Jesus died on the Cross. He took on the sins of the world -- that means your sins also. He loves you and waits for you to ask Him into your heart. Ask Him and He will come into your heart as the Holy Spirit. Read the Bible, and you will begin to know God/Jesus. Love to all,
2007-03-13 05:42:46 · 19 answers · asked by Diane H 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The things of this world, the temporal. This tends to draw us away.
They are counterfeits to true happiness however.
Only the Gospel of Jesus Christ can bring true and everlasting happiness.
2007-03-13 05:47:00 · answer #1 · answered by Kerry 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
What keeps me from seeking Jesus?
The understanding that he was just a man. A good man. A great teacher. A wonderful Rabbi. Someone who pushed against the status quo in an attempt to make the world a better place. The architect of a new way of thinking and behaving spiritually. A rebel with a cause just like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. But he is not god. At best, he is a demigod given that his mother was human - if you believe that the architect of the universe itself impregnated Mary. There is no hard evidence of that so you must either take it on faith or use your inherent critical thinking ability to scrutinize and find the truth. Further...
There are many mythologies predating Christianity which speak to death and resurrection. Christianity is not the first to come up with this idea. Read the story of the Egyptian Osiris and you will see what I mean.
Not everyone is like you, my friend. And that is the real miracle of creation or evolution - depending on your point of view. The plethora of difference is astonishing. This is a good thing. It keeps us sharp and forward moving. Stopping cold at the foot of deity does the exact opposite. So...
Be well. Enjoy your life. Believe what you believe to be true but respect that others are walking a different path. Trying to force a change in path is unseemly. If you were the subject of someone trying to change your religious or non religious beliefs, how would you react?
2007-03-13 06:01:01 · answer #2 · answered by gjstoryteller 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In a gist, thinking!
Thinking and asking inconvenient questions which disconcerted the hell out of my preacher, family, and my teachers in Sunday School, church, evening services, vacation bible school, & Babyland (daycare) at Park Heights' Baptist church as well as in grade school, where fundies proselytized. So much religion was pushed in the public schools I attended that I would not have been allowed to graduate w/o reading and absorbing the christian bible (KJ ver).
This is your mythology your putting forward. (religion/dogma if you prefer).
It would be equally logical to ask me why I don't accept Allah into my heart. I don't put a lost tooth under my pillow, put up my stocking for santa, consult my horoscope to plan my day, or conjure spirits on an ouija board either.
I have read your bible, struggling through all of it, w/ dyslexia, as a child, being a *west texas southern baptist*..
There's much there to appreciate and some familiarity with it is necesssary for a thorough understanding of the history of western societies.
However, the mind bogling inconsistencies, contradictions absurdities, and the appallingly immoral behaviiour of its featured god, led to my setting it upon the bookshelf beside Bulfinch's Mythology by the age of 10.
Do you still extend love, or is it reserved for those who accept your dogma? "Love" is tossed about in a very cavalier manner by fundamentalists. --Sorry if I do you an injustice. This weary world can use all the love--and peace--it can get.---
gjstoryteller, Just read your post. Kudos! The best post I've seen in a very long time, here or elsewhere. You put mine to shame.
***Thank you for an enlightening, thought-provoking post. :)****
2007-03-13 08:55:30 · answer #3 · answered by Cynthia_Secular_n_SillyHatState 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Satan will do anything to keep people from coming to Jesus. Also the pride of our hearts do a good job of that as well. You are right Jesus did die on the cross for the sins of the world- and that takes us humbling ourselves before Him and realizing that we need a Savior. I pray that your testimony this morning, will allow people to see that Jesus is seeking them. He said "When you seek me with all of your heart you will find me". Remember that Jesus sought you and loved you first.
2007-03-13 06:09:21 · answer #4 · answered by AdoreHim 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, first of all, the story of Jesus is not at all unique or special. There are actually dozens of such stores, most of which are routinely suppressed or declared "superstition" or "false prophecy". There is absolutely no reason, actually, to assume this.
Secondly, the story of Jesus is too often used to justify, not love, neighborliness and inclusiveness, but divisiveness, bigotry and outright murder. Divisiveness in the fact that there are over one thousand six hundred different Christian denominations in the United States alone, each of which insists it is the one true path. They can't all be right, and when you look closely, it's quite possible none of them are right. Bigotry in that Christians tend to look on non-Christians as sub-human and not entitled to the same considerations as Christians demand for themselves - an attitude precisely condemned in Scripture. Murder in that many recent homicidal attacks on people whose only "crime" happens to be that they are of a different faith, espouse a different political outlook or are gay are generally excused by pointing to a particular translation of Scripture - which in fact says "THOU shalt not judge".
Need I go on?
2007-03-13 06:11:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No because of the fact we are all sinners, we could desire to continually try for perfection yet as quickly as we cave in we could desire to make an apology, we can't grow to be discouraged with our failings that's what the devil needs. I fail yet when I do i attempt to stay interior the will of Christ our Lord and not fail back. Am I a liar for failing, i wish no longer. i wish that we are guaged on our perserverance, no longer how many circumstances we cave in. Love, Kate
2016-10-02 01:29:35 · answer #6 · answered by corolis 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians.
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-03-13 05:48:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have no doubts that the Lord exists he has spoken to me many times, at this point in my life I'm content with knowing him and accepting him in our lives. I pity those who have not found him yet and hope they do follow someday. I cannot make them follow it has to come from within them.
2007-03-14 00:43:08 · answer #8 · answered by L J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the distinct fairytale-like aura to the whole story.
Personally, I'm starting with Prince Charming and working my way down the list. When I get to finding Jesus, I'll let you know.
2007-03-13 05:47:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
some people choose not to seek Jesus because then they would have to change their ways,they don't want to live their life for Jesus ,only themselves.
2007-03-13 06:04:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋