RE: Christians, what is it like to have a personal relationship with Jesus?
July 14, 2016 at 8:19 pm
It is not lost on me that many people here speak in an entirely different demeanor in other parts of the forum. Specifically when conversing with persons considering leaving their faith. I have learned a lot here and thank everyone for their insight and perspective.
I wish I could respond to the OP about some specific instances in my life where I conversed with the Lord and had immediate, tangible results. I do not think the few times this has happened in my life would hold up to scrutiny, as potentially they could all be written off as coincidence or something else. I could point to several times my life should have ended. I could speak to the things I was praying for guidance about, and finding peace about a decision, that in retrospect proved to be the correct choice.
It is easy to be snarky and attempt to portray Christianity in a negative light with humor and sarcasm, I laugh a lot at what I see here. Truthfully, a lot of religious people deserve exactly what is said. I see so many erroneous applications of "religion", a pastor telling a mother to divorce her husband. Not based in the scripture, and most definitely not what Christ would say. I really enjoy conversing with religious people that are ignorant in matters such as this. I would love to have been there to speak with that individual. I constantly ask people to judge Christianity on it's own merit and intent, not the erroneous and poor application of it they find in the world.
V/R
PETE
I wish I could respond to the OP about some specific instances in my life where I conversed with the Lord and had immediate, tangible results. I do not think the few times this has happened in my life would hold up to scrutiny, as potentially they could all be written off as coincidence or something else. I could point to several times my life should have ended. I could speak to the things I was praying for guidance about, and finding peace about a decision, that in retrospect proved to be the correct choice.
It is easy to be snarky and attempt to portray Christianity in a negative light with humor and sarcasm, I laugh a lot at what I see here. Truthfully, a lot of religious people deserve exactly what is said. I see so many erroneous applications of "religion", a pastor telling a mother to divorce her husband. Not based in the scripture, and most definitely not what Christ would say. I really enjoy conversing with religious people that are ignorant in matters such as this. I would love to have been there to speak with that individual. I constantly ask people to judge Christianity on it's own merit and intent, not the erroneous and poor application of it they find in the world.
V/R
PETE
