You might want to check out some of my answers.I have been telling people to follow Jesus' teaching about love peace and understanding.But that being christian and worshipping him aren't important.Just being a good person is what matters.What if I'm wrong?Maybe I'm the anti-christ?I just thought of something from the bible about the whore of babylon and the people who eat the food she offers or something like that.Maybe I'm the whore.I have been so sure for so long that the things I feel and have been saying are right.Now I'm scared.What if I have been wrong.I have been trying to help people and what if there is a hell.I don't think there is, but what if you are supposed to accept Jesus as your saviour and worship him, and I have led people to think otherwise,and they suffer because of this.I don't know what to do. I really am scared.I hate people suffering,I hate how the world is because of religous differences.This is part of why I thought I have been right.I felt this in my heart.
2007-02-05 06:25:47 · 6 answers · asked by Rosalind S 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The primary teaching of Jesus of Nazareth was for all of us to love one another as we would love ourselves. In other words, we wish to do unto others as we would wish to have done unto ourselves; and also, we would not want to do to another what we would not want to have done to ourselves. His teachings were very simple, but unfortunately, they have become distorted over the years by fundamentalists who wish to propagate their own agenda of hatred and intolerance. If you follow the Ten Commandments that were put forth by Moses, and if you follow the basic teachings of Jesus, it does not matter whether you worship Jesus or not. In fact, Jesus often said that it was not he who should be worshiped, rather, it is the Father in Heaven whom Jesus worshiped. Be lighter on yourself and do not fear. You obviously love the teachings of Jesus so do not let anyone instill guilt feelings within you simply because you do not believe nor practice your faith exactly as they do. Jesus loves you as you are and as you are not!! It's called unconditional love and that is what Jesus taught.
2007-02-05 07:17:37 · answer #1 · answered by ? 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a hell. There is more to Christianity than being a good person. If that was enough then Jesus Christ would not have needed to die on the cross for our sins. In fact everyone is a sinner. Noone is good enough for heaven. We'd all need to go to hell, if it wasn't for the blood of Jesus Christ. You cannot blot out your sins by trying to cover them up with good works. I believe that God will not be unfair to those who tried to live a good life, but rejected his redemptive work on the cross. But I wouldn't risk to meet God on judgement day and try to stand before him on account of my own more or less good works, and I wouldn't recommend this to anybody else. In trying to tell people that just being good is enough you have been what the Bible calls a blind leader of the blind and should repent about it.
Hebrews 9:22, Â "And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission."
Matthew 26:39, "And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt."
If there would have been another way, he wouldn't have died.
2007-02-05 17:09:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus says that when you accept him all Old things pass away and all things become new. When you ask him to forgive you of your sins, and repent, by stopping the things you are doing you become forgiven, Covered by the blood of Jesus. Our Lord says that when you do this he throws your old sins as far as the west is from east never to look on them any more. What you done before you chose to live for the Lord can be forgiven sister.
Paul who wrote most of the New Testament killed Christians before he walked with Jesus. But he stopped doing it and ask forgiveness and he was forgiven. And so shall you be. Read the Gospel's Matthew Mark Luke and John, Sister your answers lay in the Bible. Ask and you shall be forgiven. Repent stop doing it and God himself will make our wrongs right..
2007-02-05 15:22:50 · answer #3 · answered by Tim and Karen J 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You need a serious talk with God, not Y/As.
2007-02-05 15:05:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no you haven't messed up if you're doing right then God must be happy with you.
2007-02-05 15:06:24 · answer #5 · answered by sasha 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are wrong... no one can ever be "good enough" by their own effort...
2007-02-05 15:04:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋