Why does it matter if I'm a Christian or not?
2007-09-09 07:57:35 · 8 answers · asked by :) 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
hmmm, I feel that this is gonna become a drinking question. :)
2007-09-09 08:01:05 · update #1
The idea that God is active in our lives and hands down judgment is logically incompatible with the idea of free will. You can't control something and let it be free at the same time.
2007-09-09 08:06:25 · answer #1 · answered by Subconsciousless 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have free will and God does not sway your heart one way or the other. He does however know your life before you are even created. He knows the choices you will make freely before you are a glimmer in your mother's eye. It matters if you are a Christian or not because we were created to glorify God and to spread the good news of salvation by the blood of his Son Jesus Christ. If you arent doing that and simply just living a good life you are not doing what God has commanded you do. Romans 9:16 "So receiving God's promise is not up to us. We can't get it by choosing it or working hard for it. God will show mercy to anyone he chooses."
2007-09-09 15:13:59 · answer #2 · answered by cutiepatutie 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God is all-loving, but if you don't accept that love, what possible benefit is it to you. I love my son beyond all reason, but if he doesn't accept my love, if he rejects my love, how could I help him?
God doesn't discriminate...his love and forgiveness are available to anyone who wants it...but again, if you reject his offer, is it he who is discriminating or is it you?
God gave you the freedom to choose to accept his love or to reject it. If you choose it, he will reward you as a parent rewards an obedient child...but if you reject him and run away from him, how can he possibly give you any of the rewards he has created for you?
What does it matter if you're a Christian or not? Because God said that the only way to make your eternal home with him was to accept, on faith, his promises...to accept that his grace is sufficient to transform you into a being capable of existing in his presence. I don't pretend to understand why faith is valuable...perhaps it is a "sense" that we need to perceive his presence once we are removed from the limitations of our physical bodies...that if we can't learn to exercise and grow that faith on earth, that when we die, we won't have the resources we need to exist in his kingdom.
It seems pretty obvious that none of us are perfect...that we all make mistakes that harm ourselves or others. If God's home is a place of perfect peace and perfect love, how could imperfection exist there...wouldn't the presence of imperfection make perfection also imperfect? If God is pure white, wouldn't even one drop of black make him gray not white? (black and white meaning evil and good not skin color)! The message of Jesus is simple...that, through him, through baptism in the Holy Spirit of God, we can be cleansed of all evil...of all the things that would make it impossible for us to live in a state of eternal harmony with God and others!
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the light"...without him, perhaps death is a dark void with no directions, no truth, and no light to show us the way to God's presence...through faith in Jesus, we are given the ability to see our way in the next life.
2007-09-09 15:20:53 · answer #3 · answered by KAL 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will, is useless without freedom of choice, freedom of action, and freedom of thought. This is the freedoms that Christians don't mention when speaking of the Freedoms given them by their God.
Free will is the least of any freedoms in the fact that you can will anything and have nothing. The Nazi's gave the Jews of Auschwitz and Treblinka freedom to will anything the Jews wished, as they herded them into the gas chambers by holding away freedom of action and freedom of choice.
2007-09-09 15:16:32 · answer #4 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't matter under your theory of god. Just go with it, you'll be much more well-adjusted than most people. That may be the only system of belief in a god that I could believe.
2007-09-09 15:17:03 · answer #5 · answered by BAL 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God loves us so much. He even loves us when he sentences us to an eternity of torture in hellfire.
God has been known to use his Earth-shattering powers of supreme might in the past, in huge demonstrations of how much He loves each and every person. Some examples are documented carefully in the Bible. Examples include: Flooding the world, burning cities to the ground, and causing plagues, famine, and swarms of locusts to attack people
2007-09-09 15:08:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Technically it doesn't God does love everyone but if you break his law you'll have to answer for what you've done there's a consequence to every action
2007-09-09 15:04:06 · answer #7 · answered by Crystal 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it doesnt matter
2007-09-09 15:07:35 · answer #8 · answered by JFK fan--(Hug Brigade) 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋