Christian confession. How has the church, or specific Christians hurt and wronged you? We Christians confess

Question

that we often get it wrong. That we don't follow our teacher. That we turn away and instead of offering love, hope, and healing, offer judgment, slander, gossip, and other sins.

Please, tell us what we have done wrong, so that we may confess to God the sins which we have committed against you, repent, and come to you not with any agenda, not to convert, or to change, but simply with the air cleared, and human relations restored.

Laptop-- They wronged you badly, they minimized the truth, power, and weight of the crisis you were having. They took control away from you and gave it to some so-called sin or problem that they thought you had.

I am sorry, and I hope that they too have come to realize and to seek forgiveness.

Journey -- To be so grossly abused on the day of the death of your child. I don't even think that saying, "I am so sorry" is worth anything here. Words cannot express the depth of horror that their behavior towards you that day brings. I cannot imagine what it must be like to lose a child and I hope that you find some sense of peace even though you will always miss and grieve your child.

Answer 1

I was told that my youngest son died as a punishment for my sins....by a pastor and my family. I lost my son, my faith, my family in one day.NOTHING can ever make it right or clear the air. I truly cannot stand xtianity and will devote my life to it's ruin.

It isn't that xtians mess up....all humans do...it is that they are judgmental, arrogant, ignorant hypocrites.

Answer 2

My mother was very sick when I was little. When I was five she has my baby sister and it was a miracle. My mom was supposed to be sterile, she has to take medicine that should have killed my little sister and my mom was not strong enough to give birth. Yet my sister arrived perfect, whole and my mom didn't even have to have a C-section (the surgery would have killed her). I thought that my sister was a special gift from the universe (I never really thought of God as God that way). When my sister finally came home from the NICU (she was there "just in case") we planned a big party for her baptism. I was dressed in my pretty new dress and my other little sister (4 at the time) was dressed just the same. We happened to ask our aunt why the pastor was going to get our sister wet. The pastor overheard us and proceeded to lay out the concept of sin nd said that bmy new baby sister had to be cleansed. That was it for Christianity and I. I kept going to church with my family (I was too little to have a say) and the more I heard, the more preposterous it sounded.
My whole life I have been sent to Hell for everything from wearing jeans as a girl to having tattoos. I am a good person, just not Christian. I have no animosity toward most Christians and even took a little old lady with disabilities to Mass when no one else would take her. I am really very tired of hearing the Christian stuff. I have heard it, I know what "God wants", you can stop now.

Answer 3

I turned away from a church where I was loved and accepted in the church family because they would not allow black children to come there during the week for a government program. Our church had all of the building coded requirements by the state and federal laws, all that was needed was an approval by the elders of the church, and they said no. So I left. I know they did not understand why I left. But the teachings I learned under that church's roof taught me to "suffer the little children to come unto me, but if they are black then no way!"

I have since evolved into a polytheist. It's a more real and humanitarian belief system. Less delusional more forgiving of our fellow humans.

Answer 4

Humanity indeed needs reconcilliation, and may this post of yours be a means to that and not and excuse to reestablish evident blame. We are all blameworthy, but I hope each and everyone will continue to develop understanding, patience, safety among friends, and healing all enemies into friends, so that all may abide in safty, securety, and love for one another, as we all have known is our inmost desire between men since our birth.

Let us remember lovingly, so that amends are done to our own selves, and forgiveness can be bestowed, the Divine bounties descend, and love of God, fellow man, and all feeling life prevail amongst our hearts.

My spirit longs for consolelation, let the wise speak.

"O CHILDREN OF MEN!
Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other. Ponder at all times in your hearts how ye were created. Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of light! Heed ye this counsel that ye may obtain the fruit of holiness from the tree of wondrous glory."

(Baha'u'llah, The Arabic Hidden Words)

Answer 5

Lady, if what I tell you now causes you to run to a confessional and spill your guts to a priest who will then give you a penance to make you feel cleansed and forgiven, I'll feel that I've failed both of us and said the wrong thing.

Let's try this instead.... Skip confession. You haven't done anything to wrong me - nobody has - it's only to yourself that you owe your apologies and confessions.

Tell yourself the truth for a change.... and make it the real truth this time. If you really want to give something of yourself for the betterment of all of us, just be honest.

"To thine own self be true" - and then you'll be able to quit barffin-up your bible BS beliefs to the rest of us.

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Answer 6

Are you serious, what world do you live in, this stuff happens to everyone all the time, and I'm sure the majority of people are Christians.

Answer 7

How have Christians wronged me? They have shown a total lack of respect for me as a human being.

Answer 8

When I left Bible College it was due to a crisis of faith. I could no longer believe.

No matter how sincere I was, no matter how long I talked, the President of the school and his wife were convinced it was because I was bonking my boyfriend and wanted me to "confess."

It still makes me mad.

Answer 9

Jesus Christ has given you the right to sin. As long as you believe the way to heaven is through him you are okay. You don't want to know the sins of Christians as it may alter your faith.

Answer 10

I AGREE THAT THIS IS A GOOD IDEA. IF ANYONE IS WILLING TO BE HONEST.