One Persons View On Christianity

I am a Christian and I write Christian poetry and articles.  I add Christian Tags to what I publish here at Gather as does everyone else.  It is not my purpose in life to push my beliefs down anyone elses throat.  I believe that everyone is on their own path to God. I only know the path that I am on and on my beliefs.  I would not wish Hell on my worst enemy, yet I recognize that there is nothing that I can say to convince anyone of the possibility of Hell and my view of how to avoid it. (Accepting the gift from Jesus) As a Christian I realize that the best witness I can give is to live my life living my beliefs and loving everyone as Jesus said to.

I do not understand why non Christian people select to read Christian articles and write angry comments about it. Did you not see the tag, title etc? When I read an article on another religion I read it to learn about their views and customs. There is no reason to argue with them with the validity of their beliefs. I respect their right to talk about their religion. Just because I have chosen to follow Christ does not mean I am not interested in what others believe. Just like different cultures having different customs is fascinating to me, so is what people believe and why they believe it. 

The animosity and anger in some of the anti Christian comments I have read amazes me. I agree that there are many people calling themselves Christian who have no clue about Christianity, basically when they ignore the scripture, "Judge not lest ye be Judged." Please, people, remember that many awful things have been done in the name of Christianity that Jesus would not have endorsed. He did not come to earth to get caught up in politics and fixing the world system. He came to help people reconcile with God through Him. His message is of love. I think He is horrified at the things that have been done in His name and how many groups think they are the only one who have the answers.  Different christian religions don't  see eye to eye and they  try to shove their interpetations down each others throat. They argue about stuff that I don't understand what difference it makes.  Whether Jesus had brothers and sisters or not, is one of the issues. What does difference does that make, they are all dead now if they did  exist...why do we care about what  happened between Mary and Joseph after she gave birth to Jesus, they were married. Also there is speculation about what Jesus did in the years between being a child and his ministry. If it was important, it would be in the Bible.  What does it matter what he was doing?  Maybe he was just like the rest of us, trying to make a living and trying to stay alive. (Yes, what I am writing is going to tick everyone off at me, even the Christians)

When I made the decision to be a Christian, it was not one of intellect, it was a decision of my heart. I am by no means stupid, so don't call me that either. I know the argument about believing in something you can't see, too.  I can't see air, but I believe in it, or I'd die without it.

I can understand how bad things happen to people and they blame God. I have had bad things happen to me and it isn't easy to watch others seemingly having better lives, rich, famous, beautiful people driving expensive cars, living in mansions...never wondering where their next meal is coming from...or how they are going to pay the rent or buy medicine...never having people stare at them because they limp, or they are blind, or they are in a wheelchair.  All I know is I would rather believe that God loves me and bad things happen to everyone as it is part of life than to believe that God hates me and he thinks I deserve this stuff, or there is no God and I have gone through my life for no reason. 

As far as anyone who is not on my path in life, I can't judge you and I can't say what God is going to do with you, you're going to have to ask him if you want to know. People can quote the Bible on what the scriptures say, but personally I am not about to pretend I can understand or predict what God is thinking about anyone on this earth, only he knows. I only know that when the time comes when I have to account for my life, I will let my defense counsel, Jesus speak on my behalf.