That’s what Christianity does, makes you hate yourself. To be a Christian, one must believe that their self, their essential self is bad. Christianity takes away the natural exuberance from life. That’s what happened to me as a child, and I spent the next 20 years trying to make peace with the angry sky-god I was told about as a young child. Finally something in me snapped, and I said “ENOUGH!”. The last 10 years have been a search for self and truth. I will not go back to the mental slavery and self-hate that has so colored my life.
I am now trying to get back what was stolen from me years ago.
robert
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Hey Robert,
An atheist here in Nashville came upon 1 John 4:8b “God is love” for the first time, and commented on a nashville community blog “If God is love, that is a God I can believe in”.
Speaks volumes doesn’t it?
God isn’t a belief system or religion…those things fall miserably short.
Keep searching Robert…you probably have already found God
Rick
I know all about the angry sky-god and trying to make peace with him. You never know when enough is enough to get into his good graces. That’s what religion does for you, makes you believe you might be able to be good enough if you try hard enough. I, too, bought into that lie for 34 years. It was when I gave up, as you have, that God opened my heart and said, “Child, you can never be good enough, but I love you ANYWAY! Someone was good enough in your place!” It was then I could give up trying, and live life to its fullest, resting in Jesus. “While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” We are forgiven, not because we are worthy, but while we are UNWORTHY. We can be no other WAY than unworthy. But, thank God, in Jesus we are made alive. The GIFT of God is eternal life! It’s free to us, my friend, because we can never attain it! Christ IN US is our hope of glory!