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I used to be a part of a church i was born into a religious family. Once i read the Bible i knew that church was false and i left it. I did go looking for a "true" denomination but after spending some time looking i never found one that conformed to the bible. I came to the understanding that i did not have to belong to a denomination to be a follower Of The Messiah Jesus. It seems to me that every denomination wraps a lie up in a thousand truths Some have more lies than others but they all seem to have an inbuilt stumbling stone. It seems to me that the world has set up a thousand partial truths designed to sabotage the message of Jesus to make it to no effect.
My world view is basically this. The world is satan's playground and he has full reign to do what he can to deceive all mankind. i believe satan has set up hundreds of religions and denominations all designed to lead people away from the truth into deception.
I believe the need you have is to have fellowship with brothers and sisters in Jesus. You want to be a part of a community of faith? I understand the need. we all need love and support from friends. i live pretty much alone in my faith. sometimes i run into another follower of Jesus and it is a great joy to me when i do. Unfortunately in this world there are not many about. I met one on the internet a few months ago in a chat room. He was an ex- Egyptian Army Officer a former muslim, who had been convicted in his heart about the people he had killed in battle. He was living alone away from his family because they had tried to kill him for converting to Christianity, fortunately the local coptic "christians" where avoiding him because they where too scared of the local muslims. This guy had a chance to develop a true relationship with God unimpeded by religion and he was very happy and i was blessed to have had the opportunity to share some fellowship with him.
Well i believe one must know themselves, have good self knowledge, to have a relationship with God.
But as for self-esteem i am not so sure. Self-esteem is to hold oneself in high esteem and that is self pride. Maybe you and i do not have the same definition for these words? Maybe that is our big problem in communicating?
I believe that one needs to accept what one is. In effect be a peace with ones self while not being in agreement with ones faults. One has to accept that one is forgiven. They also have to forgive themselves. In that way they can forgive the faults in others.
All Praise The Ancient Of Days
Are you saying that you are against all and any churches? I mean, do you oppose that there are churches (buildings and denominations)?
I used to be a part of a church i was born into a religious family. Once i read the Bible i knew that church was false and i left it. I did go looking for a "true" denomination but after spending some time looking i never found one that conformed to the bible. I came to the understanding that i did not have to belong to a denomination to be a follower Of The Messiah Jesus. It seems to me that every denomination wraps a lie up in a thousand truths Some have more lies than others but they all seem to have an inbuilt stumbling stone. It seems to me that the world has set up a thousand partial truths designed to sabotage the message of Jesus to make it to no effect.
My world view is basically this. The world is satan's playground and he has full reign to do what he can to deceive all mankind. i believe satan has set up hundreds of religions and denominations all designed to lead people away from the truth into deception.
I don't have the need to belong to a denomnation as such, but I do feel a need to belong to a church.
But here, this, in effect, means that I also belong to a denomination.
I believe the need you have is to have fellowship with brothers and sisters in Jesus. You want to be a part of a community of faith? I understand the need. we all need love and support from friends. i live pretty much alone in my faith. sometimes i run into another follower of Jesus and it is a great joy to me when i do. Unfortunately in this world there are not many about. I met one on the internet a few months ago in a chat room. He was an ex- Egyptian Army Officer a former muslim, who had been convicted in his heart about the people he had killed in battle. He was living alone away from his family because they had tried to kill him for converting to Christianity, fortunately the local coptic "christians" where avoiding him because they where too scared of the local muslims. This guy had a chance to develop a true relationship with God unimpeded by religion and he was very happy and i was blessed to have had the opportunity to share some fellowship with him.
I am more and more convinced that faith in God has a lot to do with the competence one treats oneself with. It seems this competence is essential for everything one does, and the crucial test of it is in relationship to God.
To treat oneself with competence: to have good self-esteem, good self-knowledge, self-dependence, knowing what one can do and what one cannot do.
Well i believe one must know themselves, have good self knowledge, to have a relationship with God.
But as for self-esteem i am not so sure. Self-esteem is to hold oneself in high esteem and that is self pride. Maybe you and i do not have the same definition for these words? Maybe that is our big problem in communicating?
I believe that one needs to accept what one is. In effect be a peace with ones self while not being in agreement with ones faults. One has to accept that one is forgiven. They also have to forgive themselves. In that way they can forgive the faults in others.
All Praise The Ancient Of Days