Recently a conversation about God and church arose between me and another person. They quickly began to quiz me asking why it is okay to go see a movie if there is a scene with some nudity or a couple of cuss words when pornography and cussing is wrong. This conversation snowballed. Every answer I had they picked away to try to find a fault in it. Every example I gave they shot one right back except more extreme and wanted to know the difference.
When one question was posed and the only answer I had was that we don't have the qualifications or the ability, much less the place to say if someone will go to heaven or hell. That was not good enough for them. It was this very black or white thing to them based upon your actions.
I became frustrated and upset. I didn't have the answers for them. What answers I did have they picked away and found fault in. I felt very frustrated because I know in my depth what I believe is not faulty, but I could not find the words to show them. Then I became upset thinking about how I just messed that conversation up. I couldn't show them or tell them what I know.
I spent the next little bit thinking about this. Every detail of it and asking God questions. I desperately wanted to be able to explain all of this. I relaized that there is a LOT I do not know. I also realized that this person was basing my faith and relationship with God off of acts by humans.
It's not about what you can and can't do. If that is the concern or the focus then you won't find the answer. Christianity isn't about a list of rules, do this and don't do that. Christianity is about a relationship, not a religion.
When you meet someone you don't start the conversation off by telling them that you'll be their friend and they can be yours but here is a list of things you can do and a list of things you can't do. It is the same with God. He is not asking you to do all of these things or quit doing those things before he will be your friend.
God simply wants you to ask him to be your friend, your savior, your father. Your God.
Yes in a relationship with God you will soon find there are things that you don't do anymore. You will also find that there are things that you will start doing. This is not because someone is forcing you. It is because there is a part of you that doesn't want to do those things or that wants you to do them. All of that will come in time and won't be forced on you by any person.
All God asks is that you would accept him, his son and his spirit. He wants you to gibe up your entire life to him so that he can make it better! You do that by simply saying, 'God I need your help. I give you control of my life. I believe that you are God and sent your son to die for me. I believe that you raised him from the dead and that he know lives in me.'
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