(September 18, 2015 at 11:52 am)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:(September 18, 2015 at 10:27 am)Rekeisha Wrote: How do you know you believe like I do?
Just because you see me doing what you have done doesn't mean that we have believed the same. Actually there are things that I believe you don't. Like when I say that christianity isn't based on feelings. (People keep talking about believing the bible literally. I am not quite sure what you mean by that.) Those make our beliefes different. You may feel like I am a jerk but the truth is I am here to tell you about a God that loves you and He wants to save you from Hell. How you feel about me doesn't affect the truth.
I feel like you're a jerk because you're talking and acting like a jerk. You're telling me that I never was a Christian simply because I am not one now. You're taking how I feel about it now and saying that I could not have felt it, then.
Think about it: if I talk to a divorced person about their husband, would they say he is "the love of their life, the dreamiest man they have ever known, what a fantastic human being?" No, because what they once felt (deeply in love) is no longer how they feel, once they opened their eyes and saw the truth about him. Turned out, the divorcee's spouse was a liar and a cheat, and once the truth became clear, the emotions changed.
What you're saying here is, basically, that because you are so in love with your man, that I must never have been in love because I got divorced. But I was in love before I realized the truth and before I got divorced.
So then if you still tell me I was never in love, then you're a jerk.
What I am saying is that Christianity isn't based on feeling and if you became a Christian because it felt good then you weren't a Christian. Christianity and Marriage are started with a covenant or an agreement. When I married my husband I agreed to be with him till death do us part. You know even if he cheats on me that doesn't necessarily mean I will divorce him. I have known a woman and of a man (via his wife) who have been in marriage relationship when their spouse had been unfaithful and they decided (not felt) to stay in the relationship. They made a promise and so they kept it.
I entered into an agreement with God. He said if you repent and accept my death and resurrection on the cross for you sins then I will give you eternal life with me, and save you to the utter most. I get your life and I will give you mine. I said yes. I may be unfaithful but God will uphold His side. He will keep His promises. He will draw me back because I am His. So if you entered into that agreement with God then you could wander but you would never leave because God would keep His side of the commitment.
I also don't think love is a feeling I think it is an action it is a commitment to do good to someone no matter how you feel about it or how they make you feel. Love is not based on the object of your love but on the one doing the loving. That is why God's love is perfect because what He set out to do He will do even if it is inconvenient to Him.
Were you in love with God? I can't love God perfectly but my Christianity isn't based on my love for God but His love for me. His love for me is Godly and I am grateful for that. I hope your eyes will be opened to the Love of God and that you experience true Christianity. Not one that is based on fleeting feelings.
