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Nope. Not if I get this soul deal to go through. Even the most heathen of sinners will walk the light.bunch of sinners in this thread doomed to damnation. The lot of ya.
I agree with most of this. I go to church occasionally but read the bible religiously (pun intended). Read it most days to be more accurate. Agree that there is too much hypocrisy in the church today.Go to church..no, Believe in God...yes. I lost faith in mankind a long time ago. Nobody but me can send my soul to hell anyway, why involve a middle man? I try to spend a little time each week somewhere quiet like on the lake, in my backyard garden, in my mancave garage etc...where I touch base with the big guy upstairs. I try to live my life as God would want me (or as I have understood him to want me) but find churchs today to be filled with too much hypocrisy and judgement. No offense to anyone.
The problem with this is, the story of Jesus Christ is as strong today as it was then and all others have faded. Something to contemplate.My mom took me and my two brothers to church every sunday starting at an age where I was too young to remember.
I recall that I was about the same age as when I figured out there was no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny that I would look around the church waiting for everyone else to acknowledge that this, like Santa, wasn't real either. But everyone kept right on pretending it was real. So I pretended too! By Junior High as we were reading the Iliad and The Odyssey we were told that they were ancient stories. The stories were just too fantastic and unbelievable, and we were told they were great works of fiction. That made sense to me. Then on Sunday we'd go to church and sunday school. We'd hear more ancient stories that were equally fantastic, and equally unbelievable. And everyone pretended that these stories were true accounts of things that had happened. That made no sense to me at all. But I kept on pretending. By the time I reached the age of 16 I was done pretending. I told my mom I was not going back. That was 40 years ago. Haven't been back since.
For those of you who don't attend for whatever reason, do you make a distinction between your faith in God vs. going to church, or are they intertwined for you?
For those of you who don't attend for whatever reason, do you make a distinction between your faith in God vs. going to church, or are they intertwined for you?
Does religion address the period before a person is born?
That's why Jesus split the multitude into 50's and 100's btwalways thought that. I never agreed with the enormous mega churches that seat 5-10,000 people. Just seems like everyone involved is more in it for the money. If church seems more like a rock concert than a worship services, I think it's pretty ridiculous.
Bingo this is the way I feel also after seeing how some church members act I will take my chances going one on one with the good lord.Go to church..no, Believe in God...yes. I lost faith in mankind a long time ago. Nobody but me can send my soul to hell anyway, why involve a middle man? I try to spend a little time each week somewhere quiet like on the lake, in my backyard garden, in my mancave garage etc...where I touch base with the big guy upstairs. I try to live my life as God would want me (or as I have understood him to want me) but find churchs today to be filled with too much hypocrisy and judgement. No offense to anyone.
Yes. I am ordained in the church (Pentecostal). My wife and I teach classes there so we are there all the time. Fixing to work on my doctorate which will be based on some aspect of ministry.
Prosperity gospel is one of my main problems with the church. Yes, Jesus said help the sick and widowed but you deserve a $50M net worth because "you're not Jesus and cannot help everybody."I think it was Malcolm Muggeridge who once wrote a book making a distinction between Christianity (started by Christ) and Christendom (started by Constantine). Kareem Adbul Jabbar recently expressed his problems with the prosperity gospel. Both viewpoints I agree with. The church has long strived to live like Christ, but far too many times has faceplanted. However, I believe that Jesus Christ came here to die for humanity, and establish His church here on earth. Reason enough for me. But I actually like going to church.