Why is it such a "sinful" thing to have found your own walk with God without religion?

Question

Fish, I that's just downright silly. God created the water, does it have to go to church too? God created the birds and the deer, should I bring them too?

Besides, fellowshipping with a buch of pretentious people who view the gathering as a fashion show and gossip festival is not ideal of worship to me. I'll pass.

KVC...YOU did to me in several posts. Have a nice day.

Answer 1

To understand God
I must observe , experience, and learn God's do's and don'ts.

NOT( just one "religion"s) PEOPLE"S!

I am walking my walk accordingly.

Answer 2

Jesus Died for everyone that Believes in him not the church. The church was created after his death on the cross. You can worship God your own way and have a Relationship with the Lord without Church. However, a Church is a place to fellowship and meet and greet others that has your own beliefs and you can make friends. I am talking about the people of the church that makes a church not the Church building.
Plus, those that don't think you can have a relationship with God without going to church or a religion that is all about control. It's not about the Love of Christ.

Answer 3

Because each man would be doing what is right in his own eyes. (Deut 12:8) This leads away from unity and creates division. Division is one of the "works of the flesh" in Galatians 5:19-21.

Instead, we should strive for unity (Eph. 4:1-6). Paul begged, "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment." (1 Cor. 1:10)

When we each follow our own way, we exalt our way above God's way. Those in Acts 17:11 were called noble because "received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so."

The Scriptures are useful for our doctrine, reproof, correction and instruction. When used this way, we will be completely furnished for every good work (2 Tim. 3:16-17).

We should look to follow God's word instead of our own desires. We should have a "thus saith the Lord" for everything we believe and practice.

Following ourselves is not a safe standard. "There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death." (Proverbs 16:25)

Answer 4

First and foremost, I think it is because people defend THEIR beliefs and THEIR decisions more so than the actual belief itself.
For you to openly question that belief system actually undermines that person as a whole. So they switch from promotion of selflessness and good to a defense of soley themselves and their beliefs. Which is most easily done by discrediting and all too often insulting you.

Equally important, look at the scriptures in the above answers.

"Believe in this or else suffer."
How is that good?

Say the holiest man on Earth dies and at the gates he is asked who do you claim as your lord, and he says budda when scriptures (hmm around here) say you should answer Jesus.

Would the holiest man on earth really suffer over a name?

That seems evil and self centered to me. I dont want a god who cares more about receiving credit than about having created the holiest man on earth.

i believe religion has mutated from bringing people together by spreading faith in yourself, in your path in life, and good heartedness towards all others to seperating people with fear tactics (hmm like governments) and population behavior control.

I recently attended a "harvest festival" which promotes Christianity. I found it to be an amazing scene. Angel Stadium was at full capacity with section 1 chanting a pro-christian lil ditty to section 5. Section 5 would then try to answer back louder than section 1. People were jumping up and down, clapping, and simply loving thy neighbor.

It was an awesome scene yet all I could think was "How amazing would this be if the gathering was called to celebrate all people and religions and we had all types of people coming together like this?"

it would go something like this....

"I dont care what you believe in, it works for you. I found what works for me. Lets celebrate the fact that we all have found love and lets do it together".

Now, that would be religion by mulitplication instead of this religion by division.

That is what is sinful about your path. you are not allowing yourself to be divided and closed minded like all those stone throwers. :)

Thank You for an outstanding question!

Answer 5

If you haven't already read it, Micheele, you might like the book "Mister God, This is Anna". It's a brilliant and different way to look at God. I think you'd appreciate it. Whether you read it as fact or fiction, it's definitely thought-provoking stuff.

I say this 'cos your question reminded me of this part of the book:

'...After the evening meal was finished and all the bits and pieces put away, Anna and I would settle down to some activity, generally of her choosing. Fairy stories were dismissed as mere pretend stories; living was real and living was interesting, and by and large, fun. Reading the Bible wasn't a great success. She tended to regard it as a primer, strictly for the infants... Religion was for doing things, not for reading about doing things. Once you had got the message there wasn't much point in going over and over the same old ground. Our local parson was taken aback when he asked her about God. The conversation went as follows:

"Do you believe in God?"
"Yes."
"Do you know what God is?"
"Yes."
"What is God then?"
"He's God!"
"Do you go to church?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because I know it all!"
"What do you know?"
"I know to love Mister God and to love people and cats and dogs and spiders and flowers and trees" -- and the catalog went on -- "with all of me." Anna had bypassed all the nonessentials and distilled centuries of learning into one sentence: "And God said love me, love them, and love it, and don't forget to love yourself." '

Answer 6

Look at it this way;

Whether you are a child in a household a citizen of the land a spouse in a marriage. There are dos and don't for keeping the relationship moving forward and growing.

To follow God you must understand God's do's and dont's

You can not just make up the rules and expect God to follow you.

Try that in a relationship and see how long you both last together.

Answer 7

There is nothing wrong or "sinful" about having found a sense of morality and love without being overly "religious."

There are Christians - specifically those "charismatic" and "born again" ones that just can't let people be. It's like, if you aren't raising your arms in the air and weeping, somehow you're just not as genuine about your spirituality.

It's both silly and sad.

Answer 8

I the two agree and disagree along with your 'statements' interior the 'clarification' of your question. confident, the Catholic church did do many 'evil issues' yet that would not propose that all and sundry Catholics accept as true with them, or could do comparable if given the prospect. I even have many pals who're atheist/agnostic, and that i understand them to be 'stable, ethical human beings' as my husband and that i are. The 'certainty' which you're 'lacking' right here, nonetheless, is that 'faith' is so previous that it is 'dated back' to the very beginnings of primitive society, and it is 'from those religions' (lots of that are no longer from now on 'practiced' or 'believed in') that our 'ethical code' comes ... in case you're able to easily 'reword' your 'sentence' 'with out faith there could be no morality,' to something extra 'precise' ... the 1st ethical codes got here with the early boost of non secular theory in primitive circumstances, yet in this 'technological international' the 'ethical code' exceeds the 'strictly non secular' teachings of the church homes on the instant,' then you definately can see how i can 'agree' and 'disagree' along with your total 'theory' ... that relgion is 'undesirable' and would desire to no longer make 'morals' ... faith can't be 'undesirable' nor 'stable' ... and it is merely the 'individual individual' who can decide for no rely if to 'stick to that faith's ethical code or take his morals from general society, or devise his very own ethical code. And via the way, calling something a 'ethical code' would not INFER that it is 'stable' ... the 'ethical code' that grew to become into practiced via the eco-friendly River Killer, or the Oklahoma Bomber, or the folk who ran the planes into the international commerce center did no longer stick to any 'church/synagogue/mosque ethical code' yet had an extremely 'evil' one ... so 'ethical' would not continually imply 'stable.' think of approximately that, then take a 'stable seem' at your 'clarification' lower back.

Answer 9

What religion has to do with it?
Religion is like a social club; it has it's place in society but that may be all.
But if you have truly found your own walk with god, unless you are very selfish, wouldn't you want to share it with your friends?
If you do, then you would have created another New Religion...Yes?

Answer 10

Sin is anything which "goes against god." Since god does not exist, this really means that sin is anything which "goes against a particular religion."

If you don't join a religion and go to a church, you can't be counted on the rolls, manipulated, and you can't give them your hard-earned cash. So yes, to any church you're not a part of, you're a sinner too... /sigh

Answer 11

Just make sure you have found your own walk with God to include a relationship if not the religion.