I know what it is be like as I too was a Christian. I thought that all that I did was fine and when people called me on my wrongdoings I would reply
"Only God can judge me!"
But one day I was laying in my bed and I was struck my the spirit of Christmas past and it showed me that it is not some "God" character that I am accountable to but my fellow humans. My friends and neighbors whose lives in part depend on me. Whose lives I depend on.
Sorry. I just felt like reversing the rant.
As you were.
2007-09-20 08:57:45 · 14 answers · asked by NONAME 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am sure some out there are. Some believe half heartedly and were swept in by Pascals wager.
God keeps me accountable to my fellow humans. If I did someone wrong, God tells me that I am to make it right with them as soon as possible, humbling myself. (Of course I could have this same attitude w/o God, however I enjoy the companionship, the guidance, and the love I have received as a result of becoming a Christian).
2007-09-20 09:06:17 · answer #1 · answered by ♫O Praise Him♫ 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Ah, but we can and are judged by our fellowman. It is very biblical to admonish the church.
I would much rather be judged by man, than God, who has my eternity in his hand.
It is a very wrong statement that many Christians say, I am under grace and am not accountable. Perhaps they should read Isaiah, "woe is me, I am a man of unclean lips, living amongst an unclean people. I am ruined." He was saying this IN the presence of God, before his throne....
2007-09-20 09:04:50 · answer #2 · answered by 2ndchhapteracts 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is a great turn around. I am tired of being told/asked that i dont believe in a God so that i can do what i please. This is totally untrue and i believe as you just stated that it is the opposite. As a Man with no God, i feel my moral responsibility lies here on Earth with my fellow Man. I care about how others perceive my actions because i do not have the Cop out "Only God can judge me". Christians in particular on the other hand feel no moral obligation to Mankind as what their God thinks of them is the only thing that matters. And knowing that they can do anything they want that is wrong and just ask for forgiveness makes them much more likely to commit "Sin".
2007-09-20 09:09:46 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I am accountable both to God and my fellow man. I'm not a Calvinist; I don't think that saying a little prayer at an altar call seals me as saved for all eternity.
2007-09-20 09:03:55 · answer #4 · answered by delsydebothom 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
But yours is an excellent point.
I have always thought it would be much easier to live knowing that no matter what they do, no matter how cruel, their god will forgive them and take them to happy hour anyhow. And they somehow think THAT is morality.
Seriously. To be accountable to reality is far more difficult than having a free pass.
2007-09-20 09:05:51 · answer #5 · answered by t_rex_is_mad 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It always disturbs me to think that a mass murderer goes to heaven because he recants on his death bed, but a little kid raised to be a Buddhist who gets killed by a bomb goes to hell because they never accepted Christ.
Really, it's all nonsense. And I believe you're right. Christianity protects the powerful and allows them to commit any crime they want on Earth.
You realize, for instance, that in the course of Western history, when a king or potentate wanted to mary his teenage boy lover, the church usually granted the dispensation.
But they deny non regal gays the right to the ritual.
I say, who needs the ritual, and if there really is a god, she is not as backward as to function in these ways.
2007-09-20 09:04:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Christians will be just as liable as other "religions", and peoples, and nations and tribes of the earth. Not everyone who says they are Christian will be found as such.
Beware of the false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
2007-09-20 09:03:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. We are accountable after the age of accountability.
2007-09-20 13:15:37 · answer #8 · answered by Nina, BaC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What a load of rubbish. Any so-called "Christian" who acts like that is just digging his own hole straight to Hell.
2007-09-20 09:03:14 · answer #9 · answered by Hoosier Daddy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You know then, you are more accountable by being a Christian!
In fact, if we hold a position as teaching or, such, we will be judged much more harshly!
So, your entire premise is wrong.
2007-09-20 09:10:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋