"PUTTING CHRIST BACK INTO CHRISTIANITY"

JESUSISM: A type of Christianity in which belivers adhere to the life and teachings of Jesus as the true and perfect foundation for their spriritual walk.

While in theory every Christian believes this, modern evangelical Chrisitianity mostly adheres to the teachings of Paul. A Jesusist holds the words of Paul and all others scribes of the Bible as wisdom gleaned from that person's encounter with God, but believes that the words of JESUS are esteemed above the words of ANY other person.

Jesusism views the LIFE, the TEACHINGS and the WORKS of Jesus as the only infalliable way, truth and life by which we should live. It is our life, our path, our guide and the only source by which we place our faith.

In short- what Jesus said and did is more important than what anyone else said or did in the Bible and if there seems to be any contradiction between words of Jesus and another person's words in the Bible; then what Jesus said is what stands as THE truth.



Sunday, August 24, 2008

Jesus' God or the Church's God?

Somewhere in the Bible it states that "fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. I'm not sure I can agree with this because somewhere between prayer and wisdom I have actually lost my fear of God. Don't get me wrong. I still love, reverence, respect and worship Him but my attitude towards him has changed dramatically.


The church paints this image of God as a mean, exacting judge sitting up above with a hammer in his hand, waiting to smash our heads in with it if we mess up. How many times have you been told God will "strike you down?" Further more how often do we hear people attribute death, disease, storms and every other life hardships to "an act of God"? As if God is on some kind of mission to cause harm and mayhem to our lives. The churches I grew up in did a good job of literally scaring the hell out of people. I am sure that methodology works well for those who use it.


Butthis mean spirited, vindictive, unforgiving God that so many like to preach of, bears little or no resemblance to the God Jesus spoke of in His Ministry. I don't see a God that strikes people down, but instead the God that raises us up. I don't see the God that harms but the God that heals. I don't see a God that punishes, but a God that forgives. I don't see the God that is our judge, I see the God that is our Father. There is no angry God looking down on us, there is a loving God who wants only the best for each and everyone of us. So which God do you choose. The angry God of so many modern Christians or the God of Jesus?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I don't know where I heard or read it, but Biblical "fear of God" is "reverence of God", like Biblical love is devotional love, not romantic love (although you couldn't tell from modern worship music).

Anonymous said...

A journey of a thousand miles start with one step, and in much the same way, the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. But I doubt fear of God to be the destination of wisdom.

Unknown said...

God is both Judge and loving Father, that is why Jesus had to die on the cross. There had to be punishment for our sins (God the judge), but God took that punishment/wrath upon himself (God the Father)and died on the cross to spare us from taking the punishment that was meant for us.

Unknown said...

I disagree with you on this as am sure and Jesus also preaches it that we'll be accountable for all our deeds on earth and we'll all be judged and the guilty ones would be casted into hell.
God is loving, seriously I've never imagined God the way you presented him (the so called Christian like), I've always seen him as a loving, forgiving and super wonderful God.