Wednesday, January 6, 2010

I have faith.

So, a friend and I were talking about God today. Well, more so people that preach to everyone about God, and how we should live, think, act, talk, dress...etc. They preach it and 2 seconds later turn around and do the exact opposite of what the hell they were just screaming! Why? Why must certain people scream from the roof tops about their beliefs and/or religion, and make us try and feel bad, and then do exactly what they told us NOT to? It doesn't make any sense to me.
Anywho, most people have no clue what I believe in. Am I Christian? I'm not sure. I can't label it, or myself. All that I need people to know is that I strongly believe in God. I do not believe is here to take care of me. I think he put me here to make my own way. He gave me all the things I need to make my life, productive and prosperous. He is there when I need him, but never holding my hand, or helping me take steps. I am his child, and like all parents he wants me to do right, become independent, and make a life for myself. So, yes I believe all children go to Heaven (and yes I believe in Heaven!). All children go because they have yet to learn everything needed to do right.
I believe we all worship the same God. We may call him different things, we may worship in totally different ways, but he is one in the same. Across the board, there is a language barrier among foreigners right? We refer to the same object, as different things, or with different names. That leads me to believe in ONE God, and ONE God only.
I do not believe in the devil. Show me where in the Bible, you see someone named, "The Devil". So, don't bring that BS to me about "the devil made me do it." No, your own weakness made you do it. I believe we should take our actions and stand behind them. Would God really want you to place blame? hah. NO. And secondly, the Bible was written by a HUMAN. Therefore, there is a massive amount of judgement and biased information in it. It wasn't written by God or Jesus themselves. No, it was written by people who supposedly knew Jesus, or knew people who knew Jesus. So, let's recall the game, telephone, you know where you sit in a circle and whisper the same phrase, and when it gets back to the first person, it's completely and totally different than when they started it? Yeah, I think of a person writing the Bible, like I do the game telephone! I can tell a story to a friend, and by the time it reaches back to me, it's never the same. Details are left out, some put in. I'm not one to read nor follow the Bible religiously. I merely take the information in as if it were food for thought.
I believe in my own way of worshiping God. I treat people as I want to be treated, I try to do good, I do not litter, I take care of his Earth. You see it's the small things I do to let God know I am making him proud, I am independent, I am growing, just as I do my own biological parents. I'm not sure, this is all too much to put in ONE blog.
I'll leave it at this, I believe what I believe. I've taken a long time to get to know myself and my beliefs. I do not regurgitate what someone has told me. I figured it out for myself. I could go on, but if you want to know more about my beliefs,ask I'll share! I'm sure you can find holes in them, but I can find holes in your belief system too! That's what it's called FAITH. There is no right or wrong. You just have to have faith. When asked what do I believe in? I simply answer "I have faith". If intrigued enough the other person will ask all the questions they want, and I will honestly answer.
Until next time, Peace & Love.

3 comments:

Jessi said...

I swear I could have written this myself.

EVERYTHING you said is exactly what I feel and believe. Especially the devil part and that I don't believe in a lot of things in the Bible because MAN wrote it. It's been rewritten and rewritten and I just only believe certain things (few) from it.

I believe in God. I don't really have a religion. I believe that God is all knowing, all caring. I don't believe if you cuss or commit a sin (sex before marriage kind of thing) that you are going to HELL. I don't believe our all knowing loving God is that cruel. How can some Christians claim that he is so wonderful yet they have no problem believe that he will punish good people without blinking?

I just don't believe in that BS.

Anyways, I feel like I wrote this!

JoEllen said...

Nice job Mary. :)

as a Christian i will say that plenty of folks twist the Bible and what it teaches to fit their own agendas and that's why they find it acceptable to put down others and damn everyone who does things differently to Hell. it's bigotry at it's finest.

you mentioned who the Bible was written by and you might find it interesting to watch the Frontline episode that was one PBS recently about Early Christianity. not too sway your beliefs and all that, it was just very interesting to hear about how the different Gospels were written and when, etc. just a neat history lesson of sorts. i'm kind of a nerd for that kind of stuff. lol.

anyway, a lot of the hate and labeling and whatnot is mankind's doing, not what Jesus taught and i will agree that it gets old quick when people spend more time pointing fingers than doing something meaningful with their lives. they are weak and prey on others and use religion as a cover-up.

i also liked that you mentioned takig care of His earth. wish more people took that seriously.

MJ said...

Thanks ladies.
It took a lot for me to open up like that, and I really didn't reveal much, huh? lol.
Thanks for the comments though!