How do you know you don't look like a fool in those pink tights?
How do you know what sub to get on in NYC?
How do you know where the sales are!?
How do you know Christianity and Jesus are "right"?
In this blog, I intend to answer that last question.
You see, many people think it is "intolerant" for me to say and believe that Jesus is the only way to heaven... and yet I still believe it. It's not intolerant of me actually, intolerance is me not listening to your side and not trying to understand who you are and where you are coming from. If we took this attitude of "everyone is right" then I say 2x2 is 10, not 4 and you are intolerant if you tell me I'm wrong!
6 Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
I'm not going to try and convince you I am write here, I just want you to understand WHY I believe this and WHY it's so hard for others to understand.
You see it is like riding a roller coaster. People can ask you how it was and you explain by saying, it's so fast, and the wind whips through your hair, and man that first drop always takes your breath away, but if they have never actually been on a roller coaster, they are never going to understand, they are going to try to have to understand it through your experience and your feelings and the way you experienced it.
It's like that with faith. People ask me, how do you know your faith is the right one, I can try to explain how I know God is real and how I know Jesus existed (not only because there is significant proof not in the Bible) but that I do believe he died and rose again to forgive me of my sins. Unless, you yourself are seeking God and trying to understand, you aren't ever going to get understand.
Jeremiah 19:13
13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
You see, there are a couple key differences to me that make Christianity and Jesus stand out among the rest.
a.) It is a RELATIONSHIP with Jesus that I as a Christian have. That's why I don't like saying my religion, because that sounds like a list of does and don'ts. I have a personal relationship with Jesus whom I seek guidance from, share my life with, and whom I go straight to. Other religions is all fear based, they fear their god/gods and do not have a trust with him. I fear Jesus, but out of respect, like a Father; you don't do thinks that will piss of your Dad because you respect him and trust him, same with God for me. Jesus isn't the might smitter that people make him out to be. Don't get me wrong, he is a Just God, but I don't think he will be sending lighting bolts down anytime soon.
b.) No other "god" ever did anything to reach out to the people they supposedly created, do you see Shiva or Budda trying to come back and pay for the sins of the people here? No. Jesus is the only one who cared enough about man kind and man kind's eternal being to breach that level.
c.) Christianity is the only religion, when brought into tribes that increases morality and the quality of living. I know people say, well what about all those tribes of people who don't know God, and I can't answer for that, I have to trust that God knows what he is doing. He has said in numerous places that his law is written on our hearts.
I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And no longer shall each man teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more. Jeremiah 31:33b-34
Therefore I believe that the people who have never heard of him will still know his law and it is with that, I believe God will judge them. But it is also our duty as his followers to take his word to the ends of the earth, the Great Commission found in Matthew 28:19-20;
19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”
People often think that I don't know what I am talking about or think I am crazy or ignorant, but I never wanted my faith to be my parents or to believe only because it was right in front on me, so I did my research in High School, I looked up the other top religions in the world and I looked up cults to (juuusstt to make sure) and I have come to my conclusion. I KNOW that my faith is real and that my God is real. I may never be able to convince you of that, but I encourage to seek out the Lord for yourself. Research ALL religions, Jesus isn't scared, For it says in Jeremiah 29:13;
13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
The question I have for YOU is, are you seeking with your whole heart, or are you hoping a "faith" will just fall into your lap.
Be proactive about this, I have a feeling it will be important one day.
And I know there are people that think I'm crazy, but the good thing is God warned me about them too,
2 Corinthians 2:15-17
15 For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. 16 To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task?
Am I sounding like death or life to you?
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