why is christian religion so "abstract"?

Question

when christians explain something is just abstract things...when you pray you are connected to god and he sends his mercy through the holy ghost...huh? what is that???
can you be a bit more "specific"?
or jesus died to save us from our sins...so...it doesnt matter how much i sin since he already died for my sins? i mean why if their religion is true and the only way to wherever can´t they make things clearer??? we are not all religious scholars and sometimes we find it a bit difficult to understand so many technicities, can you explain all these in plain words???
and please dont send me to read the bible because you christians take all that jimbo jambo from the bible, so it doesnt help a bit.

what do you have to think about?? man if i think a bit then believing it is almost impossible

sorry mistery is being abstract

monkey chunks thanks you provide an excellent example of what i mean

so dark angel if i lie, to god´s eyes it is the same as if i have murdered 23 people?

Answer 1

Reality is an abstraction.

Answer 2

Well, so far you have been touched by "the Holy Ghost" which I as a Christian have to admit is abstract. But you want to know more so, that eliminates your "first contact" if you want to look at the "Big Picture" in that perspective. The next step is up to you. You want to know more. The so-called "Holy Ghost" has accomplished the mission. You now have the desire to learn more based on your question. Jesus was the only perfect human being that ever walked on this planet. He did everything correctly in the context of God (the Father ) and thus was directly connected with God who is perfection. Because of this perfect nature, "sin full" men/women during His time declared Him as a "freak" because He didn't follow those imperfect ways. As a result, He was killed. But, because he had that perfect connection with God, (who is eternal), the truth of His existence overcame what we term as "Death" and that truth cancelled mortality because truth is perfection. In turn because we believe Jesus died for our sins, the concept is to follow His example for our entire lives and seek that truth in our everyday lives. It does matter how much you sin especially after knowing you are not supposed to. You can't live your life in sin and on the death-bed repent because you knew you were not supposed to "sin" in the first place! From this point on that "Holy Ghost" made an impression on your life, you are on borrowed time. From now on, the choice is yours and hey sorry, yep. Check out that Bible. There is one passage in there that goes, "Search the scriptures because in there you think you will have eternal life". Good luck.

Answer 3

There are two issues. First, there are answers to your questions, you just don't know what they are. It's not that they're abstract, it's that you're not giving the full answer.

Second, some of these things are spiritually discerned. They don't necessarily make sense to everyone who hears them. We do our best to explain them, though.

SO... "When you pray you are connected to God and he sends his mercy through the Holy Ghost." That's kind of a weird statement. When you pray you are doing a number of things. One of them might be making requests of God. Another might be praising God. When you make requests, they are taken into consideration but may or may not be granted depending on what God wants to do. You may be asking for something that's not good for you in the long run, so God doesn't grant your request. On the other hand, sometimes he gives us what we ask for in order to teach us a lesson (i.e. it may not be good for us but we learn something from it).

As far as getting mercy from the Holy Ghost, I don't know that the Christian is in regular need of mercy. I've never thought about God sending me mercy in any form or through anybody. I suppose he could do it.

If your question is "what is the Holy Ghost" (more commonly known as the Holy Spirit these days), then the Holy Spirit is the manifestation of God that indwells the believer and gives him his power. It convicts us of sin and convinces us of the truth. It is the Holy Spirit that works in unbelievers to draw them to God.

"...so it doesn't matter how much I sin since he already died for my sins..." Yes and no. First of all, Jesus died for all the sins you will ever commit, no matter how many that is. Second, once a person is saved, he or she should have a desire not to sin. If we love someone, we don't disobey them. So if we love God, we keep his commandments. That doesn't mean that we're sinless (in fact the Bible says we can't be sinless no matter how hard we try). It means that we do our best. When we do sin we ask for forgiveness and we receive it.

This isn't a license to sin. Paul talks about that in Romans. Rather than send you there I'll just say he concludes that God's grace isn't a license to sin.

So hopefully this helps a bit. There are parts of Christianity that are very simple and other parts that are very complex. The whole idea of the trinity, for example, throws a lot of people for a loop. There is one God, but he manifests himself to us as a person (Jesus), indwells us in spirit form (Holy Spirit), and makes plans carries out his will (God the Father). It's all one God, just different ways of seeing him work.

Answer 4

Perfectly legitimate questions. It's quite sad that many Christians are unable to explain things because they were never fully explained to them! ( I really liked that "jimbo jambo" comment.. made me lol!) Your questions are a bit scatagorical, and I don't think I can address them all in this forum, but it sounds like you've run a lot of things together, probably because "the gospel" was delivered to you in a shotgun fashion by someone who got a little carried away. Let's see... Prayer is just talking to God. It's that simple. Your prayer could be "Thanks for this beautiful day", or it could be "Hey God, let me list off all the things you do that make me angry..." It's ok to tell God exactly what you think and how you feel. I don't think you're going to "shock" God. Holy Spirit... well, thats how you FEEL God. When you talk to God, you can do it silently in your head, or speak out loud. But when he talks to you, it's unlikely that you will hear an audible voice. So then ok, how do you know that little voice in your head, or that sudden flash of a picture in your mind is a message, or part of a message, from God? That's where the Holy Spirit comes in; you can FEEL it. The feeling and the message will accompany one another. Friend, I assure you, if you talk to God in earnest, he WILL talk back if you're paying attention. It's sort of like God's on the roof, and you're hollering up to him, and he's responding by writing notes and letting them float down to you. (See, THAT'S abstract... it's just a way to describe something...). Jesus died for your sins... yup. That's the case. Did you ever see the movie "Sparticus"? The Romans have captured Sparticus and his men, and they offer the men a walk if they give up Sparticus. Just as Kirk Douglas is about to turn himself in, Tony Curtis Stands up instead; "I am Sparticus!" Then another man stands and says "I am Sparticus!" Soon every man there stands and claims to be Spartucus. They love this man so much that they will not allow him to give himself up for them, and they are all punished. This is the story of Christ in reverse. Christ, the only innocent one, stood up to take the blame for all our foolishness. He died so that our debt will be paid. But there's a catch; we each have to believe that, and accept it. That's it. That's all there is to it.
Keep asking questions my friend. There is NO SIN IN ASKING A QUESTION.

Answer 5

Unfortunately, Christians speak to others using terms that only a Christian can understand, jargon that non-Christians don't use in everyday language. We may use everyday words in a different context that makes sense only to others who have read the Bible and experienced God working in their lives.

**or jesus died to save us from our sins...so...it doesnt matter how much i sin since he already died for my sins?**

Jesus died for our sins. That means that he died in our place. We have all broken God's laws and must die--that is the penalty for breaking God's laws. But God loves us and doesn't want us to pay that penalty and go to hell. So "Jesus died for our sins." In other words, Jesus, when he was crucified, took the punishment and blame for what we did, and then died. Three days later he rose from the dead. Later he ascended into heaven. Now God calls all of us to believe in Jesus Christ to have our sins forgiven, since he already bore the punishment. When we believe on Jesus, acknowledging that we are sinners, and repent of them, God forgives our sins and will not hold them against us at judgment day.

I hope this explanation is very clear to you. I am sorry if we have not made it clearer to you and others in the past.

Answer 6

the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost is what Jesus left behind for us when he got asceneded up. thats his spirit in us convicting us if we do wrong, gives us the knowledge that Jesus is the Christ and that he is Gods son. yes, Jesus died for our sins true enuff but that doesnt give you permission to just live in sin. God knew we were not perfect and he knew it would take the shedding of his son's blood to make bridge so that we could approach God since how from beginning of time the sin in the world had out a wedge between us and God.

Answer 7

In ancient times, people believed in concrete things, such as wind and earth. As time went on, our understanding of the world became more abstract, possibly due to the further development of certain areas of the brain. Since Christianity is only a couple thousand years old, it's no wonder it's full of abstract notions, such as transfiguration, trinity, glorified body, etc.

Answer 8

Okay. Sin is Breaking Gods law. God gave us all his law in ex 20. thing like you should not lie. you should not steal. you should not kill. If you have done any of these you will be judged by God for them. We find out in the Bible that even if we break one of these we are guilty of them all. God is a just and holy God and can not allow any sin in heaven. God loved us so he sent his son to pay the fine for us breaking his laws. All we need to do is repent and believe in his son. His Son is acting as our lawyer and standing for us. With out him we stand before God alone.

Answer 9

You could bury a dog in a pile of cash, it would have no concept of money and it value to humans,The same is true of the gospel ,unbelievers can have no concept of spiritual things no matter how much you enunciate them till they are born of the Spirit.

Answer 10

Its pretty concrete to me.

How about looking at the two links below, look a the one listed first first, then if you have more questions, get back to me.

Pastor Art

Answer 11

It is not difficult, Jesus made it simple enought that a child can understand his words. Check out bibleuniverse.com