I found out that it wasn’t just my denomination that I had grown up in that hammered away every Sunday on MY SINS. And your sins too. I discovered late in life that SIN was the number one topic of the Christian church community that took the name Christian, and said that they were followers of, Jesus, the Christ. I found it increasingly strange that Jesus talked primarily about God’s LOVE and GRACE! How’d that come about? What’s up with that?
If you want to learn about fish (no pun intended), you have to go to the ocean and swim around a little. So, having founded and started a church, I quickly found myself following those patterns that I didn’t agree with and it became harder and harder to “stay the course“.
So, I jumped ship!
I went for concepts like love, grace, freedom, liberty (cool name, don’tcha think?), and phrases like, “have a msitake on me“. Of course many people “heard” not MISTAKE but SIN! How silly of me to not see that. When you live in the sin community of the church, SIN is IN! 
Where’s the GOOD NEWS?
I’ve even had people leave the church because I wasn’t preaching SIN enough, I wasn’t nailing them sinnin’ rascals to the cross! And then when I opted for “divine judgment” and not eternal damnation, fire, and endless torment, well, you can just imagine the angst! There goes another family!
And then to top it off, there’s this ONE POWER thing! Surely I must realize that Satan is co-equal in power with God and right now Satan, Lucifer, that lowly snake in the grass, has the upper hand. But fear not.
THE END IS NEAR!
Jesus will appear in the sky from the East (I still can’t figure out how He’s gonna do that but maybe with the hologram and quantum phsyics, it can be done). Don’t even ask if I buy the hyper-rapture thing because that’s one of the reasons I left my denomination.
But, yes. I believe in original sin. I also believe in original innocence and original righteousness. But, maybe what we really need to do is ask what the definition of SIN IS?
I can say I AM BEing one with THE I AM, seeing the oneness with every other part (person)of I AM that comes within my sphere, and the love that flows forth, I become prayer for awakening, eyes opened to see, ears opened to hear, become consious of the I AM that they are, one with THE I AM Who is LOVE, therefor they are LOVE.
Did you walk on water? Or does red hair and a bit of hot air create a natural floating device?:):)
I only FLOAT on water- haven’t perfect the WALKING thing yet.
I must say that I agree with you, if we follow too much Christian religious dogma instead of true teachings of the son of God, Jesus Christ as stated in the Holy Bible, we will always be bitter and hateful unto others. Jesus Christ is the manifestation of God in the form of man, and God is love. We are called to become more like Jesus Christ by not being unmerciful unto potential Christians by blaming them about sin relentlessly. Instead, we need to provide for them in every matter of the word, and encourage them about the second kingdom. It is impossible to be a perfect Christian, and Jesus Christ made it clear to all that he understands by dying on the cross for us and being ressurected in the same physical body new. Jesus Christ is now sitted at the right hand of God and is ready to bless us starting today with his delights which are sometimes pracrtical, and sometimes spiritual. Jesus Christ is our guardian, he is our lord, and most of all he is our friend. Let us take our crosses and join Jesus Christ to the path of healing.
I am still not entirely healed of my spiritual infirmities but I am very close. Therefore as it states so eloquently in the writings of the Holy Bible, let us draw near to God while it still today, and repent. Acts 2:38 is also a perfect example. Many non-Christians used to the church as a place of love and God’s affirmation, and now they see us as a place of condemnation and the ultimate spiritual manifestation of apostacy because of the hateful climate of the 21st century world. I have been shown by God that many people desire to be kind and pleasant… however, they masquerade it by the power of their own insecurities and are bonded to Satan, the prince of the world. Therefore, as Christians, true servants of Jesus Christ, we are called in the name of Jesus Christ to preach the gospel even at work, and heal the brokenhearted.
Take the initial steps to bring coworker to Jesus Christ. Invite them to lunch during break at work, invite them to dinner with the family, and give them your cell phone number in case they need prayer or to talk. Jesus Christ will return one day, and while we are called not for works, we are called by grace to love those whom his father God created. Lest no man or woman should understand that Jesus Christ is lord we all be lost.
Jesus Christ is Lord!
Let us jump ship and do the Kevin Costner thing on the 1995 movie Waterworld and build a raft. Jesus Christ has so much to show us before we die or meet him face to face at his glorious announcement.
Jesus Christ during his time on earth and even now is a humanitarian, and a person concerned with the eternal state of an individual. How can we preach the good news to an uncontent person… their mind is on other matters, therefore we use our benefits that God has decided to help others. But only as God supplies…. for some, have not been called to such a task. Jesus Christ has called every Christian to stand out, love, and ve persecuted for the sake of his cross. However, like Proverbs states and you can take God to the bank on this one, when are thoughts and steps (ways) are right and pleasing to the Lord God even our enemies are at rest with us.
The enemies of Daniel were the lions within the lion’s den, however, an angel silenced them and they went to sleep. However, the Persian king ordered that Daniel the next morning be taken out of the den after a sleepless night Darius had experienced, and placed Daniel’s enemies in the lion’s den where instantly as the Persian noblemen hit the floor of the cave they were consumed by the lions.
This is a good time to be living during the New Covenant, for those whom were not Jewish during the Old Covenant were not saved apart for a few of God’s holy warriors. However, the time is new and God wills that all should benefit from his loving kindness and salvation through his son Jesus Christ so that John 3:16 maybe certainly manifest.
Thanks for your feedback and comments.
In the above statement I mentioned that I am close to prefection, I am far from perfection. I meant to state that I am growing in Jesus Christ.