Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Stinking Thinking and the Church

 
 
 


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                             Stinking Thinking and the Church

 

  A few months ago a very dear friend wrote me a letter that deeply touched my heart.  It saddened me to know that there are so many people across this great land that we call a Christian nation who may have the same belief system.  I will repost the letter and my response here.

Dear Bobbie
This is where I'm coming from, Bobbie. I am a spiritual person...not a religious one. There is a very clear difference. I don't really give two hoots about religion, which at its core, is a man-(male)made contrivance. I believe this is why all religion(s) has ever done is create conflict, cause pain, war and give some the idea that their way is the only way, so its okay to persecute and torture those that believe differently.
 
And my response:
 
Dear xxxxxxxxx
I agree that religion has caused so much trouble in the world. Religious heretics have brought so much destruction to the world in the name of religion.  Roman chapter 1: 21-23 tells us “because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts and their foolish thoughts were darkened.  Professing to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man……”  I know that Paul is talking here about idol worship but I believe it applies also to the religious persecution throughout history. 

I have a favorite expression that I use often. "Religion is man's search for a god and Christianity is God's search for man". Think about those words. Man from the beginning of creation has dreamed of, invented, and portrayed all kinds of concepts what they perceive a god is to be or what they think a god should be like. Here in the 21st century it is no different, perhaps even worse than ever before. Mankind worships money, music, success, technology, the list could go on and on.

However, God in his wisdom and glory knew that this senseless search was leading mankind into destruction. Perhaps this maybe is where we may disagree. I believe that there is only one God and the only way to that God is through His Son. God sent his Son to pay the price for all mankind and only through Him can we find the Father.

I do, however, believe that even the mainstream so called Christian churches are preaching and teaching not from God's word but from centuries of tradition and false beliefs. I find it interesting that most people who are brought up under denominational doctrines continue to remain in that doctrine and church denomination even after they begin to intently study scripture. Why? Because it is so hard to break a lifetime of wrong thinking and indoctrination.  As a child I was raised to believe certain things about God, and now even after I have intently studied God's word and learned differently, I find it very hard to rid myself of that stinking thinking that I was trained in as a youth.

Many churches as a group are full of stinking thinking people who march blindly behind some charismatic leader who perpetuates that stinking thinking. They love to look down their noses at people who do not have the same stinking thinking and look at these people as a group and lump them into a group that are all lost sinners.

Now here lies the problem that we have to guard ourselves against. We cannot look at everyone in the church as part of a group and call the church a bunch of hypocrites. There are many in the church that search God through His word and down on their knees and do not fall in to a group following some archaic misinformed doctrine.  If we do that we are doing exactly what they are doing to everyone else.

This church “group” loves to place everyone in the LGBT community into a group.  They are neglecting many of the individuals, each of us with our own walk with God. Some of us are lost sinners and some of us are not. Therefore, the church cannot be viewed as a group of hypocrites but as individuals each with their own walk with God. Some (maybe even most) are blindly following their leader without any ideal what the Word of God is saying about the way the church should conduct themselves. Others, as I struggle to be, are listening to the Father and strive to learn God's plan for all mankind. Anyway, thanks for your concerns and once again I know I have a true friend in you.  Bobbie.

 This is part one of a two part blog.

Bobbie Lang  1/14/14
 

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