-10-17 10:29:40 · answer #9 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We do control when we submit to himin this life. That is part of love (the decision to yield or not to yield to him). That does not contradict him reaching out to us when we ask for help from him.
2006-10-17 10:40:23 · answer #10 · answered by jefferyspringer57@sbcglobal.net 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋