I was raised Christian.
Until about the age of 8 when I started to question things that just didn't sound right to me.
Even at that age I could tell that what I was being told was not matching up with what I was feeling inside and with what I was seeing in my mind.

The minute I started to ask hard questions, I was no longer allowed in Sunday school.

My relationship with God since then has grown a lot. I found that I had to walk alone with the creator because the message I was getting was nothing like what the church was teaching, at least not a lot of it. The bottom lines are still there, the morals are still there, but the fear of eternal damnation is not. That is not the God I know.

I think everyone should have a very personal relationship with God. You can pull a lot out of the bible, but do you actually use what you read? Do you actually look for answers within? Do you test?

The fruits of your labors is what tells me who you are.

God made me who I am, and my relationship with God is a very hands on thing.
I sometimes work directly with the spirit world,
and there is nothing evil about it. People don't understand what it means to be able to communicate with the other side, they don't understand what it is someone like me does.
Believe it or not, it is the work of spirit,
and God is not only ok with that, it is encouraged to stop the pain and suffering of others on a level that most people can not do.

Personally, I don't think the creator is very happy with Christianity anymore. The meaning have been lost,misinterpreted, used and abused to control the masses.

I have been told before that I have an Agnostic view, but I don't know if that is the case. I have my view that I got from personal experience working with the spirit world, which will no doubt make a lot of Christians stop immediately and try to tell me that I am under the influence of the devil.


Instead of blind faith, I had to experience for myself so that I would KNOW what is true and what is man's creations. Discernment is a gift.

It breaks my heart to know that I cannot walk into a church and be myself.
You see, I know God is real, and loves each and every one of us for who we are as a unique part of the creator.

People need to look more into their own hearts and see what is there. I don't think enough people do.

Sorry if I went off on a tangent, it just bums me out sometimes when people think there is only one way to God, when I know for myself, through personal experience, that it is not true.

Peace.

I am agnostic in that I don't know if there is a God, or if Jesus is my lord and savior. I do know that I agree with the teachings of Jesus, and try to live my life according to those teachings, because they make sense to me. Does that make me a Christian Agnostic? Why does one have to accept Jesus as your lord and savior to be a Christian? I don't think Jesus really demanded that. I know there is that scripture that says something like "I am the way and the only way to heaven is through me", but to me that means that his way was his teachings on how to live your life. If you live your life according to those teachings, you are living a Christ-like, or Christian life.

It seems like traditional Christians are more obsessed with the whole worshiping of Jesus as lord and savior over living a Christ-like life. I think Jesus would do a major face palm at this. I think He would say, "you've missed my point entirely. I would much prefer you just live your life as I have told you, rather then to worship me as your lord and savior." Just my opinion anyway.

Yup, I grew up Christian, noticed a lot of inconsistencies between what I was told and what I read in the Bible and experienced myself, began to lose faith, then noticed it was the people who were actually not practicing the religion correctly, not the religion itself that is causing all the problems, so now I've had the wonderful opportunity to look atit again from a new perspective, and now I accept it as a good religion, but not the only good one.

See, it doesn't matter what religion you practice really. It just matters how you perceive it and what you do. No two people really follow the same religion. We each have our own. You could have a church full of "Christians", but some of them hate gays with a passion, others believe gays can go to heaven, some give exactly 10% of their income to the church, and some give nothing, and some give a whole lot of extra money hoping to look good in front of everyone. Some believe Christmas was Jesus' birthday, some are very judgemental towards others, while some believe that judging others is God's job and that to attempt to do God's job for him is, in essence, saying that God is not needed....some pray on a schedule every day at a certain place at a certain time and a certain prayer, some don't pray at all, some do quietly inside their head, some speak aloud even if they are all alone in the house, some just make up their prayers as they go, some read from a prayer book, some pray about things that directly effect them and their friends and family or community, some pray mainly for those suffering the most across the world and don't really mention their own problems, others do a little of both, zone just thank Him for the food...

So, there are obviously many other examples, but, as you can see, nobody practices religion the same. They may agree on some things. But does that make it the exact same religion? I dunno... Churches have split into seperate beliefs over a lot of different things... I don't see how arguing over whether or not Jesus was a man or a god has anything to do with how we conduct ourselves in life.