What Does It Mean To Be A Christian?

I like this topic! Yep, if someone calls themselves a Christian, they better do their best to convey love and respect for others and attempt to show them the "love of God" through acceptance and respect.Christian doesn't mean perfect! Doesn't mean hypocrite or we are to judge "others".

Christian means you change their lives and show them where they are lacking God in their lives through acceptance and love. 

God would never turn his back on his own creations, shun them away or reject them, pushing them farther and farther away. Not a great way to show the world what it means to be "Christian" especially when you are supposed to represent God's love.

God is love, love thy enemy. Don't love the sin, don't succumb to sin, judgement of others is actually a sin!  "Judgement is mine sayeth The Lord", and definitely never judge another as if "Christian" means perfect and every right to!

Its sometimes almost impossible to be a good Christian.  I find it very difficult on a weekly basis.

However that's okay, because I know God created EVERYTHING and EVERYONE and he forgives us for our sins if we ask and have a true heart.  However, we need to try to be the best representation we can be from there on!  We are human so we stumble, we fall, however, we are his creations, and we should know internally where our boundaries lie.

And its okay to be me... just as long as I remember whats right and whats wrong.  I find it very hard to love thy neighbor at times, there are so many evil influences in this world and so many selfish and disrespectful attitudes (selfish).  All we can do is our best.  

For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that who so ever believeth in him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life!  For thine is the kingdom, and the power and the glory, forever.  Amen.  God bless.

RELIGION

Richard Peacock

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"Respect" is something so many have lost these days. "Religion" is something most of us have, yet, we do not respect others. This is key!

If God is love and God created all, does it matter what you believe God looks like? Does it matter if he is Christian, Catholic, Muslim etc.

God is love, do you show love to others who you disagree with on religion? If not, then who are you promoting? Most believe in a God...

It really doesn't matter who was right about the "True God" when it's all over and done. All religious beliefs come from writings...

Books written in different languages, by various nationalities. Are you God enough to say who's right? Do you have the "proof"...

When it comes down to it all any of us have is "Faith" the faith that our religion is right. We could all be wrong, books written by men...

are not proof of God, nor are they proof that any one religious book is absolutely correct over another. Respect others, you may be wrong.

Besides that, you reflect the God you stand in the name of. We can all be God like to one another or Devilish. We have been given "choice".

I respect all religious beliefs, I chose to show God through my love toward others. I am not perfect. Nor are God's creations.

If God created all, then... he created ALL. And evil & disease are not simply a byproduct or effect of "free will". Life is what we make it

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The Holy Bible

"Proof"... Where is it? There is no way to actually prove it's authenticity... yet so many seem to trust that it was all translated from Hebrew and Latin precisely.  Everything within the Bible seems to fall just beyond the scope of what reality and science can prove to be true. And when so many base their lives around a book that professes odd descriptions of events which question realistic possibility as well as all probability that we know today, or from any scientifically recorded events within the distant past!  There isn't any physical evidence or original documentation which I know of, such as a pile of dust in an environmentally controlled plexi-glass (plexiglas) box.  Nor, are their any tangible facts to support the theory, and... what is conveyed is simply unexplainable. Then... I have to question its very origin and contents. I am very sorry, however I need divine intervention, proof! Substance! Not a group of words on pages gathered and transcribed by man (men?). I need more than stories of old passed down from thousands of years to various nations and then translated from hieroglyphics and Latin, Greek, Hebrew! I need actual physical evidence, the smoking pen, twig, rock or what ever the guy used to transcribe the word of God. Better yet... Maybe God can contact me directly.  I'll get back to you as soon as I hear from him...

"God Hates Fags?" If being Christian means conveying hate towards Gays & Lesbians then...

Love this photo, someone on my facebook list just posted this. If this is what being a good Christian means, I would much rather be Atheist! Believe me God is love NOT hate! So, this poor misguided guy on the left is just that! I try to explain this to other Christians I run across from time to time. I am a Christian and happen to be a strait one, and using common sense and a good train of thought process, I was able to come up with this analysis of "Homosexuality" and "Heterosexuality" ... okay, here we go...

Think of this situation in this way, are you strait??? Can you imagine forcing yourself to be gay? Can you imagine yourself being truly attracted to the same sex? If your answer is "no way" and you truly have absolutely no attraction in a sexual way toward the same sex, congratulations you have just confirmed you are positively heterosexual. Guess what? Homosexuals feel the same way about the opposite sex most of the time... if you can take that feeling you know to be true to your own sexual orientation and imagine yourself in the other's position, so to speak, then, why can't you see that sexual attraction is NOT something you decide or force yourself to feel.

You can't make yourself feel something is right when you know it is wrong for you! Can you? So why would proclaiming yourself as gay/lesbian be thought of as something you "Chose"? Or for that matter a "Sin"??? Is it a sin that God created you to feel sexually attracted to the opposite sex? Is it a sin that you need food and water to survive? Is it a sin that you want love in your life? Isn't sin something that is wrong that at times we "chose" to partake in? Isn't sin something that at times feels good to act out? Well, then... would you enjoy forcing yourself to have intercourse with the same sex being strait/heterosexual? Was your answer "Hell NO!" I hope you can see what I am attempting to convey here.

Sexual orientation is NOT a choice! It is something you can not help but feel an attraction to. And that is the way God made each and every one of us the way we are! God created our genes, every blood cell, bone and hair in his image. Which would mean to me that God created MAN & WOMAN in HIS IMAGE! So, with that in mind, God/Jesus/Holy Spirit are exactly like each and everyone of us, no matter what sex our bodies morph into! So, for someone to tell another they are "sinning" and or "damned" by God, and not loved by God or accepted by Jesus! That is definitely the work of the Devil in my eyes! Which would mean that anyone who is conveying this message in the name of the Father, Son or Holy Spirit, is actually conveying blasphemous untruths in the name of God/Jesus/Holy Spirit and ultimately against them, as well as Christianity in whole! Hence, SINNING.

If you take the Bible literally, and exactly as it has been interpreted from the Hebrew, Greek & Latin languages as well as what ever language it was originally written in (Who truly knows? Were you there?) then, you are saying you accept that the Bible was written by someone you know wasn't mad or insane or simply manipulating most of the world to come. Someone who was honest and trustworthy in their interpretation of what you have been told was strait from God's mouth and onto a tablet or leather hide! You have the "Christian Faith" that the Bible is exactly what God had intended to convey to you... why? Because this is what we have all been told! Because the Bible has always been and will always be. Because you know without a shadow of a doubt that God/Jesus/Holy Spirit (himself/themselves) told Matthew, Mark, Luke & John to write this down word for word... here we go... "In the beginning, there was God."

I love God/Jesus/Holy Spirit, however, I don't live my life with the "Blind Faith" that the Bible is exactly what was told by my savior. I am logical and have to use past life experiences to compare what is in the Bible with what has been scientifically documented to have happened over time, I also have to use my common sense, which tells me that if something magical hasn't happened in past centuries and is actually in theory, and scientifically an impossible act that defy's all logic and laws of our world as we know it, such as gravity and or any other laws of nature which we know to be true. Then, I have to question any statement that tells me otherwise, I also have to question the Bible's origination and the very statement that God/Jesus/holy Spirit told these disciples to quote: write this down...

I live life without judgement whenever possible, I attempt to be humble, honest, and hold honor close to my heart, to be fair with logic and the love in my heart to guide my path. I question everything in life and analyze all. I never take anyone's written or spoken word as God's honest truth. And, I have a close relationship with God without the written work/word of the Bible. I know God made us who we are, created everything and I feel he wants us all with him when we leave this realm, and cross over to the spiritual realm. I know there is much evil working against our God and his love, which we should all convey in our lives to others.

I know that fish don't fall from the sky and multiply (unless they are "flying fish"), rivers don't flow of blood (unless man has something to do with that), we don't sacrifice our first born (EVER, unless we are murders), the sea never parts (unless there is an earth quake of great proportions). The world is not consumed by fire (unless the molten center of the earth is allowed to erupt to the surface covering the entire earth) and... "God doesn't hate Gays, Straights or Lesbians.

A Poem Taken From "FRACTURE"

July

Taken in an instant...
Within the blinking of an eye...
Did you sell yourself short...
Was your truth an elaborate and complicated lie?

Taken once for granted...
Yet you never will again...

Living for the moment?
Or an attempt to justify this sin?

Never leave me wondering...
If you ever gave a damn...


Cherish every moment...
And never forget who I am...

Still waiting for a future...
That is never sure to come...

And when it's all done and over...
I'm left alone, here cold and numb...

So, cherish every daybreak...
And every early dawn...

And grant me one last favor...
Don't forget me when I'm gone...

As the sky fills up with darkness...
And pours down upon your empty soul...

Let it fill you up with sunshine...
As I lie within this hole...

Gather up these ashes...
As they scatter thru these fields...

For all that truly matters...
Is in the end our fate is sealed.

July 12th 2007
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Richard Peacock
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Re: Re: God, Jesus & Holy Sprit

Christopher replied to some of my thoughts this morning on the above mentioned site... here is my reply to him.

Hi Christopher, Thank you for your reply... I understand EXACTLY what you are saying and your mind set, here is how I gauge what I believe to be true. It is very basic, this one won't be a long windy answer. I use logic, history, what most religions believe to be true as well as the most important rule of thumb to myself, I follow my own heart and what I feel to be correct. We are born with a basic knowledge, sense or feeling of right from wrong and I don't get tied up with all the muddle in-between and along the way. Another huge factor would have to be FAITH, and the faith that we were created by something greater than anyone or anything we could possibly fathom. Obviously I try not to judge anyone, and that is just one way I try to keep myself from falling into that same old hypocritical Christian genre. As for God being a vengeful God and experimenting with our lives etc... I believe that God created ALL, I also believe that God gave ALL their own free will and that he does not interfere with life in general. I believe that there is GREAT evil in this world and there exists evil in EVERYONE deep down, it is just a part of being human with emotions, however, I also believe that most everything that happens in our lives is by circumstance and coincidence not because there is a God up there somewhere toying with our lives and emotions. I believe we are here for reasons beyond anyone’s comprehension and that most go thru life with their eyes tightly shut to what they are should be doing with their very short life here on earth. I believe this life is somewhat of a test or experiment, something we should all grab a hold of and do what we can to make it better while we are here. I believe that in the end all we have is our character, our soul. And what we have done here as God’s children we should be proud of, we are NOT to be perfect! Just honest & real. Okay, enough for now. Keep in touch Christopher. And I am sorry, but I have to say it… may God bless you my brother. I am not a saint by any means nor do I feel I am absolutely correct in my beliefs, but they are all I have and they are my best calculated hypothesis on “Life, Love & Everything In Between” –Richard Peacock

Re: Religion, God, Jesus & Holy Sprit

Thank you Mike! How true... I do subscribe to what everyone here claiming Christianity is broadcasting, however, in order to truly get to the bottom or root of any problem, you cannot let yourself be consumed by what you have been force feed in your youth, and automatically shut down to analyzation and reason. I love God! And anyone who is to judge another is a hypocrite! It says in God's word "let he/she who is without sin, cast the first stone" and... "judgement is to left unto me". If it is one thing that God did not want is for his children to be judged and pre-judged for being human! Everyone SINS! You can't get away from it! It was born unto us! That is why Jesus died for our SINS! Hence, we are cleansed by the blood of the lamb (Jesus Christ). Therefore, for any so called Christian to condemn another for an addiction to a purely instinctual action and something that we were created to automatically do as a natural trait is OBSCENE! It is one thing to abuse your God given rights and blindly go out and take advantage of women, and not truly care for the one your with! But it is entirely another to tell someone who is committed to another on the same level as they are committed to you that they are "Going to HELL". Like I said in a prior blog... and think farther into this... "MARRIAGE" is a commitment to another under God, in God's eyes & a lousy piece of paper from the screwed up State! The same State that only truly cares about the taxes you will pay and the legal obligations that will ensue by their Marriage Certificate. So, as you see, I am not buying into the whole "shun everyone who is claiming another religion, and show them what a true Christian is by pre-judging them and telling them they have to conform and give up their God created instincts and life NOW or forever burn in a lake of fire!" After all I truly believe after billions of years of translation from MANY languages to ENGLISH and SPANISH and all the other languages, that there is NO way that the Bible has been able to be held pure to its original scripture... there is a LOT of differences in translation from one language to another as well as so many different ways to describe situations! I don't believe we were the first generations to describe life situations in artistic ways! And the sea parted, the sky was on fire, the lake was of blood, the mountains were made of gold and we literally sacrificed our first born to God himself! I believe that many translations were artistically painted in this way in the Bible, I do believe in miracles and I do believe all that is in the Bible, however, I do not believe in MAN! And the men that translated and in some cases wrote the Bible for Jesus/God. Therefore, I can't take every word, every scripture as if it came directly from the hand of my lord! Since it was interpeted and translated in so many ways and over so many billions of years! I believe the sea parted (there may have been a tsunami) I believe the sky was on fire (I have seen the sky on fire many sunsets) I believe there sea or lake was of blood (I have seen rivers/seas that look as if they are full of blood) I believe the mountains were made of gold (I am sure that many places the mountains have gold in them & that many years ago, who knows they may have been solid gold before they sunk into the ground and were covered and re-discovered by our California gold miners) And I believe that many first born were sacrificed to god (Given/dedicated unto God). I also believe that a few of these references I have made are a bit twisted and that I have not accurately quoted a lot of the Bible, however, I do know that God/Jesus is a “Loving God” and that he created us in his IMAGE! And therefore, he is a understanding and all knowing God who wants his children with him in Heaven! I truly don’t believe that he would condemn his children from loving one another & for their sexual differences and genetic structure when it comes to who they are attracted to! Why can’t all Christians just embrace everyone and just accept them and if they are wrong in certain ways in the way they live their lives, show them thru love and acceptance! After all JESUS DIED FOR ALL OUR SINS! Look me up on myspace. I have several different sites but my main site is backslash sacredscar. God bless!