Faithofchristian
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Over the years I’ve heard a number of religious personalities from different so called Christian religions say that God loves everyone, He loves people no matter what. The last time I heard that was very recently.
I understand that from the perspective of people who don’t like to obey anything except their own whims it must be cool to belong to that kind of religion. The ideology of “do whatever you feel like and God will love you anyway” makes things easier, doesn’t it?
But from a Christian perspective, it doesn’t make any sense. Christians base their belief in the Bible, and the Bible contains a number of laws and principles that God himself requires people to follow. If it wasn’t important how people behave, He wouldn’t have bothered in the first place.
So, for example, does a person who is violent towards others, a person who steals or someone who commits adultery deserve to be loved by God? If they are not obeying God’s commands, then they don’t care about Him, so why would he care about them?
One can talk about forgiveness, which is mentioned frequently in the Bible, but forgiveness applies when people repent and stop doing whatever they were doing wrong. If someone acts against God’s principles, apologizes and then goes back to doing the same thing, would it make any sense for God to overlook their behavior and just love them anyway?
According to what I’ve learned in the Bible, I don’t think so.
The only Problem with God loves everyone just as you are, Pastor's, Preachers goes about teaching this concept,Then people will say, well if God loves me no matter how I am, Then those people who have been going to church since they were kids hearing this concept in church, If God loves me no matter how I am, So what if I'm an Atheist God loves me no matter how I am, So what if I'm gay, God loves me no matter who I am, and there are those who go out into the world drinking, parting, All the while these Pastor's, Preachers who taught them this concept that God loves you no matter how you are. Then Turns around and curse's these people who are only doing what they were taught.
I've met many people who teaches this concept that they heard from their Pastor's, Preachers teach.
And I say to them, why are you complaining about, you taught them, that God loves you no matter how you are, Now you want to criticize them, for doing what you and your Pastor's, Preachers have taught people.
This is just one of many reasons why I don't belong to any church, for the simple reason, that I am not going out telling people that God loves you no matter how you are, and then turn around and condemn them for doing what I was taught by my Pastor's, Preachers, Which makes me out to be a hypocrite. For saying one thing and then going against what I was saying.
It didn't take me long to see what I was doing. Teaching on one hand and then condemning on the other hand.
Is it any wonder why Jesus talks about people who comes in his name, calling themselves Christians and are not. But are deceving many people.
Matthew 24:5--"For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many"
Who else besides Christians comes in the name of Christ = Christian.
So you have two groups of Christians in the world, one being a true Christian and the other a false Christian.
It's not hard to know the false Christians, when they teach you God loves you no matter how you are and then condemn you for following this teaching of theirs.