I couldn't help it today but to think about how all of the different opinions in the world seem to relish in fighting one another. Each belief wants to dominate; that person will think that what they know is truth.
The only problem in this is how we sift through all these facts in order to find out whether they are truthful or not. It becomes rather difficult to ever have an opinion or a belief without someone else judging it. Sometimes, though, it seems easier to just accept someone else’s beliefs, and just go with it. The only danger in that is whether you’re really being true to yourself, or if you’re a fake.
This, I believe, is one field that I struggle in quite frequently. It’s not that I am just following what the rest of the world says; it’s more that what I think of the world and what I believe would typically be frowned upon in society.
What I really question is the reality that each church in the world is separated because of how they believe in God. At first, it never occurred to me how silly that was. Then, it hit me. The truth of what I was taught becomes more apparent to me than before.
One, let’s look at how the church has ingrained us with their teachings. I’m not complaining about how they teach; what I am comparing, though, is how each church makes sure you know that what they teach is the ‘right way’. This is curious to me, because at this point, I don’t believe there is any right way to believe in God. I think what it comes down to is that you do believe in God. As a random example, think about how picky people are about how you worship in church. Some love to dance around and act crazy. Others are reserved and unmoving. Some churches find dancing a terrible thing (although if they saw how David worshipped in the Bible [if I am thinking of the right man], they would be rather astonished.) Others don’t. So….who is right? Who is wrong?
This is why I find that each church is going to hold a flaw (whether they admit it or not). I will not mention names, but I have heard of a particular situation where a church refused to talk about a certain topic in the Bible. They even said that if anyone wanted to know more about that topic to go to another church to find out. I can only imagine that you all are feeling exactly what I did when I first heard this bit of information. It was absurd, silly, and reckless. Whatever happened to preaching the Word? Picking and choosing what you think is important to talk about in the Bible is not bad…until it takes the big step that I just mentioned. I don’t know if this church was just scared of the topic, or that they didn’t like it. Then again, isn’t that how we all are with Christianity? There are some things we like, and some things we don’t. So, how do we deal with it?
I’m still working on these thoughts (and it doesn’t help that my humanities class this semester is probably going to make me ponder upon it harder than ever). On that note, I think I will leave my post. It may be a terrible ending; but maybe these are subjects of which you can now think over. I’m not pushing any sort of opinion on you. I just think it’s fair enough for us to ask questions, and to seek answers. It never hurt anyone….
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