Christian Hypocrites....?

Question

We all know that Christians claim to be different....

So what do they DO that separates them, besides just "attending church", and talking about God?
And what DON'T they do that makes them just like everyone else?
And what SHOULD they do that would show you that they are sincere about their beliefs?

NOTE: I am a very strong believer in Christ and God, and am only looking for a way to show the world that I am different. I acknowledge that there are different Christians, but notice that much of them are no different, even though they claim to be.

So tell me your thoughts.....

I AM NOT TRYING TO SAY THAT I AM PERFECT! I'M SAYING THAT I'M VERY, VERY FAR FROM PERFECT, AND AM NO DIFFERENT FROM ANYONE ELSE IN THIS WAY. PLEASE UNDERSTAND THIS...

Answer 1

well, 1st I am a christian and I think i understand your question
I do want to make this clear theirs hyocrytes everywhere Not just in Christians!

As far as a Christian to show the world they are different, is By your actions and your words Stay sincere .
Share Love & Peace & the message of JESUS to everyone & everywhere you go.
We are to be CHRIST-LIKE, however We are not going to change over night, No one changes their habits & all their thinking in one night ect.

Honestly gossip and slanndering and hatred seperates the churches then the hypocrytes follow .
PRAY
PRAY PRAY
and Dont let those who are blinded of Christ offend you.
What YOu do is Your buisness with GOD!
Only YOU can answer for Yourself
and Good works doesnt get us to Heaven
His salvation and exception of His Love and HE as Lord and Savior of Our lives and forgivness and we are to forgive all & includes ourselves too from all our offenses and anything that isnt pleasing to GOD!
BE pleasing to GOD
is most inportant
not judging others or putting others down because you have disagreements and faith isnt the same at this time, their relationship with Christ or GOD or any god they have and Your relationship with GOD is different and is between you & GOD, or them and God or whom they have faith in,
Note christians mature differently and at different paces as well,
some are just new babes in Christ and going to take time to understand . others are above and beyound sort of speak and can scare people away by telling them they will got to HELL if you dont ect
Which i dont think telling people they are going to hell is going to help or solve anything.

pray and share Gods love and forgive, and know everyone matures and interpits things different than another, we should respect and just love unconditionally just as our Heavenly Father does
God bless ya


becoming christian doesnt mean we are perfect, we mess up, we argue, we have disagreements, we make mistakes, ect
We have stressful lives too,
WE are human beings too,
what do you have to show to others, nothing, what you need to show is to GOD< God is whom we are to please
We cant please EVERYONE< wow I have tried to please everyone all my life and thats created more stress ,

Answer 2

Having a list of do's and don'ts is not what Christianity is about. It's about a relationship with God, which from what you say about yourself, you already have. We show who we are by living the beliefs we have. It's more then just saying we are different. Attending church and talking about God doesn't make us Christian. As a Christian we don't have to show the world that we are different, the world will be able to tell we are different by how we live, the love of God that we show to our neighbors regardless of what they may believe. Jesus didn't check on what people believed before He ministered to them. He preached God's Love to people, He taught God's Love to people, He ministered God's Love to people, and we are told to do this also. I could get on a stage and yell and scream at people that if they don't come to God they are going to hell. How is that showing God's Love? I'm not saying that the message of hell isn't important, but Jesus' message was to show love first.

Answer 3

You know what upsets me? When I hear this kind of question. You all need to come to an understanding that when you call someone on this forum a Christian hypocrite, you honestly have no idea what you're saying, and I hear it a lot. Christians are in this world but are not of this world. What that means is that we have and express the same emotions as anyone else, just not to same extent. We get angry, we snap at others, we make mistakes. But we try and come short of sinning. Everyone seems to think that a Christian should never call it like it is. Christians are also human, and if you're living your life based on what you ASSUME about other Christians then there's not as much to you as you may think. We should live by the word to the best of our abilities, period.

Answer 4

If a Christian is a true Christian they try to be honorable in everything they do. Most people today don't even know what the word honor means. Christians should hold fairly traditional values and try to live as God intended. A person who goes to church but does not know humility or consideration, lives in sin, lies, commits adultery, etc. does not have a personal relationship with God. Having that personal relationship means that you KNOW he is always there acting as your conscience, so it's harder to be bad. Through God you can really take inventory of yourself and be honest (because you can't fool God--he knows!!) and strive to be better.

Answer 5

If and when you accept Jesus the Christ as your personal Lord and Savior, you are to open yourself to take on the persona of Jesus.
Stop here and look up the word 'persona'.
When you take on the persona of Jesus, the world WILL know that you are a believer.
There is nothing you should WANT to do to prove to anyone of the world that you are who you are.
You won't have to prove yourself to your fellow Christians or to believers of other faiths.
Christian and believers of other faiths will know you.

Answer 6

Unfortunately what currently separates them (in general) is the fact that they stand in judgment, usually harsh judgment, of others that "sin".
What SHOULD separate them is love. They SHOULD have the desire to "love others as themselves" and they should practice that always.
That is what most of them DON'T do.
What they SHOULD do is be quick to love and accept, and be slow to judge harshly.
If Christians could do that, and accept others beliefs without trying to shove their own beliefs on everyone else, they could be true Christians.
Personally, I have met very few Christians. Most of the ones that claim the name actually shame the name of Christ and I can imagine His sorrow at what they do in His name, but also I can feel His love for them.
All is not lost.

Answer 7

Different, not different, the same; does it really matter? What matters is how you treat other people and yourself and all of the things around you. And probably the most challenging and important of all, is not to be self centered, or proud, but to put others ahead of yourself. Think of the last time you truly sacrificed yourself for someone, not just so you could put another trophy in the cabinet and polish it up, and show it off to friends, but because they needed YOU.

Answer 8

my thoughts as a muslim some one on the outside looking in is this: according to the quran there is such a thing as mumins. this means in arabic the good doers among the christians and jews. this is few in between. i see the bloodiest wars in history were fought by the hands of the christians. i think that there are hipocraites with in every religion. it is the people who take the name of a religion that are the hipocraites. i personally used to be a christian and reading the bible i find to many contradictions. so for me i would see christians as being contradictorial as well as hipcoraites. i can supply many reasons why. as for example. christians say that muslims are terrorists and that we ALL are evil. in a time of war when a muslim defend's themselves from the christian invaders we are labeled as terrorists. isn't this hipocraitical? the palestinian conflict. muslims are called terrorists for fighting for their land and called religious extremeists. well isn't it hipocraitical for a christian to say that muslims are the religious extremists considering the only reason palestine was taken by the jewish people is because the christian zionists got together with the jewish zionists for RELIGIOUS purposes and ganked the land. this is hipoicraisy. when i read the bible in a time of war the christians and jewish people are most famous for killing men, women, children, animals, and even destroying the land. that is terrorism to the fullest effect. when some one makes valid points about cruelty in the bible the first thing a christian does instead of explaining how their own book is filled with terrorism they go and lie, get on the offensive and change the subject. so once again i would have to say individuals change the world. it really has nothing to do with what ever RELIGION you perclaim yourself to be!

Answer 9

I think non-believers and believers need to respect each other. What gives anyone the right to condemn anothers beliefs or non-beliefs.

Answer 10

And what is wrong in being different?
What separates us is our practice of our faith, the way we worship and believe.
Someone once said, "We are the only Bible some people will ever read." If our day by day lives do not reflect our beliefs, then what we do in Church is a waste of time. If we are not different because of our relationship with Jesus, then we do not have a relationship with Jesus.